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+1 on the Waeco CFX40 Used one as a freezer for last 3 Xmas cruises. All good.

Nice end to this story. Seller has made a claim on his insurance and apparently a new prop is winging its way from Sweden. He had a diver look for it in/around the berth with no luck.

On the 830 we would go to the barrier for 10 days with 3 x 20L plastic cans of fresh water, had a hand pump ib the galley and that was it. Half way through the trip was shower day, 2 adults and 2 small kids could get a quick shower each sat in outboard well with a 10L paint bucket, topped up over a jug full of boiled water using a 12v submersible pump with a solar shower hose and head on it. Blaardy luxury!

Wind a copper pipe around your heat exchanger and plumb tank water to one end and a cockpit shower into the other?

Good info thanks Jon Yes I can see water capacity being the next hurdle! One reason I don't want an instant water heater. At least with a cylinder it kind of 'Polices' shower durations. Have a 12 yo boy who finds comfort in Long meditation sessions in the shower at home, we are on tank water so wears a bit thin! We survived 5 xmas cruises with no pressure water and a 20L water tank, splashed out and put 100L bladder in the 930 last year and I swear it lasted about the same time. The new boat appears to have about 270L and I wager once the tribe get used to pressure water and hot show

A lot going on in that space! Very clean engine bay, something we are a ways from at present. So if you are running your motor and using hot water (say a shower) at the same time, does the cylinder keep up with demand or do you end up with water that gradually loses its temp?

One of the items on Mrs FLC wishlist for the new boat is a hot shower. I'm not keen on gas califonts inside hulls, we don't have the battery capacity for an instant electric water heater so I'm left looking at engine heated storage/supply options. I understand cylinders ideally need to be lower than but close the motor, so I'm thinking of putting something in the pantry aft of galley (Farr 1020) Engine is Yanmar 3ym 20 Anyone had good/bad experiences with particular brands/models? Thinking 25/30 litre. (We aren't in a Marina so not fussed on 240v backup types) Che

Yeah good point re: wind gear. Coming off 2 racers into a family boat I'm probably overestimating my requirements. Although being able to have the pilot steer to wind is knocking on a requirement these days, and having an integrated plotter on the last boat was a life changer. I'm getting old

Doing a refit of a Farr 1020 Has the barest of necessities at present, running vintage Navman speed and depth and that's about it. Looking for plotter, pilot, speed, depth and wind. Before committing to a full spend up does anyone know of a flasher boat doing a refit soon that might be keen to sell a boat load of electronics?

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

Yep New to us. 1.5 days on the linbides so far and just over half way 😖

Early days yet but so far nothing I've found has freaked me out 😅

Two boats ago but still my favorite yachting pic 👍🏽

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?

Hauled the boat today. Can anyone see anything telling in the pics?

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

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

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) sh

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! Ve

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.

Have you, or anyone you know ever had a propeller pinched off a yacht whilst moored in Westhaven marina?

+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 syste

If Boatworks changes his mind I'd be keen

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

I'd take that one in a heartbeat! Not keen on two on the wind Coastals in a row