Recent content by oldgit

The Skipper. Experience, thousands of hours or 50. ? Would I undertake that trip with a couple of reliable and experienced crew who know the score and could look after themselves . Possibly. Would I want to undertake the trip with any other sort of crew who would be replying on me for their...

Mistake was to not get "Isambard Kingdom" to design and build it, the bridge not the boat.

All some of us mere rarely out of sight of shore mortals want to know is as to wether we are going to get an earful from the "crew" when we get yet another hammering from the wind arguing with the tide during some long awaited trip to somewhere/anywhere. 95 % of the time the 05.00 BBC...

The transom casting can withstand a suprising amount of abuse and still live to fight another day. Heat, patience and determination are the best weapons. For those of us signed up to the "Brute Force" tendency, a old fashioned calor gas torch, a 4.5 L bottle of Butane and a couple of decent...

Going up to the non tidal bit of the river along with 3 or 4 other boats on Saturday Other club members are planning to go to Burham on Crouch, again ! previous attempt was cancelled due to wind.

Pretty certain there was a notice on board of the numbers carried, including those picked up from The Brighton Belle which was sinking on the beach. Dunkirk Have a personal connection, mum working on the Medway Queen in the late 1940s. The building in the background in Canal Road is a still a...

Have used a ordinary bog standard cable to interconnect a couple of really ancient "Legacy" :) Garmin items . Buying a "proper" cable would probably have exceeded to value of the rest of the system. This was in secure dry compartment and not exposed to damp . It did actually work .

All now back up and running , expect the tacho, :) going to have look tomorrow, suspect dislodged a connection.

Beitian GPS Receiver Antenna Module Marine Boat Ship DIY Connector Plastic 12V | eBay Marine Boat Yacht GPS Receiver Antenna Module RS232 NMEA 0183 Baud Rate 4800 DIY | eBay Its going to cost you more than that to get a man round to look at it and a replacement will be there a lot quicker as...

Paddle Steamer "Medway Queen" is celebrating the centenary of her launching , Rochester Cruising Club was approached to enquire if we would like to get involved. We proposed a short cruise from our moorings to the present location of the Medway Queen at Gillingham Pier to view the work...

Helped bring back a Corniche from Dover with pair of 41B while ago, one of the crash clunk gearboxes had been replaced with a hydraulic gearbox but they had obviously not bothered to alter the pitch on that prop to to compensate for the different ratios. It struggled to do 19 knots and left...

Did try to dissemble it in situ only two little baby screws holding the thing together they came out with ease and what could possibly possibly go wrong ? snapped a TINY little impossible to resolder wire the thickness of my patience and a human hair.

To be cruelly honest if you can achieve 3800 rpm on both engines its about right for those 41 engines and size and pitch are probably correct. Removing and taking to a decent prop shop they will quickly tell you size and pitch as well as taper. Shaft probably 1.5" . Does altering the trim tabs...

From observations of other similar residential boats moored against river walls wall upstream from you and with sloping river bed. Some appear to have placed a level layer or bed of "stuff" ....looks from distance like a layer of sandbags/ ballast or concrete , on top of the river bed and...

6 months and time to get that new Squadron on order ? New relay has just arrived from the Isle of Man a shade under 48 hours since ordered. Yanmar - Relay Start - 129100-77910 :)