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any guesses on how long it would take a single handed tracker to get there? if it happened it would be good if they got an even earlier start than this year's early starters

supposedly you can watch the 1997 doco online through some nz agency digging a little now as missed it when it went to air

thanks for that, the warehouse want $8 or 9 a ltr for the blue kero and it'd rather cook and breath without the blue dye healthier

On completion of sailing, the engine, fuel tank, mast and all fittings, sails etc will be removed, air bags fitted in the main hull and pontoons and the vessel overturned on a beach near Tutukak. A hole approx 1x1 mtrs will be cut in the main hull. http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-m ... 370836.htm

still waiting on the engine so finally got around to breaking out the multimeter to try and understand the windgen + solar panel + regulator the regulator has 2 leds and on a overcast day (poor solar) with no wind (no wind gen) was showing 2 greens - good!, 1 for 'charging' and 1 for healthy battery voltage but on a sunny + windy day was showing orange and green? the green was for healthy battery voltage but why orange for charging? (turns out the top led is actually 2 leds side by side, green on left for charging + red on right for regulating. so when when too much volt

nice pic!

sort of finished the extra shelving now so carrying on with painting and changing the lights over to LED meanwhile diamond diesels in the uk have sent me the BOL for the ordered engine with the vessel name and an AIS tracker can watch it steaming towards nz currently heading to beruit http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/hom ... :235071275 takes a looong time to track ship after main page then zoom out

latin mechanics never as good as anglo saxon still if you can poach each others parts inventory and combine orders everyone should win

small places reputation is everything hope it all works out any tie-up possible with the new cal agents?

at least in the smallest marine diesels it seems nanni and beta use the kubota tractor base engine and vetus, sole, westerbeke + craftsman(ex-vetus employees) use the mitsubishi industrial base engine not many craftsman distributors around either but the engines and site look very professional and seem cheaper than vetus http://www.craftsmanmarine.com/

now waiting for a new craftsman cm2.16 engine to come from diamond diesels in the uk based on the same mitsubishi L2E engine as the vetus M2.06 in there now same base engine in many new marine engines; sole mini17 + westebeke 12C + 12D hopefully it will drop right in to the current controls + piping installation and leave me with lots of import spares like, head, injector pump + injectors, starter, alternator, water pump, raw water pump, fuel lift pump, filters, impellers, anodes etc. while waiting have cleaned up the engine bay and have been able to install access and shelves

high temp epoxy should be no problem http://www.jbweld.com/product/j-b-highheat/ metal surfaces on a correctly working water cooling system probably don't get much over 80C

have on the boat painting it and at home trying to fix the external corrosion on the exhaust elbow seating area to deal with the missing conrod bearing, have been pricing 3 options - cheapest self repair.........head gasket, sump gasket, 1 set conrod bearings + carefully lap? the marked surfaces......$600 just for parts - import from uk, short block mitsubishi L2E industrial engine, $3000? (vetus; gearbox, head, cooling system, starter, alternator, raw water pump, fuel lift pump + fuel filter assembly to be added on - a complete new marine engine this morning had f

life is short for the rich but very long for the poor

patient/client of a bike riding therapist friend asked him who HIS therapist was he said "i don't need a therapist i've got a bike and can go for long rides when i need to" much the same for sailing/boating Quoting Seneca, Mr Harris stresses the need to combine solitude and the crowd, “and to have recourse to them alternately”. Just as humans are able to deny themselves an excess of the fats and sugars that their bodies are trained to crave, so too must they remain cautious about technology: “Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Y

thanks for pm Dambo, and the link above i hadn't fully looked through that page on the 60's havsfidra 20' the 70's storfidra 25' was originally called the havsfidra II + is basically a stretched version there's a cutaway drawing at the bottom of that page

the seller did hint i should consider and outboard... but the stern is so high got the wife to call japan, but they are on their religious obon holiday at the moment, so will have to wait a few days before i can price engines and parts from there

thanks all ideas welcome have been building wooden skids, removed dodger etc for winching up under the boom and then swinging over to the floating pontoon

if the crank is beyond repair i guess the engine would be better broken down to parts and sold this ex-saildrive 3cyl yanmar is cheap, how hard would it be to mate to the existing transmission? or would it need a bigger transmission anyway? http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-m ... 627493.htm then there's this air cooled 20hp http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-m ... 657045.htm right up to a new beta http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-m ... 431967.htm might see what the industrial mitsubishi L2E base engine would cost in japan

last week when the head came off took this phone video was puzzled by the 'clunk' at 6sec

the good rear cylinder i haven't touched, don't want to a few days ago when the head came off i did notice some slop in the movement of the fwd piston + a little clank when turning the engine over by hand. that would have been due to the lack of the crank shell bearings the firing, working rear cyl. bottom end looks and feels tight. so i'm not touching it how did the shell bearings leave the conrod? taking the sump off took some time, the sealant and paint looked to have been factory... had a friend who lived in the mountains and brought his auto terrano to me complained

big surprise! blocked up the engine, drained the newish looking oil + filter, dropped the sump, removed the big-end bearing cap nuts + cap NO BEARING SHELLS............ nothing, nada, zip....the conrod was running directly on the crank....... pushed the piston up through the bore + and the rings aren't broken, look fine presumably the lack of fwd piston, conrod crank bearings screwed up the timing + compression enough that the fwd cyl couldn't ignite the fuel?

only a 2cyl so even less engine fitted 2006 in northern hemisphere boat only has a 40ltr built-in tank + a 20ltr plastic one so it's unlikely that it motored across the atlantic + pacific and boat basically been on sitting mooring for last 4 years

today's guess as to why the rings broke is a soft? seize - due to overheat - maybe the 50% blocked - never cleaned heat exchanger - or due to lack of coolant - due to alloy corrosion at the back of the heat exchanger - due to insufficient coolant changes when drained the 'coolant' was like rusty water with no green or red coloration left, did feel a little 'soapy' so am guessing it was either very, very old, (2006? when the engine was put in?) or the leak was simply continually topped up, (diluting the glycol) by the previous nz owners instead of fixing the leak until they forgot to

damn! seem to have found why the front cyl wasn't firing head off shows scored cyl wall, so probably broken ring(s) hoping to lift engine on blocks, remove sump + bearing cap, push piston out top to change rings can the bore be honed smooth in the boat?