selling the slug and buying a mobo

slug electrics

lenseman said:
What is wrong with the Slugs electrics? ;)
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well it has a combined starter motor and dynamo

a so called dynastart

which starts okay but re-charging is pretty pathetic

one main engine battery

one house battery - wired in with crocodile clips to a

a horrible mess of an ebay fuse box

house wiring flex to the tiller pilot - held in place with glue gun glue

I did pay a lovely Rhodesian man who lives on a boat in Walton to spend some time on it

but he was really no better than me

lovely man though and needed the money more than me

it basically needs the attention of a man who knows his job who can correct 50 years of bodgery

all is revealed in one of the video logs

as for uberkeekian feeling cheated by the fact that I have electrics

I believe you talked me into a free subscription......

so you blag a freemans and then feel cheated!

no satisfying some people

D
 
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An early close-season case of 'cabin fever' requiring early and drastic action.

Nurse, 'take this man away and bring him back in the spring, well when the snow has gone and the daylight lasts more than ten minutes. Oh and give him strong drink and anything else he requires'
 
ah - but the slug is afloat

Gwylan said:
An early close-season case of 'cabin fever' requiring early and drastic action.

Nurse, 'take this man away and bring him back in the spring, well when the snow has gone and the daylight lasts more than ten minutes. Oh and give him strong drink and anything else he requires'
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Not yet my friend

I was sailing last week -

in the snow

- as soon as the roads are good enough I will spend another three days and two nights aboard the slug attempting to film the flocking knots of Wells Bar

Meantime - its a short item about wodewoses I am working on

Dylan
 
Gwylan said:
An early close-season case of 'cabin fever' requiring early and drastic action.

Nurse, 'take this man away and bring him back in the spring, well when the snow has gone and the daylight lasts more than ten minutes. Oh and give him strong drink and anything else he requires'
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I'll start with the "anything else" first & have a drink afterwards, thank you.






My word, that feels better, now where's my drink & will you have one with me? You've certainly earned it . . . ;)
 
"I was sailing last week - "
Well that makes me feel really sorry or you then.

Life, work, weather and rubbish tides mean that the boat has not moved for 3 weeks. Need a methadone equivalent for sailing
 
Piccy of me as the wodewose;

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Damn, I've been spotted. I thought my disguise as Neptune at the seaside (or Santa in commercial districts) was working. Obviously not!
 
Orford Font and the wodewose

not really that....

more this....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramseys/2879725186/

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-savage-man-of-england-tales-of-the-wodewose.html


The interesting thing is why such a thing should appear on a font made in the 1600s

and how it survived the the puritans of the 17th century in the form of the a bloke called Dowsing – an inspector of churches for Suffolk. He was very keen on the whitewash brush and the sledge hammer.

He bveleived in a simple clean form of Christianity. He came in and enthusiastically redecorated the place, took down and destroyed 28 superstitious pictures eleven popish inscriptions in brass as well as four crucifixes.

Now if you go in there it is full of popish iconography again.

Dowsing must be pinwheeling in his grave.

which I think is quite interesting and makes me look at a riverside town like Orford with the church tower above it in a slightly different way. Must have been a weird time to live there I reckon and such knowledge gives you a sense that the small town has been there for 1,000 years - maybe more.

The human history of a place reminds me that the slug is just one of uncounted thousands of vessels that have sailed through orford over the past couple of millennia.

Just one of the reasons for learning a bit about the place you sail.

Of course, when I was in my twenties and raced eboats I didn't give a stuff who whitwewashed the inside of the church.

of course I am sure other people think about other things while sailing.

Dylan
 
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dylanwinter said:
It is a beautiful thing inside - and it won't plane so not too much in the way of a wash I guess

but....

you would miss so much of our wonderful estauaries and backwaters


with that sort of money you could buy 100 slugs

If I had the cash I would have the slug electrics sorted out, buy a new genoa that ran the full length of the forestay, buy a spray hood, fix the gear change, keep the slug in a marina in the winter where I could plug into the electric for a bit of warmth and buy another polo because the old one now has 130,000 miles on it and is getting a bit tired and start wearing yachting boots instead of green wellies.

