What do you do when anchored off one of the prettiest beaches in paradise? Boat jobs. Yes, Jackster is no respecter of time or place. If something needs fixing you put the swimming and sunbathing aside and get on with it.
For a couple of days David has been working on a problem we have with the bow thruster. No problem when you are sailing or anchoring, sorely missed when manoeuvring in a marina. The problem began with intermittent loss of thrust and developed into total loss which David says is easier to trace than an intermittent loss. The thruster could be lowered and raised without issue so he began investigating the electrickery.
Amel bow
thrusters have two stages; stage one, lowering and raising, stage 2
spinning the propeller for lateral movement. This was the
intermittent problem. He checked power feed to all the switches,
power cables and connections and found all was good. This left the
mysterious black box with printed circuit board looking like the
culprit. Delving inside, the problem appeared to be that some of the
printed circuit tracks had lifted away from the board and
disintegrated. Without an Amel repair facility anchored next to us
island David fired up the soldering iron and soldered in short cables
to bridge the affected contacts. With the circuit board reassembled,
refitted and tested we tried again. Voila! Success! Our bow thruster
is working once more!
do you see the broken contact? 
electrickery to me
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