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Yanmar 4JH3CE with SD40-4 saildrive

FrenchBred1 — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:25:38 GMT

Recently noticed a vibration at 2700 rpm, thinking it was kelp on the prop, backed down but nothing came out and vibration was stil present. Diver informed me that the prop shaft was moving (loose). Anyone had that problem and if so, what did you do to correct? Factory installed engine and saildrive with factory installed geared, folding prop, not sure of size but assume Beneteau knew what they were doing. Boat is a 2005 Beneteau First 44.7 used primarily as liveaboard and club racer, 500 hours or so on engine and saildrive. Thank you, Ron Coalson

URGENT boats powered with Yanmar 1GM10 engines

nibby david — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:25:03 GMT

Hi, all owners with Yanmar 1 GM10 engines and probably 2GM 18 raw water cooled engines this advice is for you.
Everyone thinks that they are the only ones that Jabsco equipped engine cooling water pump impellors fail regularly!
I had a Hevenly twins fitted with brand new engines in 1991 and thought it was a problem with my particular engine installation. The Jabsco dealer just accepted it (in his interest) that impellors fail very regularly?
My next boat had an older Yanmar YSE12 engine, I was paranoid that with this impellor more difficult to reach it's failure at sea could have been a serious safety issue.
I sorted the problem out by buying and fitting a "GLOBE BLUE" impellor these are made in the USA but available in the UK and I guess anywhere in the developed world.
GlOBE BLUE impellors are direct replacements for most Jabsco style neoprene vane impellor water pumps guaranteed to be safe to run dry for up to 15 minutes, the simple secret is that in some it is one piece moulding of hard central collared plastic blending into the neoprene impellor vane, On others it still has a brass collar or ferrule but has a serated outer edge where bonded and mechanically joined to the neoprene impellor vane.
I cannot believe that boat owners OR Yanmar are still putting up with the needless stress of needing to change failed Jabsco impellors that sometimes last just a few hours, quite simply the bonding is faulty between brass and rubber.
Nibby David

Symonsons sail drive leg

Ian Duperouzel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:18:15 GMT

Does anyone know who is the Distributor for Symonsons sail drive legs?

Sassy

colingwatkins — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:28:12 GMT

Hi Sassy, long time no see or hear on the blog. Where are you now? Did you get down to Gib?
Hope you are well

First time to a Blog, so here goes~

Gary Oelze — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:29:03 GMT

Hello to everyone. Sol Surfin is in FL now and I am doing the end of the season button up, fix, clean, wash etc and then will be flying out to CA.

I got here whilst trying to find the kitchen drawer slide. I don't know the mfg of it or any specs. It is fine quality and I'd like to stick with it. It's Zinc Coated I believe, and it has 12 ball bearings on each slide.

thanks for any help and feel free to visit solsurfin.com. Good for a nights sleep.

Gary

wayra305

robi cat — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:17:51 GMT

Hi everybody,
I join this forum that seems to be very interesting. I would like all person interestyed in fast "small" catamarans to have a look to my Wayra305, and receive comment from you!

Fraud in Indonesia

Catman — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:21:09 GMT

Found an ad for 41' Lagoon owners version for sale on Sailboatsforsale.com ( ad is gone now) for $200,000US.
Contacted a fellow called Ferry Ramos who sent me pics and specs.
He said his father gave hime the cat for a wedding gift.
His father had the cat shipped there by a company called Jurung Express.
I emailed the shipping co. to get a quote for shipping the cat to my island, $5,500US.
Lagoon pics and specs stolen from the Catamaran Company website shipping co. bogus.
Ferry expects a 10% deposit from buyer once a bill of lading is aquired from Jurung expess.
So $5500+$20000 goes to Ferry Ramos and no boat and no company.
Of course no one would buy or sent any money without seeing the catamaran first hand would they???
So as the old adage goes "if it seems to good to be true it probably is".
The internet scams have far reaching capabilities.
Cheers, Catman

Discrimination

Sassy — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:20:40 GMT

Discrimination
This is really a blog entry for multihull owners, especially small catamaran owners.

It's a moan about the fact that many marinas charge 50% on top of the standard marina charges for multihulls.

I have a small catamaran which is not as wide as many monohulls but as a multihull I am being charged 50% on top of the standard charge, even though many monohulls are beamier than my boat.

