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should have taken this advice at the time...

I'm picking Stepping Out has an old-school system so it will likely be fibre. There is a grease packing device fitted (very simple screw crown fitting) so I figure there is no real need ot go all high tech and fancy low friction. The Reserve Bank of Fosters actually has quite reasonable pricing on fibre product by the metre so if no-one violently objects I'll probably go that way.

found a great how-to website on it - just what you said harry, but it took them about 5,000 more words and many pictures!

Dripping is becoming steady dribble. Any recommended sources for packing material for repair of a traditional stuffing box?

Must be a Spencer performance specification...😁

Very late follow up. Prior to the Great Bum Polish, Stepping Out struggled to get to 5kt flat out under motor. Now we get 6kt @ 2000rpm easy. Same differential under sail. Maybe it was worth it!

Its a pretty standard electrical equipment fit pattern. While it won't be identical, Jaycar or similar should have something

that there is one excellent bargain for anyone wanting a no-risk entry into this size/performance range. Great piece of lateral thinking too!

Price reduction - $750 takes it away. On TardMe at the moment with a start of $650 if you want to chance it. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/caravans-motorhomes/parts-accessories/cookers-hobs/listing/3069746139?bof=eNzfajw9

I reckon the easiest way to see if you can handle it is to hire a 40 foot container and live in it for three weeks in the middle of winter. No cheating - cooking on a gas burner and a portapotti for a loo. Park the car 500m away and you can only get to it on a scooter. Rig up a special device to tap on the roof of the container, but only every now and then. Practise getting up in the dark to figure out wtf it is.

This looks like it will absorb a chunk of this weekend...

bloody hell they are cheap on Tardme eh. Probably not great for professional use, but for ocassional or one-off I'd go that way

where is the offending article located?

Has it got a model # on it? If so, track down the manual for it. Maxwell is here I had ours apart recently. It had broken the plastic stripper arm and also flicked the circlip of the bottom of the capstan shaft (I suspect it picked up on the warp). The manual recommends 6-monthly services and its not onerous - takes about 1 beercan to complete from start to finish. Basically a clean of everything on the capstan, regrease the clutch and shaft. The motor drops off it separately and is probably best serviced onshore where the stuff you drop ends up on hte floor not the in the o

excellent exposure blanket. With reefing points.

^ €2K on safety equipment instead of a new sail? What is this madness??? 😂

Actually, the approved method is single press (just like olives and coffee!). Multiple presses on the same terminal fatigues the wire and leads to early breakages. It won't come off if you try immediately, but it work hardens (especially copper) and fails later.

I did some work for a friend who is an aircraft mechanic once. Cessna 150. Every wire was white. I couldn't believe it. A tiny serial number printed every 300mm or so along the wire identified the circuit, but it was unreadable unless you were equipped with Mr Magoo glasses.

well, so they do! Cheers

True. Its nearly as simple as terminating wire rope.

First rule of any rescue situation. Hard to save anyone if you are dying as well.

Before I head off to beg with a merchant, has anyone in South or East Auckland got an offcut of thin marine ply that want to get rid of? I have two small soft spots in the cabin top that I am going ot cut out and repair with a drop-in block, epoxy and glass. Its on a curve (bloody hell...) and relatively narrow (2 areas about 100 x 100mm each) so I will need thin stock to be able to get the curve approximately right. Not fussed about the timber as long as its marine grade - it'll be hidden under a few layers of evadure and paint. Pay in Kash or Bottles of the Realm. Cheers

^this. Disclaimer, I am not and have not ever, lived aboard, but... Displacement launches have all the advantages MH states, and then some. A launch, for any given length, wil have significantly more interior volume than a yacht, and more useable volume - headroom tends to be available ot the bulkhead, unlike a yacht that tends to lose headroom once you are away from the centreline. The volume has advantages when you are looking for somewhere to tie it up to. For any given size of living space, the launch can be shorter than a yacht and shorter length means cheaper and more ac

After reinstalling the engine last week I hooked all the wire-y and tube-y bits up and hit the go-switch. Nothing. Blank looks. Voltmeter across the engine earth and live finds nothing. 0.00v or near as dammit. 6.00pm and fading light and it had been a big day, so I locked it all up and left. Came back yesterday full of the joys and with capacity to think. Looked at the live cable to the starter and thought "thats an odd angle its sitting at." Reached down, grabbed the cable and it fell off the "crimped" terminal... Off to the local autosparky who happily and prope

Panmure. Good facility, bar handy, great bakery up the road that does proper pies and donuts, burnsco around the corner, banter from the hardstand supervisor. Everything you need from a hardstand.