charles_reed
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During our recent sail to the Algarve and back, the following probs were encountered;-
1)There is an anchor locker drain hole in the stem, about two feet above the waterline which when hitting waves at any reasonable speed sends a jet of water straight down the chain pipe. Any ideas on what to do?
I thought that a plate with venturi apertures either side, (but closed above and below would possibly do the trick)[ QUOTE ]
You can get small shroud plates which fit over the drain holes and produce a negative pressure and effectively drains water out of the locker.
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2) The water tanks have their air vents opening into the anchor locker, quite high up. But, our bow was under water for quite alot of the time, and the water was contaminated; very noticeably so, even the full tank we hadn't started using yet. Cutting the pipes before they exit outside should do the trick, (and blocking the exit holes) as water doesn't get that far up the pipe, as far as I can tell. Unless anyone has a better idea?[ QUOTE ]
I take it that the watertank is in the foot and the breather is a flexible pipe.
Try putting in a gooseneck, if that fails, re-route the pipe to deck-level where seawater cannot get.
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3) Who can tell me of a good company to go to to have our windows refurbished or replaced (acryuc in aluminium frames)?[ QUOTE ]
I've got an address in the other computer at home - never used the company but have had good reports of them. If you need a contact (the[ QUOTE ]
y're in Lancs) PM me.
I'd suggest replacing with toughened or safety glass rather than acrylic.
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4) Has anyone else had trouble with Navman wind direction instruments, or logs? I know about the depth-sounder probs, we will soon be on our third one of those.[ QUOTE ]
No, but I've had so many anomalous reading from a wide range of wind instruments that I tend to ignore their misinformation and rely on a masthead indicator
5) For those of you with coppercoat or similar copper impregnated epoxy antifouling, [ QUOTE ]
does yours work? We apparently have to burnish or resurface the stuff every year, which wasn't mentioned when we bought it. So we have just visited the scrubbing machine in Haslar, which totally failed to remove the stuff. It is THAT bad on poor Cornish Maid! [ QUOTE ]
My boat had the Scott-Bader precursor of Coppercoat. I soon got fed up with the necessity of beaching and rubbing down the whole bottom bi-annually and just antifouled over the whole lot.
Some of the problems referred to suggest your boat is trimmed down by the head or just overloaded - the latter something that happens with all cruising boats.
Your simplest remedy may well be to chuack a few things out.
During our recent sail to the Algarve and back, the following probs were encountered;-
1)There is an anchor locker drain hole in the stem, about two feet above the waterline which when hitting waves at any reasonable speed sends a jet of water straight down the chain pipe. Any ideas on what to do?
I thought that a plate with venturi apertures either side, (but closed above and below would possibly do the trick)[ QUOTE ]
You can get small shroud plates which fit over the drain holes and produce a negative pressure and effectively drains water out of the locker.
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2) The water tanks have their air vents opening into the anchor locker, quite high up. But, our bow was under water for quite alot of the time, and the water was contaminated; very noticeably so, even the full tank we hadn't started using yet. Cutting the pipes before they exit outside should do the trick, (and blocking the exit holes) as water doesn't get that far up the pipe, as far as I can tell. Unless anyone has a better idea?[ QUOTE ]
I take it that the watertank is in the foot and the breather is a flexible pipe.
Try putting in a gooseneck, if that fails, re-route the pipe to deck-level where seawater cannot get.
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3) Who can tell me of a good company to go to to have our windows refurbished or replaced (acryuc in aluminium frames)?[ QUOTE ]
I've got an address in the other computer at home - never used the company but have had good reports of them. If you need a contact (the[ QUOTE ]
y're in Lancs) PM me.
I'd suggest replacing with toughened or safety glass rather than acrylic.
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4) Has anyone else had trouble with Navman wind direction instruments, or logs? I know about the depth-sounder probs, we will soon be on our third one of those.[ QUOTE ]
No, but I've had so many anomalous reading from a wide range of wind instruments that I tend to ignore their misinformation and rely on a masthead indicator
5) For those of you with coppercoat or similar copper impregnated epoxy antifouling, [ QUOTE ]
does yours work? We apparently have to burnish or resurface the stuff every year, which wasn't mentioned when we bought it. So we have just visited the scrubbing machine in Haslar, which totally failed to remove the stuff. It is THAT bad on poor Cornish Maid! [ QUOTE ]
My boat had the Scott-Bader precursor of Coppercoat. I soon got fed up with the necessity of beaching and rubbing down the whole bottom bi-annually and just antifouled over the whole lot.
Some of the problems referred to suggest your boat is trimmed down by the head or just overloaded - the latter something that happens with all cruising boats.
Your simplest remedy may well be to chuack a few things out.
