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Forum: Lithium Power Systems 23-11-2023, 06:25
Replies: 16
Views: 5,607
Posted By peter57
Re: Winston LiFePO4 battery problem?

Winstons for long life should not be charged over 3.5 Volts as there is no advantage to charge over 3.5 Volts for storage.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 14-06-2022, 15:13
Replies: 44
Views: 3,957
Posted By peter57
Re: Notes on adding two 6 kW pod drives to supplement or reduce use of

The old rule of thumb was around 2hp per pint as good fuel efficiency, that gives around 12 Kwh per gallon or 16hp per gallon. Play ball.
Forum: Powered Boats 08-03-2022, 18:18
Replies: 87
Views: 8,552
Posted By peter57
Re: Powerboats and the rice of fuel

Our trees and crops will love the C02 and they will use less water.
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 15-02-2022, 22:52
Replies: 1,132
Views: 51,384
Posted By peter57
Re: US coasts sea level rise 10 to 12 inches by 2050

Jack, can you produce empirical data for the world's climate warming? The answer is NO! unless you take 0.13 degree C rise in temperature per year since 1979 from Satellite data as dangerous warming?...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 15-02-2022, 21:59
Replies: 1,132
Views: 51,384
Posted By peter57
Re: US coasts sea level rise 10 to 12 inches by 2050

Sydney Australia has had 3mm 1/8" per year in the last 40 years when the most C02 was introduced in the atmosphere. 120mm and the east coast of Australia (Sydney) is sinking due to continental drift....
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 08-10-2021, 16:23
Replies: 333
Views: 25,337
Posted By peter57
Re: Flat Earth Debate

I totally agree as people can be convinced that there is Man-made C02 causing devastating warming of the earth with no empirical evidence for it at all.

If someone could produce some for the last...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 07-10-2021, 21:54
Replies: 110
Views: 18,754
Posted By peter57
Re: Freestanding mast opinions wanted

I am also curious if you have sailed a well-rigged junk. I prefer the junk for cruising as they are so much and safer, easier, less work, and can reef easy from the cockpit, they have so many...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 29-09-2021, 14:29
Replies: 63
Views: 12,654
Posted By peter57
Re: Heavier anchor or more chain?

I would get a Spade anchor that resets easily (Rocna and other Bar anchors are notoriously bad at re-setting, especially in weedy bottoms, they do not have enough tip weight) with that chain and a...
Forum: Americas 24-09-2021, 19:22
Replies: 605
Views: 43,221
Posted By peter57
Re: "Evicted": Marina Won't Renew Contract for Next Year to maximize Profit

Yeah, Socialist capitalism.
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 01-09-2021, 14:37
Replies: 190
Views: 20,083
Posted By peter57
Re: Ever seen a UFO?

Moving at a million miles per hour is not breaking the laws of Physics.

Filmed IFO's doing close to these speeds, changing direction, splitting into two or three, and then into the shape of a...
Forum: Navigation 25-08-2021, 08:49
Replies: 22
Views: 4,321
Posted By peter57
Re: Anyone able to get their hands on Admiralty Chart 5308 (World Sailing Ship Routes

Well spotted Stu I clicked the wrong quote, yes 1923 and the 1950 chart 5308 is on there as well, and might be lucky and get the 1973 chart from the library in 2024.
Forum: Navigation 25-08-2021, 06:03
Replies: 22
Views: 4,321
Posted By peter57
Re: Anyone able to get their hands on Admiralty Chart 5308 (World Sailing Ship Routes

You can purchase it from The Library of Scotland in sizes A0 and A1

https://shop.nls.uk/digital-orders/

Item ID 74474137
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 10-08-2021, 15:30
Replies: 33
Views: 5,401
Posted By peter57
Re: Electrochemical damage to wooden boats. It's a thing

Replace the Stainless prop shafts back with the original Bronze shafts and remove the zinc anodes. You can test this with silver chloride testing equipment for around $300 AUD. Test before and after,...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 10-08-2021, 14:57
Replies: 33
Views: 5,401
Posted By peter57
Re: Electrochemical damage to wooden boats. It's a thing

100 to 1 bet someone had replaced the bronze prop shaft with a stainless shaft and then put anodes on her, then the disaster begins.
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 10-08-2021, 14:53
Replies: 33
Views: 5,401
Posted By peter57
Re: Electrochemical damage to wooden boats. It's a thing

Spend many years in boatyards and you find 10 types of osmosis in polyester sometimes causing nightmares for the owners.

Eg. "Darling the shipwright said we need to plane peel the whole boat,...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 10-08-2021, 14:39
Replies: 33
Views: 5,401
Posted By peter57
Re: Electrochemical damage to wooden boats. It's a thing

Known as "Alkaline degradation"

There is no need for anodes if the boat is designed built correctly using the correct metals and bonding the through-hulls, not creating a potential difference. The...
Forum: Emergency, Disaster and Distress 27-12-2020, 21:38
Replies: 15
Views: 4,924
Posted By peter57
Re: 300 foot tidal wave Bute Inlet BC

So it would have been more catastrophic in either the Minoan, Roman or Medieval warm periods as it was hotter then than now in the ice core results but amazingly C02 levels according to the IPCC and...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 11-12-2020, 22:13
Replies: 47
Views: 15,991
Posted By peter57
Re: What is the point of a shower sump pump?

The PO on my boat put a strainer (which has to be cleaned periodically) where the sump was then ran a hose from it to the bilge sum, when I purchased the boat I thought to myself I'll change that to...
Forum: Marine Electronics 06-12-2020, 11:31
Replies: 112
Views: 13,483
Posted By peter57
Re: What do you do to mitigate lighting damage?

[QUOTE=Chris Cringle;3289538]Sailing south down the west coast of Central America, there were forty boats is our informal "fleet". Off Costa Rica, the "lightning capital" of the west coast, 27 of...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 24-11-2020, 19:21
Replies: 23
Views: 3,200
Posted By peter57
Re: New Insurance Gulf Coast--Impossible?

Yeah the last time the climate was hot in Australia in the 1890's, is when we had our worst recorded Cyclones and the temperature now is rising back up to those record temps 100 years later. So one...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 27-10-2020, 12:48
Replies: 81
Views: 16,630
Posted By peter57
Re: Dinghies - How small is too small?

What's your shoe size?
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 14-10-2020, 13:50
Replies: 49
Views: 5,679
Posted By peter57
Re: Macerators - Oh my - which one?

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983 requirements for vessels that hold untreated sewage are:

All fixed toilets on vessels need to be fitted with a macerator to reduce the sewage...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 14-10-2020, 13:18
Replies: 49
Views: 5,679
Posted By peter57
Re: Macerators - Oh my - which one?

Here in Queensland Australia they want you to have a macerator.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 17-09-2020, 16:52
Replies: 51
Views: 7,938
Posted By peter57
Re: Anchor alarm app stopped working on iPhone

I have done that because of covid 19. What a disastrous system compared to IOS. I now see why they give the name cAndyRIOD.

Desperately waiting for the iPhone 12 and not have my old iPhone fixed.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 11-09-2020, 19:29
Replies: 24
Views: 2,483
Posted By peter57
Re: Using two 15KW 48VDC motors

Gord, direct me to your empirical evidence of C02 causing climate change. So far since the early seventies when the socialist movement had it cooling I have not viewed any empirical evidence of...
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