Recent content by scrambledegg

Thanks for all your replies guys.

My sister and family are planning a walk along a stretch of the coastal path between 7th - 12th May this year. The path crosses Devon's river Erme, where the options are to wade, or to detour inland to a bridge adding 8 miles. Good tide data exists for the River Yealme to the west, and others...

If the original rusty pad is still there it is going to continue to rust and as it does so it expands. This will make the (mast support) pole move gradually upwards with consequences for your cabin roof and rig.

As per post #1 :-) a Sole mini 33

Thanks Neeves, Just for the record - I have completely cleaned up the engine and the sound proofing (which surprisingly shows no signs of damage). It is an insurance claim - but as I understand it the insurance company just approves the engine repairer's estimate and then pays up afterwards. I...

Here's for those that like a picture, split diode unit dropped down bottom left.

Thanks to those who recommended an engine company - and thanks to Jonathan for the encouragement and to Neeves for the radical suggestion involving the insurance company. The main reason I am not attempting this job myself (yet) is that my wife won't let me. She wants the security of having a...

Hi Sandy I got very lucky, the fire self-exstinguished after (or co-incident with) I had nipped below to isolate the electrics from the engine. In the post-mortem a diesel fuel hose seemed to have sealed itself spontaneously by melting. On the other hand I have an electric fuel pump which could...

Last August we were heading west from Portsmouth in our sailing boat and had gone about 1 mile when smoke began billowing out of the hatch. To cut a long story short, a split-diode charge controller unit had come adrift from the inside of the engine bay, fallen on to the engine and we were lucky...

Thanks Oily Rag, Bilgediver and Graham376 some excellent reassurance and pointers so far.

Hoping for the group's great wisdom to help me out here. A couple of weeks ago on my Sole Mini 33 engine I replaced the primary and secondary fuel filters and bled out the air, or so I thought. The injectors are described in the manual as self-bleeding. All seemed fine as I ran the engine at the...

There's no point in wasting breath complaining about boaters using ch16 for radio checks. They will continue to do so until the CG stops responding to them. The CG has undermined the whole point of ch16 and any culture of radio discipline.

Trouble is, every issue raised has been contradicted. Panels in series or parallel, single panel or multiple panels, diodes or no diodes, mppt or not. hatch garage, sprayhood or guard rails. Take your pick.

I have had word for word exactly the same experience you've had (Gori folding 2 blader, but on a Sigma 362). I asked a boatyard to take a look, not least because I'd previously spotted that the pretty old Gori had gone pink. I had vibration at certain speeds and was reasonably certain that the...

ok, this is most like caused by "vortex shedding" (look up on wikipedia) of the mast. It is a common problem of bluff structures such as chimney stacks which is why they sometimes have a spiral web around the outside from top to bottom. to disrupt the airflow in the right way. You get the...