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Good news. So if you came up that hill at 90 the braking performance should be pretty reasonable also? Is it on a braked trailer? Now to get it wet!.

Remember that you may have issues with smaller gas cylinders being able to boil off enough gas to operate a larger califont - our domestic 34LPM rated one will only run for about 5 minutes on a 9KG cylinder before it starts to ice up the cylinder.

IT, I would disagree slightly here. A good shower with a water saving head should run at around 7-8lpm yet still should give a properly satisfying shower. ( This coming from someone who has removed all restrictions, and put in equal low pressure mixers on our high pressure system ). 2 of the showers in our house run at around 7.5lpm and the unrestricted one runs around 14lpm. All are actually quite satisfying, but I do enjoy the higher flow shower more. Some who use it complain it hurts, and it does cause the water to splash a lot more off your body into your face/eyes. I have never, ever

P.S. I doubt that battery of yours could start a motor - so if your planning a shared duty installation or have a shared duty installation, be very wary!.

I had a set of batteries which would charge very nicely to 14.4 and rest at 12,9. They would hold that voltage for an hour with a 20 amp load ( was a 400ah bank ) and after taking around 60ah from them they would still be sitting at 12.4V under load ( bouncing back to 12.6 unloaded within 5 seconds and stay there indefinitely ). Then the next hour would drop the voltage to 10.5 with the load on them. My carbon pile tester would happily extract 500 amps from each 6 volt cell with only a 1.2 v loss. Thats significant current discharge capability!. I don't know what was happening in there, b

Wheels. 85ah is a large car battery size in a deep cycle. That's unlike you! Did your coffee not work today? But yes, sounds like the batteries are bricks not batteries..

I think that the BEP switch/controller is a great unit, with the reduced current draw. Drawing 12VA is not required to keep a solenoid of that size open, and 12VA is 1A give or take ( actually, at the 14V most batteries sit at its going to draw over 1amp... ). Still, don't forget to turn the gas off when you are off the vessel - solenoid valves, and controllers, can fail. An unlikely combination to have a failure in the remote valve system and to have a gas leak, but less likely combinations have occurred!.

A firm offer of $15K may very well swing him. Cash under the sellers nose can make a huge difference ( Realistically, how long will it take to sell at $18.5K? Who knows, and the seller sure does not want to be faffing around for 2 years trying to sell. Very very sage advice from Ed, there are some shocking trailers out there. If your a good engineer, you can quite easily make a moderate trailer good, if its full of rust throughout, no amount of patching will suffice and you are going to have to buy or build another trailer..

Negatives of larger are of course towing and storing. Do you have sufficient room to park a 25' yacht on trailer? Is your tow vehicle heavy enough? Most FWD cars would be getting a bit uncomfortable with a 2T plus load on the back. In fact, ( I realize you have a Hilux but will you always have utes? ) I believe that is past the tow rating of most cars, and many light SUV's. The Trojan linked above is around 1500KG hull weight, add in a tandem trailer (maybe 300KG, probably more? ) and some basic gear, provisions, water, anchor and battery, a battery or two and your probably getting well past

Wheels, try making a "tent" out of a white sheet and sit it by a south facing window, or, in the morning, west facing or afternoon, east facing, and put the item to be photographed inside that. It will flatten the light out and should make photography a lot easier. A tripod helps immensely also so you can use a higher F stop if your camera supports this to get a greater depth of field ( range which is well focused ).

