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I love that column! I’m AOPA Panel counsel. I represented a guy who bent
back the metal, got back in the plane and flew away. He was an engineer, so
gravity was a lesser concern than for the rest of us saps. Judge Fowler
heard that case.I’ll call Markel
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actually, both. the boat slipped in the travellift and the result was an
unintentional unstepping of the mizzen. I need an inspection of the step
and rigging, and at least one mizzen shroud, two running backs with
attachment points, and a new halyard (and probably the sheave). Hence the
request for a local rigger.
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picture forthcoming. I am in agreement re: flying billowy things near that giant fan.
given my proclivity for broken boat racing in 25kn+, and seeing those that have been added, I will try to add the Solent this winter. I have a big asymm. it has 20 patches and looks like an old sock, but whatever.
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On Nov 15, 2008, at 8:09 AM, “Robert Fine” < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Hi Adam,
Send Tor a picture of your frame and stuff that mounts and controls your wind generator. I’m pretty sure you don’t want a mizzen staysail with that arrangement. It looks like a disaster waiting to happen, but I’m leery of such things. I am, however, impressed with your wind generator – it’s big, it’s powerful, and it’s really quiet. It would be the one I’d get if I weren’t thoroughly afraid of high speed, sharp, rotating machinery.
If you want to increase the speed and power of the boat simply, add a staysail. Not only does it increase speed on normal days by 1 to 1.5 knots but it provides a mounting point for a storm jib. When you have to shorten sail, you won’t be flying the mizzen staysail.
For light air, add yourself an asymmetrical spinnaker, and go to town!
Bob
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:54 AM, adam silverstein <()> wrote:
the turbine is mounted on a tubular frame fwd of the mizzen just above the spreaders. the brake is controlled by a line leading down to just above the winches. I shimmy not; neither do I lasso. yea and verily. some models can be controlled by their own magnets too. mine bumps on using the controller and can be reversed to slow it.
tor: configuration meant shape and size, ie, symmetrical or not; luff length. head-to-sheave or shorter. I have seen pictures, but if I want the sailmaker to cut me one, I’d prefer to give something more specific.
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(“trust everyone but cut the cards”)On Nov 14, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Aaron Lynch <()> wrote:
On 11/14/08 1:51 PM, Silver Heels wrote :
I’d like a way to physically, mechanically tie off the blades when I don’t
want them spinning, but I’m not going to shimmy up the mast to do it, or even
climb up on ladder steps underway if I can avoid it.Who ee doggy, looks like ya’ll might be taken some of them thar lasso’n
classes there cowboy 🙂
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the turbine is mounted on a tubular frame fwd of the mizzen just above
the spreaders. the brake is controlled by a line leading down to just
above the winches. I shimmy not; neither do I lasso. yea and verily.
some models can be controlled by their own magnets too. mine bumps on
using the controller and can be reversed to slow it.tor: configuration meant shape and size, ie, symmetrical or not; luff
length. head-to-sheave or shorter. I have seen pictures, but if I
want the sailmaker to cut me one, I’d prefer to give something more
specific.-Adam Silverstein-iPhone
(“trust everyone but cut the cards”)On Nov 14, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Aaron Lynch <> wrote:
On 11/14/08 1:51 PM, Silver Heels wrote :
I’d like a way to physically, mechanically tie off the blades when
I don’t
want them spinning, but I’m not going to shimmy up the mast to do
it, or even
climb up on ladder steps underway if I can avoid it.Who ee doggy, looks like ya’ll might be taken some of them thar lass
o’n
classes there cowboy 🙂
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I have a bicycle brake on my four winds. those big ol’ blades scare me though. what is the configuration and weight of that mizzen staysail, tor?
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On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:30 PM, “Silver Heels” < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Quote:Thatcher,Earlier you wrote, “The only down side to this (mizzen-mounted wind generator) installation is that I wanted to have a mizzen staysail, but cannot without “caging” the windmill.”
I believe many wind generators, if not all, can be braked by crossing the connections. My Air-X came with a shutoff switch for this purpose, to enable the user to stop the blades from spinning from deck level. I have a mizzen staysail and plan to fly it when conditions permit. This is normally on a reach in light airs, so the wind generator wouldn’t be putting out much charge anyway. I’ll just stop the blades when flying that sail. Perhaps you can do the same with your setup.
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Rodd: see? I’m not a complete doofus. (thank you, Rich)
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Seeing as I have more than one engine guru to ask, I’d also like to try to
clarify something:A member of my stalwart (but overenthusiastic) crew broke my manual lift
pump while bleeding lines. I have a little electric pump I use only
occasionally for my patented “wife suffocator” diesel heater. Can I sub the
electric pump for a manual lift pump? I could install an on/off toggle
switch and route a fuel line off a tee and back to the secondary
engine-mounted fuel filter. I guess it would either make bleeding the
diesel much easier or create a massive flood of fuel, pop seals, gaskets,
etc. Please advise.-Adam “there are no dumb questions” Silverstein
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Re: 424 site engine guru C. Ruble’s sage advise; if this vessel has been sitting around waiting for you to come along and love her, there may well be old, gnarly contaminated fuel in the tanks, and the PO’s last racor/secondary filter change may have been a while ago. before undertaking herculean effort, have a peek with gimlet eye at those filters. given the totality of your tale, its the most likely source of this trouble. PS: did she run fine on sea trial, and then did you take her out & bounce her around a bit, shaking up all the chunks?
