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dylanwinter
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KTL2
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/propr-SANY0048.jpg
other centaurs
http://www.western-horizon.co.uk/boat_images/734.jpg
Seajets image
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/rudder.jpg
ktl2 does look a bit jaws
but not too bad I think
any more information gratefully recieved
Searush
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I don't see any difference between the lot of them. None of them are quite "dead ahead" but the differences look to be just slight differences in where the tiller is held wrt dead centre. Just get someone to waggle the tiller as far as they can L-R & back while you watch from below, it will be perfectly clear if there is any problem.
Even if the rudder post is bent, how much will it matter anyway? You ain't racing & you will automatically adjust where you hold the tiller to balance the sails anyway. No-one in sound mind shoves the tiller against the stop (unless they need a brake) and that is the only time there would be a difference due to rudder misalignment. And it's never going to fall off from a bent rudder post - it would need to be cracked or stressed for that & straightening it will simply make stress cracks worse.
As usual, I am a firm believer in leaving well alone.
dylanwinter
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generally that is true -I generally avoid fixing stuff that is not broke yet
next thing
can anyone identify an outboard bracket that is likely to go with these holes
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sstern-ANY0055.jpg
next thing
can anyone identify an outboard bracket that is likely to go with these holes
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sstern-ANY0055.jpg
Iain C
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No, but I may have one in my shed that might be surplus to requirements...I'll see if I can get a picture to you if you are interested. Pantograph jobbie.
dylanwinter
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pantograph
that is the one I am after
it would be great if I can get one on without drilling any more holes in her transom
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that is the one I am after
it would be great if I can get one on without drilling any more holes in her transom
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greggron
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That's great news indeed Dylan - now you can dust her off and crack on. And if you were contacted through a pm on this forum with a good price for this ship, then we should thank that person too for helping put us all out of our misery.
Bon voyage
Bon voyage
Iain C
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I doubt the holes will match, but I'll try and find it on Wednesday for you...
dylanwinter
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it was a PM with a phone number that lead to a second phone number that lead to a third
she needs a bit more than a bit of a dusting down - but a months graft will have her ready for the water - another month her once she is afloat
ready top head North in May - planning to sail up there in one hit
should be interesting
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prv
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That sounds like a mini adventure. Good job you already have crew lined up, or I might be tempted to volunteer
Pete
Austerby
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It's funny: I'd never paid Centaur's much attention before Dylan was interested in them - now I could fancy one as a second boat myself. I could keep the Achilles 24 for club racing and have a Centaur as a more civilised place to spend weekends somewhere on the East Coast.
dylanwinter
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How long
My plan is to go around to the Medway in one hop
take a break and maybe a crew change and then do the long one
I have not done much night sailing - it will be interesting running a watch system
three or four blokes -
anyone like to take a stab at how long Medway to Anstruther might take?
if the weather goes horrid at least I know every hidey hole along the coast
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That sounds like a mini adventure. Good job you already have crew lined up, or I might be tempted to volunteer
Pete
My plan is to go around to the Medway in one hop
take a break and maybe a crew change and then do the long one
I have not done much night sailing - it will be interesting running a watch system
three or four blokes -
anyone like to take a stab at how long Medway to Anstruther might take?
if the weather goes horrid at least I know every hidey hole along the coast
D
prv
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I've done a fair bit of sailing after dark in the last few years, but not the sort of multi-day stuff where you need a proper watch system. Longest recent passages would be cross-Channel, where I usually get a couple of hours quiet rest during the day (but not really sleep) and then stay up till 2am or so. The last crossing back in Kindred Spirit, with Ru88ell, we decided to go overnight just for the sake of it, and we did keep watches of a sort, but you never really settle into it properly in the first day anyway.
I did do some slightly longer passages when I sailed with the Army ten+ years ago; we generally had two watches of two guys, plus a cook/navigator who kept to his own schedule including getting up every hour at night to plot fixes but not standing any watches. I wouldn't like to operate that way but he said it suited him.
Not quite the same, but I've also done a fair handful of voyages on square riggers, which were mostly proper ocean trips - two weeks without sighting land kind of thing - so I have stood plenty of night watches on an open bridge even if not that many in a yacht's cockpit. On the ships at least, I found that the traditional pattern with three watches suited me; I could have carried on with that indefinitely.
Pete
NorthRising
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The two rows of holes look too close to each other, otherwise I'd suggest they might have been where the slides for this were mounted (then again the slides do have 4 bolt holes each:
http://www.boatpartsandspares.co.uk/plastimo-outboard-bracket-30kg-1239-p.asp
dylanwinter
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or this
http://www.piratescave.co.uk/outboa...&src=froogle&gclid=COj9o-_1sLwCFVDLtAodN2sAPw
it says four bolts in the blurb but the bracket has eight
http://www.force4.co.uk/9140/Force-4-Aluminium-Outboard-Motor-Bracket-with-Plastic-Pad.html
this too
http://www.seamarknunn.com/acatalog/adjustable-outboard-motor-bracket-20-h-p-6901.html#.UvA03m15Fcl
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VicS
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The problem is if it is bent backwards to the point where it will not pass through the central position because the top hits the little fin above it. It is not a problem with alignment with the tiller
When I bent the Berwick rudder we could still sail although it was binding on that fin when the tiller was centred.
The first time it was bent ( before my time as regular crew) it was bent so much they they could not steer the boat. They had to undo the retaining collar on the shaft in the back of the cockpit, lower the whole shooting match until it would turn freely and suspend it, via the tiller attachment, from the backstay. They were they able to get the boat onto beach where they were able to straighten the shaft sufficiently. IIRC they were somewhere in France. Far from home anyway.
aquaplane
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It only looks bent because it's not on the centre line, there is nothing wrong with it.
Don't worry, be happy.
Don't worry, be happy.
dylanwinter
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the tiller does not snag on anything
as one does with any boat and no-one is looking at you I unsheathed the tiller, stood in the cockpit and pretended to steer the boat imagining myself tromping through that North Sea chop and around the giant swells of Cape Wrath.
It swung clear and without encumbrances
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Kelpie
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It would have been strange if you hadn't done that.
"Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, does not put it on his head."- Billy Connelly.
"Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, does not put it on his head."- Billy Connelly.
VicS
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No problems then. Just be aware that it is not difficult to bend the shaft, and that if you do you might not then be able to steer the boat.
Getting rope jammed betwen the top of the rudder and that little fin is also a PITA. We've only done it once ( skippers fault this time ) but it was in the path of a cross channel ferry.
They stopped, to keep other shipping away, while we sorted our selves out which was good of them. One of the rare occasions we've used the VHF (except for link calls in the old days)
