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Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 16-01-2023, 13:07
Replies: 136
Views: 15,425
Posted By drcot3
Re: Do I Really Need a Life Raft?

My old liferaft was 10 years out of date and inflated with canopy just the food was off. Prefer my rib with outboard and save your liferaft servicing bills £620 every 3 years when you are coastal but...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 23-07-2022, 12:18
Replies: 31
Views: 3,668
Posted By drcot3
Re: I am looking for a boat to buy!

Hello
Hatteras DC43 motorboat in eastern Spain ready to sell needs some tlc but could be used straight away £50K
Forum: Propellers & Drive Systems 14-01-2022, 10:02
Replies: 31
Views: 6,693
Posted By drcot3
Re: Re-pack stuffing box - How often?

Put a drip tray underneath then bilge stays dry. I have stuffing boxes on a twin 265HP diesel engine motorboat, doing 50+ hours a year. Replaced stuffing 20 years ago. Then good to go when I am...
Forum: Our Community 05-11-2021, 02:14
Replies: 142
Views: 13,714
Posted By drcot3
Re: Warning for U.S. Citizens

I had my & the dogs passport stolen, got the dogs inside three weeks, mine took 3 months for a replacement, but the british consulate could issue a numbered document which would have worked as my...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 02-11-2021, 12:39
Replies: 29
Views: 6,598
Posted By drcot3
Re: Looking for better snubber securing arrangement for anchor chain.

Use a simple snap hook(carabinier or similar) with a separate eye for threading your rope to each port/starboard bow and tie off as normal on your cleats, but leave your anchor chain made off, in...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 01-11-2021, 08:09
Replies: 65
Views: 8,473
Posted By drcot3
Re: 12v Boat with 24v bow thruster

Just a thought why not buy a 24 DC volt mains charger run it off an inverter at 110/240 60/50 Hz Then using either house/starter battery banks which are charged via 12 DC volt alternator as you motor...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 12-10-2021, 09:33
Replies: 37
Views: 4,216
Posted By drcot3
Re: drive shaft stuffing box

Mine is anti clockwise for the locknut to loosen & anti-clockwise to tighten packing nut clockwise to add more compacting of hemp viewed from the rubber hose end/exit of shaft through the hull.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 12-10-2021, 09:25
Replies: 37
Views: 4,216
Posted By drcot3
Re: drive shaft stuffing box

Screwdriver and lump hammer a softish tap and the locknut breaks its seal after a dose of silicone spray overnight, works for me plus wire brush the exposed threads. I cannot get the same result with...
Forum: Propellers & Drive Systems 08-10-2021, 11:50
Replies: 15
Views: 5,212
Posted By drcot3
Re: Boat yard suggesting to paint prop and shaft with Interlux Ultra

Hi I been painting my shafts/props for donkeys years and my boat normally travels 8 / 10 knots (sog) and the paint stays on its the prep that counts. paint with proper prop paint then 2nd coat hull...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 08-10-2021, 10:34
Replies: 142
Views: 14,943
Posted By drcot3
Re: Two Cruising Anchors to complement each other.

Rocna & danforth(Fortress) plus a fisherman`s steel throwaway copy of an anchor £5 to £10 homemade with 40/50 mm round steam/scaffold Tube + reinforcing 10/12 mm round steel flukes for rocky sea beds...
Forum: Propellers & Drive Systems 06-10-2021, 12:31
Replies: 15
Views: 5,212
Posted By drcot3
Re: Boat yard suggesting to paint prop and shaft with Interlux Ultra

Well I painted with prop paint/different versions and found no difference between hull antifoul paint( micron2) or prop paint(tri lux) or even lower grade antifoul but there is a difference but not a...
Forum: General Classifieds (no boats) 03-10-2021, 01:55
Replies: 1
For Sale: HatterasDC43
Views: 353
Posted By drcot3
HatterasDC43

