jonathan

I would be keen to take a look at that unit Peter 021380611

remembering the three NM units replaced under warranty on RnB back in the day.....

Those who have owned sternleg boats... are they as much trouble as some people like to make out? how much maintenance do they require vs a cutlass etc

Its funny and sad that back in 2007 I took my boat into the pacific with a cat one certificate, if I went agin now with the same crew, many who have 10,000's nm's. We would have to get more theory to satisfy the pen pushers, yet you can climb Mt Cook without a climbing certificate. I can register my boat in South Africa for 545 rand..... if I go again, I will be at cat 1 level safety wise and flying a SA flag

its $1000 to register as a ship to leave....

its because the people who issue cat 1 also sell the courses necessary to get the crew up to speed, irrespective of their offshore experience, theory in a pool counts for more.... little segregation of duty or revenue

Funny you say that as I changed the filter and had a persistent leak around the gasket on my old Perkins 4108, i left it as it was really slow, will check the filter make now.... I need to completely clean out my Racors, has not been done of a long time.

Tanks are meant to have an EU stamp of some kind on them but if in date they seemed to ignore for yachts same with dive tanks, most nz tanks dont have that stamp.. that was a few years back worth checking ...

easy to jump a start relay, I call excessively BS what sailing experience did they have?

I really want the auto for anchoring, not about to replace my longer range High amp navs.

I would have thought that a guy selling these as anchor lights would have had a lot of negitive feedback if they where switched... ie VHF interfering, as he is selling it specifically into marine anchor light market? Will try one, and see.

Looks so easy , just replace anchor light bulb and get an automatic LED anchor light, anyone tried one of these? https://store.marinebeam.com/dusk-to-dawn-automatic-photocell-led-anchor-light-bulb/

I am after a replacement AP22 control head if anyone has one?

i will try vhf and fm radio etc once its installed... only got a single one to try.

if the boat is not cat one to start you may blow a considerable amount of the 70k getting it there....

I am trying this bulb in an interior fitting , its a 4w Replaces (25w old school bulb), its going into an old fitting with very opaque thick lens, will see what happens, and report back. https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/caravans-motorhomes/parts-accessories/lighting/auction-1449266222.htm

could you post a pic of the stack from below the boom

At 10 knots you are only 20 mins away from a reef 3 miles away. At night 20 mins can go real quick if you have any problems and you also know you can;t climb, due to no solid backstay, you dont want anything in front of you full stop.... 30 tons of yacht with no backstay doing 10 knots just doesn't spell enough maneuverability to me at night, when you think you are 3miles away from an unlit reef. I am real glad they are ok, I just don;t think things leading up to it where prudent We have all heard stories of people who where sure in the pacific they where a few miles away....

Only after they hit the reef, lost rig so lost most comms including stuff like sat phone in dodger, SSB ariel etc, they said king tide hid reef from radar, they where doing 10 knots when they hit, they must have had steerage. I don't like threading the needle in daylight let alone at night at that speed. If they only had paper charts at that point wouldn't you just sail well low of all danger like 15-20miles at night and only approach anything during the daylight? I have setoff windward in the pacific at midnight to avoid really heavy headwinds, and it gives me the Sh&t

too lippy

Anyone else thinks someone has clocked Tony Veitch one, his Mrs?

Lots of boats have been lost at night thinking they where x miles away from an unlit reef. Lesson STAY WELL away from everything at night. There isn't a lot of hazards south of that reef, its almost a wing mark on the Minerva / Fiji sail.

"The plotter and the radar both said we were three miles off but the two plotters were incorrect by three miles so we just hit the edge of the reef," he said. Bloody close to even be three miles off at night with no backstay.... My boat, as straight spreaders, once backstay was lost you would want to get spinnaker halyard cranked on backwards and possibly go up and add another halyard so you could spread then like running backstays... then use inner staysail and a possibly partial unfurled jib depending on wind strength. I would be trying to stay a bit further away from things a

what is predict wind saying for tomorrow?

I am glad they are all ok