Pleased you got in safely! Very same thing just happened with our generator. Part of our impeller checks now is to check integrity of that retaining screw! Thanks for another great video 🙂
We have since obtained another half dozen brass screws from Bosun Bob's. They are the wrong length but 2 minutes with the grinder and a file will soon fix that 😉 then I think we will change that screw out every time we change the impeller. I see from MarineTraffic that you have somehow gone off course and are now miles inland 😄 Enjoy Gronigen...
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Had fabulous ten days in Dutch canals ... you would love it. Really relaxing and loads to explore. Could easily spend a season here. Hope our winter stopover has a 'Bosun Bobs' ... another thing we'll miss about Bangor!
Part of the routine i get in to when I change the impeller is to remove the cam and check the condition for wear etc. In the past we've had some cam's were the edge of the cam had worm over time and left quite a sharp edge by putting a new impeller in would have resulted in damaging the impeller. Also another thing to check is the wear plate at the back of the pump.
We always thought the cam was part of the casting. No one ever tells you that it comes off!! Part of the new routine will be its removal and checking and a new bolt being fitted when the annual impeller change happens. And the wear plate too!
What is it about this year and cooling problems. You are the 7 th boat I know to have cooling problems. Glad all was ok. When I have a thread problem I use cut a piece out of a can bung it in the hole and put the screw/ bolt back. Depending on the size of the hole will depend how much can you need to use. Always a good watch thanks.
Once we realised that we had plenty of sea-room it took a lot of the urgency out of the situation. It was very strange ghosting in through Baltimore's entrance at 2kts as the wind died and the cliff's wind shadow finished the job 😄
What? No Dilithium Crystals for the drive? How on earth will you power the loo, for those emergencies? A lovely video for length, and so glad that you're safe and well.
DiLithium??? We have not even got to Lithium yet - we're still using lead/acid batteries 😄 Fortunately the loo is powered by muscle power 😉 Glad you liked it!
I know exactly which screw you mean, I have had the same thing happen to our water pump, luckily the screw failed when I was dismantling it all for a service so disaster avoided. Now I want to go and check it is still ok lol
We are making a set of replacement bolts just to have them handy. We have no intention of going through all that again and we will change the bolt as part of the annual maintenance when we change the impeller
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass good plan I think I tapped the thread out on the thingamy doings to metric so I could just use regular m4 panheads, I think its some kind of freedom units malarky when original.
Just the screw holding the cam? Buy a pump where the cam is part of the housing casting. Appart from that, it's the first time I have heard that screw shearing.
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Understand the ckock :-) See you have a lot of plastick hoses in engine cooling system. Sereously evaluate to replace with quality rubber hoses.
@@svhulda6157 - the hoses are all reinforced and are suitable for what they do. They also have the advantage that you can see whether or not the water is moving through them
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Trust me, I am mech. eng. with >60 yrs experience. And I have seen those hoses fail. Of course, your choise. But now you have had one failure that you did not see comming. I am just informing of the next possible 🙂
Interesting video 👍... It got me thinking about what could be done if you lost raw water cooling either by to the impeller or a blockage! 🤔... Last year i had a mechanic working on my volvo penta d1-20 whilst it was on the hard and he needed to makes sure it would start good so he removed the impeller and ran the engine for a few minutes! I have wondered how long you could run like that in an emergency before the engine failed! Would alarms go off before it failed 🤔
You can run it that way for a few minutes and a little longer if from a cold start. I would like to think that the alarms would go off but it is a heck of a way to experiment
On another point. You talk a lot about how inaccurate the marine weather forecasts are for the UK and Ireland. I see similar comments from other sailors on the same areas. Q: if you are also using PredictWind (PW) how does it stack up in comparison. Strangely the UK and Euro models (ECWMF) predict winds and weather here in our region of southern NSW, Australia with great accuracy and they are used in the PW model clusters. The AU met office known colloquially as the BOM, I think also use these models plus their own for our forecasts which are pretty good for 3 days out. So I’m really interested in a comment from you and others on this. Best from the Antipodes.