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in line, high in the bilge is nice. but I’m more curious if folks are sticking with big, expensive batteries or trying something else. it would be $2000+ to replace all agms. Rodd is right to use a starter battery for the starter. what I have now is shear overkill. who else has gone trojan t105? anyone have odyssey (military spec)?
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On Oct 31, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Aaron Lynch < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Unless your bilge is clear, I measured and I think they might just fit side by side there, but it’ll be tight.
On 10/31/08 5:29 PM, Aaron Lynch wrote :
My boxes only hold 4D’s not 8’s
I think the best likely location for the big ones is under the steering quadrant.
On 10/31/08 4:47 PM, adam silverstein wrote :
at long last my 8d agms are in their twilight. having heard the
options, if you’ve been using these big boys what are you doing/have
you done when it’s time to repower? I have the two stbd Yucko boxes,
but I’ll put the starter battery fwd in the port locker (so it can be
any configuration)-Adam Silverstein-iPhone
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why no loop out of and above the muffler as per ordinary configuration?
-Adam Silverstein
(tornado boy)On Oct 23, 2008, at 9:24 AM, “Walterpiescik” < ([email][/email])> wrote:
My exhaust loop is so low that you cannot call it a loop at all.
I am going offshore and am concerned about saltwater flooding of the engine.
I have a homemade exhaust flap, I trust ti only to keep waves from slapping in suddenly, I do not trust it to seal out water over long periods.
If I put in a valve, it will be hard to reach in an emergency, and begs to have someone start the engine with it closed.
If I add a loop up into the transom (coaming?) I run the risk of too much backpressure, or worse, that the exhaust will not expel enough water and all that hose will drain back into the engine and cause the very flodding I wish to avoid.
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btw I drop a “fish” – a zinc on a cord attached to a bonding wire (10 ga) when I’m near a suspected electrical field, marina, etc.
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On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:23 AM, “John Stevenson” < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Patrick,
Unless you have a generator or a seawater cooled refrigerator condensor that should be about it.
In addition to the one on my Maxprop I also put one on the shaft.John
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Patrick Walters <()> wrote:
I’m reading through all those manuals I scanned and I thought I was going to find more zincs in the system. Is there really only the one one in the Heat Exchanger and the ones on the prop?
Checking these and replacing would be a good thing to add to that Winterizing list that went out today.
Thanks,
-p
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I saw that listing. It appears there remains the bulkhead where the fwd companionway stairs would be, but one cannot see the actual stairs. My PO removed the fwd turtle and put in a lame-ass hatch. Oh, how I wish I had the leaky turtle again. I dream of a convenient secondary means of egress. (Those who have heard my malodorous, foul-mouthed brats would agree).
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or is it wear on the shaft bearings that we wish to avoid-as long as
the tranny remains in neutral, it is disengaged from the lower prop
shaft and there should be little wear on the Paragon itself.-Adam Silverstein-iPhone
(“trust everyone but cut the cards”)On Oct 4, 2008, at 1:26 PM, adam silverstein <> wrote:
tor: not to belabor-and i appreciate your research here- but if the
transmission is placed in gear while under sail, and the prop shaft
is turning nonetheless (as mine does after 4 kn or so) would that
engage the plates and circulate the life-giving lubricative oil? I
was under the impression it is mechanically pumped when the drive
shaft turns.-Adam Silverstein-iPhone
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Uhhh. DON’T freewheel the Paragon?But it spins both in gear or in neutral after 4 kn. I suppose I can shaft brake, but what was mfg. thinking owners were going to do?
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On Oct 3, 2008, at 7:13 PM, “John Stevenson” < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Quote:The Paragon tranny on my W60 was one of the reasons I went with a Maxprop (the other reasons was power in reverse). If I stopped the engine with the Paragon in gear, the Maxprop would featther. Then I just switched to neutral and no free-wheeling. That is not an option with the VD so the Maxprop free-wheels under sail as long as speed > 4 kts. Although the VD doesn’t have problem with free-wheeling, I think the
V-Drive does. I can stop the free-wheeling by temporarily clamping the prop shaft with a vice-grips. That will cause the Maxprop to feather and the free-wheeling is no more. It’s just a pain to pull up the aft floor board hatch when I shut down the engine. Unless I come up with a better solution, that will only happen for long passages (>24 hours).John
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Robert Fine <()> wrote:
Quote:I’m here for ya, buddy! Of the three transmissions Pearson used, the Paragon is the only one that can’t freewheel, but it’s also able to be locked. The Hurth will freewheel in neutral just fine and so will the Velvet Drive. Ah, well. Lock ‘er up! The only caveat for the Velvet drive is to not leave it in reverse.Bob
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Silver Heels <()> wrote:
Quote:Smart. That’s why I like running stuff by an engineer. I have a Paragon transmission, which I gather cannot be allowed to freewheel. Too bad. Otherwise, I’d put a generator or an alternator on the shaft, too.Tor
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I ground out the worst spots and painted them with resin, filled with mat,
then more resin, then a 2000 barrier, then 2 coats of black Petit. The
remaining little nubbins help me find my way around the bottom in the dark
when I get that hankering. Clearly this is the only thing stopping me from
absolutely humiliating that J46 in the other corner of the harbor on race
night.
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