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Nautical

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My one and only weekend off and down to SoF to get a bit of R&R before show season kicks off. Planed to poodle over to Cannes Islands and on up the coast a bit and chill out.

Turn key...great, move into gear...not so great! actuator on port engine decides 'Non' and fry's itself....

The look on my face does in absolutely no way impart how totally and utterly naffed off I am. So here I am just arrived back and a million things to do before Cannes and SIBS, snot fair........... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

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If it's any consolation, August Bank Holiday was supposed to be a quick (for a sedate motorboat :-)) run over to France or along the coast somewhere.

Of course the weather would have mucked that up but to cut a long story short the starboard engine muffler is now in the skip, the port engine turbocharger is in my kitchen and the forward cabin headlinings are in the galley.

We ARE going to have an Indian summer (please)?

ps and I've just been reminded my wife has a bruised foot when said foot connected with turbocharger when 'someone' left it on the aft deck in the dark...
 
Sorry to hear that Kim. Hope you get it sorted soon, Formanda is a lovely old boat. Thanks for a great cruise btw, your weather calls were spot on. All three of us had a fantastic trip which was a great confidence booster to us. All the more rewarding for the new challenges which we overcame successfully. Hope to see you again on another one sometime.

Mike and the crew of Amillie of London
 
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Of course the weather would have mucked that up but to cut a long story short the starboard engine muffler is now in the skip, the port engine turbocharger is in my kitchen and the forward cabin headlinings are in the galley.


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Sounds like your boating is going the same way as mine!
 
Now call me naive (and you probably will) but how come MOBOs give such an enormous amount of trouble?
I know the motors run under load all the time, unlike trucks, but surely the amount of mechanical and electrical catastrophes and problems that befall people are out of proportion with the amount of use they get.
Or is that the problem? Is it lying unused so much that creates the problem. I have to say that the small ferries on the lake plough up and down all day, every day, and whilst they do need fettling now and then, pro rata, they are dependability themselves.
 
Hi Kim,

Looks like we were both praying to same fellow...... Neptune, he's just a swine, pulls this sort of thing on me all the time, looks like I have to offer up another bucket load of money in the collection plate (aka Mr VP service man) see if that appeases him!

Trev
 
Huh, no they didn't /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif, flight was delayed three hours coming back, stood waiting for the hotel courtesy bus outside the terminal back in blighty last night at 02.30 am in the piddling rain, frozen stiff in my tee shirt and no flippin show after 20 mins so got a taxi, then hotel said no reservation and full up, just about tore the poor fellows head off.

Still this means that it will be glorious sunshine for the whole of SIBS and customers will be throwning sack fulls of money at me, er....I wish /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Ta...we're dealing with things that should really have been picked up on survey (or by me when looking in the first place), but don't get me into that one!

Anyhow Formanda looked after us long enough to get home; it was only after we investigated an oily smell back aft that we realised the muffler buried under the midships bunk was shot (and judging by the gloopy mess, probably had been for some time). Decided to do a proper job and take some time to do repairs rather than limp along with a series of bodge fixes...everything we've tackled to-date has been done on that basis and so we're reaping some rewards from the changed bits already.

Glad you had fun. Sorry the weather wasn't kinder but it was great to at least grab the windows both ends to at least get out there and back.

Hope to see you out there again some time. Happy cruising.
 
Ah ha, the ritual wallet sacrifice.

It has been known to work before...certainly I have high hopes that my imminent boost to the profits of various pipe suppliers will expel the exhaust in only the right places, excude loo smells and prevent sea water from occupying both sides of the hull.
 
Having just read your Greek story understand what you mean. That said your escape with the SSR trick sounds about as jammy as mine with a whole tube of chemical metal (successfully) plugging a failed aluminium cooling waterway so I guess it's not all been one-sided...
 
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Ah but October is going to be hot :-)

[/ QUOTE ] I hope so, as I have no idea when I will get my boat back after its trailer tearing episode.
 
Whats this, Kim? New bateau? I dont recall the forum being told about it unless I've missed something. Another Dutch plodder?
Scary avatar by the way. Looks like something out of a Lib Dem election pamphlet
 
Yes you're right. Motorboating consists of almost continuous mechanical and electrical maintenance work occasionally and briefly interrupted by noisy, uncomfortable and expensive forward motion on water but at least the motion is normally in the desired direction unlike sailing
 
Hi Mike, didn't make a big announcement although it slid out in a few weeks ago in another exchange.

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthreaded.php?Number=1106991

Nothing rational about this boat at all, purely emotional purchase that justifies itself in spades everytime we have a group of friends on board and calls into question my sanity every time we lift another (one inch solid pine) floorboard.

As for the Avatar, not sure why it came about really...but at least can offer you the assurance I'm not standing for election (or even offering to give out pamphlets)...too much engineering, woodworking and fettling ahead for such things.
 
Sorry, Kim, missed that post. She looks v pretty and I'm not surprised you've fallen for her. Maybe your work on her will make the basis of some good MBM articles but I guess you've already thought of that.
I'd also like to put on record that I dont agree with the comments in the other posts about MBM cruises in company. We immensely enjoyed the MBM cruises we did with you and your colleagues many years ago and recognised the hard work put in in order to run these things smoothly
 
Probably because you only get to hear about the problems. Posts that read "Both engines started first time, ran smoothly for several hours, and didn't leak or overheat" don't make for thrilling reading.

Also, trucks rarely get snagged by huge sections of fishing net half way across the motorway.

dv.
 
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