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Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 12-04-2024, 08:58
Replies: 109
Views: 8,151
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Docking long keel/heavy displacement yachts.

Even with our 21ft 2.1/4 ton disp MB, we (a couple, both over 70 years), ALWAYS use a spring. It takes very little time to get the length right, with the boat in the berth. Never use your berthing...
Forum: Our Community 15-03-2024, 15:48
Replies: 84
Views: 6,829
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Marinas using cameras for rules enforcement

Though it may not apply in this particular case, marinas near international borders need to be especially rigorous on the "no animals" issue. So the "petty rule" may be driven by Government policy.
Forum: Our Community 15-03-2024, 08:12
Replies: 84
Views: 6,829
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Marinas using cameras for rules enforcement

Petty Rules? So, if the complainant's boat were damaged, I suggest the first thing he'd ask for is CCTV "footage". (These days, it isn't "footage", anyway, but that's a different issue).
The...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 15-01-2024, 08:45
Replies: 274
Views: 34,389
Posted By parkstone bay
re: Collision and Dismasting

Without in any way minimising the effects of this incident on the poster and his wife, (and his boat) and without in any way passing judgement on the "fault" question, I confess to being a little...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 04-12-2023, 09:40
Replies: 48
Views: 3,905
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Primary Fuel Filter Vertical Separation Question

Oh dear, some people seem to have forgotten their basic physics! Once the system is primed, the distance the lift pump has to handle is the vertical separation between the fuel in the tank, and the...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 04-11-2023, 09:59
Replies: 21
Views: 3,009
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: No mess oil filter change

Yes, the concept sounds PDG, has anyone ever done thst, and how? Presumably, you'd need a flexible connection at some point between the engine and the remote location?
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 23-10-2023, 09:53
Replies: 48
Views: 5,870
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Boatyard Safety

The thing is that most accidents are caused by thoughtlessness/carelessness, and, almost by definition, those are especially difficult to manage.
But - as thoughts, some of which have been...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 20-10-2023, 06:58
Replies: 75
Views: 13,553
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Realistic cost to refit a 50ft cruising boat

In my (very limited) opinion, the suggested total of 100k (dollars, euros, pounds sterling - in this context it doesn't matter), is "probably" out by at least 50% of what the boat will consume. ...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 06-10-2023, 08:09
Replies: 93
Views: 11,294
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Bare feet on board

If you go barefoot on board, and hurt your feet as a consequence, don't come to me for sympathy. (And, you'll owe me for when I stand the watch you missed!). BTW I might accept "flip-flops"...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 06-10-2023, 07:07
Replies: 93
Views: 11,294
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Bare feet on board

[QUOTE=HeinSdL;3827968]When I was young I was always instructed to wear shoes on board mainly to prevent broken toes]
And in the boat yard! There will always be - at least, sharp stones, (even if...
Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape 25-08-2023, 08:47
Replies: 13
Views: 2,168
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: What would you do Another ColRegs/courtesy question

IRPCAS are clear, and rule supreme, unless there are local by-laws superseding them. Other things being equal, power (which the OP was) gives way to sail, as we all know. (BTW, no-one has "right of...
Forum: Marine Electronics 21-08-2023, 11:17
Replies: 29
Views: 3,116
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: handheld depth sounder

The OP wants this for a specific one-time purpose, so there's no point in spending any huge amount of money. A large shackle on an appropriate size line will do the trick.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 18-08-2023, 07:15
Replies: 42
Views: 5,736
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Too Many Engine Hours?

I concur with what many people have said.
First of all, ALL leisure boat engines, bar none, suffer not from overuse, but UNDERuse. The engine hours, as stated, really don't matter. A piece of...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-08-2023, 11:15
Replies: 85
Views: 7,564
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Building an Opti with my grandson

I don't know enough about Oppies (UK-speak) to be authoritative. But, I do hope that, when you've finished, she measures! You MUST get a Class measurer involved, if you/grandson ever want to race...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-07-2023, 07:17
Replies: 85
Views: 7,564
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Building an Opti with my grandson

If she's not built strictly IAW the Class Rules (and I have no knowledge at all about Oppies), she won't measure, she won't receive a certificate and the grandson won't be able to race her, anywhere,...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 17-07-2023, 23:03
Replies: 8
Views: 526
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: CHECK ENGINE BUZZER

For what it's worth, I back the the suggestion that Oil Pressure might be the issue, rather than temp. On my 12 year old Bukh DV24, the oil pressure regularly takes up to 3, maybe 4 seconds (but no...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 01-07-2023, 04:16
Replies: 29
Views: 2,399
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Securing deck hardware when you can't get to the backing

As I read the OP, the question is less on the lines of how to get round/fudge the inaccessibility issue, because there are plenty of ways of doing that, but more of how to make the best possible job....
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 30-06-2023, 09:32
Replies: 5
Views: 1,054
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Engine Kill Cable Adjustment

Technically - this isn't a "Kill Cable". (A kill cord/cable is a cut-off fitted to petrol/gasoline outboards to stop the engine in the event of the driver parting company with the boat. In this...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 30-06-2023, 09:07
Replies: 90
Views: 8,482
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: The "Making Trees" fallacy appears again...

Oh dear, how to make life difficult - one can't help it's deliberate as well!
Very simply - and assuming for the moment both vessels maintain their course and speed, (and that is a big assumption,...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 06-06-2023, 09:21
Replies: 265
Views: 21,397
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: How much anchor is too much anchor?

If we are bent on saving the planet, we wouldn't "throw things overboard", we'd "recycle them responsibly" (BTW, that's a joke!)
Genuinely, one does have to consider the price of every fitting we...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 06-06-2023, 02:01
Replies: 265
Views: 21,397
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: How much anchor is too much anchor?

There's the old line that "no-one ever woke up in the middle of the night in a F10+ wind saying 'I really wish that I'd bought a smaller anchor'".
Having said that, and at a much much lower level,...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 02-06-2023, 08:02
Replies: 55
Views: 6,176
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Dyneema Thermal Expansion - Enough to Break Things?

OK if it works differently from most other other materials that the Great Navigator ever made in that it shrinks in heat, and expands in cold, it doesn't negate my point. Those who have standing...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 02-06-2023, 07:35
Replies: 55
Views: 6,176
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Dyneema Thermal Expansion - Enough to Break Things?

If the string elongates in warm weather, and shrinks in cooler weather (which I'm not arguing about), surely the same question would apply to people with steel rigging? Possibly even more because...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 02-05-2023, 00:56
Replies: 69
Views: 9,705
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Unethical Practice by my Boat Yard?

I bet after that you made sure your boat had "sling here" (or, more important, "no sling here") markings along your toe rail after that! In fact, as you were on board, I suggest the yard was being...
Forum: Our Community 06-02-2023, 06:59
Replies: 62
Views: 8,664
Posted By parkstone bay
Re: Obligations towards crew etc who wish to disembark or are no longer welcome

Not exactly the same but one time we returned to our home port, (Poole), after an unpleasant Channel crossing, to find a picnicking motorboat on our mooring.
The skipper - like the rest of the crew...
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