help!!! Need electrician & welder in Brest fast

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Hey all,

I just crossed the English Channel there in a bit of a ..well shall we say interesting sea.

About 2/3 of the way through our GPS, autopilot and Depth sounder went down.

We actually navigated the rest of the way to Brest using the Ipad only and Navionics app!

Anyway... we went upstairs and the actual stainsless steel mast that holds all the GPS senders etc and snapped backwards and ripped a wire (presumably the GPS).

The boat is a Fair line Squadron 58 . Anyway we are on a journey
to Majorca and on a time scale.

If anyone knows welder/ electricans in the Brest area please let me know asap, would be much appreciated?

Just reply to this post or PM me,

Cheers,
 
I don't know any suppliers there, sorry. Google I guess

I'm familiar with that bit of construction. It does wobble a bit. Are you saying the s/s has bent/cracked (you asked for a welder) or has it just ripped out of the GRP moulding where it is attached by bolts?

One of the cables is a seatalk-1 cable, going to the GPS mushroom. It has 3 cores, red-yellow-black in black sheath. If you untangle the mess and reconnect those 3 wires to the mushroom your nav system should work agian. The other wires are nav lights which you need to fix obviously, and TV antenna/spotlight which aren't too important.

I've said on here before a back up GPS mushroom is a good idea. This kinda proves the point!

Good luck with the rest of the trip. Weahter is fantastic in the Med currently so it'll all be worth it when you get there
 
A few years ago the boom on my boat snapped in two. I had a new one made by a firm in Brest and the old gooseneck needed modification, which they carried out very well, and at a reasonable price.

I suppose they are primarily involved with aluminium work but even if they can't help they may 'know a man who can'.


Sparcraft
rue Blaise Pascal,
Zone Industrielle
17185 Perigny
Brest

tel: 0033 (0)5 46 45 90 45

email: contact@sparcraft.com

website: http://www.sparcraft.com
 
Thanks for the replies guy, JFM - sent you a PM.

In brest now.. Weather forecast is really good Thursday onwards so want to get moving asap.

Thanks again,

BL
 
PCUK said:
Frightening, A boat of that size with no charts on board and presumably no-one with the ability to read them!
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That's a little uncalled for ... the OP didn't say there were no charts onboard ... just that they navigated with an iPad and Navionics ...

I have 2 chart plotters on my boat - if one goes down the other will become the primary nav aid. If both go down then we have a number of smart phones with Nav apps on them - they will be used first ... I may have my netbook with GPS dongle onboard too ... are you going to suggest that we don't have paper charts onboard and that we can't read them?
 
PCUK said:
Frightening, A boat of that size with no charts on board and presumably no-one with the ability to read them!
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All he said was that his electronics packed up and he used his iPad. I'm baffled as to how you conclude he has no paper charts on board and doesn't know how to use them
 
PCUK said:
Frightening, A boat of that size with no charts on board and presumably no-one with the ability to read them!
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Can't see where he said he had no charts or that he was unable to read them.

Assumptions, speculation but no facts, why not ask the OP the questions?
 
Whoops, I didn't want to reiterate, but apparently vBulletin thought to duplicate my post for some reason...?!?
 
Boatlover, I have no idea why you would want to swap the tropics of Bangor for Mallorca? 2nd week in June, 10-11 degrees, wind, rain, its everything the Squadron 58 owner should ever require :rolleyes:
 
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