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General Discussion / Re: Easter
« Last Post by johnguy on 28 Mar 2024, 14:42 »
you can watsapp me on 07710943749 to arrange
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General Discussion / Re: Easter
« Last Post by johnguy on 28 Mar 2024, 14:39 »
Hi Emma  My 2016 BRe is in the water at Cardiff Bay Yacht Club. I plan to take all the cushions etc for the season down this weekend and the weather will be fine for a pootle in the bay if you wish. I don't have a planned time yet. Does Cardiff work for you and if so when? Cheers John
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General Discussion / Easter
« Last Post by Emma on 28 Mar 2024, 10:12 »
Hi, I’m thinking of buying a Bay raider Expedition and would like to have a look at one and/or possibly a test sail in Wales over Easter. Is there anyone who  has one and is willing?
Thank you.
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Technical / Re: BC23 SPINNAKER ARRANGEMENT
« Last Post by Nicky R on 27 Mar 2024, 21:30 »
This photo shows it, although not very well, for our non-furling spinnaker. It’s the white rope with blue flecks that you can see coming out of the spinnaker bag in the photo. (I’m not sure why it’s in the spinnaker bag - it doesn’t need to be.)

We rig the tack line on the starboard side. The tack line isn’t tricky to set up. One end ties onto the tack of the spinnaker, with a ball to stop the knot vanishing into the bowsprit. It then feeds through the bowsprit, tube over foredeck and cabin roof, through the turning block and into the clutches.

The metal you can see on the cabin roof is a stainless steel chafe guard to stop the tack line wearing away the cabin roof. Some people use a fair lead there. We have more chafe guards on the side of the cockpit where the spinnaker sheets rub.

Ignore the yellow ropes in the photo - they attach the spinnaker bag to the grab handles so we don’t loose the bag over the side!
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Technical / Re: Electrics
« Last Post by Sea Simon on 27 Mar 2024, 20:49 »
Hope it works for you, Good luck!
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Technical / Re: BC23 SPINNAKER ARRANGEMENT
« Last Post by Philip L on 27 Mar 2024, 20:25 »
Hi Gavin,
You are correct, there is now no bobstay, The spinnaker just flies from the spinnaker boom which bends up slightly under halyard tension - the same pushing the boom back into the fitting.  A word of caution on halyard tension - it is possible to pull a knot through the block at the top of the mast leaving you with the spinnaker jammed up.  It may be safer to fix the head of the spinnaker using a halyard ball stopper as is done on the mainsail halyard.
I run the furling gear down the starboard side and tie the tail attached to the jamming cleat to the aft mooring cleat but not 100% sure if this is how others do it.  So far, furling has seem to work best when pulling furiously in the direction of the arrow on the jamming cleat but would be interested in how other advise to furl.
I have tended to lead the sheets just around the jib stay and jibe by furling and then unfurling.  The sheets didn't seem long enough to to run around the fore of the spinnaker furler to be able to jibe the sail.
For the first time, I waited for a very calm day before launching the spinnaker for the first time.  Still managed to get it well tangled at last years Mylor raid.  If you watch the video on the SY you tube, Matt comments about not known why someone was flying their spinnaker while tied up alongside in Restronguet creek - it was me trying to untangle everything!
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Technical / Re: Electrics
« Last Post by TheOldDuffer on 27 Mar 2024, 17:22 »
Having trickled up to 12.7 V, did you not then try the CTek immediately afterwards?

Does the CTek not have a reconditioning/de-sulphation mode?

I didn't, but will trickle again and then take it back down to the boat and see if the CTek does the reconditioning/de-sulphation. At €150 to replace and after only 2yr, I'd hope it might recover.
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Technical / Re: Electrics
« Last Post by Sea Simon on 27 Mar 2024, 16:20 »
Having trickled up to 12.7 V, did you not then try the CTek immediately afterwards?

Does the CTek not have a reconditioning/de-sulphation mode?
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Technical / Re: Electrics
« Last Post by TheOldDuffer on 27 Mar 2024, 14:06 »
I took the battery out and used my old trickle charger. It brought the voltage up to 12.4V. After a week, it's down to 12.18V. No sure if this is good or bad! ::)
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Technical / Re: One bilge pump solution for the BR20
« Last Post by TheOldDuffer on 27 Mar 2024, 14:02 »
I have a bilge pump which I intend to have switched in the locker and be dropped into the ballast tank. I'd like a right-angled bend before the tubing, but can't seem to find the right size fitting (29mm). The pump is small so maybe the tube can bend enough without the fitting.

Of course, at the end of last season, I thought I'd have plenty of time, but since the start of the new year it's been either very cold or very wet and often both, so I hope to get my skates on before the start of the sailing season!
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