We do use PredictWind but many of the apps are just a wrapper for displaying forecasts from elsewhere - they do not make the forecasts. Choosing PredictWind over (say) Windy just changes the presentation rather than the forecast. Having said that, the paid versions of the apps do tend to update more often than the free versions. The problem with UK weather is well known and will likely always be an issue. The UK sits at the juncture of five weather systems (Polar air mass, Continental polar air mass, Arctic maritime air mass, Tropical Continental air mass and the Tropical Maritime air mass) plus a jet stream and also gets treated to the NE-ly migration of Caribbean tropical storms. These are all "chaotic" meaning that they are all sensitively dependent on initial conditions so a small change can result in a large effect. All these are in constant motion and competition with each other making _detailed_ forecasts very unreliable unless they are very short term (say 12 hours ahead). We find that the ECWMF is the best general forecast with a very short term one called AROME being very good but it is only for 24 hours ahead, For sailing around here a bigger concern is the sea state forecast. We will sail in F8 if we have to as long as the sea state is not too bad but as some visiting boats found out recently, wind against tide up here is not an experience you really want to repeat as tides in excess of 3 kts are common and in some spots over 5kts is normal. In those areas, short choppy 2m seas can pop up in minutes. All this is why we generally plan for diversion ports when making our passage plans. If the weather turns and we need to run, we do not want to be thinking about it 😄
Thanks for the excellent detailed response. I now have a better understanding of your situation. Of course its not so simple here as we have the southern ocean as a major weather driver, northern tropics doing their thing to influence the situation and a large land mass which is a heat sink. Tidal influences are greatest in the northern zones but less of an issue further south. I’ve long thought that if you learn to sail in a variety of areas in the UK and further north you learn to be very good sailors due to the range of different conditions you need to contend with. This to me is the attraction of sailing, you never stop learning and being challenged, and on a good day, one of the most pleasurable pursuits to be imagined. Best 😊
A whole 7 days to wait... you are both meticulous in terms of maintenance so this must have been very annoying. Seeing there is a forthcoming video all must be well - I hope.
We did discover a whole new area to keep an eye on - one we never knew about. The fix has worked but I think another item will be added to the annual maintenance list.
I’m so pleased to have found your channel! Yes, yes, yes! Go girls! 💪 just the inspiration I need 🤩 well done 👏
Welcome aboard and thank you for the feedback.
Fantasy forecast 😅
Beautiful coastline.
Exciting video 😊
Yes, thanks. It is a lovely area.
Pleased you got in safely!
Very same thing just happened with our generator. Part of our impeller checks now is to check integrity of that retaining screw!
Thanks for another great video 🙂
We have since obtained another half dozen brass screws from Bosun Bob's. They are the wrong length but 2 minutes with the grinder and a file will soon fix that 😉 then I think we will change that screw out every time we change the impeller. I see from MarineTraffic that you have somehow gone off course and are now miles inland 😄 Enjoy Gronigen...
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Had fabulous ten days in Dutch canals ... you would love it. Really relaxing and loads to explore. Could easily spend a season here. Hope our winter stopover has a 'Bosun Bobs' ... another thing we'll miss about Bangor!
@@svgabrielle- we have only done one canal (Crinan!) and I did not like the feeling of being hemmed in. How you stood it for 10 days is amazing. 😄
If you think your boat is 100% up and running, you just haven't found the broken part yet.
Great Star Trek reference there, I loved it.
The Star Trek reference gets used a LOT off camera 😄😄😄 because, as you say, there is usually something that needs fixed!
Part of the routine i get in to when I change the impeller is to remove the cam and check the condition for wear etc. In the past we've had some cam's were the edge of the cam had worm over time and left quite a sharp edge by putting a new impeller in would have resulted in damaging the impeller. Also another thing to check is the wear plate at the back of the pump.
We always thought the cam was part of the casting. No one ever tells you that it comes off!! Part of the new routine will be its removal and checking and a new bolt being fitted when the annual impeller change happens. And the wear plate too!
Great ending! Standing by till next week! 🇨🇦
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
What is it about this year and cooling problems. You are the 7 th boat I know to have cooling problems. Glad all was ok. When I have a thread problem I use cut a piece out of a can bung it in the hole and put the screw/ bolt back. Depending on the size of the hole will depend how much can you need to use. Always a good watch thanks.
We show a solution to the thread problem next week but we are glad you enjoyed the vid. 2023 has been a strange year all round I think...
I can't believe a little screw has got u Flustered Bev😲
Wait until next week!!! Actually we were quite calm about the whole thing once we realised that we could just sail out to sea in moderate conditions
Ooh the suspense! All dealt with very calmly I must say. Or was it more fraught in reality ? Well done.
Once we realised that we had plenty of sea-room it took a lot of the urgency out of the situation. It was very strange ghosting in through Baltimore's entrance at 2kts as the wind died and the cliff's wind shadow finished the job 😄
It’s a sailboat, it’s a big harbour you had wind!
The wind was failing, the entrance is narrow, has reefs and the wreck of a yacht that sank there the previous week.
Well that was exciting! I wanted to rush off and check my impeller housing. I’ll be twitchy all week awaiting the sequel. Best
Even after we fixed it I was twitchy for weeks. In fact I still am 😄
Interesting cliff hanger❤
We have not done one for ages, it was about time 😉
What? No Dilithium Crystals for the drive? How on earth will you power the loo, for those emergencies?
A lovely video for length, and so glad that you're safe and well.
DiLithium??? We have not even got to Lithium yet - we're still using lead/acid batteries 😄 Fortunately the loo is powered by muscle power 😉 Glad you liked it!
