Sail to power, early lessons for your amusement

[Rocksteadee]

And after a week or many I now know the tabs are wired "wrong", ie not as per the manual. L button operates P tab not S, and vice versa.

Change the switches over

 

[Homer J]

Used to drive me nuts with the S/Sker it’s the opposite to intuition.
Sometimes I forgot , got in a muddle and in a x wind did the wrong thing and heel would alarmingly increase .
Book was confusing , well for me !

How ever bless Amarti although retro .....I have a position dial and a toggle “ Up “ of “Dn “......the flap .
They are so easy to use and even go up to minus 2 for following seas .

In General useful when fully loaded 2200 L fuel + 500 L water at slow speeds to lift the stern .
And of course to bring more finer bow into play in rough head seas .....rather than back off the throttles .

Anyhow point is they are easy to use and you can see where they are .
Thats important at the berth as you can see if they need pulling up ......thinking ram seal preservation issues .

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power is off so they flop down at rest .

Call me a pedant but your anchor lights tab is spelled incorrectly.

 

[Portofino]

Call me a pedant but your anchor lights tab is spelled incorrectly.

They were stencilled on in Italian only .When i bought it most had rubbed off becoming illegible.
Broker kindly did those labels for the long Del trip Naples - Cannes .

The dash is / was on the to do list .Many have been updated with newer carling type switches etc and bigger screen.
How ever strangely its grown on me in a retro kinda way .
One day I guess ?
Easy to remove the black Alloy covers and re finish, either paint or wrap .Wrap opens up the Carbon look .
Then find a better way of labelling.
The dials are IT + Eng .