Wheels, What I would offer for it and what it is worth may well be separate things. It would not be what I would want at all, and therefore I would only ever have made an offer based on what I could see as being of value. Which now, is pretty much nothing at all. Prior to being wet throughout, well, I didn't see it so would not like to comment. What I do know is that pictures and descriptions on TM and the real deal are often chalk and cheese, and getting an honest and accurate description is very much the exception, not the rule. What is it worth now? Well, in about 5 days ( probably mond

The market sets the price, always. Someone would have taken it for what the market deems its value to be - thats how the market works. He is now in financial strife worse than before because he would not accept that he owned a yacht which had depreciated significantly. You know I have nothing against FC builds, however, they must come at a significantly discounted price due to the insurance issues amongst a couple of other issues such as weight. This guy bought the cheap boat in the first place, he needed to accept that if the market declined, as it has done, significantly, that t

And he appears to be yet another person who expects others to contribute to his problem. Givealittle is abused horribly. It should be for those who really need assistance. A terminally ill kid who should get to have a once in a life time experience or similar. That was its original intention. Not to help someone who put himself at risk ( owning uninsured yacht ). People need to take responsibility for their actions. If you can't afford to deal with the consequences of an uninsured yacht going AWOL, then don't buy it in the first place. He is lucky it didn't damage a few other yachts along

Remember that when using these for charging other devices, that they ah rating is never going to be able to be fully "relocated" to the charged devices. Some energy is lost as heat along the way, and when the voltage begins to drop below a certain level they may not be able to provide the full voltage to the device being charged ( although a car jump starter, being nominally a 12v device, should have no issues charging a 5v device even if it is getting a bit low on voltage ). I tried one on a 9l diesel motor once. The poor thing caught fire it was having so much current drawn from it. It w

Under the tension that those tow ropes would be under, how safe would manually cutting it be? A Gas axe would get through rapidly enough, and at least allow a little distance between rope and the operator, but a grinder? I would be terrified!!

I can understand the insurers not wanting to insure all FC's as some are so poorly constructed. That being said, most of those are now homes to aquatic life only. A well made FC yacht is probably less likely to sink than an equally well made glass, steel or alloy yacht. Alloy in particular can peel back if you brush a sharp rock - I have seen this and they are not very buoyant with a 15cm wide strip torn 1 meter long in the hull. FC would most likely just bounce off that kind of damage. FC's are not lightweight racers and were often backyard builds, and for those reasons a lot of peop

As Wheels noted, Benzalkonium Chloride is the safer and preferred way to go. I source mine from Hamilton Chemicals, in 80%w/w concentration for about $60 for 20L. This is considerably cheaper than the commercially marketed products such as 30 seconds spray and walk away, and wet'n'forget, which are about that price for 5L or 10-20%w/w concentration and a bit of dye. Whats most important is that 30 seconds, wet'n'forget and some others make both the Sodium Hypochlorite AND the Benzalkonium Chloride products. READ THE LABEL. check what your getting. Example being 30 seconds outdoor cleaner

As wheels said, straight cut gears make a fair whine. Strong, durable, industrial type strength but noisy.

They have trucked it down apparently. Safer, with no skills at all but probably not inexpensive!.

I think it looks like a good concept, and expect that if you had a little practice in the use of it prior to needing to use it, you could make for a far easier retrieval of a soggy crewmember. Also looks like a toy that could be great fun and therefore flat when you needed to use it though I wonder if it has a beacon and local controls on it? We always insist on crew wearing waterproof torches in the dark - so we can see them. But if the lifebouy is not equipped with a beacon you might just lose it?

I was going to ask, is that Bene not a Farr design? I echo your sentiments about the CC - they can be great. I have been in Amel's, even a 41', and they are all very dry and comfortable off shore or in heavy seas. They have good access also, although not quite the same as a walk through transom. All Amels are CC as to the best of my knowledge and a lot regard them as a great blue water cruisers. I certainly have seen a fair number doing circumnavs.

Anyway, back to the original topic I don't want to scare people off looking at yachts that a broker has listed! I just would like to think that the particular company we had problems with might have learnt their lesson by now.

One would have thought so. Our experiences have been a little different when it involves some brokers. Generally its far nicer to do a deal privately as if the owner takes you out for a day sail you get a far better idea for the person and therefore how they will have maintained the yacht etc than you get from a broker who is only there to make a commission.

Well it appears that I was a bit off the mark on the average weight of modern yachts. I guess that ours is probably closer to 12T when full of gear and fluids... Gets a little more heavy, but, so does every other cruiser!.