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Se tried one of those two burner westinghouse induction cookers on our boat for a while, we have 360Ah Lithiums at 12v and used a 3000w inverter, and yup 95sq mm cable less than a metre long. It pulled 200A... so you can do the math on that, we took it out and went back to gas.
With a big bank and good gear, maybe at 48v and lots of charging capability would work, but we are just too small.
That cooker was noisy as hell too, weird cyclic buzzing sound that got on our nerves lol
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On 28/11/2022 at 3:11 PM, Island Time said:
After reading this, and re-looking at the pic, the french prussic pic I posted isnot right either! This IS the one I use, and not had issues with, Very similar, but a little different!
Always thought that was a French prussic! Learn something new every day I guess!
You do need to get all the weight off it for descending, but that's pretty easy with foot loops. I use four. One shorter one at chest level on the harness/bosuns chair, two foot loops, and another to the safety halyard from the harness/bosuns chair. easy to stop for a rest then!
As an aside, this is what I use to attach our bridle to the anchor chain, tie this with a 8mm dyneema loop, then a big soft shackle trough it and the bridle eyes. Holds to the chain like sh*t to a blanket
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Well we have just gone through this whole palava after our previous company (effectively Lloyd's of London) in their wisdom decided that multi-hulls are something they wont insure any longer.
I spent a day or two sending out multiple applications via websites, emails etc etc to almost 30 companies and brokers in NZ and Australia, and the odd one in the US without any success at all. Not good when potentially our marina could ask us to leave because we would be uninsured. Even 3rd party was out of the question.
This resulted in my wife getting on the case, and actually calling them all and speaking to real humans, she spent a good 3 days doing this and managed to find a number of companies that would play ball, all who had declined my requests via websites or email.
The trick is to actually call them, explain the circumstances, ie we would be kicked out of the marina etc etc...
make stuff up, say whatever you need to say to get them on your side... Talk lots about your experience as a sailor etc, makes you a person rather than just another number.
We were offered cover from the following...
The Marina Shop in Opua,
Topsail in Australia
Sunderland Marine in Nelson
Baileys Insurance in Auckland
Aon Insurance in Auckland
Hope this is helpful
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OvitalMap, or if you want full charting, weather etc etc Tziboat for Ipad is awesome
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https://marinehowto.com/drop-in-lifepo4-be-an-educated-consumer/
Another substantial article from Rod Collins about drop in LFP's
Good to see him back on deck after his stroke too
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Bay Insurance is who we are with, they said if we either let our policy lapse, or change circumstances greatly, ie move to a swing mooring, no cover.
I get the feeling they dont want to insure anymore multi's, they only continue to cover us because we have an existing policy.
But by all means give them a call and let us know what they say
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Weve had the same problem, Bay Insurance Brokers told us if we cancelled our policy, or changed our circumstances in pretty much any way, like move it to a mooring, we'd not get insurance at all again.
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I have a brand new Victron200a Argofet splitter for sale if you go that route $214+gst new, $150 its yours
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Yes I'm going through this exercise at the moiment, I went away from dropins, actually they werent even considered seriously because of the downsides.
Ive built a pack from CALB 180 Ahr cells, 2P4S for a 360 Ahr battery. But thats the easy bit. Ive got a Wakespeed WS500 reg for a Compass Marine 200A Alt. Again a resonably easy bit. TAO BMS to look after it all, 3 big contactors, 2 x Midnite Kid solar controllers with current shunt charge termination control. I wil be charging my start batt from the old stock alt, so I'll kinda have 2 separate systems. Voltage spikes etc are taken care of by a very smart BMS wth 6 internal relays and CanBus comms with the WS500. Basically the BMS shuts off chargers and loads before disconnecting the pack for any reason. It also connects the start batt to the load bus so the boat wont go dark at the instant the pack is disconnected.
The battery is just the beginning, the systems around it are just as important, and need to be fit for purpose or your cells wont live to their potential
By no means is this plug and play at all...and by no means cheap.
read these two pages.. over and over
https://marinehowto.com/lifepo4-batteries-on-boats/
https://nordkyndesign.com/featured-articles/
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I got almost exactly this from C-Tech... half a boat dollar or thereabouts
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Talk to C-Tech, Ive had a tube made by them, reasonable price, beautiful piece of carbon too. They do have stock sizes as well.
To be fair though, ours wasn't 5m long though
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Feel free to join in with her welcome flotilla, she is sailing in with the Spirit of New Zealand from Motuihe at 2pm on the 16th, be great so see has many boats out there as possible
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Come down to Auckland's Princes Wharf, Viaduct Harbour to see Spirit of New Zealand and Windfola come into Auckland on the final port stop of Elana Connor's figure-8 solo circumnavigation of New Zealand.Elana has been raising funds for VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai which will enable the creation of a new scholarship program for youth in foster care to attend the 10-day youth development journeys aboard the Spirit of New Zealand tall ship.Be there to cheer them on in celebration of this momentous effort. With almost $40,000 dollars raised already for the foster youth of Aotearoa it's something to be proud of
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This is where I started with this, I remembered form my 4wd days that the spindle hub nuts on my various Toyotas were 50 something mm, turns out its 54, too small.
I had one of these cheapo sockets, its only for a spindle nut, so no huge torque, I think you could force fit this onto your 56mm nut, it'd be nice and tight, cheap and would work for doing it up once or twice.
All depends on how "agricultural" you want to get...
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The old Ford Transit has a 56mm spindle hub nut....
Bummer, just noticed the seller is in the UK! 🙄
Trade Tools has a 56mm Impact socket for $88...
Mytools has a slightly cheaper one, expensive for a one off use though...
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Yup... what he say, with the addition of a quick detour out to the Aldermans for a lunch break if its nice weather
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Hi guys, Elana has just arrived in Akaroa after a gnarly rounding of the bottom of the South Island, battling engine troubles, electronic issues and a bout of the flu in Dunedin.
Great news article on Newsroom on the voyage too.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/lockerroom/round-the-world-solo-sailor-steers-clear-of-her-fears
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Yup Elana is just pulling into Milford sound after an awesome run down the west coast, she's really picked a great window for the coast run. Almost $14000 raised to help foster kids in care, amazing effort so far! Truly inspirational, lets give her a helping hand by donating! 👍
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We just did exactly this a week or so ago at Sulphur Point marina in Tauranga, 10.6 x 8m tri, they have a hydraulic trailer. No problem whatsoever, easiest haulout we've ever had. Call Greg, 07 578 8747 or email admin@taurangamarina.co.nz
We used Aaron Lane at Marine Reflections to do the bottom paint, again great job, painless exercise 0275135863
Stop in on your way past to the South Island
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Couple of articles on Elena's stopover in Tauranga, the flotilla seeing her off including tugs, coastguard vessels etc was pretty awesome!, shes now in Gisbourne after a perfect conditions for rounding East cape.
https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/254656-solo-sailor-visits-bop-during-foster-care-voyage.html
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Elena is in Tauranga today and on her way to Gisbourne on Saturday morning, come down and meet her, or join the flotilla seeing her off at 8:30 on Saturday 🙂 Oh and donate! its a great cause 👍
Corsair Trimaran Replacement Nets
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Hi Southerman,
https://www.multihulltramps.com.au/
We used Gordon, he does an awesome job, ours are dyneema, and were roughly 4k about 4 years ago, and they still look and feel brand new.
Stock shapes for a Farrier might be slightly cheaper, as ours were custom made