Twin-engined boats - a question? *DELETED*

[Guest]

Spoiler

First thing to point out is that these are observations not criticisms or aimed at any one in particular.

I started reading the forums about 2 weeks ago and then 10 days ago took the plunge registered and started posting. At first just a couple to the forum forum on computer related issues because that's what I know and felt on fairly safe ground.

Although I have not really participated in this forum, although I like to read your postings, I have noticed quite a difference in the tone of the different camps ( probably wrong way to describe but best I could do).

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PBO posts mainly practical/technical with answers along the same lines (and thanks to all that have answered my inane questions so far)

YMS is a bit more general but again on the most part fairly straight to the point answers.

MBC now we enter different territory, here you seem to have a core of regular posters who see to know each other very well (either through posting or meeting up on your travels) and who enjoy a gentle ribbing of there fellow posties.
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Recently there has been a posting about lurkers and as I write this we have 8 lurkers looking in now.

Why? are they nervous about posting and getting flamed or making an arse of themselves.
Do they think it will be difficult to break into the club, who knows?

You all seem a decent bunch and have got used to the level or line you can go to without causing major upset, but for some and here I'm thinking of Alpha perhaps his sensibilities were not quite ready for a gentle leg pull.

Bugger lost my train of thought. Oh well here endith the ramble. Now excuse me while I go and get my asbestos suite on.

 

[Guest]

Re: Spoiler

Well welcome to our end of the bar Tim, and as long as you enter into the spirit of things you'll have a bit of a giggle. See you're new boats's going to be called Tosca. Is that 'cos you won the cash for it at on horse at Ascot (anagram) or cos you can't spell Tossa? Mind you Tosca on the radio's gonna sound good. "This is Tosca, Tosca, Tosca over." "Why what did she do" says CG?

 

[Guest]

THORNEYCOUGHS

Even worse!

 

[Guest]

Re: Spoiler

Colin, that ones as bad as... Mike Hunt, Mike Hunt, Keep saying it.

 

[byron]

Re: Spoiler

Isn't there already a boat called Tosca? I think a Halmatic, enlighten me someone.

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[Guest]

Re: Spoiler

Didn't know a Tosca already existed but I have called mine Tosca2.

Will this cause some sort of problem when/if I go to register the boat

 

[Guest]

Re: Spoiler

hi TimE. Didn't think it was tooo bad (the response to alpha) and he was getting some sensible answers. He didn't ask a direct question. It was "explain reasonable swathes of mechancial engineering especially dynamics to me please and DO NOT mess me about sonny AND NO THREAD DRIFT. Oh (patronisingly) and can you gues my boat eh?".

Which is sort of the thing that winds up putery people too - "look just it can't be that difficult writing software hmm so hurry up and there's a good chap and if it works how we meant (not how we say) we might even pay you.."

Anyway welcome along. You use beuatiful layout of yr messages but tis a teensy bit too wide . So you must have a Sun Microstation praps. Anyway it goes sideways and scrollvbar left and right for me. Or have I cocked summink up?

Matts

 

[Guest]

Re: no, fine

Should be fine. hence loads of Jillie A and Jillie B and so on.

 

[Guest]

Re: no, fine

that's good haven't the imagination to think of another one.

As to your other question re layout of posting. My fault, can't spell at all so cut and pasted to word to do a spell check first.

Forgot to take soft and hard returns into account.

 

[Guest]

Re: boat names

Thers is a site (they say, haven't tried it ) called (unimaginatively) boatnames.com. I *thought* your text was rather beautiful, spell checker eh?

Unforuntaely, I am prohibited from using any sort of reference prior to posting since ripping into others after judicious use of google or webcrawler...

 

[Guest]

Re: boat names

I know it's a co out but what the hell.

Prehaps I should just carry on with my normal daily fight with the keyboard.

BTW the new boat looks like a stonker.

 

[Guest]

Re: Callas spelling

Cheers. Where do plan to use Tosca 2 then? And what is it? Izzit speedy? Trailerable?

