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- Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:10 am
- Forum: Interior Forum
- Topic: Polish on the furniture
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8860
Polish on the furniture
The operating manual says you should use regular furniture polish on the teak interior, and I finally got around to it when cleaning up for winter storage. I used Pledge lemon with dust-repellent. It took an hour or so, but well worth it. Everything looks brand new! You might want to give it a try.
- Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:07 am
- Forum: Rigging Forum
- Topic: Forward lifeline gates
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Forward lifeline gates
My 350's slip is a bit narrow, which has made me dock bow-in to avoid hitting the finger pier. The only pain has been undoing the lifelines, those split rings are a real hassle, especially in the dark! I finally called our local rigger today, and asked him to put pelican hooks on the bow ends of the...
- Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:03 am
- Forum: Plumbing Forum
- Topic: Stretch the season without worrying your pipes will freeze
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9331
Gary, I agree completely, it's not an all-winter solution. My concern was for nights that got down to 28-30 degrees, when the temps during the day are about 55 and the water temp is still over 50. By getting air into the lines, I'm less worried about a short-term freeze - especially for the cockpit ...
- Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:33 am
- Forum: Plumbing Forum
- Topic: Stretch the season without worrying your pipes will freeze
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9331
Stretch the season without worrying your pipes will freeze
I kept the boat in the water longer this year, and worried that some nights when I wasn't there, it was getting quite cold. I happened to use up the water in the aft tank one weekend, and quite by accident it dawned on me that I could keep that tank empty, and use it to blow the water out of all my ...
- Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:21 am
- Forum: Interior Forum
- Topic: A simple way to avoid bloody shins
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4638
A simple way to avoid bloody shins
After my wife and I have suffered many scraped shins from the companionway door edge, I finally came out with a solution. Take a piece of 3/4" ID clear plastic hose, and cut along one side. Take off the stainless strip from the lower edge of the companionway, and match it up to one edge of the ...
- Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:27 pm
- Forum: Electrical and Electronics Forum
- Topic: Battery storage during winter
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12320
I'm going solar
I replaced my 4D batteries after only two seasons (and two winters), because I wasn't getting half the amp hours they were rated. I think two winters without charging sulfated them up. I replaced them with 4 220AH golf cart batteries (from Sam's club, great deal). I also added a separate starter bat...
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:37 pm
- Forum: Engine / Transmission Forum
- Topic: Puffs of smoke
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7044
6.5 kts at 2500 RPM?
That sounds fast, I think I get 5.2 kts at 2500. You may be over-reving the engine a bit. This makes sense, because I think white smoke is a sign of engine overloading.
- Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:29 pm
- Forum: Stories We Tell
- Topic: Fast Sail
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6719
She is fast!
I sailed upwind up the Rappahannock River for about 6 hours last weekend, in 10-12 knots of wind, with 6 boats of various kinds ahead and 12 behind. All day long I slowly gained on those ahead, and pulled ahead of those behind, all except for one black-hulled boat that paced me pretty well. When my ...
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:38 am
- Forum: Electrical and Electronics Forum
- Topic: "NO PILOT" message and locked wheel!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4224
Thanks, Tim, glad to know there is an answer!
My Raymarine guy will be glad, too. He has been telling Raymarine that it is a course computer problem, but they have been unconvinced. Good point about coming into the slip - that must have been a fright! I'll turn it off from now on!
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:35 am
- Forum: Hull, Prop, and Rudder Forum
- Topic: Permanent fix for forestay tang leak
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9257
Permanent fix for forestay tang leak
When I installed a washdown pump, I discovered the joint between the hull and the forestay tang was leaking. When I hosed down the anchor locker, I found a trickle of water coming from the limber hole into the forward storage locker under the v-berth; and when I reached my hand through the access po...
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:51 am
- Forum: Rigging Forum
- Topic: Marking your docklines
- Replies: 0
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Marking your docklines
My wife always complained how long it took me to adjust the docklines when we would head for home on Sunday night. I decided to mark them, so I wouldn't have to fuss with them so much every time. My slip is too narrow to back in, so I am bow in, and when I get to the boat, I have to adjust the lines...
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:29 pm
- Forum: Head Forum
- Topic: If your head smells, it may be the sump, not the head!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4915
If your head smells, it may be the sump, not the head!
I went a bit nutty trying to get rid of a bad smell in the head, but no amount of cleaning helped. Then it dawned on me, I hadn't looked in the shower sump! Ugh, that's where the smell was. Now I regularly rinse the sump with fresh water and add some "CP Cleans Potties" to it, and there is...
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:21 pm
- Forum: Electrical and Electronics Forum
- Topic: "NO PILOT" message and locked wheel!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4224
"NO PILOT" message and locked wheel!
My boat is less than a year old, but the autopilot has had a bad problem. All is well for about 2 hours, and then I get a "NO PILOT" message, a beep, and the wheel locks! To steer again, you have to turn off the autopilot at the breaker. After about 10 minutes, you can turn it back on agai...
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:05 pm
- Forum: Hull, Prop, and Rudder Forum
- Topic: Windlass service is easy, and I found a leak
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14309
Windlass service is easy, and I found a leak
For those of you who have put off servicing your Maxwell VW800 windlass, don't! It's really, really easy. I was intimidated by parts flying all over, but there are really not that many parts. And keeping the clutch cones greased will keep them from freezing up. The main reason I opened mine was when...
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:48 am
- Forum: Add-ons and Improvements
- Topic: New take on wash-down pump
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9507
New take on wash-down pump
After reading a Mainsheet article about installing a washdown pump, I decided to install one. But there were a few things in the article I didn't like. The T into the head intake was down below the waterline near the seacock, the intake filter was too hard to reach down near the seacock, the pump wa...