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Hi.
Glad to hear the Black Tulip is back in use. It looked rather lonely when we saw it on the hard at Lauwersoog when we visited in the summer of 2018.
Happy sailingPeter
Yes. I am currently using a main mast stay strap, but it’s too far forward and I don’t like putting to much lateral pressure on it, being it’s designed to take vertical loads.
I am wanting to have a midship cleat to improve my pontoon mooring when single handed, or when with an inexperienced crew. My objective is to be able to loop a line onto a pontoon cleat from a midship cleat when in the cockpit, so when I use gentle forward motor, I can then jumping off a stationary boat and then secure permanent bow and stern lines. Like now I can spring fore and aft and leave the midship line loose for reuse when leaving.
The question is where do I position the midship cleat for best effect. Any suggestions? Could a cleat on the genoa track be considered?
I have the same arrangement. The mast tensions on my White are primarily achieved by the side stays. I had them professionally tensioned before I crossed the North Sea in 2016 and ever since have check periodically and tensioned them evenly to the same tensions. The mast head to mast head stay however has never been fully tensioned to a specific load. I have a shackle on the mizzen end of the stay which I have tensioned by hand to the front mast cleat drawing it down with 4 to 5 loops before tying off. I have always assumed its purpose is to limit the forward movement of the top of the main mast when using the genoa on a run.
I have a White II which has an Optimal speed of about 4.5kt at 1800 revs. At that speed I average about 1.9lts/hr. If I pick the speed up to 6kt at 2200 revs the fuel consumption goes up to about 2.5lts/hr.
Hi. Are you looking for a permanently down bathing platform or something that hinges down when at rest.
Dominik
How did your keel repair fair this season.
Have you looked searched the journal articles that are now available on the web site. If you search “keel” you will see many articles on the subject of keel repair.
Best regards
Peter
I had thought my older BT contract with it’s 2G/3G would be better in the wilds of NW Scotland for the reasons you state. However, I have since found my contract has not been upgraded to use the EE network which operate mainly on 4G/5G.
I now have two 4.5kg flogas bottles installed with a new regulator. The Scottish marinas appear to all have a good supply of gas and now I have two bottles, gaining replacement gas at £25 to £30 has been relatively easy. The only problem now is what do I do with my two empty Calor bottles.
The saga goes on. Calor say they are going to fill bottles again, but not replacing bottles when out of date. In the mean time FloGas have been so overwhelmed that they also have a supply issue. Am I the only one with this problem? PBO are offer a very mixed message. It’s going to be cold turkey for Christmas!
Hi John. If you look at the front cover of the autumn journal you can see the silver support that is raked back from the back of the roof. There is also a side shot of my Cathy on the Home Page photos, showing my canvas cover and behind it you can see the silver support. Or at least I can!
Peter
Hi Mike.
My two 4.5kg bottles are located in one of my cockpit lockers in a box with a bottom vent. The box could take a single larger Calor gas bottle but then I am stuck when I am away when it runs out. The 4.5kg FloGas bottle is in the same sized bottle as the 4.5kg Calor bottle so I could continue to use the same box provided I buy the replacement regulator. My marina is offering to swap the Calor bottle for a FloGas bottle. I am though concerned that when I cruise around the FloGas is not so readily available. I suppose the read question is; Are other gas suppliers doing the same and changing from Calor to FloGas, or are other suppliers offering other alternatives?
Peter
The rubber seal you show looks similar to the 14.5mm dia. gasket I have for my fuel filter. I will have to look how my boats porthole is sealed.
How has the drying out process gone. Met someone who had a similar problem of being flooded. Snow had caused the tarpaulin to sag and collect water in their cockpit. Since then I have always removed my depth sounder when on the hard so if water does get in over winter it can not rise higher than the depth sounder housing in the saloon bilge. I also put an old sock into the hole to stop rodents getting in, and if left dangling out the bottom to drip helps to dry the rest of the bilge.
