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[Guest]

Bit you have ever fitted to a boat ?

Worst ...... my mainsail slugs - fitted by previous owner ! The top ones are breaking regularly where they are out of line with the halyard block etc. and then I have to release the plate at base to to get the damn broken bits out !!!

Best ....... solar panel - cheapie from Car shop to trickle the batterys, followed closely by auto-helm to allow me to sip my beer in comfort.


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[kingfisher]

Best: GPS-repeater from NASA. After breaking three hh GPSs from using them in my very exposed cockpit, now I get all that info on that easy to read display.

Worst: Anchor winch, installed by previous owner. I only use it about four times a year, with an anchor of 15 pounds. So it iddles and rust, and didn't work when I needed it, and it hat this nack of catching the foot of the sails when hoisting/Tacking. I removed it after two seasons and gave to a fellow boaty with a bigger yacht in exchange for his lazy jacks (which were too short)

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[FullCircle]

Best: Aladdin Thermal Cup with sipping lid. Keeps a tea warm for about 45 minutes in the cockpit.
Worst: BMW Diesel 6Hp. As an engine it made a great mooring weight.

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[Johnjo]

"TP20 Tiller Pilot"
without doubt, excellent bit of kit, IMHO !

Worse thing was a Two handed upright air pump for the Avon, which pumped on the up stroke as well as the down !

"Bloody thing use to knacker me", best thing about it was that it broke after a couple of weeks !.....




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[davel]

Best - Waeco cooling unit added to existing cool box to form a fridge. Works really well, keeps beer cold was easy to fit but it looks v. complex so great for convincing mates that I'm really goos at practical projects.

Worst - marine speakers fitted into the cockpit. Have managed to put my foot through both of them (not at the same time).

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[VicS]

Most useful: Solar panel and Autohelm
Least useful: Seafix RDF and not far behind the VHF.

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[Aeolus_IV]

Best: 2 blade Gori folding prop

Worst: Dud MD2B which came with the boat

Regards, Jeff.

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[jimi]

Best: Eberspacher
Worst(for a time): Holding Tank

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[Guest]

Cups with sipping lids ....

Statoil Petrol Stations out here do Hot dOgs etc. and also coffee in expanded styrene cups with 'closeable' sipping lids .... bloody marvelous ! If I could find a supply in UK - I'd have 'em on boat. Use and throw in bin.

A good alternative for more permanent is the baby training cup .... has exactly the lid needed and takes hot stuff or cold.

And of course the 'piece de resistance' - is the folding Coke can holder designed for cars that you stick in the cockpit ....


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[PGD]

Best - complete refit and conversion to diesel, hot water, heating, front remote spotlight.

Worst - having to pay for it! after loosing previous engine in the frost /forums/images/icons/frown.gif

Worst - holding tank deck fitting key - made of cheap plastic just bent then snapped - must get a metal one!

Peter

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[ccscott49]

Re: Cups with sipping lids ....

Mines a folding beer can holder and of course it`s teak!

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[Alexis]

I am currently shopping around for an electric windlass. Could you tell me what make the one you had was, so that I can learn from your experience.

Thank you.

Cheers, Alexis

P.S: if you wish, you can always send me a PM.


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[billmacfarlane]

I fitted an oil lamp in a fit of rosy eyed romanticism. I shouldn't have bothered. It was smelly, I couldn't read by it and I broke 2 funnels before I gave up on it. Best is easy. Raytheon radar/chart plotter - great piece of kit.

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[Guest]

Any chance on your best and worst nm ?

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[mickshep]

Best thing since sliced bread, Windpilot Pacific Wind vane, no noise and no power draw and up to now haven't even got near it's limits, worst thing a 2nd hand 'as new' petrol tank for the old Stuart Turner, My jockies would hold more petrol and for a longer time, as we found out when it dropped 5 gallons of petroil into the bilge halfway across Lyme Bay with 2 people smoking in the cockpit. Mike.

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[Miker]

My vote is for the fridge cooling unit as well. Cold beer and a fry up. But really I ought to vote for the autohelm. As for worst, I had forgotten about the cockpit speaker which does not work. I'd remove it but for the hole left behind.

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[Talbot]

No boat details on your bio so difficult to give you an answer suitable for your use. Most important question is whether you have space on deck or below deck for the electric motor for the windlass (better fitted in a more benign environment than in the salty foredeck) then there is the question of size of chain and weight of chain/anchor from which you can deduce the power required.

Cheap windlass is the "Quick" one from USA. I have purchased a Lofrans 1000w Airon for my boat.

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[ccscott49]

I thought the "Quick" was italian?

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[Talbot]

My mistake - due to first finding them in USA, however "Quick windlasses are precision-machined in Ravenna, Italy " would appear to confirm that yu are correct

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[Guest]

Ravenna ....

Really enjoyed my times spent there .....

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