Recent content by Adamastor

I know where the auctioneer gets their stock from! Seriously... https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/mpumalanga/train-derailed-due-to-stolen-tracks/

Penguins or gannets? They always seem to use them to sop up oil-spills on beaches and sensitive environmental areas, then they take the soiled birds off, was the oil out, and put them back! (I'll get my coat!)

Maxi77 will confirm that when they spec a system for speed "x", there is a presumption that the owner won't be doing all their navigation in reverse! I'm not a hydraulic super-geek, but I've also been round the block enough to say that sizing a system isn't hit-and-miss. Do the homework and...

Some of the things I've used have been nylon angle-grinder brushes which get soft metals like alinum-num shiny, as well as brass cup-brushes on same said grinder. Olewill mentioned heat, and that's my first choice, coupled with, say, a triangular scraper or a putty-knife with a wicked eddge. The...

Probably not a bad idea to get rid of the ganky old lubricant first with some paraffin or the likes, just like you clean winches. Hint to self: support the mast first...

There seems to be, after much analysis and several Committee meetings held over some brightly hopped and impeccably chilled beverages, a function in the term "average" whereby the IRC figures are related, mathematically, to the number of toffs in brick-coloured pink slacks, and inversely locked...

A heat gun set to "hot enough to boil a barbarian" rather than "nuclear accident" should do the trick

I can't recall what the crown of the deck looks like; it's been 15 years since I last clapped eyes on one up close. If there's a truly flat space then fitting the hatch will be easy. Make sure to follow best practice and ensure your fastenings are as good as possible- machine-screws in a few...

Tylaska or Wichard for genny and spi halyards and a key-pin shackle for the main. The pin-type snaps are lousy, because if the pull ring fails or the spring leaves for the day the sail ain't gonna stay up much. Brand W and T snaps have lever locks which are less prone to catching and IMHO they...

Paying attention to your jib-car position is essential on a beam reach because the clew can start to lift and make the whole "luxury yachting" image pretty tatty especially if the leech is twisting open or fluttering like bloomers on a bicycle!

When I am offshore I trawl (factory-fish) for the pot. Lines out; snag dinner; lines away, and only pan-sized fish, so I have no feeling for sport fishing. I use a handline with 100m of 120lb shark line coupled to a speargun boingie- basically 3' of speargun rubber with 10' of 2mm dyneema...

Here's the flexible fix I used to help a buddy treat terrible car-cancer a few years ago, and considering the leaks have been held at bay for nearly a decade, it works a treat! Chopped-strand mat and "sticky white shite"- you could use Sikaflex, but I know Bostik and they make something called...

I sort of understand you to mean something like the Harken Access Winch? They launched this a few years ago: http://www.harkenindustrial.com/wp-content/uploads/AW-Two-handles.jpg

Check if there's a gliding bearing/bush beneath the top lip seal where the shaft goes thru the deck plate. I spent a day inside an anchor locker with your windlass's bigger sister. I choose the term because it was a b### to get apart because this wretched bush, made of something like acetal, had...

You could fit multiple bilge alarms on a simple mimic panel and have the pumps discharge to a single overside fitting near, say, the sheer. As long as the upstream pipe and fittings are greater than the sum of the pumps' outlets you're not at any risk: 2 × 3/4" pumps can discharge together into...