Wheres all the customers gone!!

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I know what you mean, Barry. It's an age thing. When I woz young, you could post a question "Wot boat is this then?" and Byron would be back in a flash with the answer, "How do I do me varnishing?" and ccscott49 would be there with some advice. And the jokes were better like "this forumite fixed me engine and all I could do was rip his arm off on a pile!" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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back to your anchor - I hope you meant 12kg not 12lb..........unless it's an alluminum Spade or Fortress I wouldn't play around with a 12lb toy on your boat. 7.5kg min / 10kg for comfort (in the sort of situation you found yourself in)

btw - you never finished the story; why didn't your engine work?
 
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One of the reasons I don't look in so much now. Theres always a smartarse with an answer thats not really that construtive.
The forum has changed, not the appearance!, as all forums do. People come and people go. I look now and don't recognise half the users.

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Right on Barrie.......I posted my tale of woe (Jeeez...I've only been on the water 15 months and had a short, sharp learning curve, but been guided by many experienced Stinkies AND Yotties and thought I did pretty ok in the circumstances )in response to HLB who said the forum was getting stale and nobody new was posting......not only did none of the old crew say 'Hi Newbie, wotcha got ta say then?' or sumfink welcoming, but as in the post before yours I got slagged off so to speak for not having gained 20 or so years experience in what has really been my first season!!
 
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back to your anchor - I hope you meant 12kg not 12lb..........unless it's an alluminum Spade or Fortress I wouldn't play around with a 12lb toy on your boat. 7.5kg min / 10kg for comfort (in the sort of situation you found yourself in)

btw - you never finished the story; why didn't your engine work?

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Yep I quoted wrong........it IS a 12 kilo anchor and not 12lbs....which in practically all conditions save the one I found myself in, (40 plus knots of wind across the deck and tide hammering in) should have held me.
 
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back to your anchor - I hope you meant 12kg not 12lb..........unless it's an alluminum Spade or Fortress I wouldn't play around with a 12lb toy on your boat. 7.5kg min / 10kg for comfort (in the sort of situation you found yourself in)

btw - you never finished the story; why didn't your engine work?

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At the start of my tale I had said that my engineer (Local, very competent and very respected) had spent 2 months curing a diesel bug. All sorted. Developed another problem of engine cutting out but not at idling or low estuary speeds. Only occured when powered-up to any extent.....engineer pressure tested the system and came up with an air leak at the right angled elbow coming out of the diesel tank. It was taken out, sealed, replaced and pressure tested again. Thus engineer said 'should have no more running problems now'. Which brings us to the Boxing Day episode....first time I had give it a hard run since then, even tho the engineer had been out with me twice on a 'road-test'. What we didn't know, was that during this period of de-bugging and vacuum testing of diesel lines etc was......underneath the main diesel-pump, (which is bolted horizontally onto the engine, about 12/13 inches long and bloody heavy) is a right-angled supporting bracket (bolted to the engine also and takes the main weight of the pump) which looked as tho it had had a hair-line crack in it from new, and this was subsequently found to have completely sheared.
The upshot of the Boxing Day engine problem was the reccuring one of engine shut-down at speed (which the engineer had thought was air in the fuel lines and had tested everything from tank to injectors, rigorously).
Now.....mounted in the top of the diesel pump is a silly bloody thing called the fuel shut-off valve.......yes you've guessed it, because the supporting bracket of the diesel pump was sheared, the vibration from the engine at certain speeds and/or in certain conditions was kicking this damn thing into action without any warning!!!!!
Now.....All seems to be cured and safe-running....have been out around Carrick Roads lots of times since....also several miles off Falmouth and another trip from Falmouth down to Portloe near Dodman Point. Both those trips I had some raggy friends out there as well on the other end of the VHF.
Thanks for your enquiries and interest.
 
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but as in the post before yours I got slagged off so to speak for not having gained 20 or so years experience in what has really been my first season!!

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You'll always get armchair experts on any forum. Theres a few here that I've got respect for. They get out and do it. Theres others I wouldn't give the time of day to!
Enjoy the boat for what it is. You've obviously learnt from your experiences so common sense obviously prevails.


Oh and while I'm at it one here.....Forbsie. I've been told I need plastic surgery to get rid of the scar as the docs cock'd up and didn't stitch me up properly.....or maybe they did and thats why I need surgery!! But seeing as they cocked it up while it was fresh whats the chance of them doing it right the second time?? I'm still having nightmares now. I wake up in a cold sweat screaming. Something to do with funny yellow engines and being chest high in water.
My physciatrist says that is just Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and should pass. Tho he can't explain the fear of green rubber!!
 
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large red buoy's I can understand Barry, but green rubber?

Thanks for the end to the story Riggy - which engine do you have btw? Sorry if I missed it from earlier in the thread.

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Hi Duncan,
engine is a Volvo Penta Kad 43.
 
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