Refueler
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As John says .... Baltic boats have the split pulpits - to let you step off over the bow. Its a pain with a typical UK boat as pulpits are usually continuous top rail.
The sail back showed her real function ... she's designed for speed ... at 11.4m to have a beam of 3.0m ..... the keel is not just a fin sticking down ... she's built to race.
There's a neat trick in the saloon. The side divans have seat backs that drop into slots under the shelving. At sea to prevent you rolling out of bunk - you lift the seat back out of its slots and drop into slots in line with inboard edge of divans ... creating a wall ...
The main table swivels on the mast column to one side making access along the cabin spaces very easy.
All set up for long distance stuff.
The two centre keel bolts have special lifting bars bolted to them and a deckhead opening for single strop to pass through .... she is designed to be lifted basically by one strop on her balance point ... strop is in transom locker. I will not be using it ... club has big hydraulic lifter.
OK ... what have we found ?
Small drip near mast column .... think maybe some deck fittings need rebedding ... drip is made to drip there by the fairing panel partly unscrewed.
Keel has a very slight weep .... nothing to write home about ... once lifted for winter - will check.
FW water not pumping through ... new flexi tank fitted last year and they've tried to use one connection to tank for fill and empty ... air getting into pipes when pumping. Need fit valve.
B&G Network displays - Speed and Depth are working - but Tack and Wind are not - its problem at masthead.
Garmin 9 UHD 70 MFD less than a year old has a mind of its own sometimes .... switch on and screen is world map style with no detail .. even though its saying GPS accuracy etc. Then suddenly it will change and display all chart data. Given the seller was a very casual guy about the boat - Marina was contracted to look after it ... I think lack of use leading to dodgy contact of card maybe.
Half the switch panel does not work - but as far as I can tell - many are from old original installed gear which was removed when insurance paid for repairs ....Nice panel - so I will repurpose switches ....
She has 4 batterys of 75 A/hr each ... 1 is just spare under the nav seat. 3 are in boxes under stbd aft bunk ... where 2 are parallel for engine (?) and 3rd is single for domestics ... seems a bit strange to me ... would have preferred 2 for domestics..... as she has a built in refridgerator. Engine batts on one key .... domestics on another key.
She has no mains on board at all - she has a 40W solar ahead of mast and a single controller. Haven't figured out how that's charging all 3 batts yet !
OK - the one item that drive us nuts before we started journey home. Toilet kept filling up after pumping out. We couldn't figure out what was causing it ... looked for strange valves ... finally found that because she has a combo system .... toilet goes to a holding tank ... holding tank can be pump out - or flush to sea. Basically the waste tank was full and back filling the toilet .... we emptied tank ... found the hidden valve and shut it off ... Bingo.
Furling line is too large diameter - guy used small self tacker so never had full drum. We put on the No 1 genny and drum had problem with the line ... easy fix ... go down one size in line.
Various rigging bits were poorly made - reckon guy had mast stepped recently and hadn't checked yard work ... examples of silly bits >> we had to 'unwind' topping lift from running backstay ... remove one shackle where two had been used instead of finding out why ....
Autopilot mount plate has pulled the screw threads so we couldn't use the AP ... easy fix with thread inserts.
Many of you guys will read above and know as I - that really these are not so serious and for a boat built in 1986 ... par for the course.
Of course there will be updates as we work through the gear ......... AND get her into a few trial races .....
Yes - I would still buy her knowing what I know now.
The sail back showed her real function ... she's designed for speed ... at 11.4m to have a beam of 3.0m ..... the keel is not just a fin sticking down ... she's built to race.
There's a neat trick in the saloon. The side divans have seat backs that drop into slots under the shelving. At sea to prevent you rolling out of bunk - you lift the seat back out of its slots and drop into slots in line with inboard edge of divans ... creating a wall ...
The main table swivels on the mast column to one side making access along the cabin spaces very easy.
All set up for long distance stuff.
The two centre keel bolts have special lifting bars bolted to them and a deckhead opening for single strop to pass through .... she is designed to be lifted basically by one strop on her balance point ... strop is in transom locker. I will not be using it ... club has big hydraulic lifter.
OK ... what have we found ?
Small drip near mast column .... think maybe some deck fittings need rebedding ... drip is made to drip there by the fairing panel partly unscrewed.
Keel has a very slight weep .... nothing to write home about ... once lifted for winter - will check.
FW water not pumping through ... new flexi tank fitted last year and they've tried to use one connection to tank for fill and empty ... air getting into pipes when pumping. Need fit valve.
B&G Network displays - Speed and Depth are working - but Tack and Wind are not - its problem at masthead.
Garmin 9 UHD 70 MFD less than a year old has a mind of its own sometimes .... switch on and screen is world map style with no detail .. even though its saying GPS accuracy etc. Then suddenly it will change and display all chart data. Given the seller was a very casual guy about the boat - Marina was contracted to look after it ... I think lack of use leading to dodgy contact of card maybe.
Half the switch panel does not work - but as far as I can tell - many are from old original installed gear which was removed when insurance paid for repairs ....Nice panel - so I will repurpose switches ....
She has 4 batterys of 75 A/hr each ... 1 is just spare under the nav seat. 3 are in boxes under stbd aft bunk ... where 2 are parallel for engine (?) and 3rd is single for domestics ... seems a bit strange to me ... would have preferred 2 for domestics..... as she has a built in refridgerator. Engine batts on one key .... domestics on another key.
She has no mains on board at all - she has a 40W solar ahead of mast and a single controller. Haven't figured out how that's charging all 3 batts yet !
OK - the one item that drive us nuts before we started journey home. Toilet kept filling up after pumping out. We couldn't figure out what was causing it ... looked for strange valves ... finally found that because she has a combo system .... toilet goes to a holding tank ... holding tank can be pump out - or flush to sea. Basically the waste tank was full and back filling the toilet .... we emptied tank ... found the hidden valve and shut it off ... Bingo.
Furling line is too large diameter - guy used small self tacker so never had full drum. We put on the No 1 genny and drum had problem with the line ... easy fix ... go down one size in line.
Various rigging bits were poorly made - reckon guy had mast stepped recently and hadn't checked yard work ... examples of silly bits >> we had to 'unwind' topping lift from running backstay ... remove one shackle where two had been used instead of finding out why ....
Autopilot mount plate has pulled the screw threads so we couldn't use the AP ... easy fix with thread inserts.
Many of you guys will read above and know as I - that really these are not so serious and for a boat built in 1986 ... par for the course.
Of course there will be updates as we work through the gear ......... AND get her into a few trial races .....
Yes - I would still buy her knowing what I know now.
