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Excellent news Ed.
It’s usually something simple, but all manner of horrors go through your mind.
I had a similar problem, and after a so-called “marine engineer” telling me that it was probably a head gasket or cracked head, I stripped the engine, found nothing wrong, and then discovered that it was the £4 seal on the heat exchager cap.
Bob
Hi Ed
It’s got to be either:-
1./ Going into the engine (head gasket, heat exchanger chorosion, etc.)
2./ Going into the bilge (leaking hose etc.)
3./ Going into the raw water (hole in heat exchanger tube, leaking o ring, etc.)
4./ Header tank cap not sealing properly (coolant can escape when hot and then vapourises)Try No.4 first (get a new heat exchanger cap & seal).
If that doesn’t sort it, my bet would be No.3
The collant system is sealed and works under pressure, so the tiniest hole anywhere is going to cause coolant loss when hot.
Whichever it is (if it’s not No.4), I reckon you’re probably going to have to get the heat exchanger off and get it pressure tested. If it isn’t leaking, then get new O rings and gaskets from Keypart, and put it all back together, tighen-up all hose connectors, and see if that fixes the problem. If it doesn’t then it’s probably going to be No.1.
Best of luck
Bob
8 boats now confirmed. Still a couple of spaces left.
Also, there are 2 boats with spare cabins available for stowaways.
Hi Ian
Just had this happen to me on way from Cherbourg to St. Vaast.
Turned out to be the sender unit. Take it out and you’ll see a pin and rack afair (electrical connection bit). Give it a clean with some white spirit and see if that helps.
Otherwise, if it’s suddenly going towards full, it’s getting a stray full voltage from somewhere, so check cables and connectors.
Cheers
Bob
We did the “Sail the Wight” race (race round the island eastbound).
Did it on a mate’s Van-de-Stadt 34. Chuffing windy with a big chop round the back. Had to tack all the way from Bembridge ledge to the Needles. Took us just over 13hrs to get round.
A long day….
Splendid weekend! 8)
Good weather, good sailing (both ways), good food, and of course good company.
Great to meet some new people and share stories.
Many thanks to Ian & Anne for arranging it.
Bob
We use a the mid-ship cleat all the time, as there’s only 2 of us usually, and the deck it too high for SWMB?O to just from.
We use a lassoo method rather than a fixed length though. You get a long warp (we use our spring). Thread the end through the centre of the cleat and tie it using a bowline so that the loop is around the aft post of the cleat. The make a big loop (lassoo) about 3 or 4 meters long to drop over the pontoon cleat. Then I run the line around the front post of the cleat and back to the kite winch on the relevent side.
When coming in, you drive the boat up next to the cleat you want to catch, get your crew to drop the lassoo over the cleat, take up the slack on the winch, and then drive slowly forwards (or backwards, as this work in reverse too) to keep the boat alongside.
You can then ease the warp to move the boat along to where you want it. Then it will sit there quite happily while you get the other lines on.