Hi all,
Selling my 1978 Hatteras DC43 with small flybridge moored in the Med. Spain 43540, 2 x 6/71N Detroit diesels engines, needs new carpets/cushions/curtains/new electric anchor winch or use as...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 21-01-2021, 10:50
Replies: 14
Views: 1,909
Posted By drcot3
Re: Hydronic heater removal - hot water options

Keep the system unless you need the room, its always available. otherwise wish you was in the UK/Spain and I would buy your system. whatever you do will end up being wrong sods law. so many choices...
Forum: Boats For Sale and Wanted 27-12-2020, 04:38
Replies: 34
Views: 11,364
Posted By drcot3
Re: What price for quick deal?

Is it still for sale regards David
Forum: Boats For Sale and Wanted 27-12-2020, 04:35
Replies: 9
Views: 3,842
Posted By drcot3
Re: 41ft Formosa Ketch Sea Tiger

Hello Is it still for sale? regards David
Forum: Boats For Sale and Wanted 27-12-2020, 04:35
Replies: 9
Views: 3,842
Posted By drcot3
Re: 41ft Formosa Ketch Sea Tiger

[QUOTE=Bigohshin;3284609]ArtyB,

"So, what's wrong with it?"...Basically it's just in need of aLOT of tlc.
The sail inventory is:
1 main (been uncovered on the boom for @ 5 years. so yellowing...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 28-01-2020, 05:35
Replies: 49
Views: 8,929
Posted By drcot3
Re: I Built a 45' cat, sailed a bit, Now What?

Hello James
If for sale at $1 I will buy kind regards David
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 10-10-2019, 02:52
Replies: 52
Views: 14,841
Posted By drcot3
Re: Detroit Diesel

Try using starter motor with all injectors in place just head bolts loosened ie using compression to lift the head, hopes this helps
Otherwise try lifting the head with overhead gantry.
or use...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 01-05-2019, 09:43
Replies: 52
Views: 14,841
Posted By drcot3
Re: Detroit Diesel

Got the same engines 6/71N a little dirty some oil blown out though breathers otherwise great engines same as Gardner engines first-class no greater compliment I can say.
Forum: Dollars & Cents 23-03-2019, 00:57
Replies: 154
Views: 46,131
Posted By drcot3
Re: Stay away from Pantaenius Yacht Insurance Why? read below..

Thats the problem when you decide what repairs are done, who pays or not later, usually betterment is the real problem, ie; reduction of the claim because you have new rather than your older...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 22-03-2019, 03:30
Replies: 154
Views: 46,131
Posted By drcot3
Re: Stay away from Pantaenius Yacht Insurance Why? read below..

Just a good story my boat was covered by insure4boats in the eastern Spanish Mediterranean and I had a partial flooding caused by a back siphon into the boat from a shower outlet caused by passing...
Forum: Fishing, Recreation & Fun 16-03-2019, 01:55
Replies: 85
Views: 24,501
Posted By drcot3
Re: Do you fish while cruising?

Is there a book telling me what fish I have caught at sea and how to gut it plus cook it?
regards David
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 11-03-2019, 02:54
Replies: 14
Views: 5,596
Posted By drcot3
Re: Aww Shucks! Wierd runaway diesel problem

Hello Check your oil level in engine if its increased sign of oil/diesel combining cause a runaway condition only hope before destruction is to stop air getting into engine causing the engine to...
Forum: Powered Boats 25-02-2019, 10:28
Replies: 0
Views: 641
Posted By drcot3
Boat insurance

Hello All,

I had the misfortune to have a partial flooding, covering thrusters/gearboxes/etc, insurance paid out as I was on my berth and asleep as I do not wake up if boat rocks. There was a back...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 02-02-2019, 08:26
Replies: 13
Views: 4,024
Posted By drcot3
Re: Sell sailboat Florida/ Rio Dulce Guatemala

Please put pictures/specs up for all to see inc. price regards David
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