dunedin
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Ice and snow today
Raymarine Wind - Port vs Starboard wrong
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AngusMcDoon
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The Ralia broon coo was looking cold.
Neeves
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What you need is someone needing to acclimatise, or test their clothing, for an ice climb on Nevis.
Its a balmy mid 20s here, blue sky, scattered cloud.
Jonathan
Its a balmy mid 20s here, blue sky, scattered cloud.
Jonathan
ylop
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Yes you are wrong!
Whilst many (perhaps most?) boats will have the equipment to send someone up the mast (bosuns chair/harness + halyards + winch) I think far fewer will have the equipment* to solo up the mast safely. Why would they if they usually sail with crew? The problem for northern hemisphere boats now is that whilst finding crew to actually sail is easy, persuading crew to spend time travelling to the boat to DIY in the rain is less compelling!
Neeves
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No wonder people sail across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, or keep and sail their yachts in the Med or emigrate to The Lucky Country or work in HK - I don't recall it being soooooo bad but one tends to romanticise your memories (I lived in Scotland for 20 years)
Jonathan
dunedin
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Yes its tough sailing in one of the most beautiful cruising grounds in the world - and being able to get to your boat easily from home, sail round a few islands and back home for tea (picture taken a couple of days ago)
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ylop
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No hurricane season, far less tourists than the med and less astronomical prices and generally no wildlife trying to kill you! We all only remember the good bits!
But there are blue skies and sub zero temps with no wind today…
Chiara’s slave
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My race crew will turn up to do boat DIY, but it’s the skipper’s job to be the one in the harness/bosun’s chair. He is less willing, when it’s cold and windy. My daughter is in Fremantle at the moment, I can see how Neeves has lost track of UK weather. It’s in the 30s in WA.
PaulRainbow
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That looks awful, i don't know how you can stand it
Chiara’s slave
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Photography sponsored by Eberspacher.That looks awful, i don't know how you can stand it
dunedin
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No mainly Craghoppers - warm tech clothing is key (pretty much never use the Musto oilskins in winter as not needed on dry days - we are a bit dryer than your speedster)
Chiara’s slave
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We’re not wet unless it’s both blowy and choppy. So likewise, we sail in technical layers mostly, often a softshell jacket. If I think we have a kite launch to do I’ll be in trousers with an ankle seal, I’ll grant you it’s very wet on the lee tramp. But mostly it’s 5c warmer here than yours. Just now, that still makes it bloody cold here.
yotter
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Would a test rig of spare anemometer and cable help. I keep a spare anemometer, a jury rigged shortish cable and ST60 wind for testing purposes, I hate mast climbing as well. I would have responded before but I could not find it. With this I can test various element, especially anemometers. It has 5 female spade connectors which fit the 5 pins on the ST60 wind. With this you could plug in a known working anemometer down below in the cosy and rotate the vane at will and check whether is rotates clockwise, anti and port/stbd etc. But I am not sure if you have sT60 since you have a converter box? Anyway I have just found it in the garage under a pile created by boat decluttering. It is even further north in Inverkip and you would be welcome to borrow it if it helps. I can lend you a ST60 also if that helps with diagnosis. It does not have the RM masthead connector on the cable but a 5 pin DIN connector from Maplin which is an audio connector and works well.
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dunedin
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That’s extremely generous.
My instruments are ST70+ and fed through the SeaTalkNG (near NMEA 2000) network - hence the interface box referred to.
But I assume the vane is the same - so might be able to feed into the box to test?
What do the panel tech experts think?
If it might work I would be delighted to lease from you for a suitable liquid fee
SaltIre
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Mind the Gap.
yotter
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No probsThat’s extremely generous.
My instruments are ST70+ and fed through the SeaTalkNG (near NMEA 2000) network - hence the interface box referred to.
But I assume the vane is the same - so might be able to feed into the box to test?
What do the panel tech experts think?
If it might work I would be delighted to lease from you for a suitable liquid fee
Neeves
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Have you thought of asking Raymarine?That’s extremely generous.
My instruments are ST70+ and fed through the SeaTalkNG (near NMEA 2000) network - hence the interface box referred to.
But I assume the vane is the same - so might be able to feed into the box to test?
What do the panel tech experts think?
If it might work I would be delighted to lease from you for a suitable liquid fee
Jonathan
Chiara’s slave
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I think Raymarine are still selling the same wind vane they sold to Noah.That’s extremely generous.
My instruments are ST70+ and fed through the SeaTalkNG (near NMEA 2000) network - hence the interface box referred to.
But I assume the vane is the same - so might be able to feed into the box to test?
What do the panel tech experts think?
If it might work I would be delighted to lease from you for a suitable liquid fee
AngusMcDoon
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If you can borrow that MHU, which is hopefully known to work, you can connect it to your wind transducer pod. If that works then you can eliminate the pod as the cause of the fault.