Recent content by jcpa

Thanks all of you for your very helpful contributions - most of which confirm my thoughts and fears. I was expecting someone to say I needed to scrape (or blast) off all the old and start again. Ideally that may be right, but it would be impossible given the club's lift-in schedule! And, of...

Not the most significant quandary that I've ever faced, but a quandary is still a quandary. My new boat has had several previous owners, and currently sports various layers of blue and (lastly) black antifoul (all self eroding it seems). I am fed up with getting black gunge on me and smudging...

Thank you for your various comments, and I am sorry for delay in responding. I was hoping for a larger sample of comments, particularly on (etching) pre-primers and one-part or two-part epoxy primers. But first I must describe my concerns in a bit more detail. The boat is now ashore; I have...

The antifoul and epoxy primer coat on the cast iron Grounding Plate and Lifting Keel on my Kelt 8.50 are bubbling up, and I am about to clean it all off with a nail gun and repaint. It is 6 years since I last did this, which was about the expected lifetime, given that I probably didn't achieve...

Hi again Spyro. My air filter is off at the moment - no change. I was trying to eliminate fuel starvation, air starvation, and exhaust restrictions. I do seem to get good water and exhaust flow from the exhaust hull fitting. The injectors were checked by Panda Engineering in...

Addendum... The prop shaft spins easily from inside the boat (at the driveshaft coupling), so I think a fouled prop is relatively unlikely.

Thank you all for those comments, I am very grateful that you managed to read through my long original post! In response: 1. I have no idea how old the old fuel hoses were, but older that the 7 years I’ve had the boat. I’ve now fitted new hoses from tank to primary filter, and on to lift pump...

It was fine on a long passage under motor one week, but next week the engine just wouldn’t rev properly. Speed through the water was down from 5-6 knots to about 3 knots, and progress against the tide was virtually impossible! Can anyone help me sort this out? The checks I’ve done seem to...

Hi again Yes I was going to call in on Hawkehouse, but I just wanted to check if anyone in this forum had any helpful advice - and am pleased to get these responses. Cheers John

Thanks for the comments, and I now assume the headlining was indeed placed before the deck was fitted to the hull. I don't really want to refit the hessian - it would need gluing over the self-adhesive foam. However, I do see that it would be a thinner layer. I think 5mm foam plus the 1mm...

Does anyone know the practice for installing vinyl headlinings back in the 1980’s? My head & side linings (foam backed vinyl) were collapsing. Using Hawkehouse’s double-sided self-adhesive foam (5mm) and standard vinyl, I have successfully replaced the linings in the front and rear cabins, but...

Thanks all for your comments AngusMcDoon is probably right about a temporary fix, and I do have emergency battery lights - but I doubt they are legally bright enough (single D cells). Also, I would need to screw back the switchboard knowing I'll need to take it down again; it is very heavy and...

I can’t understand what’s going on. I’d done a stack of mods behind the switchboard (Plastimo trip switches, circa 1984 vintage), including moving a switch to separate the stern and bow lights (so I can show the bow lights with the masthead anchor light when motoring). On testing everything...

Thanks all, especially Fourbees: I had seen your earlier post in this thread, and made a note to find the CG MMSI, and now I know where to look. Thanks again all.

I only saw this thread having already posted on the PBO forum, but I have found it very helpful with the problem I seem to have with my new DSC radio (installed in June) - see below. I think an automatic response radio check channel would be great, and would allow me to perform sufficient...