Recent content by DaveParry

Thanks all for your contributions. TBH honest it's not so much the cost as the limited time we get to use her meaning that we spend quite a proportion of our boating time sorting out the start and end of the season. Not helped by living in Shropshire and sailing in Scotland, but we wouldn't have...

It was going to happen eventually, and it looks like 2017 might be the year. Our much loved Oyster 26, kept on Loch Sween in Argyll, is going to be de-syndicated, in other words the families who share it are going their separate ways, sailing speaking, and she will be put on the market. In the...

Quick update from IP having launched yesterday for the first time. Engine boosted on with 4 off S/S M10 bolts - feels much more secure. Solved the steering offset by drilling a new hole for the bracket about 1" to the side of the existing one. Launched, motored around at 15kts and recovered...

Thanks Spi D - very helpful. Looks like I need a different outboard then. The measurement required in your drawing above is 17", which indicates a short shaft, and I have a long shaft. Back to EBay then...

Here's the engine mounting question: 1ZYYkHtNDs4 And here's the steering travel/offset question: huhn0u9Rlb8 Thanks again for any advice...

You're right prv, it's a hefty cable that pushes and pulls (Morse cable?). I think you've also cracked it - the previous engine must have had the bracket offset. So I can try to work out how to move the bracket or offset the cable end bracket. This still doesn't fix the short travel problem...

Okay, this is going to be a daft question to many and for that I apologise. I've been sailing yachts and dinghies for years, but I know precious little about outboards. I've now bought my first little cabin cruiser to take the kids fishing, pop round to the beach round the corner and all that...

Is it in December's then? I'm getting some more messages to the website and it sounds like it might have been published this month? It's not in my newsagent yet - has anyone seen it?

I haven't managed to get out to buy my copy of PBO since Thursday when it came out. Has any one got a copy? Does it have my letter published about the Oyster 26 owners website? I sent them a great photo taken by a crew member with a very wide fish-eye lens and I'm wondering whether they...

I recommend Martex marine Have a look at some pictures of this DIY version from Martex Marine. I was quite impressed with the price and how easily I fitted it to my Oyster 26: http://www.oyster26.com/2012/09/coach-roof-width-for-a-spray-hood/

All owners of the Oyster 26 - I have set up an 'owners' website and am trying to track down other owners to get photos on there. If you are one, or know one, please forward your details through a PM here, or go to the website and use the contact form. Thanks. www.oyster26.com

Sorry Shuggy - meant to say Rubha A'Mhail Lighthouse - NE of Islay.

Shuggy's submarine Shuggy - you have a very tolerant family (If they've ventured out with you on your new boat that is!). I think if my wife and three young kids had been with me it would have been the end of family sailing. As it was, with a few mates from home, they all seemed to think it...

The route in Google Maps I thought you might like to see the route we tool in Google Maps. Not sure if this will work, so let me know. The first time we set off from the Islay shore at MacArthur's Head, we were still going through the worst of it, so tacked again and had another go a bit...

Tempting This was a very real possibility. I got in to Bunnahabhain Bay thinking of anchoring, didn't think of going up against the jetty though. When in there it looked like I could go up the coast out of the worst of it, which proved to be okay. It wasn't quite as bad as Shuggy's experience...