Recent content by dehlerdave

I had the 7 day reminder on 1 June this year and renewed. Reading this thread I checked my subscription expiry date and found it has maintained the original 08 June date but one year on, of course. Strange OP had a problem.

Try Highwater sails at Faraday mill. I’ve used them for sail valet and canvas cleaning plus as North agents they supplied new sails for me.

Visual inspection will not give you the correct assurance, cracks can start under these pits and proper Non Destructive Examination of the volume of the material is the only way to be sure. Probably quicker and cheaper to replace.

My Yamaha has a three position fuel cock, off, internal tank and external tank. There is an internal fuel pump which sucks from whichever tank is selected. Yours may be similar.

Is this a Selden system? If so I had this a couple of years ago and the local riggers, Allspars, stripped the boom on found one of the nylon wheels on the internal reefing carriage had a flat on it preventing movement. It happens with age apparently. Quick and easy fix.

Do these have a shear pin through the prop to transmit drive? The 3.5 used to and it was easy to shear the pin if you engaged drive at anything more than tickover. I sheared a few before getting the hang of it.

Another satisfied customer here. Slight delay as the soles were delayed coming from Italy but the result looks fantastic on very teenage boots.

The BBC wording was interesting as in funded through the MoD budget as opposed to out of the MoD budget. BBC well known for accurate journalism just as MoD well known for timely procurement and bringing projects in on budget. It is an opportunity for British shipbuilding though.

Nobody’s yet mentioned the current version of what was the Raymarine 4000 series which includes the same wheel drive mk 2, an ev100 course computer and the 9 axis sensor that replaces both the gyro and the fluxgate compass. Electronic brain is much improved but the weakness of the clutch on the...

Is it not possible to silence the beeps? Just a thought to perhaps avoid a mis diagnosis if the beeps had been silenced previously.

I’ve recently had this done to move the spinnaker halyard sleeve further up the mast. This was to make room for a furler for a code zero. Mast is a Selden mast 3/4 rigged and work done by Allspars who have an office in the Hamble as well as in the West Country. They are Selden distributors and...

Allspars have always provided first class advice for me backed up with solid installation.

Now that is interesting, thank you very much for that.

It’s similar but has a rod linkage to the quadrant and that one appears to be a cable. The quadrant is in the same place, back of the cockpit. Thanks though and I did find that manual useful.

Unfortunately, the rudder quadrant is in the cockpit. The rudder stock is enclosed in a tube between the hull and the cockpit deck. Thanks for your responses so far, I should have been clearer in my question. I had read previously of the superior performance of below deck autopilots, I suppose...