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It's quite even on port pole before and after the gybe. Maybe Holcim is just able to find their low-mode much faster or the boat was better suited for the sea-state.

You're not a real man until you tie to a bull rail after surviving an attack from a bull whale.

Am I correct in assuming that if he could fit the shackle through the chain it's undersized?

If you can fit the appropriate 2-blade pitch and diameter to load up the prop I don't think going to 3-blade is the right call. My understanding is the two-blade is the most efficient and you should only add blades if you don't have the real estate to get the diameter you need.

Adjusting your shower temperature with those 1/4 turn ball valves seems like a recipe for melting your face off with 180F engine heated water. At least he put hot & cold on the correct sides?

In an ideal world everyone would wait for the worst of the weather before going through but I seriously doubt it will happen. 40kts and 5m seas are not going to stop these guys. We saw at the beginning of the last Vendee that boats sailed straight into 50+ kts and confused seas rather than...

Next Doug will solve his motoring and truck parking problems by installing a Dyno made from 55 Gallon drums coupled to the transfer case and propeller. He will just need to beef up the masts to be able to crane the truck onto the foredeck from the quay.

1000F is generally the continuous limit for naturally aspirated engines. 1200F for a 1/24hr emergency use would probably be OK. The automotive world is much higher (1400-1800F) because it's not continuous. From Yanmar for larger turbocharged engines they say 1200-1350F but it's a maximum and...

The small Yanmar's don't have them but your 4 Cyl. might be different. On the small ones you need to retrofit it by drilling into the exhaust elbow upstream of the water injection not really worthwhile IMHO due to the revs telling you the story. If revs can go up you have some headroom and if...

The answer lies in OPs post... If you get 3800rpm in neutral but only 3100rpm in gear you're over-propped. I had the exact same issue when I installed my 2-Blade Flex-o-Fold despite having equal dimensions to the old prop. Max revs went from 3600 to 3100 - in neutral or reverse it'll still do...

Exception #4 says Conductors less than 50 volts with a current flow less than one amp in communication systems, electronic navigation equipment, and electronic circuits. It doesn't say 18AWG conductors must be used in the exception: It says it's exempt from the 16 AWG article. You can use as...

I don't really see the issue with using a common negative wire. Negative busses are common to combine wiring from switched components to a common conductor. You're correct. 16Ga minimum with some exceptions which is why I'm using it. 18Ga would meet the 3% voltage drop but it's not being run...

Try the crew pool section of this forum.

Not planning on using spiral wrap. I'm planning on putting them in a hollow-braid rope that I can tension from both ends.

I'm not sure there is any conduit. I believe Ishmael stated in an old thread that his C&C29mk2 didn't have a conduit and I think mine would be the same. I have some slapping in the mast that sounds more like wire than halyards.

Looking to re-wire my mast (C&C29mk2) in place. Looking for a sanity check and/or tips/tricks. Currently there's a lot of redundant/non-functional wiring for two spreader lights and a non-existent wind instrument which I will be removing. I will be replacing the wiring for the Anchor Light and...

Question for our generous weather routers: Is it possible to put a finishing gate along a particular longitude instead of a single waypoint? It seems like the routing invests a few miles getting to the latitude of the waypoint when easting is the important factor.

An innocent bow/mast man caught in the crossfire.

Looking like PRB will manage to extend on the rest over the next 4 days without putting the boat in harsh conditions. As long as they manage to cling onto this system while the others fall off the back they should have 200+ miles on the fleet by Friday.

In hindsight heading down to Porlier wouldn't have cost us much time if it played out the way I thought and would've saved us loads of time in what was actually out there. I was very focused on what would be fastest instead of what was reliable because we did not want to get caught out in the...