chippie

Will you guys please,please, stop telling people what a beautiful place the Gulf is. If anyone asks me, I always say it's awful and they wouldn't like it.

Trying to attach a photo of the guilty party but it won't let me. It'll be me for sure but what am I doing wrong? Just looked at the the one Clipper posted and ours looks slightly different. BEP with "campmaster" on the regulator, blue solenoid casing and black tightening wheel. On the solenoid, "VR2 12v DC, Compatible with 600-GDL Gas Detector"

Ours was a BEP John, and like Clipper says, a shitty electrogalv bracket which is never going to have a hope in a marine environment. The one I replaced was also BEP and was about eight years old too. I thought I was doing the right thing by fitting a new one when the hose was replaced. Now wondering if I should contact BEP because I don't think it's a minor issue if more people are having problems with them. You'd never realise there's a leak unless you can smell it or test with the soap solution. Well there's the big bang method I suppose.

Sounds like it's back to climbing out into the cockpit every time we've finished with the gas. Wonder how many others are slowly leaking gas and also wondering how they can be sold as "fit for purpose".

Just been away for three weeks and had the gas sensor go off a couple of times. Checked everything with the soapy water method and every connection was fine. (not many connections because we only run the stove off the cylinder). Almost accidentally dripped some of the soap solution on the actual solenoid casing and saw bubbles coming from both the top and bottom of the casing. Took the regulator off and replaced it with our spare non solenoid operated regulator, carefully tested and everything fine. I'm bit perturbed by this. The solenoid operated regulator is only about six months old a

Yeah, we've had the kingies doing the "whack the boat thing" at the Barrier. Any idea why they do it?

I feel your pain BP. Almost exactly the same thing happened to us with a similar product nearly twenty years ago. We'd got all the old antifouling off and spent many hours longboarding the hull getting it as fair as we could. The guy who sold us the product insisted on applying it as well to "make sure it was done right". He sprayed on the first coat and we started to get the impression that he hadn't done much spraying before because it was a pretty unusual technique compared to what we'd ever seen before. It came out grossly orange peeled with major runs everywhere. Got a bit worri

Ron Given's Delta. Could be too big at 3m. Fibreglass, but no heavier than our old 2.4m ply dinghy. Honks under sail, easy to row, and virtually planes with a 3.3hp outboard.

Also wonder if there's any value in asking the question as to how many boats are in shared ownership. We have been for many years. It's worked out great. Two to share the costs so either half the cost or twice the boat for the same money. (very roughly speaking) And two people to do the maintenance.

Just been watching the latest video and wondering what those struts either side of the transom are for. I'm curious.

Call me cynical but….none?

Ahh, that takes me back a few years. Used to own and race a Piedy many years ago when the prizes were always bottles of rum. After every winter series race we used to tie up at the Akarana jetty and share out the winnings from the previous race. Quite often there would be so many guys on one poor bugger's boat that the aft end of the cockpit would be awash. After one session, I let go to take the Piedy back to our mooring in Okahu. We had a nine horse outboard on it and I opened it up to impress the boys with my boat handling skills. Hit that same patch so hard it fired me from the c