Back to the UK for a winter refit

No idea why they paint the hoses but when we did our engines me and a mate spent hours with rags and acetone cleaning the paint off them. Took ages in mid-winter in an un-heated garage. The things we do for aesthetics......or OCD :)
 
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No offence taken, it's a long time since I've heard the word used. Reminds me of a lady I once new who used to describe the motor mechanic she used to service her car as " my little man" always brought a smile to my face as he was at least 6 ft. tall and built like a brick wall.
 
They paint them green as what else would we have to do if we didn't have to clean up the bits of green paint that had fallen off into our engine bays!
 
jrudge said:
Friend with a V42 knocked the fire bottle in the engine room ( quite hard I assume!! ) and the gas stream lacerated his finger so do be careful!
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Ouch, sounds nasty.

Cylinder was removed when the engines came out; I took it to Seafire in Portsmouth who degassed it, had the cylinder tested, then fitted all new control gear to it, recertified it, and it is currently sitting here all nicely boxed up in the corner of my office ready to go back to the boat when the engines go back in.
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
Ouch, sounds nasty.
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Very, I was checking the arming on mine one day... Pulled instead of pushed and Wham, nearly blew me over and very cold! I had to get it rebuilt and I mean rebuilt, not just gased. £450 notes later.
Harumph! :ambivalence:

So be extra careful when you rearm it, should be last job on commissioning really. :o

RR
 
Sorry, sorry for radio silence on this - been busy.

The refit project had to take a bit of a back seat for a couple of weeks, principally because of work pressures, but also (in the specific case of the pods) because it was too cold for grp work. But this week we've got started again; Paul the grp man has started to work up the port pod. This has taken a bit of head scratching, but the rough plan is to approximately shape up the pod extension, then make a mould, then remove the whole assembly to his workshop and laminate the whole thing up there. The approximate shaping has started and will continue next week. You can see the general direction of travel though with these in-progress photos:

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Engine refurb work has also restarted this week, and it feels to me like the corner has been turned on this part of the project. Big rust is all now removed, and I've started treating the engine blocks with Jenolite:

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A couple of other developments this week - all the cockpit seating and sunpads have gone up to Tockfield for reupholstering and (for a couple of pieces only) refoaming. After some debate I've decided to give up on the idea of heatweld quilted fabric (as discussed on this thread http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?420133-Who-makes-this-fabric), partly for pragmatic reasons (I have to massively over-order so it drives the cost way up, plus it adds several weeks lead time) but also because the square quilted design, much as I like it, doesn't really go with the rounded corners in the Targa 40. In particular, the detail that finally killed the quilting off is the knee roll detail in the seating - this just doesn't work at all.

So the final decision for the cockpit is Silvertex Sterling over Silvertex Carbon for the seating; the OE fluting is dropped, and the piping is all same-colour rather than contrast-colour. The fore and aft sunpads are going to be in Sunbrella yacht stripe Chiné grey, which matches very nicely with the Silvertex colours. All the upholstery should be ready mid-March.

The other development this week is that all the new nav gear has arrived - this is basically a complete replacement of all the electronics. I decided to stick with Raymarine, so the new package is a new autopilot based around the EV1; an E125 MFD; an 18" digital radome; an I70 multi display; a wind instrument, and a forward-facing sonar to go with the DSM30 that I've already got. Plus a bunch of cables and interface units so that the existing depth and speed transducers will work with the new network. Lots of boxes! Not quite sure when all of this is going to get installed yet...
 
Thanks for the update Jimmy. The pod styling looks to be progressing well. Upholstery sounds great, looking forward to the pics. Did I recall that you have ditched the new engine mounts, and are refurbing?
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
The other development this week is that all the new nav gear has arrived - this is basically a complete replacement of all the electronics. I decided to stick with Raymarine, so the new package is a new autopilot based around the EV1; an E125 MFD; an 18" digital radome; an I70 multi display; a wind instrument, and a forward-facing sonar to go with the DSM30 that I've already got. Plus a bunch of cables and interface units so that the existing depth and speed transducers will work with the new network. Lots of boxes! Not quite sure when all of this is going to get installed yet...
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Wind instrumentation - if thats new it is a good addition.
I don't know if you have decided how to power the new electronics but I would give consideration two options - full and a minimalist option.
The idea is that at anchor, you run only the electronics that you need for safety.
These days an anchor watch app on a smart phone is as good as any chart plotter can provide - so no need for a power hungry plotter at anchor.
However, wind input/alarm is a great comfort and will allow you to sleep better at anchor.
Likewise (to a lesser extent) depth alarms would be useful to have running.
So, for me, this would mean two switches - one for the plotter (power hungry kit) and one for instrumentation.
I don't know if that is possible but I would like to keep any battery drain to a minimum.

The big one for me is wind - that is what is going to change any overnight anchoring plans.

I remember one night in your area (Iles de Lerins) when the wind (not forecast) built up at 3 o'clock in the morning - by 4 o'clock we headed back to Antibes.
In this example it would be the wind picking up that triggers the decision.
So, great addition but to be most effective you need to be able to run it at night.

Just a point
 
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