 

[Guest]

Re: Callas spelling

Speedy I'll, say that 8hp power house should push it along at a fair old rate of inches per minute and when I can work out how to attach those two sheets to the sticky up pole in the middle there will be no stopping me.

At the moment I am looking at three possibilities Ramsgate, Eastbourne or Brighton. At the moment I live in Bromley so they are the 3 that give me the least driving time

 

[Guest]

Re: Chichester

You are ten mins from me (in chislehurst). Of those options, Ramsgate has the nastiest name but is the nicest place. Brighton a distant second cos all you can do in anything smallish is sort of bumble out a bit and then go back - unless cross-channel serious boaty or speedy powerboat and zoom to solent etc. Same at ramsgate cept easier to get to the town and pubs etc. Eastbourne is a massive massive housing estate. Spect you know all this.

Imho. Chichester wd be much nicer flatter, inland water many miles long/wide and lots of nicey places by bosham to explore and flat ground not too sheltered so windy enuf for saily bit plus beach at west wittering. Plus of course whole of solent for grand weekend voyage to yarmouth on IOW.

of course if trailerable then hurrah, off to ooh south of france whir rumble but only a long day and then you can jump in the sea, all so fab that even tho you're only fourmonths in to a years berth in the uk..you never take it back. Well, I didn't, hence sailing/driving this keyboard till march...

 

[alpha]

OK, OK!!

I had no idea I had lit the blue touchpaper, and in fact the other bulletin boards I use (UBB) have a neat feature by which, if the originator of the thread deletes his post, the thread gets deleted. I had hoped this would work here, too, but it doesn't.

Cards on the table, then. My partner and I are looking at a boat with twin Thornycrofts, but with contra-rotating props and different ratios (as above). I didn't want to be too specific about which boat, for various reasons, not least that I wanted a straight 'engineering' answer or response from people with similar boats as to the relative merits/de-merits.

Pauline stepped in with (a) no helpful response and (b) blowing my request to stay 'on topic' out of the water. She has apologised and I accept unreservedly.

I now have two concerns: First, the boat in question has recently had new props, and I don't know whether they will be of the correct, dis-similar, pitches. I'll try to find out. Second, while the power/torque/rpm question has been answered, I'm still concerned as to the matter of getting the two engine/gear/prop combinations to 'sound right' together (ie, synchronised), and thus ensure a comfortable 'feel' on the boat whilst under way. This proved very difficult when we took the boat out on a trial. (much more so than it used to be on some really old and 'difficult' aeroplanes I used to fly!!). Having said that, it was my first time on a twin-engined boat.

So, anyone got any relevant experience?? Thanks, of course, to you all for taking part so far

I am not a number - I am a FreeMan!

 

[alpha]

BTW, which boat is on page 68 of 'Boats and Planes for Sale'? (It might be the one in question, but I haven't seen the magazine...)

I am not a number - I am a FreeMan!

 

[byron]

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Call it Tosca Too it's got more style. If the name's already registered you will have to call it something else, like Tosca Free. I'm bluddy sure there's a Tosca working out of Essex, an old Halmatic/Nelson with an aft cockpit.

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[boatone]

Oh well done alpha and welcome to the madhouse. Theres no malice here although, as you've found, some of us do get a bit overenthusiastic at times and inadvertently cause a little angst if folks dont understand our sense of humour. Cant give you an authorative answer about the twin engines sync/props dilemma personally I'm afraid (would be interested to know answer myself - i just try and make mine sound comfortable with each other but they're o/d's)
What this FreeMan stuff then - think most of us thought it was something to do with well known boat manufacturer..........?

TonyR
boatone@boatsontheweb.com

 

[billskip]

boatone

not a number freeman had sumthing to do with a program called the prisoner I think..PS by the way good am ..

 

[Guest]

Re: Chichester

matts,

thanks for the suggestion I hadn't even thought of Chichester. I think I'll take a wonder down there this weekend and have a look around.

From my original shortlist Ramsgate was the front runner but I think I will have to hold off the decision for a few more days