Eamonn, partly furling worked fine for us when the wind got stronger, to be on the safe side we reduce size in the night, never had any problems. did not change the setup during our atlantic crossing,

Nick, yes, it is a WASI Buegel anchor. Any experiences with the WASI compared to the Rocna? Why have so many upgraded to Rocna? herbert

Hallo I have a 100m 10 mm stainless steel chain and a Mantus stainless steel 85 lbs steel ANKER. The Price for the Mantus is about half as the Rocna. I have it 9 month now with no problem at all. I

Hello When crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific, We only rolled up the balooner as far as necessary. When the thunderstorm was over it was easy to roll it out again. We never had any damage to the

Hi, I have been wondering about what to do when the true wind gets to 20 knots. Amel says if the true wind exceeds 20 knots then the balooner and foresail may be rolled together. I wondered if the

Mike, I did my first bowthruster service this past winter and used a 29x42x8 seal. It was a tight fit but it works. The seal I replaced was also a 29mm ID seal. There was no oil leaking from the

The original stainless anchor is probably a WASI Beugel anchor. It is a good anchor for sure but in my opinion your 33kg Rocna is much better and nearly 30% bigger. I recently demoted my 30kg WASI to

Hi Herbert, Can’t comment on the chain as I’ve never had stainless. Guess it might settle better in the anchor locker. We have the 25kg Rocna on our Santorin and not had any problem with it. With

I ordert now One spade ancor Seewater Aluminium 18,5 Kg for second and stern ancor and 28 kg seewater Aluminium for main ancor I hope it is a god concept Best SM Balu 222 Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Keep in mind, galvanized, steel chain is more ductile than stainless (a good thing) and has higher tensile strength. Those are positives. Oh, also costs less. Negative is, when the galvanizing wears,

Hi Amelians, an excellent topic to discuss - anchor and chain :-) just booked the flights back to Mexico and "in preparation" for the next season... and therefore questions... KALI MERA has 90

The paint we bought locally in Trinidad, from a shop by Coral Cove, was much better than Brightsides. Didn’t flake off like brightsides, one part, and easy to apply. Of course I used it as a boot

We used Brightside Hatteras Off White and a flattening agent. Very close match. Ian & Margaret S/V Loca Lola II SM153 US East Coast

Chuck, He's right. I had an issue with mixing Brightside to brown. If he is talking about the paint supply shop in Coral Cove Marina, I trust the opinion of the owner of that shop. We had him mix 1

Hi All, This is a cut and paste from a friend who was going to paint my stripes on my SM in Trinidad. "went to budget marine but don't have brown in paint in Interlux Brightside went to the paint

We just replaced the prop shaft seal with the 29mm lip seal. Aletes was on the hard and the bow thruster was dipping oil the next day. Thinking we may have damaged the lip seal during installation, we

Three miles off shore. 😎

Sorry guys, just read that last post and the 2nd para should read... The problem was simply that the seawater pump is not commanded to turn on IF the ambient temp is below the set point. I couldn’t

Hi Mark, Bill, Matt & Danny, Thanks for posting. It turned out that the problem I was having was nothing to do with the capacitor, corrosion or the rotor sticking. The clue was in the lack of drive

Hi Nick, I’ll try that screwdriver method next year, although I found that just spinning it a few times before starting up the system also seems to work. We also used the AC a lot in Greece.