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Hello, this is my first post, and hopefully this is a picture of my boat...it's about 24 foot and it's got a ford d6 engine in it....it is in barmouth and has been around for a while...anyone know where it was from? It was called hydrant apparently one, but is currently known as aberystwyth...Will get some photos of it moving soon hopefully once I have become conversant with it during the repairs....Thanks!
 
Hello Bernsboat - Barmouth is not far from me in Porthmadog. Your picture is too dark to make out. All I can see (and please don't take this the wrong way!) is something that looks like a "skip" with two people stood behind it and two cars in front. Got any more pics?

Dave
 
welcome Bernsboat

I've done a quick fiddle with your pic; hope you don't mind.

That is a really purposeful working fishing vessel, and looks really tough. Should give you a lot of fun.

Enjoy the repairs ! :)
 
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Ahh, thanks for the repair of the picture...I'll dig another one or two out ...

We fitted the fuel injector pump last weekend and now it starts, now got to get the electric up and running....Any idea how much a d6 for will use fuelwise?

By the way, we (involved) are a bunch of landlubbers up until now, and I bought this cuz my mate took me out in a 250hp speedboat and scared the bejeezus out of me...

Can this ship be set up as a professional fishing vessel again liscencewise without costing a fortune?

Thanks!!
 
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hmm. parents once had a 35footer with twin ford 4d (3.6l) they were pritty good engine's not heavy on fuel at all(dont no the gph).
they use to call them donky engine's as they were used to power aux.on tanker lorry's.

best of look with the new boat.
 
Where do you go to to find history of a boat, is there a database or website I can put the number in?

I was told it lived in pwlleli for a while also!!

I am very excited as this is my first boat, and have had to do a lot on it already as it was rescued from davy jones, now the engine runs it feel like I'm getting somewhere. Hopefully all will be well....:)

Famous last and all that :)
 
In general, no, there's nowhere obvious to look up the history of a boat, but as this one is (or was) a commercially registered fishing boat I suspect you may have a little more luck. Not sure where you'd start, but the MCGA is probably a good bet. The AB registration is, of course, Aberystwyth, but you knew that anyway...
 
It hadn't occured to me that was where the number came from, duh!

Have welded on more wheelhouse since the photos, cuz some clever *** decided it was to come off in the past....

There is a pipe coming off the top of the cutlass bearing, does that go to cold water that is drawn to through the engine?

What class or type of boat would this be called...?

tA!
 
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Dunno about the name for that type of boat. The pipe to the stern gland would probably be for cooling water taken off from the heat exchanger, assuming it's about a half inch hose. If it's much smaller (1/4" or so), it may have been for a greaser. Not sure how you go about telling exactly what sort of stern gland lubrication you need...
 
pretty sure it is for water, just checking...
I had thought about firing it back up as a lobstercatcher, but the previous owner said the license to be a fishing boat had been taken off and to get it back on would cost loads, I haven't done enough research yet but I still fancy setting it up properly again.

Apparently its sunk 3 times so I'm a bit concerned that I've done enough to safeguard it so am going ahead thoughtfully.
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Providing the hull is sound (steel?) and free from excessive corrosion, the hull skin fittings, valves and hoses are good and both prop and rudder shaft glands aren't leaking too much, she should stay afloat.
General neglect is often the culprit with random sinkings.
It also doesn't take much grunge around the bilge pump strainer for it to block and become useless, and with steel scale from rusty bilges, there can be an endless supply.

The six cylinder ford diesel (naturally aspirated) at 120 hp, should use approx. 6 to 7 LPH at cruise.

Good luck with the boat.
 
The bilge is currently in a right state, full of gunge and the funk of forty thousand years.After I've attempted to make good the dark recesses I was going to get some waxoyl and spray it wherever I can in the attempt to keep it clean.I know there is at least three bilge pumps down there in the funk, so I'm gonna get in there with a brush and I have to choose some type of bilge cleaner in the hope to do it once, properly. Next is to move the boat a bit closer to home, my mate has a mooring 3 miles from me, which will be much better than having to do a 50 mile trip just to check on the boat.

I have an outback 48v inverter charger and a 48v vtwin genny about, and was thinking about fitting this, but as yet I am not sure about electrics and how they should be fitted to a boat. That's another story.
 
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