[Ross 830 - Outboard replacement thoughts....]

10 hours ago, Rgvkiwi said:

Interesting alternative, quiter, no oil to premix and that is slightly lighter. My only concern would be in swell. Does it reach as deep as the old motor?

In larger or shorter harbour type swell or chop we will have the motor out of the water on occasion.

We got the long shaft option, same as the old one and have it mounted on the transom. Dropped all the way on the bracket works fine in all but really short steep sea states then you get the occasional cavitation. 

[Ross 830 - Outboard replacement thoughts....]

Just put a 6hp 4 stoke Yamaha on Flaming Lips, only used a few times so far but pushed her along nicely at 6kt in flat water with a very dirty bottom or 4+ into 15 knots of breeze. very clean and  quite, comes in at 26kg. 

[B and G wind gear compatibility with Garmin chart plotter]

Looking at installing wind gear on my Ross 830, would like to go wireless for easy install and looking at the B and G WS320 kit with no display. Would this be compatible to the existing Garmin echoMAP 75sv chart plotter via a NMEA 2000 backbone? 

[Wanted - Ross 830 Asymmetrical kite(s)]

As per title I'm looking for some secondhand aysmmentical kites sutible for a Ross 830 with a 1.6 meter prod, both masthead and fractional. Aproximate luff lenghts of 10.5m for fractional and 12m for masthead. Cheers!

[Ross 830 - Advice]

I've also recently purchased a Ross 830 (Flaming Lips) and have two questions. The First is that the boat came with a square top, the bottom three battens being half length and the top 3 full length. When sailing up wind as soon as any backstay tension is added and even without any backstay at times the main starts to "fold" at the front of the half lenght battens. Does anyone have any suggestions on how best to trim the main to avoid this, or is it a matter of getting full length battens? (we have fractional runners for forestay tension and these are always on going upwind). My second question is around the runners/backstay. On the down winds I use backstay to surport the top of the rig when I've got masthead gear up. But in order to jibe with the square top the backstay needs to be let off, leaving the top of the rig unsurported. I plan on going to mast head runners, any sugestions on how best to set these up as I'd like to keep the fractional runners for forestay tension, but would prefer only having to pull one thing on in the cockpit (no winches for runners just purchase system).  

 

(First picture with backstay on second with none on).