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Choose a different colour than the existing antifouling for the first coat. This makes seeing where you're painting too thinly visible. The your chosen different colour for the second coat for the same reason. As the soft antifouling wears thin it shows up better. Use long handles on your paint...

http://www.danubecommission.org/uploads/doc/publication/Rainwat%202013/Arrangement%20Bucuresti,%20revised%203%20April%202013%20-%20E.pdf Annex 3 Section 3. Google is your friend.

Main Star from Elvstrom Sobstad on a 11.4 m boat. Boom is 4.3 m long, so foot has to be shorter.

I changed from slab reefing to in-boom furling and reefing. I can operated it entirely from within the wheelhouse. The old slab reefing mainsail was serviced at the mast and even with the best batten cars I could find, was still a battle to raise and lower. Using a winchrite electric winch...

Yes, it has a wheelhouse, but sails as a yacht with a bulb bow.

Look for a Coronet Elvstrom 38 on Apolloduck or scanboat.

My Echomax radar transponder covers both X and S bands. It's mounted on a pole on the stern. Of course, the range would be better if it were mast head mounted. But 20 nm is probably enough.

When I was in the same situation, I bought a Coronet Elvstrom 38. I fitted a Hoyt boom for self tacking an inner forestay jib and a in-boom furling main. The Elvstrom 38 is the only motor sailer that can be sailed from within the wheelhouse. In Northern waters the wheelhouse is a boon and the...

A couple of years ago, post covid, boats were selling well. Now not so good. My Coronet Elvstrom 38 is for sale on apolloduck and scanboat but not a single response.

An artist's impression surely.

The ship station keeps the current full set of channels. Handheld radios are limited in both frequencies and power, under RAINWAT rules.

No, mine is all above deck, just six bolts though the deck holding it down. Yours looks very different.

Possibly dirty fuel blocking the evaporator ss mesh disk?

Thank you again. I have no direct access from below. Except to unbolt the whole mounting.

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