Commissioning Week 1 – Instruments Light Up for First Time

Alcom guys, Robert and Daniel, were busy today. I saw the panel lit up for the first time. This made my day.

Panel Lights Up

You can see Daniel’s feet under the panel. There’s a lot of room to work, which is one of the reasons I selected the Nordhavn 43.

Also today, Eddy from Jeddy’s Interiors measured for carpeting and shades. We looked at his carpet work on N52 ALEOLI. There were several other items on ALEOLI that interest me: hand rails and Magma grill among others. She is a beautifully outfitted vessel. I also took a lot of notes touring the newest N55 that accompanied Lucky Stars from China aboard BBC Nebraska.

Today, I started a photo collection and notes about what is found under each hatch and inspection panel. There are many.

Commissioning Week 1 (Pilot House Photos)

This week has been spent exploring the spaces of Lucky Stars and making appointments with craftspeople that will be supplying all sorts of gear. I will eventually write up a section on each of these: Canvas, Carpets, Shades, Davits, Grab Bars… and a lot more. For now I have gathered the photos taken this week into groups that roughly parallel the way Nordhavn organizes the large collections of photos that accompany their “Manuals.” My photos (clearly non-pro) were taken with my iPhone or Olympus Tough Point-and-Shoot. Many shots are intended to help me identify components, valves, pumps, etc. I have endless “whats-that” questions that will be answered over the next many weeks of commissioning.

Note: The orientation is incorrect for a few photos. Apparently different browsers treat image orientation differently. The photos render correctly on iPhone Safari for example, but not on Safari, Firefox, or Chrome for Macs. The fix seems to be to substitute screen shots that do not contain orientation metadata.

When Nordhavn gives me their photo collection for N4343 after commissioning, I plan to assemble them into my reference database then publish all on this blog site. I have seen such photo collections given to other owners. They are a comprehensive visual reference of everything visible on the boat. Much of the “invisibles” can be analyzed using the large collection of photos of the construction now accessible on this blog.

Pilot House

Pilot House Photos Week 1 of Commissioning