Stus-List Best location for and small form factor start battery for yanmar 2gmf

Am revising the battery arrangement in my 33ii to add a start battery and parallel the existing group 34 batteries as a house bank. Space is at a premium... Has anyone done this and do you have any suggestions? Tx. ___ Email address: CnC-List@c

Re: Stus-List Best location for and small form factor start battery for yanmar 2gmf

As discussed on this list before, an ACR or Xantrex Echo-charge is what you should use to keep the start and house banks separate but allow the alternator to charge both. A combine switch allows for emergency starting with the house batteries. A very small lead acid battery is enough to turn the

Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

Evening all. Am wondering what I am doing a bit wrong here... I have a 33ii with jiffy reefing lines run inside the boom. They exit at the end of the boom (alongside the out haul) where they are then run up to their respective cringles. I have simply used a stop knot in the cringle, as ther

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

Just run the line up,thru the cringle, then down around the boom an tie a bowline to fasten the end around the boom. This gives you the benefit of a 2 part reef line. The bowline end should be located underneath the cringle. It will stay there by itself. I've assumed you have a loose footed mai

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

There should be small grommets just above the boom on your sail if it is not loose-footed. You run the reefing line up from the boom end and through the reef cringle and run it down and around the boom and tie a bowline around the standing end. I'll find a picture, I know I have one somewhere in th

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

Hi Dave, I borrowed a rivet gun from pal on my dock and put a padeye (not sure it this is the right terminology - basically a U-shaped fitting) onto the boom. I run the bitter end to that and tie it off. I angled it so that the two rivets are in line with the reef line. Works very well!! Mike

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

Picture: http://i.imgur.com/ORxsWEX.jpg?1 Jim Watts Paradigm Shift C&C 35 Mk III Victoria, BC On 29 November 2015 at 17:16, Michael Crombie via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I borrowed a rivet gun from pal on my dock and put a padeye (not sure it > this is the right ter

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

I hate having stuff on the boom. For one thing, it really hurts if it hits you. Here's how I do it: http://www.cruisingworld.com/how/timber-hitch Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 > On Nov 29, 2015, at

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

Close. I should be an eyestrap. Locate it a few inches aft of the reeking crinkle. The reefing line then runs from the boom end slightly forward to the reefing crinkle then slightly aft to the eyestrap. Terminate the reefing line in the eyestrap with a figure eight knot. When done properly, yo

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

Jim, I don't like to use a bowline, but leaving that alone, I would lead the reef line through the grommet and around the boom before tying it on with whatever Knot you use. Andy C&C 40 Peregrine Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburto

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

The article specifically says that the timber hitch doesn't work on flat-sided booms and I should use a bowline instead, but I never knew that before so it doesn't matter. Why would you run it through the grommet first? Serious question, I thought it was a little cleaner lead as I showed it. Jim W

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

Eyestrap! Yes that's what i rivetted on - thanks! :) I did it just the way you describe and have never been anxious about it when reefed. Mike Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. -Or

Re: Stus-List substitution of depth transducers

This is the first one I’ve heard of that failed. Usually they’re very reliable. It’s just a thermistor potted in the transducer housing: http://www.airmartechnology.com/uploads/wiringdiagrams/91_636.pdf No info on the value o

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

There's strain against the foot of the sail unless the bowline is very small. My way the knot is not placing any load on the sail when it's tightened. The timber hitch works on our booms, just not the ones with hard corners. Andy C&C 40 Peregrine Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI US

Re: Stus-List 33ii mainsail reefing

For anyone considering not using a timber hitch. I use a bowline on a bite. This allows the loop around the boom to cinch down similar to the timber hitch. If a simple bowline were used then you are limited to the size of the loop made by the knot. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomon