A very useful lesson learned

[tcm]

I was out last night in the boat doing three-up blindfold waterskiing in the dark near some shipping lanes on a falling tide, when suddenly all the power and all the engines cut out. We brought everyone back in and made them a piece of toast. Then, working from the battery and motors outwards, i looked at everything in turn. No problem with the battery connections, nor the engines, it seemed . The gearbox connections seemed fine, and none of the warning lights had come on. Likewise, all the instruments seemed to be working well. Eventually I found the fault - it was me being a total twat again, and I had turned everything off! A valuable lesson I think you will agree.

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[MainlySteam]

As a sailly person I have to concede that you MoBo's are much cleverer than most sailly persons when it comes to loss of charging/power/engines. From what I can gather on PBO forum is that the first thing most sailly persons normally do when lose power is pull their alternators off and dismantle them, and then work back if that is not the problem.

I have noted well how both you and Happy1, in his recent adventure post, both just state in a natural kind of way that you (properly) started your checks at the batteries.

John

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[simongoldthorpe]

Naughty, naughty.

Did you not check if your wireless internet connection had gone down?

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[DepSol]

Oh dear I thought you would have at least removed the leg with some special bit of kit stored on the boat for such an event.

Oh well a lesson learnt!

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[oldgit]

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[ccscott49]

Absolutely bloody classic!! tee hee.

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[Bejasus]

Hey Leopard man, pull those claws back in. RRRRrrriiiaaoow.

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[Happy1]

Ah! I understand, schools are still on holiday /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif The kids must be trying out shandy, must have been a bit too much beer in the last one, looking at the time of the post /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif Anyway at least the lessons are getting through for you to wake up in the night and post about them /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

Well done class, but you can relax once you have finished your homework, no need for 'night school' /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

TCM, Well done! you can have an extra Star for effort /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[byron]

I thought you were going to say that after checking everything you realised you hadn't taken the boat with you.

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[ccscott49]

I think your smiley face button is stuck, try some WD40.

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[Happy1]

I just had some spare 'back up' ones to use /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif that's another one less /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[longjohnsilver]

A perfect disgrace tcm after thousands of hours of boat use this week alone, don't suppose you thort it strange that the nav lights went out at the same time (you do know that those lovely red and green lights aren't just for decoration?) and the cd player belting out Simply The Best also suddenly went very quiet as well and your pda also crashed mid sentence.

Maybe it's a local version of the Bermuda Triangle, it was v lucky indeed that you had the breadmaker on board so that you could make the bread for the toast, only a bit unfortunate that the dishwasher wouldn't work. Still that's life.

I think you should have turned the problem into an opportunity and have donned your diving kit to pop down and see how deep the water as as your fishfinder was not showing any reading at all. Nothing better than to surface to the smell of baking bread and coffee brewing.

Well done on solving a tricky and potentially very dangerous problem, only next time best keep it to yourself, eh?

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[ccscott49]

There's no point in having all this experience and equipment, without sharing your knowledge with the forum, surely?

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[adarcy]

Re: A shameless gross wind-up

How can all of you have missed the subtle flaw in tcm's post

<<suddenly all the power and all the engines cut out>>

har har as there must be 27,000 switches to get everything working on tcm's boat how come he can "suddenly" switch them all off

Shame on you you dullards

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[Happy1]

What's the wattage of a breadmaker, and could it be run at the same time as the cold drinks vending machine, with optional icemaker? /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif Obviuosly too windy to go out for you lot sitting at your computers today, nice out though /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[longjohnsilver]

Yes very windy at Exmouth, when the trawlers give up I tend to follow suit!

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[ArthurWood]

<<all the engines??>> 'ow many you got then?
I thought your posting a little too short to describe such an event. Please be more verbose next time/forums/images/icons/smile.gif/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[peterb]

Scalpel and saw? nm

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[Alistairr]

So how do you make toast when all power has gone?

And what the heck is three-up blindfold waterskiing????



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[ccscott49]

Never made toast with a blowlamp? Never done any three-up-blindfold waterskiing? wassamatter with you? You've never lived lad!

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