Greets, Having tried various combinations with headsail out (various %s, and backed), we always seem to fall off and end up too far off the wind, and may be also broadside to the waves, resulting in

Our SM has an inner forestay, we use the staysail and mizzen. If you don't have a staysail, a partially furled headsail to produce similar windage to the mizzen would work. Too big a headsail will

Scott, I had a quick search and couldn't find any extra details for advanced configuration of the Prolific driver. Unfortunately, usb-to-serial adapters are notorious for messing up the hardware

Thanks, I looked at the Windows 10 device manager driver configuration for the Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (port settings) and it does allow me to set flow control. I tried the 3 options:

Scott, You may be able to configure the driver for the RS232-USB adapter to emulate the DTR->DSR and RTS->CTS loop-back functionality?

Correct, it has to do with flow control You have to jumper, on the PC side: pins 4 (DTR) and 6 (DSR) pins 7 (RTS) and 8 (CTS) I did not attempt it because we are in the Tuamotus right now and

Scott, "It turns out you need to jumper 2 pairs of pins in the DB9/serial/rs232 port" I'm assuming that the problem is hardware flow control, which can be bypassed in the wiring with various

Mizzen and staysail if you have one or Mizzen and head sail if you don’t Cheers 🥂

I haven’t had the opportunity to try it yet but thought I’d ask other SM owners what sail combo works best when Heaving To? -- Kevin & Kristen Schmit KIANA SM #362

Hi David, I am interested in the rudder packing nut wrench. Cheers, Keith Tice Bikini SM282 Calvi, France

Hi Alain, Make sure there is nothing else connected to the hub apart from your PC and the AIS. It will fail otherwise. Regards, Arno Luijten SV Luna, A54-121

Are you using Windows? Try turning off all the Windows firewalls. As an aside, I tried to update my GP-150 on my own. I got the software and instructions and had to edit the batch file to refer to

Hi Elaine and Michael We raised the boot line on Mothership and did a maintenance blog on how we did it. Hope it helps - https://youtu.be/8QEAIdavdLU

Hi Raul, Re: BCE Precision Ltd on Port Rd in Whangarei, Great, thanks. Terry from ASM was my first choice, but he is still on Christmas vacation. So I’ll try these guys

Hi all, Thanks to you all for your answers and additional inputs – all very good info. We’re still considering our options, and will do some cruising up and down the East coast of the NZ North

Hi David, Just for your reference…..below is a photo of the puller that I borrowed from my friendly Amel neighbour, Charlie on Gemma. All credits to him and hopefully I haven’t infringed on his

Hello Reudi; Sorry for the late response. The underwater installation was fairly straight forward with a bit of planning. The step on the keel acts as a great work bench to store the required

Thanks everyone for the info and photos. Elaine and Michael from Nebo

In terms of global practicality and easy maintenance it is very easy : The A50 is better than the 55 which is better than the 54 In terms of pure equipment quality after the big problems with the A 54

Glad I could help Reudi. Porter McRoberts S/V IBIS WhatsApp:+1 754 265 2206 Www.fouribis.net