Great, assume TS16 my nephew had one and refurbished it they are tops. Richard Hartley a genius - I have his boat building book somewhere.

Went for a sail, a Code 0 sail, fresh out of the bag including continuous furler set up.















Also got the Gale sail out of the bag and set it up... Silly me didnt take photo.
All purchased through Sam at Rolly Tasker, great service, advise, product.

Today I took the yanmar tachometers to get the LCD hour display replaced.
(I did attempt a YouTube fix but failed)

I now know the original hours on both motors as the metre still counts hours even when the display fails

Took the opportunity of halfway decent weather to sail the Arends33 from Woolwich to Pittwater. Solo trip & a good shakedown cruise.

Jules, just to clarify, you are replacing the motor, macerator & impeller pump as a unit assembly ?

julesmoto said..

woko said..
Jules, just to clarify, you are replacing the motor, macerator & impeller pump as a unit assembly ?

Yes. It comes as a unit and is everything except the bowl and seat. I thought it would be easier than installing a service kit. The old unit would have had to come out anyway to install a service kit because I couldn't get at the screws holding the motor to the base housing which will probably require an impact driver to remove.
I will service the old unit and keep it onboard as a spare if it looks ok inside and comes apart without breakage.
I always put a few drops of bleach in the bowl when I leave the boat and I sucked the bowl dry with one of those $19. 95 pumps from Bunnings which go on the end of a drill so there was no smell whatsoever. Pleasantly surprised at that aspect.
Better to do it too early than be forced to do it one weekend with people on board when it hasn't had the benefit of bleach sitting in it for a few days.

The beast is out YSE8 is going to be rebuild ..

Bushdog said..
Took the opportunity of halfway decent weather to sail the Arends33 from Woolwich to Pittwater. Solo trip & a good shakedown cruise.

Almost makes me want to be out there!

I love Bakelite.

I have been taking the switchgear out of the boat to see what got damaged when my prop seal leaked and filled the boat to about knee deep, before the Marina started to pump it out.

My Cavalier 28 has a design flaw, which is to locate the switch gear at a low level, wired to panels in lockers, accessible only to black-belt masters of boat-yoga. I had previously baled out the locker, but the recent continuous rain filled it up again (see Exhibit A, below). Before my ownership, years of wiring bodges that can only loosely be described as "work" had accumulated into a horrid mess, such as the high-amp wiring simply twisted together and covered with insulation tape. The salt water from the leaking seal forced me to confront the demons.

The switches are probably beyond repair and I don't trust them. But, the rotary switch is solid Bakelite with lovely copper and brass innards. It is fabulously simple. It got dunked with the rest of the stuff, and probably did not even need cleaning. I cleaned it, anyway. It was the one good thing I saw in the wreckage that were my boat electrics. I am now working on relocating all the switchgear to a new box at head height, next to the companionway. First, I need to make the box.

Exhibit A - Typical wiring. Warning - this image may offend persons with a disposition that is sensitive to good design and workmanship

Exhibit B - Switches and Bakelite rotary switch

Exhibit C - Switches and inside of Bakelite rotary switch

Ummm. Padding!
Now I know what my seat is lacking. Ta.
gary

New hatch slides for the PR25 - timber yard engineering without the timber...........stainless 316 fasteners isolated from the alum angle with Selleys Armourflex. 40 year old teak slides planed back to just the square cross section.

Next job unseize the diesel throttle + gear cockpit mounted control levers but might be impossible - have flushed with CorrosionX and will try to move the gear lever tomorrow with pipe extra leverage.............throttle lever is fine - anyone who has just the levers unit (the Morse cables are fine) they don't need appreciate advice. Realise these are as rare as hens teeth.

Looks fantastic - great effort!!!

What paint did you use? Same for topsides & cabin etc??

Fitted an old unused beckworth opening porthole (project from another yacht over 10 years ago that wasn't fitted before sale) into the top of three Perspex hatch doors to allow extra "secure" bug screened ventilation for both leaving the yacht locked up and colder or heavy rain sleeping onboard. Also fitted my Magna charcoal BBQ from a previous yacht and used a Trangia gas burner and butane can converter to provide a get it up to heat quickly option. It's my only gas onboard and the cans are kept in vented deck storage and are well away from the heat source unlike the recently banned exploder stoves.

Started to clean up my deck

SVScruffy said..
Replaced my mistake of brass Philips Head screws with Bronze Slot screws.

I'm a big fan of raised head countersunk screws, but they seem to only be available in self tapper style.

Got the 12 months annual inspection and service report for mooring. Shackles renewed. Obviously these shackles are more than 12 months old but the wear at the prior inspection and service was considered to be not enough to warrant replacement with new at that time. All I can assume is that the amount of fierce westerlies and southerlies over the last 12 months has been unprecedented.