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This is pretty much the same as Western Springs.

I would be very keen - I'm up at Weiti on Casper 2

Sad to see a useful facility ousted.

Sorry mods, please delete duplicate image. Cheers. An actual Yinlong graph below, above generic LTO. Also erroneous above as at 14.2V it will not charge any higher. Your post appeared as I was hitting send! Cool, Thanks.

I wouldn't bother with a balance board. You're not going to reach a charge point where balancing is required. I feel quite strongly that the LFP will reach I=term long before the LTO reaches I=0A. So you'll end up dropping the charge voltage to prevent overcharging the LFP, that will happen long before the LTO reaches equilibrium. So I believe you will need a DC/DC to top up the LTO. Without a DC/DC I suspect that 60% SOC is more likely - BUT that would still be way more than adequate for starting purposes and you would also be able to run the windlass for quite a few ups/downs.

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Extensive check revealed none. $600 for 6x yinlong LTO's with Balance board. I'm told 14.2V target V will keep them to 95% SOC. (MyLiFePO4 setting) Must have weird V/SOC curve for that to happen. Ummm, just looked -below. Make that 75%! Don't have glowplugs, start battery is sad, weight is irrelevant, like tinkering and thinking on bailing marina.🙄 Will compensate VD to windlass. So 40Ahr will be 30 if I get house to 14.2V? Maybe not as LTO's will charge way faster?

It comes with a 240 volt charger so you can take the battery home to charge. But I have never done this as I also have a 12 volt charger so I always do a charge when under way motoring for a couple of hours.

Either swap for a berth in Bay of Islands over the same time or will be available to rent cheap for from late December until early Feb 2025, send me a PM and can work out the details, 12m at Pine harbour. Will need to have appropriate insurance and comply with the Marina rules

Agree, mightn't help waxing up, but start is most wearing part of operation I'm told. Dry cylinder is not ideal. Recently I've been having trouble starting Yami 5. My mechanic said run it dry. I didn't say a word. Last time it wouldn't go I gave the above tank a blow job. (Not ideal) Went first pull then. Whatever works for you. At some stage you are going to have to clean the jets whatever you do.

"A letter with 13 signatories representing around 3500 recreational boaties was sent to Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown last week calling for protection of cleaning facilities. It points out that the region only has a third of the haul out capacity needed to clean boats at a time when fines up to $100,000 were being dished out for dirty hulls."

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350283327/boatyard-bust-north-shore-yachties-threaten-legal-action The nub of the issue of the so called "City of Sails" is in the last paragraph: Other haul outs have been closed down at Okahu Bay, Pier 21 and Bayswater, leaving “average boaties” having to pay for luxury yacht marina facilities to comply with environmental rules, proponents say".

never run a 2s dry of fuel as oil residue is required to stop rusting etc,best to let fuel evaporate naturally. Got that from o/b mechanic as was having start issues. 2s dont like biofuel older 2s need to run on 95 or better. Incidently bio fuel is coming to a end in NZ due to cost of shipping Z closed its bio fuel plant in Wiri about 2 yrs ago. Gull will be stopping 698 bio as will use caltex 95 or better I believe.

The govt of the day thought they could change the weather by putting biofuel in the petrol. The last one just been very nearly forced the industry to put 10% biofuel in but backtracked last minute cause it would increase petrol prices too much, coinciding with record high prices due to Russia invading their neighbour. Anyway, biofuel is ethanol effectively, and attracts moisture like a bastard. Petrol with biofuel in it has a very short shelf life for temperamental things like outboards, chainsaws, weed eaters and what not. Consequently, we all need to be very fussy with the age of petro

Do you charge it from the boat or plug into the grid somehow?

My little 3.5 Mercury drove me insane. Was very reliable for 8 or 9 years but then conked out every time I used it for the next 2 or 3 years. Mechanic reckoned it was to do with some change to the composition of petrol (?) and that repairs to small outboards was their biggest money spinner. I ditched it and splashed out on an ePropulsion Spirit electric. Best thing I’ve ever bought. (Apart from the diesel heater) (And the boat)

I'll give the magic carb cleaner a go, then try for the fuel pump membranes then take It to the workshop.

Looking for a 15m berth at Bayswater to rent direct. Long term. Thanks, Mike

Got spark??Give the plug a clean and a squirt if engine start before polling pump a part.2s only 2 things can go wrong no spark or fuel

I'll need a bigger wheelie bin

I had issues this week after the rain. Turns out water in the fuel, very little and easily purged with the drain screw. 4hp Yamaha 4st

Oceanographerd use oranges to study currents.

2 stroke, but all good comments, thanks. It was serviced about 6 months ago, out west. I would have thought that the fuel would be clean, and is fresh, but I guess you don't really know. I'll strip down and clean the carb. And go for new pump membranes.

I still assert that even the report says "as likely as not", meaning 50:50, and for a prosecution you need to be beyond reasonable doubt. Note I've not been saying the capsize occurred where the skipper said, but I've been saying you can't rely on the location being where the modelling said. It could have been fairly much anywhere. But anyway, lets move on. What does it mean for the case if the capsize occurred where the modelling suggests it did? - as opposed to anywhere else other than where the skipper thought he was, which could be anywhere. They were heading in to anchor, in how