On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ray Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael > > Congratulations on trading up to Royalty class!
Thanks! > JP in cold weather - A hurricane lamp in the engine room can help with cold > staring in the morning (My HA2 is similarly stiff on cold mornings) I once > had a day out on the ex Keay tug Judith Anne. It was very frosty, BCN was > frozen, it took 3 men to start the JP - Two turning and one holding the > burning rag in the right place and dropping the taps. Blimey - I'm hoping I can start the thing on my own! The hurricane lamp - is that just hung so that the hot air from it gets sucked into the air intake? > JPs have two compression settings - If you're not a JP veteran, chat Peter > Thompson up at Marine Engine Services at Uxbridge. He can probably sell you > a manual for it. The previous owner told us about the change-over valves, and I've done a little research on the internet. On Saturday while breaking through the ice below Stoke Bruerne and through MK I set her to low compression mode. Though Jules on Towcester (another JP2 owner) said it's usually best to leave it in high compression mode unless towing a loaded butty. I'm going to get a manual from Pete, just haven't managed to yet. > Make sure you clean the water-channels through the engine to ensure that > EVERYTHING drains in cold weather -I once had a lot of expense and > embarrassment with a cracked cylinder block caused by mud freezing in what I > THOUGHT was a drained engine Was that due to mud stopping parts of the engine draining? Are there access points that need to be cleared out? > Smoky stove - If you haven't already, clean out the soot in the airways > around the oven, and in the smoke box. Sweep the chimney - My Classic (= > Epping) nearly kippered AND poisoned me simultaneously before I did this. > High Temperature Silicone Sealer (the >1000 Centigrade stuff) is available > on eBay and bungs up holes better than fire cement, which has a nasty habit > of falling out if you ding a cill. In the good old days a Party 7 with the > ends out made an effective chimney extension Yes, the stove needs a good clean out, and looks like I should probably do it soon than later, but want to wait till the weather is a little more clement. I actually bought some fire cerment to seal it, but it looks like that Silicone will be much better. Does anyone know where I might get some without ordering on EBay? > Contact with fellow old boat nuts - Join the hNBOC. Jim on Elizabeth may > have already bent your ear about this, but do - There is a back number of > the Newsletter with an article on Royalty class boats in it - Back-Channel > your snail-mail address & I'll whiz you a photocopy. Yes, everyone has been saying join the hNBOC. I must fill out the form today. > Oh yes - And buy a parachute for safety when climbing around the fore-end! Not sure where I'm going to get one of them from! I'll keep looking... > Ray Butler > Owl Thanks Ray, Mike. -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
