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Marine Electronics
28-03-2023, 10:24
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What's the Best Wind Sensor?
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Sailorman97
Re: What's the Best Wind Sensor?
As far as I am concerned they are all garbage. Every mast head unit I have put up has failed and that is going back 32 yr to the boats I learned to sail on before I decide to buy.
Every single...
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Dollars & Cents
27-03-2023, 18:58
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How much cash to retire?
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Sailorman97
Re: How much cash to retire?
If your Canadian, and you get full CPP & OAS and are retiring at 65, 400 k in an RRSP invested in good dividend growth stocks can see you with 70-80k CDN from 65 to 78 After that you have to cut...
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Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
27-03-2023, 08:58
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Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
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7,187
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Sailorman97
Re: Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
I was hoping to be assigned a better one than the current. I can't afford to rebuild another wreck.
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Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
27-03-2023, 08:56
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Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
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Sailorman97
Re: Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
It looks like you prefer to go the extra battery option so it is option number 2. Install battery connect to house bank with jumper cables and test for voltage drop.
I am not sure you need a...
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Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
27-03-2023, 07:29
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Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
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Sailorman97
Re: Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
I have no need for this. Perhaps you do.
No one is keeping anything secret but I can see it bothers you a lot. Let me put you at ease by assuring you my house battery is not at the bow...
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Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
26-03-2023, 19:12
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Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
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Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
2 thoughts on that.
I did not know that was the law around here and no one told me your the enforcer. :peace:
I did not think that since I did not have my profile filled out that someone...
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Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
26-03-2023, 17:24
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Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
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Sailorman97
Re: Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
I am only flabbergasted that anyone one would argue about something they have never seen. That something being my boat :banghead:
I have this also. Full power to where ever it is needed. I have...
Forum:
Navigation
26-03-2023, 17:01
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Orca core and maps, what do you think?
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Sailorman97
Re: Orca core and maps, what do you think?
Tacking angle is the difference in degrees between your old course and your new course. All of the changes pictured here are less than 90 and closer to 80.
I am referring to post 16.
Forget...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
26-03-2023, 13:27
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Anchor locker has no drains? Collects standing water. What to do?
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Sailorman97
Re: Anchor locker has no drains? Collects standing water. What to do?
Couple of options I guess.
I would not rely on a pump. Gravity drain only. I know a fellow on an Beni 35S5 that was on a Lake Ontario 300 and the anchor locker filled up and then started to...
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Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
26-03-2023, 13:08
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Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
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Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
You make lots of assumptions but with zero information about really anything at all. :whistling:
Forum:
Meets & Greets
26-03-2023, 09:43
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New to forum looking for some help with a Yanmar L100v
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355
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Sailorman97
Re: New to forum looking for some help with a Yanmar L100v
You don't say where this is installed. Given the information you have supplied I would look at the wiring on the motor it does not work on. Easy to do. Put the starter on the engine and then...
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Engines and Propulsion Systems
26-03-2023, 09:36
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Fuel Polisher
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Sailorman97
Re: Fuel Polisher
I was thinking more of a pre-tank in the lazarette. One with valves to allow you to stop fuel from going into the big tanks and a drain valve to get the bad fuel out. Might be over thinking it.
...
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Monohull Sailboats
26-03-2023, 09:29
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Should we be worried? (Post-Survey advice)
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Sailorman97
Re: Should we be worried? (Post-Survey advice)
Isn't it though. My information came from Beneteau US in 2013. They said they no longer sold the galvanized bolts ( DACROMATISED STEEL BOLTS TYPE 8-8. ) only the stainless ones and that they...
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Leopard Catamarans, Robertson & Caine
26-03-2023, 08:52
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Leopard cracked Saloon Window(s)
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17,194
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Sailorman97
Re: Leopard cracked Saloon Window(s)
I used Sik 295 UV on the window of my old C&C 34. Used it several time. It never held for long. You have to use a primer on the plexi and then bond it with the 295 UV. The bond always failed on...
Forum:
Navigation
26-03-2023, 08:40
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Orca core and maps, what do you think?
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Sailorman97
Re: Orca core and maps, what do you think?
You first 2 sentences have exactly nothing to do with anything we are discussing here. No sailing experience means no ability to discuss the situation we have here which is tacking angle and course...
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Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
26-03-2023, 08:33
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Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
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7,187
Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
Lots of ways to do it. But before you get totally invested in putting a battery up front with everything that might entail ( mounting off gassing etc) , perhaps you should try it out and see what...
Forum:
Construction, Maintenance & Refit
26-03-2023, 08:19
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69
Deck re-core from below
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7,237
Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Deck re-core from below
Noah's has a Buffalo NY warehouse and they can ship out of there. Saves the customs and import hassles.
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Engines and Propulsion Systems
26-03-2023, 08:13
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Fuel Polisher
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3,127
Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Fuel Polisher
I would say that 90% of diesel engine problems are abuse of some kind. Usually running them too lightly so they end up glazing the cylinders. Hang around any 300 boat marina for a decade and you...
Forum:
Navigation
26-03-2023, 07:55
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51
Orca core and maps, what do you think?
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8,429
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Sailorman97
Re: Orca core and maps, what do you think?
:rolleyes: Great you had 9 yrs of trig. So what your still wrong. Trigonometry has no roll here at all. :facepalm:
So tell us how many years of racing sailboats and studying tacking angles...
Forum:
Monohull Sailboats
26-03-2023, 07:42
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42
Should we be worried? (Post-Survey advice)
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4,554
Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Should we be worried? (Post-Survey advice)
If it is a iron keel the bolts should be galvanized grade 8 hex bolts and should be replaced with same. Those bolts look like stainless steel in the picture
Beneteaus advise on replacing keel...
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Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
26-03-2023, 07:28
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61
Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
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7,187
Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
Batteries are within 6 ft of the bow thruster and connected with 4/0 cable. Plenty close enough for me in fact I would be very hard pressed to get them closer. Batteries at the front of a boat take...
Forum:
General Sailing Forum
26-03-2023, 07:00
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86
Tell me about your dinghy and what you like about it
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9,620
Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Tell me about your dinghy and what you like about it
Highfield 340 pushed with 20hp Tohatsu. Pretty dry. We are on our second one as the first had an accident.
You need to protect the PVC tubes on these. After 6 yrs our tubes were really showing...
Forum:
Engines and Propulsion Systems
26-03-2023, 06:46
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24
Fuel Polisher
Views:
3,127
Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Fuel Polisher
Rolly anchorages will not mix fuel. Very rough passages will. The amount of mixing that goes on depends on the level fuel in the tank. If it is almost full I bet it is next to none will occur but...
Forum:
Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
26-03-2023, 06:30
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61
Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
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7,187
Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Cable size for 1500 W electrical windlass
How long is a small AGM going to hold its charge when being pulled down by a 150amp draw. Theoretically 1 hr 20 minutes but we both know that in practice it is not going to.
I would want to...
Forum:
Engines and Propulsion Systems
26-03-2023, 05:56
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24
Fuel Polisher
Views:
3,127
Posted By
Sailorman97
Re: Fuel Polisher
Someone was thinking there. Good idea. Makes the whole process very simple. Suck the stuff off the bottom and you get the any water. I could see ending sucking diesel fuel as well as your trying...
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