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Solo Delivery Waikawa - Lyttelton - Ross 30 Ballistic Got up 3.00am Friday morning and drove to Picton from Christchurch , arriving at 8.30am, quick stop at Picton supermarket for delivery trip food. Caught Cougar water taxi service from Picton to Resolution Bay, Queen Charlotte where boat was moored. Grabbed some tote tanks etc and dinghy. Inflated dinghy and loaded dinghy to get out to mooring. 15 metres offshore and flipped said dinghy....gurgle ... and who was the idiot who didn't close their 110 litre gear bag properly.... now a 2hp motor drowned... wet gear, wet sleeping bag and a

Austin Princess is my favourite ugly car of all time , the poor buggers getting dropped at school in those cars couldn’t hide for all the massive windows

missed that one. There is an article in the latest issue of The Shed mag on John Haynes of Haynes Car Manuals fame, it sounds like the aforementioned Viva was what really got his business going😅 How many people realise this had its origins back to the Viva?

Yep, the admiral had an HC viva. Seem to remember I could remove the engine in about 20 mins! Had to do it multiple times...

Have you looked on your foredeck? I think there is one there. Looks a lot like a spinnaker pole?

Remember YouShop - https://www.nzpost.co.nz/tools/youshop Can be really handy.

Obviously quite hard- The red can at the entrance to Islington Bay has been cast ashore for how many years now? I knew it was going to be a problem when they handed over from the Harbourmaster to Auckland Transport. Maritime stuff is actually different to roads. I think the Harbourmaster actually does a good job with the limited resources they have.

With an old Volvo such as that, check anodes in block and exhaust elbow for blockage, they ran pretty ruggedly even when new, also check revs at full throttle when warm (with a clean bottom no wind etc) that will indicate how it has been looked after .

Listening to an engine is as accurate as pointing your finger into the air to predict the future weather. It tells you which way the wind is blowing and the rest is a guess. But testing an engine is not simple and thus not cheap. A compression test tells you not a lot more than the finger. You need to get a " Leakdown" test to give you the real info. Then a good look internally with a bore scope at the manifolds and exhaust etc. A test of the oil and a test of the coolant. It's not a simple job. Or you simply use your finger so to speak and do the listen test and get an educated guess as to ho

Is it a 2003 model? (actually 28hp) If so, parts are now getting hard to get, especially major engine parts. Can't even get a head gasket now. That was part of the decision on Island Time to upgrade to a new engine and sail drive.

I would agree with marinheiro. I replaced a 35 yr old engine, that was working fine. It is all the ancillary bits that fail / fall apart. For this prospect engine of yours, if it starts and runs fine, well, it starts and runs fine. I would be most interested if you could get it up to full revs under load (i,e. motoring the boat). My old one would shake the boat to bits above mid revs. You would probably get more info out of a thorough visual inspection of the ancillary bits, and if possible, an understanding of the maintenance history. And I don't mean oil changes by that, but engine moun

If it is a raw water cooled Volvo it is possibly getting closer to 40 yrs old. Whether 30 or 40 yrs old it will be on it's last legs and an inspection will probably tell you the same. Ask when the exhaust injection elbow was last replaced (if ever). If the engine starts ok and does not smoke alot, it will still have some life in it. Oil analysis needs to be carried out over a period of usage/oil changes to be an effective tool. Ask when the exhaust injection elbow was last replaced (if ever). If it runs ok I would forgo spending money on an inspection and put that towards the ne

How far back can we go?. I caught a fish.