Recent content by Sarnia

Depends if they have an understanding wife, but the batteries do.

Dipstick works fine! anything on spec would be great.

+1 Trojans are the best IMHO, the extra outlay for a pair giving you some 250ampH and 12v are designed to take a lot of abuse, (used in golf carts can take rapid discharging and recharging) and come back smiling, also some reports from liveaboards lasting 8 or more years.

Can anyone help me with an issue that has come up. I need to replace the oil from my Volvo Penta MD7A gearbox. The manual from 1981 specifies SAE20W (0.4 of a quart) and the same grade oil for the crankcase. The chap from the marine engine shop in Aegina supplied me with SAE 20W/50 for my...

When I upgraded my old alternator you were good enough to give advice about the options available and the wireing methods etc. working very well now thank you. I am fairly sure, will be able to confirm when I return to the boat, my wiring to the starter from the battery does not have an inline...

I recently replaced similar hatch, was acrylic, scratched and glazed, with a polycarbonate one 10mm Was lucky as the supplier had some off-cuts from doing a security job (its pretty much bullet proof) which he cut to size for me, 10 pound cash.

Erm 2 my hudl has it..

Love mine to bits, shame they are stopping manufacture.

Fellow Nic38 owner sent you a skype message

A long term admirer myself, always spend time at the Island Packet stand in Southampton BS, if I decide to change it would be one.

Very intersted in knowing more, I have a Nic 38.

Be interested to know where your yard is, thanks.

Very entertaining, love the Proms, he is a good act and popular, but not in the same league as Nicola Benedetti, or as good to look at, who's performance of Tchaikovsky-Bruch Violin concertos, three of them No. 1 in G minor had the hairs standing on my neck, she has a Stradivarois violin, worth...

No never.

Well its an opinion is suppose, but my teak deck still looks great after 20 years of carefull maintenance, and gets quite a few appreciative remarks from others. Its not an overlay of course, built with it.