Recent content by TwoRebels

The yolk on my starboard drive cracked. Looks like a fatigue mode failure. Causes the drive to stick in gear. Not very nice, as I was mooring up at the time. Has anyone experienced this fault? The parts are back order so I'm wondering if it's one of those phantom Volvo Penta defects.

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Wow, this winch feels good!

Now less than 1 year old our boat is about to have its third set of steering rams fitted. Apparently the water we cruise in on the Thames is the wrong water for the ram shafts and limescale builds up damaging the hydraulic seal. Mmm, wonder if the Volvo engineers missed the fact that these...

Get yourself on ebay. Go for a Eberspacher 12v D2 as fitted to commercial vehicles and minibuses. You'll need a few parts to convert to marine application like a SS exhaust flange. Expect to pay 400 second hand inc all electrics. For a 23ft boat you'll only need 2 outlets. Fit one into the...

The car roadside recovery guys keep kits of cable stuff and make them up road-side. Why not try a motor factor?

Has anyone fitted an AIS box to an E Series? Was it considered worthwhile and which unit did unit was fitted?

Is it the arch you want to hinge or the radar and light mast? My Targa 38 was supplied with a hinge-down radar and light mast assembly so that we could get under a bridge at the entrance to our marina. EBY did the modification. I'd be concerned about hinging the GRP arch due to the loss of...

Thanks for your reply. So out of interest, and if we wanted to give it a try. What are your charter and school charges say for a few days in the new year? Thanks Rod

Just got back from a short break in Lanzarote and went down to their Marina at Calera. Lovely spot and felt really envious with our boat stuck on the cold dank Thames. Has any one experienced the Canaries for motoror cruising? Is it another 'Med' for cruising around? Anyone know about any books...

The purchase criteria for my first 2 boats was price and accomodation. From my experience, and if you want to go serious cruising, I'd go for sea keeping any day as a first priority in considering a boat. Those AD41 engines are good though!

Mine also came from EBY and agree the guys and girls there are helpful and do get around to things eventually. I'm just surprised at the volume of issues. The most serious ones for me were a wrongly installed gear selection cable causing shutdown of the port engine, failed outdrive steering rams...

Anyone bought a new boat recently, particularly a Fairline. I'm interested in knowing about the snags?