Re: Stus-List Engine clean-up

Bill, Thanks for the video link. It looks well edited, full of info and worth while. I'll watch the whole thing tonight. Can't watch it now, gotta get back to work. Chuck S > On June 18, 2019 at 4:33 PM Bill Coleman via CnC-List > wrote: > > > I don't know how I stumbled upon it, but I

Stus-List Sea Strainer Plugging Up

Listers, On a recent trip I found my sea strainer plugging up with sea weed very often. The good news is its doing its job. The bad news is it plugs up far too frequently. It seems to happen most frequently when entering or leaving various harbours here on the west coast. On 2 occassions I

Re: Stus-List Sea Strainer Plugging Up

I'd be interested in a fix to, I'm on he West Coast, just a little up the coast from you (Parksville) and mine plugs up every time we motor out and back. C&C 30. marc. On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 5:40 AM Allan Hester via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Listers, > > > On a recent trip I

Re: Stus-List Sea Strainer Plugging Up

Are you guys going through an especially muddy area? Or maybe an area where there is heavy vegetation growth?  Richard s/v Bushmark4: 1985 C&C 37 CB; Ohio River; in flood mode... Richard N. Bush 2950 Breckenridge Lane, Suite Nine Louisville, Kentucky 40220-1462 502-584-7255 -Origina

Re: Stus-List Sea Strainer Plugging Up

Not really, although the west coast is quite abundant in kelp and sea weed. marc. On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 6:40 AM Richard Bush wrote: > Are you guys going through an especially muddy area? Or maybe an area > where there is heavy vegetation growth? > > Richard > s/v Bushmark4: 1985 C&C 37 CB; Oh

Re: Stus-List Heavy weather sail trim

Thanks, John, for this excellent write up of reefing - very helpful. Although we did go through reefing several times on our recent ISPA course, the boat was rigged a bit differently, and we also had a crew of 5, so things were much easier. The instructor's boat (a Formosa 43) used something simila

Re: Stus-List Sea Strainer Plugging Up

It seems to me that an exterior like this might be advised:  https://www.generalpropeller.com/00SS450?language=en¤cy=USD&gclid=CjwKCAjwuqfoBRAEEiwAZErCss7FYO6Aofrr_Yi-2yMHElDJl1UycIxkqnmE16gnYD56vbxua-0gAhoCyNYQAvD_BwE | | | | $15.32 | | | | | | | Bronze Scoop Strainer 00SS450 Outside

Stus-List Sea Strainer Plugging Up

Bruce: I have same thing except it is plastic...glued it on with 3M 5200 in 2006 and it is still there and works finehave never had an issue with with raw water intake fouling. Rob Abbott AZURA C&C 32 -#277 Halifax, N.S.

Re: Stus-List Heavy weather sail trim

I have a slightly different system for reefing. I have a 4-1 downhaul with a stainless hook for attachment to the cringle and led back to the cockpit stopper. I have the main halyard premarked for a height that allows me to move the hook from the normal downhaul position to the reef point crin

Stus-List Sea Strainer Plugging Up

Bruce: Cat’s Paw also has an external strainer, but made of bronze. We have never had trouble with it - either during many years in the Chesapeake Bay or for the last 15 years here in Massachusetts in Buzzards Bay. We haul every year, and I scrape off any barnacles etc at that time, often unsc

Re: Stus-List Heavy weather sail trim

I bought a new mainsail last year with two reef points including dogbones in the cringles. And I bought a gooseneck pin with ram's horns. Problem is the dogbones aren’t long enough, so I can only hook one ring, and I have to remove the sail stop to let a slug out of the track to do so. Easil

Stus-List C&C 29 MKII Main Sail & Genoa

I have a C&C 29 MKII Main Sale in good to fair condition and an almost new used very little 135% Genoa for sale, also some 150' and 250' of 5/8" and 3/4" 3 Strand Twisted Rope for sale. For pictures and more information call or text me at my cell 305-785-8549 or email me at robe...@gmail.com. Bob

Re: Stus-List Heavy weather sail trim

Randy, I believe you are only supposed to use one ring at a time. Depends on which tack you are on. Pretty simple fix, as you noted, just need a little 1” webbing. I have some if you need it. Bill Coleman Erie PA From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Randy St

Re: Stus-List Sea Strainer Plugging Up

I don't have a magic bullet, and working on the symptoms rather than the problem is, I know, the wrong approach, but having said that . . . I put a temp sensor alarm on my C&C 39 exhaust hose, and the only time it ever went off it paid for itself, was in a weedy marina in Port Colbourn, and clogged

Re: Stus-List Ultrasonic sailing instruments?

Just installed an Airmar 900DX+, (electromagnetic) I can tell you what I think of it soon, hoping I actually get the boat moving to try it out in the near future. It has a NMEA2000 connector which should go right into your Zeus. So far I see depth and speed (-0-) , still looking for temperature

Re: Stus-List Heavy weather sail trim

Randy, I agree with Bill. I've never heard of anyone using both rings. Years ago I too used to picture the rings coming down around both sides of the pack and hooking on each side. As such, even after realizing that only one ring was possible I would still reserve the port ring for the port hook

Re: Stus-List Heavy weather sail trim

Great thread, thanks all! Josh, I like the sound of the webbing and rings, and plan to buy some webbing to make safety lines so will give this a try. Crossing also makes sense as it should reduce the chance of the ring falling off the horn before you can reach the halyard. I have only a purchase i

Re: Stus-List Heavy weather sail trim

In the mostly light airs of the NC Pamlico Sound (and probably the Chesapeake), I have little experience with reefing. OTOH, I do have a single reef point in my main sail and a single line reefing system via a reefing line led to a cabin top winch through a rope clutch. It goes thru the boom dir

Re: Stus-List Ultrasonic sailing instruments?

Bill, The zeus actually has a NMEA 0183 input. It's not about using the 0183 signal so much as it is about generally upgrading the entire system and ensuring accuracy and reliability of the sensors. The ultrasonic wind instruments are already n2k and are naturally bird proof. Some articles have

Re: Stus-List Sea Strainer Plugging Up

There are various schools of thought about the strainer like that. Especially, if you sail in an area where there might be a lot of growth on the bottom (of the boat). These strainers are, unfortunately, known to get plugged substantially, by e.g. barnacles and other living creatures. I have a

Re: Stus-List Heavy weather sail trim

You don’t even need a bale. You can run the reefing line (at the aft cringle) from the end of the boom to the cringle and then back to the boom. Tie the reefing line to the boom (preferably, just a little bit aft of where the cringle wold be when reefed) and you are set. Btw. this works especial

Re: Stus-List Ultrasonic sailing instruments?

I installed an ultrasonic anemometer on Maggie about 4/5 years ago. It’s been working flawlessly. The sensor was made for commercial Wind Turbines and even has a built in heater to prevent icing. I found it on eBay. Had to build a little interface circuit to NMEA 0183... Cheers, Aaron Admiral M