I am upgrading my radar system to a RayMarine C-80 with a 4 KW radome.  I
would like to gimbal it and am looking for feedback on good/bad mounts.  I
will be attaching it to a pole on the stern of the boat.

– Thanks, Geoff

A few months ago, the President implemented even stricter rules governing
visits to Cuba. I am a Canadian with a Canadian registered boat planning to
visit Cuba next winter, but the new rules appear to include me if I leave
from USA.
Does anyone have any recent experience?

My daysail boat open cockpit (Tempest22) floor is making cracking noise when
I walk on it.
There is small crack also.I patched the crack with fiberglass cloth.
Now I have to solve the  problem to prevent farther cracks.
I ‘m considering 2 options:
     Cover the floor with playwood and fiberglass over- details like non
skid and glue between playwood and current flooring arise . Someone
recommended applying expendable foam to seal the playwood to floor

Second option is to re fiberglass with cloth and several layers , and fill
the space between hull and floor with expendable foam to support the weight
of the crew.
I lean toward 2 option.
please share your suggestions

Thank you.
Jari

Sailing a Practical Handbook on Equipment Handling and Upkeep of Open,
Half- decked and Small decked boats.
Large Hardback,260 pages,,good condition ex-libris sticker inside of
front board ,otherwise VGC. By H J K Bamfield

From the brilliant Sports and Pastimes Library

Superb old book ,very comprehensive with many photos and diagrams.
Some headings :-Buying a boat / The ideal cruiser (hull and rig) /
Masts and spars /Sails / Ground tackle / Cooking at sea/ Cleaning
decks / below deck / Tacking ,gybing and seamanship etc .Also sectoins
on cruising off norther France,The Channel Islands and other areas.

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While sitting on my (new to me) boat yesterday, trying to figure out how
and where to mount a sea water strainer, it occured to me that the hose
routing would be a lot cleaner if I connected stuff like this:

Intake-strainer-exchanger-pump-exhaust

Any problems I’m overlooking with this arrangement?

Also, I noticed the heat exchanger zinc (pencil) is mounted on the
bottom. This means that whenever I check the zinc, I’m going to
have water in the bilge. Any reason I can’t have a new zinc nut
welded to the top? Oh, it’s a horizontal heat exchanger.

Thanks,
NormB

Does anyone have the recommended values for tensioning the stays and shrouds
of a 1992 Prout Event 34?
We’re sailing her from N Carolina to FL and would like to balance the rig
correctly (9/32" wire).
You can see us at <jelliclecat.com>, thanks, Don & Betty Bottomley

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I would like to try powering my main winches [Barient 28s] by a
[preferably] portable drill/impact wrench/etc., as at least an emergency
option.

Has anyone successfully done this ?

If yes, how’d you determine what you needed ? I see that there are now
numerous new portable ones that range up to 24v.

If portable ones are insufficient, how ’bout such as DeWalt and
Milwaukee 1/2" corded models ?

What has been found unsatisfactory about such an application ?

Appreciatively,
Courtney
—
s/v Mutiny
Rhodes Bounty II
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619

SpinSheet magazine caught us playing hooky from work.  They put Tempest on
their 2005 Calendar for January.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/lily0523/tempest.htm

My Yanmar 2gm used to go 3400 rpm — I did it a couple of times just to
see if it would go the recommended redline.  But now it will only go
2800 rpm full squeeze. And at 2800 rpm (either at the slip or under way)
it puts out a little whitish smoke. I’ve been thru the fuel system and
so far can’t find anything that would be limiting the fuel flow (new
hoses, new filter elements, etc).

Any suggestions of other reasons this thing won’t go full blast.?

Thanks