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Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 04-04-2024, 19:38
Replies: 33
Views: 2,536
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Dyneema broke at cover taper

What size/s Warpspeed would you use to strip the cover for the 6mm Amsteel Blue?
Where would you suggest using the stripped Warpspeed? (sheets spliced to Amsteel?)
Forum: General Sailing Forum 19-03-2024, 08:24
Replies: 72
Views: 9,763
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Moody 49 lost on bar at Bahia del Sol, El Salvador

good one! :biggrin:
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 28-02-2024, 02:10
Replies: 67
Views: 8,220
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Be careful with buying Marsaudon TS42 / ORC 42

TS/ORCs have very little rocker, it's their DNA, shaft drive not an option.
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 03-10-2023, 07:31
Replies: 79
Views: 13,103
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Outremer 45(48 ft)

Might be because Balance sail area looks a bit off (O45 106m2 is just main and blade)
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 22-01-2023, 16:40
Replies: 425
Views: 56,188
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Preventer Rigging -- Lessons from the Platino Disaster

Here (https://sail-delmarva.blogspot.com/2022/09/boom-brakes-and-preventers.html)
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 29-11-2022, 07:16
Replies: 154
Views: 15,718
Posted By fivecapes
Re: An Apparently Stupid Way to Make Coffee

Not sure why you call it stupid. You'll find similar setups at many specialty coffee shops in Japan. They love their Blue Mountain.

tips...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 29-10-2022, 21:52
Replies: 14
Views: 1,251
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Diesel water heating as an option for cabin heating.

PC radiators are skinny as the demands are relatively not that high (couple hundred W?) and also pumps tend to be on the smaller side so they can't be too restrictive.

These...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 18-09-2022, 18:08
Replies: 167
Views: 17,928
Posted By fivecapes
Re: I hate my induction plate!

OP is spot on

Heating evenness of cast iron is a myth

Myth #2 (https://www.seriouseats.com/the-truth-about-cast-iron)

Myth #7 (https://www.nakedwhiz.com/castironmyths.htm)

Some visual aids...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 23-08-2022, 09:30
Replies: 2
Views: 481
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Lippincott 30

Crewed for one yonks ago, beer can racing out of Riverton, had a great time.

Owner/skipper has long since passed though.

Check with John Mangan at the RYC, he's in touch with a few owners.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 29-07-2022, 04:30
Replies: 103
Views: 19,419
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Cat capsizes off Croatia

Here is a pre 2016 model before the 3' stern extension which Oktant has.

Note rudder and sail drive locations....the photos are deceptive.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-07-2022, 18:59
Replies: 103
Views: 19,419
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Cat capsizes off Croatia

It is definitely an Outremer
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 30-06-2022, 19:29
Replies: 27
Views: 2,655
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Gunboat Electrical Refit- Adding Aircon, Generator & 2 Victron Multiplus 3kw

Where did you place the 2 units? Very interested in how you did the ducting as would've thought that it'd be very tight, were you able to keep the full 4" or had to compress a bit? Pictures would be...
Forum: Marine Electronics 18-06-2022, 18:38
Replies: 123
Views: 11,872
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Lightening strike

WG

Would you be able to share what you found that condemned the Hunter?
Forum: Lagoon Catamarans 29-05-2022, 19:59
Replies: 6
Views: 780
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Refrigerator Electrical issue

Can you share the make/model?
Forum: Lithium Power Systems 30-04-2022, 00:23
Replies: 138
Views: 62,483
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Marine 12v air conditioning

Strange no one's mentioned Frigomar (https://www.frigomar.com/en/products/self-contained-unit-inverter-bldc/).

Didn't Velair copy them?
Forum: Lithium Power Systems 23-04-2022, 23:29
Replies: 138
Views: 62,483
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Marine 12v air conditioning

The 'efficiency' of a 12V unit vs an ac inverter BLDC unit will likely depend on how you use it.

All else being equal.

If you plan on setting it at 64F (18C) on a hot day where compressors of...
Forum: Americas 17-04-2022, 05:58
Replies: 12
Views: 2,025
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Looking for link to an older cruising couple

Good call.

BTW, Evans, whose insights are invaluable, still posts as estar at the other site.
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 15-03-2022, 02:11
Replies: 27
Views: 2,655
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Gunboat Electrical Refit- Adding Aircon, Generator & 2 Victron Multiplus 3kw

Is this S of A?
Forum: General Sailing Forum 25-02-2022, 00:14
Replies: 285
Views: 27,224
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Induction Cooking and AC on DC

Afraid not

C3H8 + 5O2 = 3CO2 + 4H2O + energy

No NOx ... unless you're burning ammonia
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 18-02-2022, 19:35
Replies: 37
Views: 5,690
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Advice needed: closing old thru hulls, how to measure diameter of fiberglass mate

Correct

https://www.westsystem.com/wp-content/uploads/Fiberglass-Manual-2015.pdf

page 38, section 5.4.1
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 21-12-2021, 04:47
Replies: 2,704
Views: 252,082
Posted By fivecapes
Re: The Reality of Living in Australia and Covid

The Pentaveret, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 14-12-2021, 21:33
Replies: 53
Views: 6,136
Posted By fivecapes
Re: Shaded Panels - Catamaran Boom

I wonder if the Victron tech people had a few words with their marketing/web department for showing that install.
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 30-11-2021, 08:11
Replies: 220
Views: 15,776
Posted By fivecapes
Re: New study of jabbed in the journal "Circulation"

You're welcome




I'll just leave this out there....

- poster throws out a number, 99.3%, claiming that's how many would survive, #46
- poster does not mention if it's IFR, CFR
- poster...
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 28-11-2021, 09:34
Replies: 220
Views: 15,776
Posted By fivecapes
Re: New study of jabbed in the journal "Circulation"

You mean on your insistence on using IFR, for a specific age group (45-54) based on over 1 year old estimates when it wasn't even referred to in the first place?

see posts #56 and #58.


I...
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 28-11-2021, 02:20
Replies: 220
Views: 15,776
Posted By fivecapes
Re: New study of jabbed in the journal "Circulation"

Oh noes! Say it ain't so, Russell!

RWJ Foundation holds JNJ? Fail, underperformed SPX big time the last 2 years. Maybe they liked exposure to the devices and consumer products that account for...
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