Recent content by Nick_Pam

I run an FT857 in my car which has an 85Ah battery and running 100w pep on HF SSB I can operate quite happily whilst parked up for over 3 hours and still have enough juice in the battery to start a V8 diesel. An 857 operating on SSB will draw an average of 8-9 amps, so your 70Ah battery will...

I think there is an issue with Part 1 registered boat at least, in that, in order to call ones boat (eg) Lucinda Two; Lucinda 2 or Lucinda II, one has to have owned the original boat Part 1 registered as Lucinda, whereas "too" does not have the same numerical connotation. Nick

IIRC, the triple engined Superhawks can suffer from a flooded centre engine air inlet/turbo because that engine is mounted low down in the boat (it has been known on twin engine installations if the legs are mounted too low on the transom. Also worth a look for articles (this forum and others)...

In our case the dealer didn't find a buyer prior to the delivery of our new one, so we continued to insure it until the date of handover of our new one and they accounted in the price of our new one the agreed value of our old one.

So.... We kept our 2006 Doral Boca Grande in the Med for 3 years, during which time the total annual cost of marina berth, flights, hire cars, subsistence etc more than doubled (marine mortage rates dropped of course, so we paid a lot more off than we originally expected!). We put the boat up...

Thanks all.....gratifying to know that four of the companies who have quoted us feature prominently in this post!! Appreciate your help....as always Nick & Pam

Estemed Forumites, With collective heavy hearts, the skipper and I have decided to bring "Freya" back to the UK, as the economic climate and workload is preventing us from getting out to Spain as often as we would like and there is no point in investing in something that sits and does nothing...

Tom, Cheers for this.....not sure we've ever had a leaky ram, but evenso....am I right in thinking that there is only one of these (on the starboard leg I guess as power-steering etc is driven from this engine) driving the other leg through the tie-bar and are the gods being kind by fitting all...

Ermmm.........looks like I'll need a very small mechanic then, because I'm not sure I could even get close to it........ You certainly seem to be describing what I am seeing though........thanks. Now......just need to work out how to fix it????

Nope - no autopilot........

Most estemed fellow Forumites, Again I seek your support on a technical matter that is perplexing me somewhat... We have a 2006 Doral Boca Grande fitted with Volvo D-4's and DPH legs....on starting the engines and leaving to idle, I have discovered that over a period of about couple of minutes...

[ QUOTE ] Unfortunatly Port Salins is full, but they booked into Portifino so fingers crossed. Thanks for all the advice, we are currently on a mooring bouy at the Medas Islands, the only boat here, ready to tuck into our evening meal, and it's still hot! [/ QUOTE ] Stunning!!!!!! We moored...

Still boating of course!!! Just need (want!!) to make some changes to the "Fleet!

Sorry didn't reply before, but we only flew home from Empuriabrava yesterday!!! Echo DavidJ's comments and also suggest you take a fan (or 5) as it was 37 out there for most of last week!!!!! Nick

[ QUOTE ] All the TB's I see on e-bay etc. are low spec. Same price gets better spec IBM Thinkpad - my TP is now ancient and still providing excellent service. [/ QUOTE ] I've used a ThinkPad T series for years T40/T41/T44......fallen off the top of loads of waves and never broken one...