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  1. Hi SV Odysseus,

    The  Kalik 40 is a 12.1 m monohull sailboat designed by Gary Mull and built by Kyung-Il Yacht (KOREA) between 1979 and 1981. The same design was also called CONCEPT 40. or OCEAN 40.

    The New Zealand built version based on a similar design is known as Chico 40/42, and around 25 hulls were built by Keith Eade in the early to mid 80's. The NZ boats were built to ABYC standard and are still considered a very strong, sound, capable and comfortable yacht for offshore passages. Hull construction is sandwich with foam core, decks are also sandwich construction with balsa core localised ply wood core for high load points.  The design is now over 40 years old so performance is unremarkable compared to newer designs. The Chico 42 is the same hull but with a sugar scoop stern/boarding platform.

    The NZ Navy still have 3 immaculate examples of the Chico 40.

    We have owned our Chico 42 for 11 years,  lived aboard for the last 5 years and covered quite a few miles around the NZ coast.

     

     

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  2. We have a Chico 42 with exactly the same pedestal. The pedestal is an Edison 402? Contact the guys at So-Pac. there are some diagrams on the internet. Just a sanity check, is your autopilot turned off or disconnected?

  3. On 17/08/2021 at 11:22 AM, strath said:

    I want to replace my existing winch with a two way rope to chain gypsy, 8mm Din 776 chain

    I have a Maxwell Nilsson wench, one direction, rope drum and chain gypsy, which is probably as old as the boat 1987 a Farr 1020. The winch stopped working a couple of years back and I rang Nilsson's who sugested taking the winch off to them for repair. The problem was I could get the rope drum off, but not the gypsy. The gypsy does not appear have a key and has two grub screws which screw onto the shaft which I could not get out. I finish up just taking the outer case off the motor and taking it to them and they put in new brushes which fixed the problem.

    Now that I want to replace the winch, I am faced again with getting the chain gypsy off so I can remove the winch from the boat to fit a new winch.

    Any help and ideas ????

     

    Talk to the guys at James Nilsson. They were able to sell us a reversing motor. Now we can power down and up.

  4. Took my Robertson HLD2000 hydraulic auto pilot in to Active Engineering. They couldn't have been more helpful.  All fixed up within three days and working as good as new, Should last for another 30 years. Thanks IT for your recommendation.

  5. Hi our Robertson HLD2000 hydraulic auto pilot just dumped its fluid into the bilge. Probably a blown seal. Anyone know who might repair or service these units. Simrad used to sell them but it’s now discontinued.

  6. you should get a small laminate router with a 4 or 5mm cutting bit.

    get a scrap of timber with a straight edge that you can gently nail down with furniture brads

    the trick is to set the depth to about 3mm, the hardest part is to work out the offset from the straight edge to the cutting blade.

    then run the router along the straight edge and job done

    mask up apply sika primer then sika.

    when set just run a sharp blade along to remove excess then a gentle sand

     

  7. Well, a month or two ago I posted a pic of my engine room. Was looking good! Unfortunately, things have not gone so well.

     

    I have a volvo penta 2003T, 1998 model, with a 120S saildrive. The unit has around 10,000 hours. It has had some work done to it in this lifetime, including one rebuild.

     

    BUT the other week, when I was supposed to do my RYA offshore masters practical test, it overheated on the way to Auckland. Had to postpone the test, returned to Gulf Harbour.

     

     

    IT  this is identical to our experience. We had a 2003T in our chico 42. one day it started to overheat.  We replaced it with a d2-55 and have never regretted it. But we also found that the problem was the cap on the filler tank bottle.  a new filler cap solved the problem. the piece of rubber might be of the filler cap.

    We sold the engine to a friend in Wellington, who has done some work to it and it is now in a shed in wellington, and is running sweetly.

    so for $16k we got a new filler cap and a free engine. !!!!

     

    Our heat exchanger and oil cooler were also pretty dodgy when we pulled the engine out 

  8. Yes you can connect to GPS with an old ipad.  You need a bad elf gps. [www.bad-elf.com]. That will connect you to GPS Satellites and GLONAS. what type of connection does your ipad have? if its the old original wide connection, I have a bad-elf that will fit.

  9. I sailed on this boat in wellington back in 1987.  Its not an IOR death roller.  Its quite wide in the stern and could get up and plane in the right conditions.  I believe it has the wellington young 11 bulb keel that was fitted to flying boat, arbitrage etc.

     

    The main feature of the old IOR death rollers was a very pinched stern, tall thin mainsail, and masthead rig.  The moment you wound the pole back things got really hairy really quickly.

  10. I am in the market for a new furler, boat 12m sloop rigged, It does not have one.

    Harken, Profurl or Furlex or others?

     

    I have experience with Harken and Profurl having assembled and installed them many moons ago but am sure a lot has changed since I was last involved.

     

    Any informed opinions?

    We have Schaeffer 3100 on our Chico 42. 

  11. Farina, where do you get your wind info from?

    They will be hirting if it is just tide and no wind, they are going backwards at 3 knots, and Miss Scarlet going forward at 3 knots.

    If they wait long enough, I'm sure Blink will be pleased to show them the way.

    Ah sorry that was 1.5 to 3.0 of adverse tide from navionics iphone app.

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