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I suggest some commenters go back and actually read there article.

Repla Replaced new in 2020. Approximately 200 engine hours. We are now running on the old item pulled in 2020. New one ordered!

Service your water pump before leaving your mooring. And always carry a spare impeller! This added half an hour to the departure today. The screaming alarm took a few days off my life...

Blasphemy!!

Sounds like the motor itself. Check that it isn't seized and that the captain turns ok when it is decoupled from the motor. Essentially the winch is a car starter motor. At stall they can draw around 400A so if it is seized it will pop the breaker real quick. If it turns by hand it's probably an internal electrical fault.

I just get the guy at our yard todo it - he does a lot of them so uses it up, and its cheaper than buying even the smallest pot and doing it myself.

Shelley Park was where Mrs Aardvark's parents sailed out of. Doesn't look a lot different now!

Nice housings! Teak, or mahogany? SO has pelmets over the cabin windows and I fitted LED strips under them, four circuits individually dimmer controlled. Great indirect lighting and turned right down you can find your way around the cabin but there is no point source to mess with your night vision.

Hi Miro - we meet on FB in the NZ Sailing page where I warned on budgeting for the costs of Cat1 This forum is infinitely better informed and focussed that the FB pages, so you should feel free to ask quetions here and you will get considered and informed responses. Many (not me) here have done significant sea miles in all sorts (Cav 32 represent!!) and can give you wisdom, warnings and wonderment in about equal measure. Addem covers the main themes well above, and plenty of others will chime in. Welcome.

There are no numpty questions

They do need a curve and tension to work well. Ours are guyed down to the life lines at each side and forms a tunnel. I doubt they would work well self-supporting as K4309 proposes

Kilwell in Rotorua, or c-tech here? Both have stock extrusions in a variety of dimensions iirc

If it is corrosion binding them, a 50/50 mix of ATF and acetone is the best penetrating fluid I've ever experienced.

Hand me down. There is one on Facebook market ATM. Selling in Gisborne I think. With an oven. A bit grubby, but easy to clean up.

SO has an Eno gas stove and it's a pita. Expensive parts, safety cutouts have a will of their own, I'm over it. So we went back 35 years and got a Marine Stainless 2 burner Kero stove. I love it! I have tried running it on a mix of different fuels because of the cost of Kero @ $6 a litre!!! In the end nothing burnt quick or clean so it's back to Kero but it's Jet A1. Buying it 10 litres at a time from the local airfield. This is a quick test run before it gets fitted next weekend.

Collapsible fibreglass tent poles - the bendy ones for dome tents. The elastic through them keeps them together but they collapse down to a manageable size. You can take the elastic out and trim the lengths of the poles to match the dimension you need. Available in a variety of diameters and lengths, cheap as chips.

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The surface turned out very slippery when wet, so I aliexpressed some clear (translucent) grip-tape. It's now undergoing sun/rain cycle testing on the back deck at home. Only $2/m landed in NZ so if it lasts a season that's fine.

Showing your age Frank!

Eh, contact glue so it only needed 15 minute press. I'm rough, but not suicidal! Set at minimum, it'd be lucky to be pulling 0.1bar but that beats pressing.

Needs must 2 days before Christmas. Making a plinth for the skipper so she can see over the dodger. 6mm ply either side of some expol underfloor insulation. It will be inside a canvas cover with handles on it so it can double as a rescue float aid. Merry Christmas crew.

I really enjoy her channel and the album reviews. Clear parental influences!

Left the hardstand yesterday for a pleasant afternoon motoring down the Tamaki River then turning south-east and headed to Clevedon under sail. The gland housing ran hot initially, but as the packing settled in and the grease moved through the temperature dropped. A drop of water every 5 minutes or so now. Happy side-effect - after removing and reinstalling the flex coupling between the gearbox and the shaft, an annoying harmonic vibration has gone and the engine no longer rises and falls with the rotation of the prop shaft. The flex coupling bolts pitch circle must be SLIGHTLY off

Yup