I can fit a boat next to mine in a marina berth, so the marina is NOT losing money from my boat taking up too much space.

I am saying that there should not be any discrimination between a monohull or a multihull. If the boat in the marina berth is taking up two spaces then I can understand the extra charge but if the boat is not taking up two spaces why be charged extra?!

Marinas should work out their costs on length and beam regardless of the type of boat.

If you agree then feel free to contact me, maybe we can start a campaign. I expect monohull owners not to agree to paying extra but maybe they as beamier boats would agree that multihulls should not be penalised.

Freelance writers can earn more money from home

sijukan — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:56:38 GMT

Freelance writing and their experience

I am a freelance writer, I have more than 2 years experience in freelance work. I have more than 10 years work experience in various companies and various sections. But now a day overall economy is very low, so two years back I decided to start with freelance work.

I am doing work for my existing clients as well as new clients and I am trying to keep them very happy with me so that only I can maintain my relationship. I am getting clients and projects from freelance website like www.net4manpower.com. I am one of the power members in this site. I won more than 55 projects from this site. When I started my freelance career that time I don�t know about any websites and I confused about how to get the projects? How to contact the job providers? That time my friend Mr.Johnsmith Thakal help me , he only tell about this website and tell me don�t want to pay any amount for registration and bid, Just free service and also secure payment.

First I am not have 100% hope in this site, after that I thought let we try, so I will join free with this site and bid the projects, slowly I won the projects and clients. Now many clients from www.net4manpower.com are my life long customers and still now I will not worry about the payment. They are providing me 100% payment security. But when I see this site first, I am not getting hope or confidence this site, because there design is simple and not good look. But there service is very good.

Every freelancer should be satisfying your clients then only you can get more work from us.

Freelance project biding

I�m join with project outsourcing website and submitted my profile and portfolio first, because many freelancers doing this mistake that is they are joined with freelance sites but they will not provide their overall details. But in this kind of freelance website all the clients must see the portfolio and profile first after that only they will select you. Normally I �m quoting affordable cost for n4mp clients, but I will not provide very cheap rate, according to my work I will offer good price. I am investing 90$ per month subscription and earn more than 500$ per month, so it is very helpful for me.

Many people they are interested in home based works but they are very lazy to submit the bid. But in my experience I am not waiting for more time for projects reply. I will get immediate response from net4manpower clients and also other freelance site.

Create online portfolio

Freelancers should be creating a virtual portfolio that is client list and samples, it is very useful to market your service to client nationally and internationally. Many free services providers are there in online to create the portfolio, so you can use this for your market.

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Sailing with trimaran in the Atlantic ocean

jakerin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:52:55 GMT

Hi ! I've been sailing for 5 years on a trimaran. I made o blog about it here is the adress:

http://voyage-en-trimaran.blog4ever.com

This blog is in french but you will find a lot of pictures and may be you speak a little beat french!!!!
The boat you'll see is for sale, price is very low, if you are interested, please contact us:
jakerin29@yahoo.fr ;)

Shoping

3Psuite — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:18:22 GMT

Just been out buying a few things to take to the UK for the Easter work - Wonderful sunny day. There are some photos of the area at my profile (Just above the handsome chap in the yellow sou'wester):D

Not much is cheaper here in Norway as the purchase tax is 25%. but you can find some things, especially makes that are not widely sold in the UK as Arendal is the leisure boat building capital of Norway (unfortunately they all are powerboats).

Seawater filters, exhausts, hydraulic steering where some of the products.

Toilet humour

3Psuite — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:39:23 GMT

Well I got both a good laugh ::) and good advice from the thread of the same name.

Looked up the details of the Lavac and it looks like the right choice and I can easily upgrade to electric later.

First entry experiment

3Psuite — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:58:06 GMT

Hei all

the weather is just starting to stay above zero, so its boating time again.

I have to put the engine on the run about (40 horse on a 16ft fibreglass hull)

Travel to the UK to carry on build

Help get the company regatta boat ready raise mast, antifoul etc.

