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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.
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5 hours ago, Young Entertainer said:
family of 4 did 3 weeks on 160L (standard 1020 tanks), now i have 300 litres and pressure hot water we made it 4.5 days
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!
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1 hour ago, gisywaterboy said:
Does any one have any hacks for super simple warm water off the engine? Im not talking hot steamy shower, I'm thinking just rinsing salt off the kids at the end of the day, out in the cockpit, while the engine is running. There must be some clever, simple systems out there. I have a 2gm20F.
Wind a copper pipe around your heat exchanger and plumb tank water to one end and a cockpit shower into the other?
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41 minutes ago, Jon said:
Depends Nigel, thermostat needs to be open for heating to work. So if she gets up in the morning after being at anchor all night then you will need to get engine up to temp before it will start to heat. Also depends on flow rate and cylinder capacity, ours is 60ltr and we get about 4 quick showers before the cylinder temp gets down to a point where you have full hot on but your out of luck if your #5. Running the engine if you’ve just motored for a couple of hours will probably mean you will need to run the watermaker to keep up.
We have a ball valve in the line from the motor into the cylinder that we can either regulate or shut off if we are motoring for a long time as the water gets stupid hot.
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 showers it'll probably need refilling after 4 days 😅
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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?
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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)
Cheers
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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
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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?
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2 hours ago, Kick Ass said:
Looking good Nigel, no extra pairs of hands today?
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
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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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+1 on the Waeco CFX40
Used one as a freezer for last 3 Xmas cruises. All good.