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3 hours ago, Vivaldi said:
Farr 1020?
Yep
New to us. 1.5 days on the linbides so far and just over half way 😖
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Early days yet but so far nothing I've found has freaked me out 😅
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Two boats ago but still my favorite yachting pic 👍🏽
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Was thinking more the fact that the anode has been coated in prop speed so therefore became decorative only.
Next thing to fizz away I would imagine would probably be the prop nut?
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Hauled the boat today.
Can anyone see anything telling in the pics?
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2 hours ago, Fish said:
FLC, you are welcome to borrow my scuba gear if you want to have a look for it yourself.
I believe you've seen my prowess with tanks and regulators... therefore I shall defer to your skills ans offer you a ride to Q pier and a mcdonald's breakfast if you can recover a propulsion mechanism for me
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Hahaha Fish I did warn Joel to look out for 830 rigs when we were eeking our way up the river on an ebb tide with f all breeze.
We only went backwards a couple of times, custodian motored his dinghy down river when he couldn't handle watching us contemplating kedging but respectfully stood off while we eventually made it to the dock!
I agree it seems a long shot to lose it to a thief, hoping the vendor sees reason and sends someone down to have a look.
Fingers crossed
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3 minutes ago, waikiore said:
Wellll... who serviced the prop last, a pity you shifted her coz it is his issue.
Yeah sometimes I'm just too accommodating for my own good. He rents the berth, has owned the boat 20 years, advanced in years been and had a prospective purchaser back out recently.
When it failed to drive out the furthest thing from my mind would have been a missing prop. I was thinking sticky gears, sea life or fishing line preventing it from opening (Gori folding)
Stuck head under the water there (eeeew) with mask but too murky to even see leading edge of rudder. So figured better to get it nearer home and have a look.
The boat has recent new motor and sail drive (500 hrs) she is a bit run down but was priced accordingly, a bit of TLC and she will be a good boat for us.
I gave him a date I'd have it out by and didn't want to cause him any stress. I'm currently trying to track down previous Purchaser to buy a copy of his survey.
That being said, it was advertised with a Gori prop and when I went to take delivery it had nothing. I'm hoping he will see sense and get someone to have a dive for it as it backed into its berth, so must be in the mud underneath.
I can't see someone spending 30mins under water in that soup disassembling a prop to sell on black market - can you?
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No sadly
I have been 930-less since just after Bay Week.
I've done the grown up thing and bought a proper family yacht. Picked it up from Westhaven yesterday at sparrows fart and found it had no propulsion when trying to leave the berth.
Assumed stuck blades from little use, was on a deadline to get back to Weiti for tide so sailed it out of the Marina, up the coast, over the bar and onto our club wharf.
Went to work for a few hours, came back armed with mask and budgie smugglers and jumped in for a look.
Sail drive there, as is spline and thread but no prop!
Vendor says was running fine when parked 9 days earlier, and is suggesting that the prop must have been stolen in between my money going in his bank and me taking possession of the boat 6 days later.
Which according to him makes it MY issue.
Not really sure what my next step should be! 🤔
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Haha although she can hold her breath long enough to do the deed she lacks the opposable thumbs and I suspect the correct tools to complete the job.
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Have you, or anyone you know ever had a propeller pinched off a yacht whilst moored in Westhaven marina?
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+1 on the CFX-40
Did 2 weeks last summer with one of these on the 930, with 170 watts of available solar and 196 amps of deep cycle batteries.
Started with all the meat packed in and frozen while on 240v at home, drove to BOI with it running on 12v in the ute, chucked it in the boat and buggered off.
Ran it on -18deg C during the day and switched it off at night. came home with still frozen meat.
And during the day, as the food ran down I replaced the gaps with water bottles and beers. They went from bilge temp to frosty in an hour...
One day I'll have a grown ups boat with charging systems and inoard/icebox and I reckon I'll still rock the Waeco!
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If Boatworks changes his mind I'd be keen
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We on the Mean Streak (Class 930) had an interesting race, hoping to better our 4th in div 5 last year we ended up 13th on line... after snapping our tiller off at the transom 10 minutes into the race!
Had a bit on with fractional Gennaker up off North Head, loads were high in the half broaches and the thing just peeled off in my hands like the top of a can (work hardened stainless tube about 25mm from a weld)
Ended up head to wind with kite behind us, took a while to get it in and get the boat under control.
Couldnt believe what I was looking at, all that time money and prep and race over just like that. As we were intending to leave the boat on a mooring in Russell in preparation for family Xmas cruise and Bay Week (And I'm an eternal optimist) I decided to have a go at fixing it to see if we could continue under reduced sail.
I got the aluminium boat hook out, hacksawed it in half and using 4 camlock tiedowns and an unspecified amount of metres of 6mm spectra we managed to clamp it around the stock, sandwiching them in front of and behind the blade and bout 300mm along the tiller wrapping the two halves of the tiller in a figure 8 style to bind the whole lot together. We then got going again under reefed main and #3 in the direction of Gulf Harbour, gingerly loading it up in the gusts and studying the repair. It all looked to be going well and didn't appear to be deflecting at all so we had a crew discussion in the lee of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula and opted to carry on North for the party.
Obviously we were DFL so no hopes for a result but once we set off it became apparent we were ceasing to be overtaken by people and were in fact catching div 5 boats slowly, sailing a 930 under canvassed in breeze obviously has some merit!
