Liveaboards' Diary

[colin_jones]

Liveaboards\' Diary

Many thanks to all the people who have made contact to ask if the Liveaboards’ Diary contribution to PBO On Line will continue this year.

We shall be making a regular weekly cruise and equipment posting, but it will be on page 4 of colvicwatson.co.uk and will be up-dated at the end of every week, starting from the beginning of May.

This year the reports will come from West and South Brittany and as many small islands and harbours as we can find.

Colin & Rita Jones

 

[Sinbad1]

Re: Liveaboards\' Diary

Colin

Your articles are always excellent and one of PBO's highlights. Before you wander off, put me out of my misery over your engine. What exactly was the malfunction that no one could figure out and which made it cut-out intermittently?

 

[tamise]

Re: Liveaboards\' Diary

I look forward to reading your reports and shall bookmark your page.
You may have explained this before, but I for one would be interested on what equipment you have to connect to the internet and how you upload your reports.Cheers! Have a great trip.

 

[colin_jones]

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Sorry about causing a fellow Forum man some misery.

The BMC 2.2 demise is still 'cause of death unknown.' We suspect contaminated fuel, which may have been partly our own fault for leaving it too long in jerrycans in the sun. However, even when we renewed injection pump etc etc and gave it new fuel in a new tank, it still ran and then cut out.

So far, it has still baffled all the experts.

The latest advises having a look at the crankshaft. This marque, it appears, sometimes gets a crack, which is OK for most of the time, but sometimes gets out of alignment by a few mill and locks up. Then, when it is forced to move, gets back in line. The guy proposing this has handled hundreds of lorry and van engines, but other experts are not convinced.

We got rid of the motor to a third expert and he may have some more precise news ... but equally, he might just cannibalise it for parts.

That is the latest. Me? I dislike mysteries and am still baffled, but itching to get properly to sea, with the new engine and a bigger prop, which has done some really wild things to the way the boat behaves.

 

[tamise]

Re: Liveaboards\' Diary

I look forward to reading your reports and shall bookmark your page.
You may have explained this before, but I for one would be interested on what equipment you have to connect to the internet and how you upload your reports.Cheers! Have a great trip.

 

[colin_jones]

Re: Liveaboards\' Diary

Most of this was in PBO May ( I think) of last year. Basically, we used a Toshiba notebook, plus a Nokia fone and a Nokia cardfone 2 on aol, which has french access numbers, so is reasonably low cost. We have a CD rewriter for sending material and pix by post.

We have just added a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo notebook, which is a super machine, but it runs o Windows XP, which is currently giving me hell, because Ms released it without prewarning some of the fone companies, so no notebook will run XP and fones. There are several other progs which I cannot run -- even though I quite like XP.

Before anybody tells me that I can have a dual boot and twin operating system, we tried partitioning the drive, it was OK for some things, but for other essentials gave me even more hell.

A happy ship is one where there is no computer!!!!! So they say

 

[colin_jones]

Re: Liveaboards\' Diary

Most of this was in PBO May ( I think) of last year. Basically, we used a Toshiba notebook, plus a Nokia fone and a Nokia cardfone 2 on aol, which has french access numbers, so is reasonably low cost. We have a CD rewriter for sending material and pix by post.

We have just added a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo notebook, which is a super machine, but it runs o Windows XP, which is currently giving me hell, because Ms released it without prewarning some of the fone companies, so no notebook will run XP and fones. There are several other progs which I cannot run -- even though I quite like XP.

Before anybody tells me that I can have a dual boot and twin operating system, we tried partitioning the drive, it was OK for some things, but for other essentials gave me even more hell.

A happy ship is one where there is no computer!!!!! So they say