Spring cup last year (monohull)
BORKED

Summary of Piracy Reports sent to noonsite during 2008

Sassy — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:22:52 GMT

A Summary of Piracy Reports sent to noonsite during 2008.
Brazil, Belem � January 2008: armed robbery.
Canary Islands, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria � July 2008: burglary.
Caribbean, Dominica, Roseau
June 2008: yacht boarded and robbed.
August 2008: yacht boarded.
Caribbean, St. Lucia, Soufriere (off the Bat Caves)
December 2008 (Christmas Eve): yacht boarded and robbed whilst crew asleep.
Caribbean, St. Vincent, Chateaubelair � June 2008: armed boarding and robbery. This was the fifth yacht attack in this bay reported to the Caribbean Safety Net for the 2007/8 season.
Corsica � August 2008: armed robbery of super yacht.
Ecuador, near Punta Pedernales � November 2008: armed robbery.
Guatemala, Lake Izabal � April 2008: armed robbery.
Guatemala, Rio Dulce
August 2008: fatal pirate attack.
August 2008: two yachts suffered armed robberies near Rio Tatin on the same night.
Gulf of Aden, Somalia
April 2008: French luxury cruise ship hijacked.
June 2008: German couple seized by pirates. Following payment of a ransom, the pair were freed after 41 days in captivity.
September 2008: French couple seized by pirates. Two weeks after their capture, the couple were freed by the French army.
Indian Ocean, Comoros Archipelago, Mayotte � September 2008: boarding and robbery plus a number of other robberies reported.
Indonesia, Tanimbar Islands, Eastern Moluccas � April 2008: armed robbery.
Jamaica, Morant Point � July 2008: attempted attack.
Nicaragua, Moskito Coast � June 2008: yacht pursued � possible piracy problem.
Papua New Guinea, Wewak � January 2008: armed boarding.
Red Sea, Eritrea � April 2008: yachts pursued.
Solomon Islands, Tulagi � December 2008: 6 boats boarded between August and December, the last 3 were armed boardings.
Sri Lanka, East of Galle � January 2008: attempted attack by 5 men in a fishing boat with guns.
Sri Lanka � January 2008: yacht pursued.
Venezuela, Porlamar, Isla de Margarita
January 2008: yacht boarded, robbed and one crew member shot and wounded.
April 2008: 3 yachts boarded on the same night and 2 had deck gear stolen.
June 2008: Armed boarding and theft in Pampatar.
July 2008: 4 robberies reported and another at Pampatar.
July 2008: shooting in the marina at Porlamar.
August 2008: dinghy theft reported from Rhum Bar dock.
Venezuela, Puerto Santos (4 miles East of Carupano)
April 2008: yacht boarded.
July 2008: armed boarding, shooting and robbery.
Venezuela (off NE coast) � July 2008: armed boarding and robbery.
Venezuela, Central Litoral Coast, Marina de Caraballeda � September 2008: French catamaran robbed and skipper shot dead.
Venezuela, Isla Borracha - November 2008: fatal pirate attack, skipper shot dead.

Email laziness?!

Sassy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:41:32 GMT

The weather has been so bad here that "us cruisers" in the marina have resorted to emailing each other, rather than getting soaking wet going to each other's boats! Is the height of laziness? Or just good sense? It is difficult to get your clothes dry when it rains day after day - we have had weeks of rain without a break now. Last night the wind blew from the land and all of our boats are covered in brown sludge, even the halyards and sheets are saturated in brown dirt, which is hard to wash out. Ironically we need rain now from another direction to wash out the brown goo covering our boats!

Despite the weather we are still making ourselves do things, we go out for a meal on a Tuesday evening, there are normally about 10 of us every week, and different people manage to make it each week, which makes it interesting. The meal only costs about 6 Euros, and the food just keeps on coming, if you have a few drinks as well the whole evening costs about 10 Euros! The food is tasty too!!!

Us cruising ladies go out for a coffee morning once a week and our numbers have swelled; there are now 8 of us! We have started to go swimming after the coffee morning, the local swimming pool is like an Olympic sized swimming pool, exceptionally clean, it will give us the exercise that we need during the winter months. When the weather gets warmer there will be a weekly barbeque, they are fun too, you bring your own food and drink and throw the food on the barby, and this is a great way to meet new cruisers in the marina. Currently there are British, American, Italian, German and Portuguese sailors here - I am looking forward to meeting new people this year from other countries too!