Recent content by prv

Perhaps also the places where chafe and damage from gear was more likely, and paint is easier to touch-up than varnish. As to the original question, I tend to think that it's all a bit irrelevant to my typical cruising around the South Coast and occasionally cross-Channel in reasonable weather...

In my experience the engineers would like to make the thing as easy and accessible to work on as possible, and then the project manager says there's no time and the accountant says there's no budget. Pete

Some people are just bloody thick, no more or less to it than that. Pete

Yes. The previous paragraph says that each interconnection should be its own two-conductor (plus shield) cable, which again isn't very convenient for a typical leisure device that wants to have multiple input and output pairs, plus perhaps power and some special-purpose signals, in a single...

There can be and indeed is an official colour code - it's just that hardly anyone follows it ? Pete

Assuming you mean replacing it with the modern Axiom equivalent, the Seatalk instruments will work via a small interface unit to STng. The radar will not. Pete

Agree. I fitted a fusebox that uses automotive blade fuses and am very happy with it. In ten years I’ve had to replace precisely one, when I forgot to turn off the power to the instrument circuit before fiddling around with the Seatalk wiring and shorted the positive and negative together. Pete

There will be - but modern solid-state transmitters emit so little power that it’s no longer relevant. I believe my Raymarine Quantum says the safe distance is “within the radome”. At work (where we also encounter some bigger stuff) people sometimes call these modern small leisure sets “huggable...

Yes. The VDM sentence is what you want. Pete

Sure. I'm not saying it will be no better, just that it won't be I think some here assumed the OP had a mast to put the antenna on top of. Pete

On a 21-foot speedboat a fixed antenna isn’t going to be all that much higher than a handheld one. Pete

I did the four-day first aid at work course a couple of months ago; it had a heavy emphasis on CPR and within that a lot of emphasis on AEDs, using training models with a remote that allowed the instructor to simulate different behaviour. As you say, nobody should hold back from using one...

Another vote for Standard Horizon as a brand, though I’m not familiar with their DSC handhelds as I prefer the simpler kind for my purposes. As the main radio on board I can see the argument for DSC although I wouldn’t consider it mandatory. Pete

Yes, of course. But lining them up with the middle of the winch as Tranona suggested would work against that. Pete

I disagree. The rope does not meet the winch at its centre. The natural line of the rope out of the clutch should make a tangent with the left-hand (in this view) edge of the winch drum. Pete