Recent content by bumblefish

Cheers, installation instructions are on the boat. Many thanks.

I have a Rotland 903 and an HRDX setup, when I disconnect one of the 2 batteries the screen on the HRDX goes blank. Is this normal? I can't find anything in the manual.

Still direct cooled. She takes a long time to get hot enough to set off the alarm, I would need a very big bucket!!!! I doubt that the impellor would draw water from a pipe over the side.

I hope so, they were done by the marine engineers but I plan to double check next time I am down there!

The pipe from the impellor to the engine was replaced with a clear pipe whilst she was ashore, you can quite clearly see air in the tube when the engine is running.

The spade terminals for the sensor on the housing were broken and beyond repair, the thermostat housing came with a new thermostat, it should do at £800! No other reason. I took the top of the raw water filter and opened the seacock, there was good flow. The impellor gasket was changed during a...

My E30 only returned to the water in October and on my trip back to the mooring the engine overheating alarm came on. I finally had a good look recently and found that the pipe between the impellor and the engine block had a lot of air in it, almost like cavitation. Could this be the cause of...

Hi I have just looked him up and will get in touch with him. Many thanks for the recommendation.

My old girl, an E30, has some lift around the starboard top shroud base plate. I think the balsa core is wet. I have had the core injected with epoxy in the past but I think it is time to get it sorted properly. I think this will involve cutting out the deck, there is no access from below, and...

Hi, my Elizabethan 30 is ashore at Hayling Yacht Company, I hope to launch tomorrow. High tide is at 14.50 and 4.4m, there is a charted drying height of 3.5m along the route, however I draw 1.5m, the yard assured me that it will be fine as long as I stick close to the withies and mooring buoys...

Thank you all for your comments however I was asking about using this to take the snatch off a chain on a mooring buoy when on my mooring. Roberto spotted that! Isn't it wonderful how a poorly worded question can be a stimulus to thread drift and our diverse opinions. Thank you all for making...

How would you attach this to a mooring strop? Shackle or thimble?

I used one of those on my mooring buoy, I lost the pin from one end, I will use a chain hook in future.

The harbour team will apparently move her eastwards in the winter, I quite like the idea of sailing on and off the mooring which I can not manage single handed at the other end of the reach. I plan to double up woth strops to two foredeck cleats as well as the chain on the anchor cleat. I will...

I am up near Bosham at the moment, however I am alongside the main channel and get a lot of slamming about from the wash of passing vessels and I have already had a £1800 bill for pulpit damage that was unreported! Swings and roundabouts?