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    Dock lines

    in TechTalk

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    My lines are starting to look pretty ratty, and need replacing asap.

     

    I had some questions on the setup I inherited with the boat + berth.

     

    I go stern to, with a finger down my port side.  

    The aft port has two lines with eye splices. seems simple, easy enough. 

    the aft strbd has one line which loops - so just throw it over the cleat, and a second line with a splice. Effectively 3 lines but seems very messy and is difficult to fit on the single cleat.

     

    Forward there is a line each side with eyes spliced. 

     

    These all seem to do a good job of holding the boat in the centre line of the berth.

     

    Then we run one line from the end of the finger to midships and tie it around the base of the shrouds, this is to stop the boat going backwards into the dock.  

    This bit needs improving - its tied each time so there is higher chance of getting it wrong; 

    its always a slightly different length and i'm never sure which is best;

    it rubs badly on the toe rail and;

    It puts what seems like a lot of strain on the wrong axis of the shrouds.. must be a better way.

     

     

    Can anybody enlighten my as to why there would be three lines when presumably one would do (strbd aft),

    And what option do I have for a (spring?) line? I can make it longer and take it back to a cockpit winch or something?

     

    Thanks. Lots to learn

     

     

     

     

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    X Yachts

    in MarineTalk

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    Good boats but the steel frame worries me.

    Why does it worry you? Rust? Is that any worse than rot in a wooden boat?

     

    Serious question as i dont know :)

    engine oil extraction

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    Where did you end up getting your pump Winter ?

     

    Something I've got on the to-do list and I'm sick of the stupid little hand pumps that the hose comes off and drip oil

     

    Jon I ended up at burnsco and purcahsed one of these : http://www.burnsco.co.nz/shop/shop-all/plumbing-pumps-toilets/general-purpose-pumps/oil-and-fluid-vacuum-extractor

     

    Yes i know cheaper on tardme etc but I wanted it then and there!

     

    Really happy with it, didn't spill a drop and very easy and effortless to use really

    Have done the boat and the missus's VW with it so far :)

    engine oil extraction

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    Allright thanks everyone - thanks Wheels you were the winner on the green shed. I had to go two two of them before I found someone who knew what I was talking about. $11 for a ten pack. They have the oil only and the oil+water. 

     

    Repco had nothing - neither the oil pads or the oil pump. 

     

    ChrisC what brand is your 5L suction gizmo? 

    This is proving harder to find - the tardeme ones all seem to be 10L or they are shipped from the UK.. 

    Repco has nothing

    yet to try supercheap or burnsco

    Chartplotters on cabin tops

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    Matt, is the B&G Zeus2 Series the same as the Simrad NSS Evo2 series by any chance they look identical 

    aside from software.. yup. same parent company made in same factory. No idea what the functional differences are

    Chartplotters on cabin tops

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    IT, I just so happen to have the Zeus2. It is not so much the bracket - i'll use the one in the box, but the flat (+ level )smooth surface to mount that to. 

    It's going to have a bolt through the centre - so by default, it can swivel around a little.  You are right, the good screen means it's not going to make a lick of difference for viewing, but I still want it to be able to turn a little - if only to make fondling it from the seat up under the dodger nicer.

     

     KM the plotter will also be my biggest and wind display - and I like to be able to see the charted depths of the area infront of me as i'm motoring around an anchorage.  Downstairs for paper charts :)

     

    Not a huge fan of tablets as every time I go to use mine I've left it on and the battery is flat, and never seems to charge from the 12v cig plug charger.

     

    I intend on being able to undo one wing nut holding the bracket in place, undo the cables and remove the whole plotter + bracket assembly for safe keeping downstairs. 

    Chartplotters on cabin tops

    in TechTalk

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    You are pretty much on the money - u shaped bracket with a bolt through the centre, but the cabin top is a quite heavily sloped at the spot - so I want to build a little platform to counter the slope and level out the plotter a bit,

     

    and you hardly want the u bracket scratching up the gelcoat, so there must be some sort of teflon pad or something in there too.

     

    Its a single helm (tiller) on a 33ft mono - so no need for massive swivel, but when I'm standing at the tiller I would want it on a slightly different angle than when im sitting tucked up under the dodger right next to the plotter.

     

    I'm thinking of a plywood circle, cut on an angle for the slope, glassed and gelcoated in place, with a teflon / chopping board on top of that, then u bracket.

     Bolted through the center

    Chartplotters on cabin tops

    in TechTalk

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    I would like to see your photos of yours please! 

     

    Looking for examples of chart plotters mounted on some type of swivel plate thingimebob on top of cabin / under dodger somewhere..

     

    I've got an idea of what I want to create but hey, why re-invent the wheel if there is a good example I can copy

     

     

    Cheers

     

    Matt

     

    Ps, first post :)

     

     

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