That's not fair hanging over a cliff. I thought I was going to learn something. You going up to the Maritime Festival in Belfast this weekend as?
We had hoped to go but my mother has put a spoke in that particular wheel....
I know exactly which screw you mean, I have had the same thing happen to our water pump, luckily the screw failed when I was dismantling it all for a service so disaster avoided. Now I want to go and check it is still ok lol
We are making a set of replacement bolts just to have them handy. We have no intention of going through all that again and we will change the bolt as part of the annual maintenance when we change the impeller
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass good plan I think I tapped the thread out on the thingamy doings to metric so I could just use regular m4 panheads, I think its some kind of freedom units malarky when original.
Ours was M4 to start with so that helped. "Freedom units"???
Imperial lol A/F or Whitworth probably, it is a very old boat.
Big dollop of ct1 seals anything can be used in wet conditions
Sealing it was not the problem. The screw was needed to hold the plate
Just the screw holding the cam? Buy a pump where the cam is part of the housing casting. Appart from that, it's the first time I have heard that screw shearing.
We did not even know the screw existed - until we found it in the engine bilge.
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Understand the ckock :-) See you have a lot of plastick hoses in engine cooling system. Sereously evaluate to replace with quality rubber hoses.
@@svhulda6157 - the hoses are all reinforced and are suitable for what they do. They also have the advantage that you can see whether or not the water is moving through them
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Trust me, I am mech. eng. with >60 yrs experience. And I have seen those hoses fail. Of course, your choise. But now you have had one failure that you did not see comming. I am just informing of the next possible 🙂
Interesting video 👍... It got me thinking about what could be done if you lost raw water cooling either by to the impeller or a blockage! 🤔... Last year i had a mechanic working on my volvo penta d1-20 whilst it was on the hard and he needed to makes sure it would start good so he removed the impeller and ran the engine for a few minutes! I have wondered how long you could run like that in an emergency before the engine failed! Would alarms go off before it failed 🤔
You can run it that way for a few minutes and a little longer if from a cold start. I would like to think that the alarms would go off but it is a heck of a way to experiment
A cliffhanger? Seriously!!!
You have to have one every so often 😄
On another point. You talk a lot about how inaccurate the marine weather forecasts are for the UK and Ireland. I see similar comments from other sailors on the same areas. Q: if you are also using PredictWind (PW) how does it stack up in comparison. Strangely the UK and Euro models (ECWMF) predict winds and weather here in our region of southern NSW, Australia with great accuracy and they are used in the PW model clusters. The AU met office known colloquially as the BOM, I think also use these models plus their own for our forecasts which are pretty good for 3 days out. So I’m really interested in a comment from you and others on this. Best from the Antipodes.
We do use PredictWind but many of the apps are just a wrapper for displaying forecasts from elsewhere - they do not make the forecasts. Choosing PredictWind over (say) Windy just changes the presentation rather than the forecast. Having said that, the paid versions of the apps do tend to update more often than the free versions.
The problem with UK weather is well known and will likely always be an issue. The UK sits at the juncture of five weather systems (Polar air mass, Continental polar air mass, Arctic maritime air mass, Tropical Continental air mass and the Tropical Maritime air mass) plus a jet stream and also gets treated to the NE-ly migration of Caribbean tropical storms. These are all "chaotic" meaning that they are all sensitively dependent on initial conditions so a small change can result in a large effect. All these are in constant motion and competition with each other making _detailed_ forecasts very unreliable unless they are very short term (say 12 hours ahead).
We find that the ECWMF is the best general forecast with a very short term one called AROME being very good but it is only for 24 hours ahead, For sailing around here a bigger concern is the sea state forecast. We will sail in F8 if we have to as long as the sea state is not too bad but as some visiting boats found out recently, wind against tide up here is not an experience you really want to repeat as tides in excess of 3 kts are common and in some spots over 5kts is normal. In those areas, short choppy 2m seas can pop up in minutes.
All this is why we generally plan for diversion ports when making our passage plans. If the weather turns and we need to run, we do not want to be thinking about it 😄
Thanks for the excellent detailed response. I now have a better understanding of your situation. Of course its not so simple here as we have the southern ocean as a major weather driver, northern tropics doing their thing to influence the situation and a large land mass which is a heat sink. Tidal influences are greatest in the northern zones but less of an issue further south. I’ve long thought that if you learn to sail in a variety of areas in the UK and further north you learn to be very good sailors due to the range of different conditions you need to contend with. This to me is the attraction of sailing, you never stop learning and being challenged, and on a good day, one of the most pleasurable pursuits to be imagined. Best 😊
We certainly learn to plan ahead 😄
A whole 7 days to wait... you are both meticulous in terms of maintenance so this must have been very annoying. Seeing there is a forthcoming video all must be well - I hope.
We did discover a whole new area to keep an eye on - one we never knew about. The fix has worked but I think another item will be added to the annual maintenance list.