Recent content by BabaYaga

I certainly think you are. I also suspect that you misunderstand my question regarding the PE, but as you have decided to say no more I am fine with closing exchange.

Since our clashes on here now lie several years back, I might have hoped for a little less aggressiveness of tone. Of course I accept your apology.

Thank you for your explanation, which I understand to mean that connecting PE to the water aboard the boat provides no real safety enhancement, unless equipment such as inverters, generators etc are installed. Does this mean that on a new boat, which will have this connection as per regulation...

How very true. Should have known better.

The requirement to connect PE to the water aboard the boat could have been restricted only to boats installing inverters and generators etc, but the people who wrote the ISO decided to extend it to all new built boats that take AC onboard. I am interested in the possible reasoning behind this...

The OP may be content with the reassurance that he is not obliged or recommended to change anything in his installation, because his boat is old. But surely there must be a safety reason for the requirement (for the last 15 or 20 years) to connect PE to the water on new built boats? My scenario...

Consider a scenario like this: You are working on your boat afloat, let's say replacing the sink drain hose. It is early spring and cold, so you have brought along an old fan heater, which you plug into your socket. The fan heater works but has developed an internal fault, meaning that live AC...

Probably OK in practice (hot water will cool quickly), but the temperature range for that type of hose is typically up to 60 degrees C. For this reason I chose a different type when replacing the galley sink hose a few years ago. IIRC the type was intended for use in hydraulic equipment. No...

Yes, my reply was more to address the concerns of Boomerangbens post #9. From your angle, my view is that HVO most likely would reduce the risk of diesel bug a bit if compared with road diesel, as this usually has a FAME component, which I understand attracts water. But as Freebee stated in post...

I do not think anyone has suggested that HVO can 'power the world'. My view is that anything that can be electrified without to much trouble, will be so during the next couple of decades. But some sectors will be more difficult to deal with, like aviation, shipping (and boating). I believe that...

I believe the type of terminal is called stemball fitting. It goes into a backing shell. Sometimes a cup or washer is needed between the stemball terminal and the shell. Omission to fit these, when they are needed, is a common cause of rig failure with this type, I have heard.

Oh dear.....here is someone else who got it wrong: Force 4 Aluminium Jamming Cleat 160mm

The climate impact of HVO has been calculated to over 80 percent less than of using fossil diesel from a life cycle perspective (54 g/kWh compared to 339 g/kWh, figures from 2021). May depend a lot on what kind of feedstock that is used, of course. Cutting down rain forest to grow palm oil to...

I have been using HVO for the last two, three seasons in my 29 foot sailing boat, which has a 20 hp Beta 722 installed in 2006. Prior to this the engine generally ran on pure fossil diesel (FAME-free), which has been available here at most fuel docks for the last 15 years or so, since the...

The advantage of mounting it as shown in post #2 is, IMO, that you get a double jamming action on the tail. Firstly between the cleat horn and the substrate, secondly between the sheet coming from the winch and the side of the cleat. The first turn around the rounded end also adds a bit of...