New toy takes shape (the real one) - Page 4

Daniel · 31 October 2003, 21:27

I diden't reply because i thought you had mis-understood the situation - it's my new toy and it's not really for sale. I don't think i quite understand the question?

However, if you want it and the price is right then i'll sell it

The Jackeens · 31 October 2003, 21:31

Looking good Daniel looking darn good.

So did ya run the engine in all in one day as hoped ??

See you out there

Paul

Petrov · 31 October 2003, 21:55

Sorry about missunderstanding, it was more as a joke because boat looks really nice.
I understand that you don`t want to sell now, but if you one day feel like it, contact me, i am distributor for Osprey in Scandinavia, and 2hand prices here are a little bit higher than UK for 2 hand boats so it`s a good deal to sell them to Scandinavia, you get more here for the boat than i UK, but we have same prices on new boats as in UK.

Regards

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 19:34

Okay, to bring this thread up-to-date as prommised i'll start Thursday evening.

I spent about and hour sorting the electronics - at least 15 minutes of which was 'wasted' dealing with the silly connector Icom supply with the new M601 for GPS connection. I am an electrinics engineer, and it took me ages to solder it properly. Bring back the 2.5mm jack we had with the old DS-100 DSU unit.

In summary not only does the DSC set now get all the info from the GPS, the Mercury smartcraft also knows the time, COG, SOG, Dist to Waypoint and prehaps other things i don't know about. This is useful because it allows it to estimate a fuel to Waypoint and i've configured the Spedo to show GPS speed about 20knts.

We (Michael and I) then set about assembling various new peices of stainless to seats.

This is the new handle for the front of the two-man jockeys.

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 19:36

...and this is the modified backrest for the driver (cushion needs re-triming, donar seat was different colours!)

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 19:42

We then spent at least an hour deciding exactly where the two double jockeys were going in the back.

We also learnt if we both stood right at the back we would come very close to damaging our shiney new engine as the boat tips up

Once we had decided on position (lots of measuring and marking) we pilot drilled and then self-tappered 4 screws into the floor. We realised lining the seats up once we had covered the contact area in StikaFlex would be almost imposiable so made 4 peices of 3" long 3mm rod from brazing wire and drilled pilot holes to use these as locaters later.

Obviously we repeated this for the 2nd seat.

At this point we decided to go for a curry

since it was 10:30 and they shut at 11:30

In this pic you can just see the locator rods sticking up to the right of my foot.

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 19:47

I've found a better pic to illustrate these locator rods. They line up with 4 of the 20 or so pre-drilled holes in the seat base. The angle is as best as we could acheive given restricted drilling angle.

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 19:50

In our quest for boating Friday, in about 12 hours time, we returned at about midnight to continue. Even though i had sampled several indian beers the aforementioned locator rods meant we could not go wrong (and Mike was driving, so had a coke!)

Here you can see us putting the stikaflex onto the floor:

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 19:52

And the finished article, ready for careful positining of seat:

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 19:58

We then carefully replaced the four screws used to position the seat earlier, and added another 4 per seat to just squash the stikaflex. We pulled the alignment rods out or they would have been well stuck the next day!

At this point it was about 1:30am, and after tidying up we went home for some well deserved kip.

Next morning we had to move the boat out of the borrowed workshop at 8:30 but Mike failed to turn up. Not a problem appart from he had taken the RangeRover home with him (remember, i was drinking indian beer

).

Apparently it was a technical problem with his pillow or duvet or something.

We got to my house at about 9:30am and set about putting the remaining 30 or so screws into the deck, all with stainless penny washers.

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 20:01

It then took a good few hours to pack all the required (safety) kit into the boat and a few other finishing touches. So far a rough list looks like:

Anchor, chain, warp
Mooring lines
Tow line
Fenders
Flares
Laminated chart
Radar reflector
Survival bag
First aid kit
Spare life jackets
Geko helmets
h/h VHF
h/h GPS
'kit' of items from old boat

Here is Mr Tapp fitting the essential RIBnet burgee.

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 20:05

Then by about 1:30pm we were ready to go, including MMSI in radio, charts loaded into plotter, switches labeled and carrect fuses in fusebox!

There was also, of course, some all important gaffa tape and cable-ties involved.

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 20:13

Here we go, ramsgate slipway.

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 20:14

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 20:16

Moored up next to 'Childs Play' my friends RIB and our escort for a few hours.

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 20:19

We then got about an hour under our belt before stopping for Lunch in Broadstairs where we picked up Mike's wife and sister for a spin.

We had to maintain 3000 - 4500 RPM, with the engine trimmed in and varying throttle every 2 minutes. We could manage about 35knts doing this.

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 20:20

Daniel · 01 November 2003, 20:31

We then dropped out visitors off and left Childs Play to head home while we continued to Herne Bay. Once well into the 2nd hour we were alowed to play with engine trim and i clocked 38knts @ 4500.

We headed back to Ramsgate in the dark having clocked 32nm, in 2.2 hrs and used 36li of fuel. These figures are from memory.

This morning i managed another few hours of boating

and the engine has now done a total of 5 hours. Run-in was complete at 4 hours and top speed so far was 42knts @ 5000 RPM. It was too rough to trim out anymore. I might be over proped because i think readline will be hardwork to acheive but time will tell!

Summary figures from the instruments are:

Trip: 65.7nm
Hours: 4.9
Fuel Used: 72.1li = £55.50 @76.9p
Oil Used: 3.2li

Louise · 01 November 2003, 21:36

Great to see "Top Banana" (and I like that name!) out on the water.

And what an excellent taste in steering wheels you have

Richard B · 01 November 2003, 21:50

oops, must remember to check who's logged in before posting...

Just looked at your figures - fuel stuff looks good - but you're burning tcw (or expensive Optimax oil ?!?) at 20.5:1 which looks a bit mean. I was surprised after out Alderney trip to find that Blue Ice burns at a ratio of about 33:1 which surprised me - I thought that 50:1 or leaner would be achievable.

I wonder what other digital fuel injection 2-stroke users are achieving?