Recent content by Andy Bav

We‘ve kept 3 boats in Torquay before moving the third of them out to Spain in 2015, and the reason was simply the weather…. We found why Devon is so green. Since 2015, however, its been heatwave city in the south west ! However, even now, Mrs Bav pines for the bimble up the Dart to Totnes, its...

Sad to see such a nice vessel in this much trouble... quite interesting comments regarding salvage .

I wonder what value a surveyor would put on it.....

When we were based in Torquay a few years back (2015), and our VPs were out of warranty, we used AK Marine. Looks like the business is still operating.

Thanks all for your responses. Been on airport runs with son and grandson today, so will take a look tomorrow...

Thanks, makes sense. Need to locate the external GPS now.

We have a C series plotter, but not convinced it's the original. Boat is 2006. On our previous boats, the plotter would pick up our position almost instantaneously. On this one, it takes 5-10 mins. Its quite fascinating going into the set up menu and watching the satellites being picked up...

Without wishing to prolong the OPs agony, I too had an issue with a 2010 boat, back in 2020. It was a well known UK manufacturer, and despite its age, the yard could not have been more helpful, they pulled the drawings and others docs from the original build from their archives, and were...

My first foray into boating was an RYA Dinghy sailing course with my sons… a laser Pico ain’t that steady in a wake ! However, as OG alludes to above, that experience has taught me empathy with dinghy sailors (at least), and other in similarly less-than-stable watercraft, so i try to be as...

We've had this motor since our cuddy / Torquay / Bavaria days back in 2012 - 2015. She was last used in anger back in 2018. Took her out of our panole (basically a lock up). No oil in engine and petrol tank bone dry.... FIlled with fresh oil and new petrol today and she started on the...

We left them open Mike - lesson learned I guess... But looking at the size of some of the shells, I reckon it was the first good service it's ever had, so happy now with a clean circuit, and new units. You are right about the black cr4p in the pipes though, reckon that was an accumulation...

Thought you may be interested in an update on our aircon which turned into a bigger job than I thought, but also resulted in updating 3, 16 year old units to brand new ones. Started by "rodding" the thicker raw water inputs using a mousung cable... The pipes (around 8 feet in total) were packed...

Just a thought, but would trailering a reasonably large boat be an option. That takes mooring out of the equation, but brings into play another set of skills - or even a dry stack ?. Its likely a question of compromise, you may have to travel further afield to get what you want, but if your...

Indeed we reckon that any safety valve that has lifted will need replacement because they do not re seal on their seats as tight and so can continue to lose gas afterwards. That may account for that unit being out of gas - thanks. Agua fuerte may be a bit too fierce, better if you can get some...

I posted this in the SCM Chat forum with no luck. Just posting here per chance someone is holidaying in the SCM area in early July…. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- We took delivery of our new, to us, boat last year with the intention for the broker to...