On August 11, 2011 at 14:20, charris said...
Brain (actually it's spelled Brian :-) ),
I am not sure 5k would cut it. The last yacht we tried to document on a very similar situation we spent 5 days onboard and they were not enough. And that yacht was "only" 150 ft. There were too many small headends and cables going back and forth.
I would say you easily need 15-20 days to trace and also check everything on a system similar to deepseas'. In adddition to that easily 2 to 3 weeks to preapare the documentation and a detailed report on the system. Finally it might be good to go back onsite and label everything or check more stuff that would surface through the documentation and the reports.
It is a shame that many mega systems can be found in similar kind of situations.
I wasn't suggesting that 5k would cover everything. I was saying that it might be worth it to offer the original installers that amount of money to complete the documentation. Now we know they were supposed to supply this in the beginning. It's not an ideal situation for Deepsea but it *might* prevent him from having to document the system from scratch himself. Plus they may know of things that are hidden that he is unaware of and would be helpful to know. It was just a thought. They should have documented the project from day one but that is not the case. This is one of the situations I hear about that makes me want to go help someone fix a system for free. My wife would disagree as she likes putting money in the bank and the mortgage companies certainly like us to pay on time.
