Ex Machina

The HW cylinder has a pressure relief valve and it definitely opens on mine when the water gets to the temp as the engine which I’m guessing to be 80-90 degrees ?

Installed a 40L one and copied bad kitty ? By putting an inline tap in the loop from engine to tank . It gets stupid hot otherwise and relief valve wastes water too , it will open and stay open if you are motoring for long periods . Also put a 500W 230V element in and hope to run it off the inverter via solar on sunny days .

Na you will have to head over to RAYC

Apparently a dose of vinegar once a day will prevent calcification of the pipes . I have had good success eleminating holding tank stink with no-flex digestor . After researching the heck out of it it’s basically an oxygen bleach , flush a tablespoon once a day through your system and it neutralises the sulphur dioxide ? Stink . It has the added bonus of dissolving organic solids but it won’t shift calcium deposits . Once it runs out I will be using off the shelf supermarket oxygen bleach for a fraction of the price . It’s nice opening up the boat and not being greeted by a potpourri of rotove

What Carpe Diem said . I had a similar issue to you just a few weeks ago , calcified uric acid caused by reaction with salt water . Unfortunately it was so blocked the Hydrochloric acid couldn’t get to the standpipe in the holding tank and there was no safe way to let the acid back out . Manual removal of the pipe was the only way to clear it . Highly recommend a downloadable book called “getting rid of boat odours” by Peggy hall . She knows her sh*t and marine heads , there’s plenty of info on maintaining pipes and systems so they don’t block …vinegar and acid based flushes feature

Yeah or bail from Auckland . Plenty of yachting in the regions just not as many boats or black sails .

Yeah I remember those days too …you left out the bit where you died of silicosis , asbestosis , lung cancer , random types of cancer or a combo of 1 or two of the above . K3409 and Carpe Diem are missing from that picture . Need a couple of blue hats with tablets peering into the hole

I remember this one caused a stir because they filmed themselves “riding” the shark as they towed it to shore . https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/waiheke-shark-may-have-been-record-great-white/B7AZPKOIOSEIQXHFDNZHC4WBKQ/ I used to regularly surf not far from tipitai on the north head and we used to sh*t ourselves to be honest . Most of the northern harbours and inlets on the East and West Coast are nursery areas for GWs .

Or the collective gasp when a great white is spotted in the Waitemata . They’ve been breeding in Auckland since the beginning of time

You mean the CBD one in the early 90s ? With the container ship plugged in providing power to restaurants and the like .

Where can the coastal classic start be shifted to that’s safe from poo ?

What about the 4hp outboard on my raceboat ? That got your ass to Auckland for the last coastal ! But yeah I’ve had the same model yammy 8hp with high thrust prop on a previous boat . Did multiple 12-14 hr trips to Auckland and it never missed a beat . Also a bonus is Yamaha parts service , they are very good .

Yeah dunno if you want to do ass dragging and porpoising in a 111 ft cruiser ? You’d have a massive interior tidy up to do when you got to your destination .

Seems like it was a medical emergency and mast was entire before tying up to the ship , broke the top off from hitting the ship by the looks .

Don’t know the boat but it looks like a later model Beale 30 something with the single continuous window

Well it did start .

Then there’s insurance ….

Excellent work man !

Yep got it below the waterline on a trailer yacht . It’s apprently 12 years old and still looks like new . Also have it in black on the gennaker prod and on the rudder too . I didn’t apply it myself I have a clever mate that’s good at that sort of thing , he has a trick of mixing fairing compound into the primer coats so it works as a highbuild . 2 years out in the weather and the prod still looks like new .

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/el-nino-incoming-nzs-climate-to-take-rapid-turn-within-weeks/XQ7ZEZVPEFA3LMWRWRNVWZ6KZY/

Yeah sorry It was the 13hp engine and it’s still pop popping

This topic reminds me of the time we nearly ended up on the rock wall behind the squadron inside the marina ….Y11 with an 18hp and 30 knot SW .

I got lambasted on SA by a Texan boatbuilder for using the term pushpit . Apparently they called it the aft pulpit/aft safety rail or some other things. He really hurt my feelings

Uk sails Whangarei was in Christchurch doing clears last week for that cat that came out of Davie Norris shed recently . Shame you hadn’t tee’d up with them being in town .

Used Jamie Newcombe twice earlier this year , very good .