pvb
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You should broaden your experience and try a boat with a properly-installed modern Eberspacher (or Webasto). You'll find it reliable, incredibly effective, and virtually silent.
Captain Calamitys
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You should broaden your experience and try a boat with a properly-installed modern Eberspacher (or Webasto). You'll find it reliable, incredibly effective, and virtually silent.
pvb
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That's bit dark, isn't it?
prv
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Mine must be a little older then - it's reliable, incredibly effective, but bloody noisy
(The Nora though really ought to have a cosy little cast-iron coal stove. Albeit perhaps not until the present clumsy pair are no longer aboard.)
Pete
pvb
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Mine must be a little older then - it's reliable, incredibly effective, but bloody noisy
Add a process air silencer, and maybe an exhaust silencer.
prv
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pvb
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Yeah, I know. No room in the locker though, and a moderate case of CBA
CBA is the real reason!
dylanwinter
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Mine must be a little older then - it's reliable, incredibly effective, but bloody noisy
(The Nora though really ought to have a cosy little cast-iron coal stove. Albeit perhaps not until the present clumsy pair are no longer aboard.)
Pete
the bloke acorss from my pontoon has a very noisy airogen and an eberspacher
he is seldom aboard but the boat sits there humming, thrumming and throbbing all night long
my fan heater or candles on the other hand.....
D
prv
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No thrumming all night long here - the heater is bolted to the head of my bunk (on the other side of it, in the locker) so it has to go off before I turn in.
Pete
Resolution
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Quite agree. Any of you guys down in Cornwall got any positive suggestions? I think it is likely that advice or physical assistance is better than just money.
laika
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The mail article previously linked to mentioned that the skipper is being inundated with interview requests. I'm guessing that there's plenty of potential for featuring in amusing adverts on both sides of the pond. The best advice I could think of would be to get an agent ASAP. Could cure his financial problems and provide a donation to the RNLI to counter all the criticism.
If they could make a TV show of someone teaching that woman who'd failed her driving test a gazillion times to drive, there must surely be potential in making a TV show (or something on an Internet TV channel even?) teaching him to sail. Entertaining, potentially educational (hey, it's a show about learning to sail) and can only help the current situation.
dylanwinter
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marvelous suggestion
sadly.... the world does not often work that way
I am sure he did not get paid for the interviews, no-one would risk a TV programme budget on an old, capricious, possibly slightly eccentric bloke of doubtful health.
D
bigwow
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Send the Salvation Army round, they go to all disasters.
Resolution
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That wasn't quite the positive that I was thinking of!
fisherman
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Have to say that getting a weather window for land's end, given their evident ability, or propensity for bad luck, looks a long shot at the moment. You need a system to go through, wind to get up into the N sector, and then quieten down for Hayle bar and the trip down West. If you cross the bar on the flood you need power, on the ebb you need quiet weather. I dare say one of the fishermen would tow them out. Head to Newlyn or Penzance, lay up and wait.
JumbleDuck
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For the people on board, maybe. For the people round about, less so. But hey, we all like spending our evenings in a haze of diesel exhaust, so what's a bit of noise.
JumbleDuck
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If they were doing this in the summer - a typical summer, not last summer - I'd expect them to bumble their way down to France and then drown crossing Biscay, but it sounds as if they are easily stupid enough to try the western approaches soon. Where, if they try it, they will die.
Seajet
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The various boats I was on with eberspachers had the things professionally fitted; ' incredibly effective & virtually ' silent my arse !
Not much warmth, sucked the domestic batteries dry and whined all night !
- Hang on, this sounds like ex-SWMBO...
laika
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Which is why he needs an agent. Quickly.
dylanwinter
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laika
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Not even by American news networks? Ever? Not even "expenses" or "licensing"? Good Morning America for example?
Regardless of interview fees they've had an awful lot of exposure in both europe and the US in a short time. In the hands of a publicity agent surely that's marketing gold?