We could hear the vhf on constantly with dismastings and rudder carnage so really strived to just ease through the gusts and not fight the boat if it started rounding up. By the time we passed Kawau we were confident enough to choose outside the Hen and Chicks hoping for a more organised sea state and it paid off with some great sends hitting over 16kts on occasions. (also set a new boat record for having someone on the can at 14kts)
We were extremely relieved to make the finish just after 3am after not only finishing walking wounded but also putting some 20+ division 5 boats behind us in the process.
A great raft up with Hotdogger in the bay and watching the sun rise whilst on the rums capped it off nicely!
I'm currently sitting in a hotel restaurant in Bangkok nursing the usual post race kidney aches and bruises but still buzzing about the trip and my great crew. Can't wait to get back and start on a nice new beefy carbon tiller
For all the flack that transom hung rudders collect I for one am certainly glad that 930's have one or we would have been yet another yacht requiring a tow.
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Midday Friday but it changes every couple of hours...yesterday it was showing 30 knots W
I'd take that one in a heartbeat! Not keen on two on the wind Coastals in a row
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Too early for weather predictions?
I certainly hope so after looking at Metvuws 1300hrs Coastal Friday forecast!
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I'll take it when it's in the offing!
It was easy to see the apparent pace of the boat but yes they had a couple of mares in that race.
90k not a lot for a new boat but in saying that - I'm leaving my 20k 80's ross tip truck at Russell again after this years Coastal to do another 14 day xmas cruise with the wife and kids and that's the saving grace for my yacht racing campaign!
Mum would let me spend $89k on a Young 11 but not on another skiff
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hmmm Nigel it was their 1st sail and they had a few issues. Think after a few more sails you will only every see them at the start line!
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It will be interesting to see how they perform against the Sr's and Ross boats.
Not quite there yet ????
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Mean Streak hoping to go at least 1 better than last year, including Grunt Machine, The Entertainer and Hot Diggity Dawg that's 4 930's so far - any more going to come out and play?
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That's cool!
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This will boil your biscuit - for Saturdays SSANZ I ran the Multi unit (with the depth transducer unplugged of course) purely as a SOG repeater.
It was also displaying depth, and based on a few checks against the plotter throughout the day... seemed to be reading pretty accurately.
For the life of us, we could not ascertain where the unit was getting its data from!
Is there a possibility, that when connected to the Vulcan but not getting a transducer signal, the depth according to the plotter and tide info is calculated for your position and displayed?
Was weirding us out a bit
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We finally managed to join all the dots on Mean Streak and had a largely mistake free race.
Held masthead symmetric from start right on C.U's hip past brown's then had to run off a bit in the puffs and finally decided to foot a bit for speed , then hoist jib and come back up around whatever that big point is called, before setting fractional Gennaker and carrying that all the way to shag island. Rounded that leading all but C.U and then proceeded to play the 'Overpowered Skinny 930' game all the way up the north coast of Waiheke. We took our foot of Mercenaries throat long enough for them to wriggle free by virtue of flatter water and slight breeze bend closer in shore to thumb point and had to engage in some pretty hard thinking shore scaring choppy tide riding through Motuhei channel to get back to them. Once with them we had a short violent and exciting match race and managed to bounce them and lead into the line. Great fun but boy am I sore today!
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I've got Advansea S400 Wind and Multi instruments on my boat, hooked up to a B&G Vulcan 7 plotter/Autohelm via NMEA Backbone.
The S400 was chosen as a direct replacement for the old Navman units as they can use the Navman transducers.
All has run well for 2 years however the water speed stopped reading about 6 months ago (thought maybe transducer).
But after coming out of the water for a keel reset and hull scrape/coat when we fired the instruments up the Multi display up and quit.
Got a new one, put it in for the Enduro however on the way to the start the screen started showing a black spot and was extremely hot to the touch. When I checked the solar mppt display I could see that something was drawing about 6 amps... felt the power wires to the multi and they were scorching so cut them and draw went back to .2 amps.
Took the unit to Absolute Marine who tested it and found no fault.
Refitted yesterday and changed the fuse from the original 15 (!!!) amp to a 3 amp and plugged it all up, checking the draw at each stage.
Power wires connected - 0.1- 0.2amp
NMEA wires connected - 0.1- 0.2amp
Speed transducer - 0.1 to 0.2 amp
Depth transducer - Fuse go bang.
So its looking like transducer or transducer wiring. Nothing was done in the area that the transducer is mounted or wiring routed whilst out of the water so I doubt its damage.
But - the thru hull Navman depth transducer has never been mounted through the hull. It was glued directly to the inside of the glass hull in what is supposed to be a thin area (Is there any thick areas on a 930's hull???) under the galley bench. It has read depth fine through this hull for many many years.
But when out of the water I painstakingly scraped the hull back to glass, rolled on two coats of Altex Carboguard, sanded that back then sprayed a tie coat of epoxy primer and 2 or 3 passes of Petit Antifoul.
My question is - have these layers of coatings somehow proved a bridge too far for the transducer to read through or is it just a coincidence that the transducer has decided to fail at the same time as we did the bottom job?
Is there any test I can do with transducer in place to find the fault?
Cheers
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Nah for some reason yesterday's keen helpers were otherwise occupied today!
I've named the area around the sail drive 'Brendan's Rectangle '
Kind of like the Bermuda triangle but instead of aircraft and ships dissapearing, more yacht keeps appearing