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Forum: Crew Positions: Wanted & Available Today, 10:04
Replies: 275
Sticky: Crew Wanted: Checklist For Voluntary Crew
Views: 426,939
Posted By Heath68
Re: Checklist For Voluntary Crew

We are also looking for someone to captain the boat as we don't have enough experience. We are travelling from the Canary Islands, down to Cape Verde and then across to Grenada in the Caribbean. We...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 19-04-2024, 20:38
Replies: 7
Views: 590
Posted By Heath68
Re: Why are stub keels short?

Hi, not very deep, I would guess that they are about 50cm.. they really should change this website so that I can upload a picture rather than it keep asking for a url.

It's not the depth that...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 19-04-2024, 00:52
Replies: 39
Views: 2,801
Posted By Heath68
Re: First boat?

You have had 100x the experience of most new cat owners. The majority I have met simply bought a cat (40-50ft) had a few lessons and set off. We had 2 weeks training from zero past experience in any...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 19-04-2024, 00:32
Replies: 7
Views: 590
Posted By Heath68
Why are stub keels short?

Hi everyone,

Our cat is our on the hard at the moment and it is sitting on its stub keels. Looking at it however I cannot work out why the designer didn't make them longer?

Surely that would...
Forum: Propellers & Drive Systems 29-03-2024, 14:02
Replies: 4
Views: 460
Posted By Heath68
Re: OMG are we shocked at our SD40s - Advice??

As an update, it turns out that SD40s were stopped and replaced with SD60s.. so my now question is whether anyone knows the difference between an SD60-4 and an SD60-5? Because I know of some SD60s-5...
Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape 29-03-2024, 03:02
Replies: 20
Views: 1,923
Posted By Heath68
Re: Which Flag?

I have decided to leave it as it is.. looks like a bit of a minefield to me. Thank you very much for the insight from some of you who told me about tax and french island keeping me within a 3 year...
Forum: Propellers & Drive Systems 29-03-2024, 02:58
Replies: 4
Views: 460
Posted By Heath68
OMG are we shocked at our SD40s - Advice??

Hi All,

We took our boat to a boat yard in Monfalcone in Italy to get our engines serviced and one saildrive repaired. They have since told us that BOTH sail drives will need to be replaced.

We...
Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape 24-03-2024, 22:39
Replies: 20
Views: 1,923
Posted By Heath68
Re: Which Flag?

Wow, lots to think about here. I juat thought its my boat, I am using it to slowly have a look at the world and when i get back i either will sell it or find a permanent mooring somewhere in the EU...
Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape 23-03-2024, 05:07
Replies: 20
Views: 1,923
Posted By Heath68
Which Flag?

Hi all,
Our boat was boat by us in Spain and is an EU VAT paid boat (by that I mean it was bought in the EU from new and has stayed here ever since).
We registered it under a UK flag thinking it...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 06-10-2023, 07:40
Replies: 79
Views: 13,303
Posted By Heath68
Re: Outremer 45(48 ft)

I think that kind of answers your question... very few owners out there and none on here saying what to look out for. So I suppose if that's your dream machine I'd go for it.

FWIW I was the same...
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 06-10-2023, 07:30
Replies: 7
Views: 1,251
Posted By Heath68
Who Pays Marina Bank Charges?

Hi Everyone,

Can anyone ell me / advise me on this? I booked a place at the Porto Montenegro for 6 months to winter our boat Sawasdeekat.

I transferred the fee, which was not a small amount I...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 21-09-2023, 05:24
Replies: 18
Views: 3,240
Posted By Heath68
Re: Marine Air(dometic) passport II AC compressor cycling

Following..
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 21-09-2023, 04:56
Replies: 10
Views: 448
Posted By Heath68
Re: Which Y valve?

That's a great article thanks
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 21-09-2023, 04:55
Replies: 10
Views: 448
Posted By Heath68
Re: Which Y valve?

Do you know a make?
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 21-09-2023, 04:53
Replies: 10
Views: 448
Posted By Heath68
Re: Which Y valve?

Well plenty of options there, thanks to all who suggested. I didn't get an alert that anyone had responded yet so I didn't look til now.
I do seem to have plenty of space so I think a few of those...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 19-09-2023, 22:29
Replies: 26
Views: 2,254
Posted By Heath68
Re: About to buy this boat

I must admit to knowing little about Wharrams but the advert has so little information that would be needed before I spent hard earned on a flight.

You could easily spend double that again on...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 19-09-2023, 22:23
Replies: 10
Views: 448
Posted By Heath68
Which Y valve?

As a new boat owner I am starting to feel that I am.too heavy handed for stuff on a boat. My boat is 20 years old so I am expecting these are not originals as I have already had to replace one of...
Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape 07-09-2023, 06:40
Replies: 4
Views: 631
Posted By Heath68
Re: Sailing Greece Islands with EU citizen, UK flagged boat

Oh.. ps. If you have a copy of Boat registration, insurance etc that they can keep then you'll save yourself a €15 photocopy fee
Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape 07-09-2023, 06:39
Replies: 4
Views: 631
Posted By Heath68
Re: Sailing Greece Islands with EU citizen, UK flagged boat

Hi, OK we arrived last week. We didn't use an agent, they charge criminal rates for probably no help at all. We went to the online website and filled in the form foe Tapei tax. We didn't pay it as...
Forum: Boats For Sale and Wanted 18-03-2023, 06:21
Replies: 13
Want To Buy: St. Francis 50
Views: 3,333
Posted By Heath68
Re: St. Francis 50

How did you get on with your search? We searched through TONS of cats and found St Francis to be top (or very near) ...
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 11-12-2022, 05:51
Replies: 1
Views: 669
Posted By Heath68
Genoa Furlers... which should I choose?

Hi everyone, our St Francis 48 has two headsails. The first is a genoa and the second a code zero.

As I only have one set of rollers bringing the lines back I have started to consider getting an...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 12-11-2022, 23:33
Replies: 252
Views: 29,614
Posted By Heath68
Re: Catamaran vs Monohull... advantages, disadvantages?

Wow... that all took some reading. FWIW we did start with a cat, the motion on the mono we did our training on made the Admiral sea sick... we've had a lot less (virtually none) of these problems...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 26-06-2022, 00:05
Replies: 94
Views: 46,424
Posted By Heath68
Re: Catamaran Haul-Out Marinas

Wow that is so cool.. thanks. I am 2 years away from going round the US but information is never wasted.
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 25-06-2022, 23:58
Replies: 32
Views: 8,718
Posted By Heath68
Re: Affordable liveaboard catamaran for a family of 5?

You are absolutely right to be concerned about asbestos on a boat (or anywhere in fact). However, there are different types and a few simple rules mean it'll never be a threat.
1. Look at the...
Forum: Lithium Power Systems 08-05-2022, 06:45
Replies: 7,793
Views: 1,551,993
Posted By Heath68
Re: LiFePO4 Batteries: Discussion Thread for Those Using Them as House Banks

I have 7x 100ah LiPo batteries but would like to add another. The existing batteries are 3years old. I was advised not to add another, is this good advice?
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