I would then keep the rest of the money to finance the journey without making the films that seem to upset mobo owners for some reason.

Currently working on a film about Orford

That old Hugh Bigod - and his dad Roger - what a family!

Dylan
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You ban pick up genoas quite cheaply on ebay if you keep an eye out for the dimensions you need. I've acquired a few like that.
 
The guy who owned the airfield I worked at in the early 70s, bought the MOD stuff from the Orford range. As scrap. He asked me, in passing, one day 'What use some fiberglass rods might be for". I replied "Fishing rods? How many have you got", " Oh about 10,000." (I might be out by several thou) They were the antenna for a big listening field on the marshes. The other question was about bulkhead lights, a couple of tons...from the underground passages.
 
Have a look at a MacGregor 26X or 26M. Confortable for liveaboard (amazing amount of room for a 26 footer). Sail when you want. Motor when you want.

It's a unique boat with alot of compromises, but it sounds like it would be just the ticket for you.

(FWIW, owned a 26X for 4 years, and liked it enough to bring it with me with I moved from Texas to Finland)
 
rhumbunctious said:
Have a look at a MacGregor 26X or 26M. Confortable for liveaboard (amazing amount of room for a 26 footer). Sail when you want. Motor when you want.

It's a unique boat with alot of compromises, but it sounds like it would be just the ticket for you.

(FWIW, owned a 26X for 4 years, and liked it enough to bring it with me with I moved from Texas to Finland)
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Oh, and to point out two nice features that should suit your endeavors, it has a lifting keel (swing up keel on the 26X, lift up dagger board on the 26M) so it sits nicely on the mud/sand when tide is out, and is easily trailerable, so haul out and storage don't require a lift, etc.

Personally, I much prefer the 26X, and not just because I owned one. I think the swing up center board and rudders are preferable to the dagger board and the layout is more practical. But the 26M is OK as well.
 
Hello. Welcome here.
You have probably missed the irony in Dylan's post.
He hates planing boats with a fervour.
Look at some of the videos in his first post in the thread.
 
Mac 26

Lakesailor said:
Hello. Welcome here.
You have probably missed the irony in Dylan's post.
He hates planing boats with a fervour.
Look at some of the videos in his first post in the thread.
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well - macs sail pretty well by all accounts

- not well for a displacement 26 footer with a decent keel - but certainly better than the slug ever will

I guess the speed would allow me to get out of trouble - shallow draft is wonderful

given that the old volvo cost me £700 this summer

an outboard you could take to the repair man would be a wonderful thing

- and a cutlass gland is a god forsaken peice of engineering - a hole designed to leak. Pathetic.

So a boat where you could sweep the bilges with a dustpan and brush would be lovely

full standing headroom would be nice

the mac would be a bit thirstier

there is one thing against a Mac 26

£17,000

http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/view/PAA16920

as opposed to

http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/view/CUX036

and you know, when it comes to looks -

I think the mac has the edge over the slug

so if anyone wants to swap a good Mac 26X for a slightly tired and widely abused slug then I would be a fool to say no.

Dylan
 
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I think I have seen a Mac26 as low as £11,000, but that is still way above Slug money type budgets.

Macs are boats we all love to hate, but as with many things, that dislike is mostly misplaced. They have their uses, and within their limitations work really quite well.

Tim
 
Slug Money

Alfie168 said:
I think I have seen a Mac26 as low as £11,000, but that is still way above Slug money type budgets.

Macs are boats we all love to hate, but as with many things, that dislike is mostly misplaced. They have their uses, and within their limitations work really quite well.

Tim
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Like Wales is to area 'the slug' has been adopted as an internationally recognised measurement of boat value



Westerly Centaur = six slug equivalents

Beneteau Lozenge 33 = 25 slug equivalents

BP bosses boat = 250 slug equivalents


Abramovitches 'yacht' = 15,000 slug equivalents


However, the slug gets sailed more than most boats I know of


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpsYphE_lwQ
 
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