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Best Autopilot for a Hydraulic system on a sailboat - Cruisers . . . An alternate viewpoint: Based on having once met a sailor that had to use an emergency tiller to hand steer for over a week due to a hydraulic failure Use a mechanical drive on a separate tiller arm for your autopilot If the hydraulics fail you still have a way to steer the boat I have a standard Edson pull-pull steering system Once, on the
Yanmar 4JH3 versus 4JH4 - Cruisers Sailing Forums From a cruiser's viewpoint the major difference is you can get at the impeller in the 4JH4 without being a contortionist or magician Replacing the impeller in the 4JH3 was not easy I have a 4jH3 and will second that the impeller access sucks
Raw water pump swap in UNIVERSAL M-25 XPB - Cruisers Forum From an engine flooding viewpoint the electric pump was probably safer as the pump will not start pumping until the oil light goes out I had flooded an engine with a belt driven pump on a couple of occasions during extensive cranking whilst bleeding the fuel system _____
Adding access to engine room - Cruisers Sailing Forums I think i'd investigate creating a removable wall in the quarter berth before chopping a hole in the cockpit I do feel your pain as I once had to replace a raw water pump up under a Volvo (if it's green - run) in a 30'er onc
Do you lock your prop or let it spin? - Cruisers Sailing Forums From a work done viewpoint: The case with locked prop is that the drag produces torque but no work since the prop is not turning - potential energy only The case with the unlocked prop is that as the prop is rotating work is being ie torque x turns = work BUT: non rotating = high form drag, lower friction drag
Sheet to tiller steering - Cruisers Sailing Forums He looks at things from an aeronautical engineers viewpoint, (positive damping vs negative feedback) Nope, the Gold Standard is “Self-steering Without a Windvane : A Comprehensive Manual of Natural and Sheet-to-tiller Steering Systems for Sailboats” by Lee Woas
Keel cooling set up - Cruisers Sailing Forums From a thermodynamic viewpoint there appear to be a number of things which require consideration: The reason you put the swizzle stick down the centre of a heat exchanger tube is to create turbulence in the fluid flowing through the tube which assists in presenting new, cooler fluid to the heat exchange face in the tube Consequently it appears
Open CPN and Google Earth - Cruisers Sailing Forums It rather depends on what you want it to do In the preferences I select "follow chart viewport" which means that when you move the chart the GE views follows the move
SF Bay marinas with liveaboards - Cruisers Sailing Forums Another municipal viewpoint The municipal marina in Marathon, FL will rent moorings ONLY to liveaboards The logic is that liveaboards spend money in the local community Restaurants, bars, liquor stores, Home Depot type stores, marine parts and service businesses, etc, etc This is versus boats on moorings with no one aboard = wet storage
Wharram Thoughts - Cruisers Sailing Forums From a structural engineering viewpoint both ends of the hull are "triangulated" Similarly with the beam fixtures to the hulls The bindings provide a simple and effective means of spreading and transmitting the compressive loadings onto the beam and hull materials