Hi Arno, I would be interested to know how you get on with the paint. When you say dinghy paint. What paint exactly? Also in your other post you said you bought membranes for the water maker for 160 e

Hi Martin, I have the same issue on my 54. I have found that by using a vacuum cleaner I can suck off the film leaving the bare foam behind. It works pretty well and looks fine afterwards. The foam in

Thanks Bill, I agree that the really important connection between the C drive and the rudder zincs needs to be 100% and the for example salt water pump for the anchor wash is less of a worry. When I g

I had this stern arch made by Nick in Grenada. (TechNick Ltd SIMS Boat Yard) I showed him an example of the Emek arch and we discussed it. We tried flexing it by hand and it wobbled a lot. Nick said t

Hi Bill, I meant to say well done to all those involved with setting up the new owners site. Thanks. Good bonding connections???? How good can we expect the connections on the bonding circuits to be?

Non Slip Paint Many years ago on my first boat, "Faith of Norfolk” I was fed up with the teak deck. So I ripped it all up. It had been laid over ply which was still sound. To cut a long story short; a

I kept my last boat in Leros at Partheni for three or four winters. It is a good, tidy, secure, boatyard. There are no shops nearby but the yard has a reasonable chandlery. It is walking distance to t

Hi Woody, I have a 54 but used the same conduit for my solar and wind generators. That 24v socket is live on my boat and is for an electric dinghy inflator! I believe the conduit is for a SSB antenna

I have threatened the family that they must all shave their heads………. Hair gets everywhere!!! I have two teenage daughters, and a wife all with long blond hair. It is a mystery to me too, but just cle

Paul, On my last boat I got nearly 10 years from my battery bank AGM’s and it was only because I left a lamp on and forgot to turn off the power when I left the boat for two weeks that they died. The

Hi Kent and Iris, I am afraid that the dreaded job of regularly de-hairing the macerator pump is on my list of preventative to do’s. It is not too bad if one pumps through plenty of clean water before

Hi Jeff, I am not on the boat for the winter, so can not measure the stem fitting. My poles are normally stored on deck. So there is no track on the mast but fittings at the base of the mast. Conseque

RE POLES ON THE 54 I have a 54 with twin aluminium poles. I can manage them alone but they are big and quite heavy. One trick I have found is that when at sea and likely to be using them, but not actu

Hi there, In 1990-1994 circumnavigation in my first boat I sailed Panama- Marquesas (38days) then Tuamotus, Society Islands, Tonga, NZ, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Rabaul in New Britain, and then

The Rolls Royce of cookers is the GN Espace range (gn-espace.com). They are in a different league to the rest on the market. Built in the UK but expensive. Sometimes you get what you pay for! I had on

Dean, The transceiver unit is fixed outboard of the chart table seat on the shelf. The tuner is located on the starboard side of the lazarette locker. The distance between the tuner and the antenna mu

Dean, My only worry with using the engine starting battery for the Icom is the negative ground. The radio will be grounded onto the plate located by the rudder and the power to the radio at the engine

Hi Dean, On Amelia we have the M802 SSB installed by Amel. They chose the DC converter route: there are two Mastervolt 20A converters in parallel. These are located under the chart table in the little

Hi Dean, I just checked, the mizzen backstay is 7mm 1X19. Not sure on the length but about 15m. The expense is not an extra metre or two of wire but the fittings especially the two insulators. I just

Dean, you are referring to the mizzen backstay I assume? if so it is not 10mm, more like 7mm. I will check my records Nick