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24 June 2007, 19:24
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Town: Newcastle Staffs
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24 June 2007, 19:44
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Country: UK - England
Town: Gloucestershire
Boat name: Osprey
Make: Osprey Vipermax
Length: 5m +
Engine: E-tec 300 G2
MMSI: TBC
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Originally Posted by Downhilldai
My fuel tank is 200 litres.
The 150 Optimax requires 800CCA to spin it over. The Ah rating is an indication of how long the battery can provide a given amount of power for, rather than how it will deal with surges of energy, eg cranking over a large capacity motor. That is why leisure batteries have an Ah rating and starter batteries have CCA ratings. It is useful to know both ratings of a battery though. My Optima gives 810CCA, but only has a 50Ah capacity, so I decided to fit a second battery, just in case........
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Andy I have just fitted 2 identical Odessy (sp?) AGM batteries via a Merlin VSR charging system it works really well, the CCA is 900amps the AH is 40 however I have had no problems at all even when my engine was having cold start problems I was cranking away in 5 second bursts for quite a time and there was no sign of the battery flagging.
The second battery powers the GPS, VHF, Bilge, etc and is more than upto the job, the VSR relay Automatically charges the Starter battery first then the House battery second and there are switches to isolate both batterys or tie them both together should you ever need to for extra power to the starting circuit.
Plus they are guaranteed for 5 years and can be mounted on their sides or even upside down if you desired.
Well worth a look.
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24 June 2007, 20:08
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Originally Posted by Chris1573
Andy I have just fitted 2 identical Odessy (sp?) AGM batteries via a Merlin VSR charging system it works really well, the CCA is 900amps the AH is 40 however I have had no problems at all even when my engine was having cold start problems I was cranking away in 5 second bursts for quite a time and there was no sign of the battery flagging.
The second battery powers the GPS, VHF, Bilge, etc and is more than upto the job, the VSR relay Automatically charges the Starter battery first then the House battery second and there are switches to isolate both batterys or tie them both together should you ever need to for extra power to the starting circuit.
Plus they are guaranteed for 5 years and can be mounted on their sides or even upside down if you desired.
Well worth a look.
Chris
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Is this something you need then? All I was going to do was to install a 4 way Isolator and controll the charging manually from there.
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24 June 2007, 20:09
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Is Jono comming along for moral support?
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24 June 2007, 20:44
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Town: Gloucestershire
Boat name: Osprey
Make: Osprey Vipermax
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Originally Posted by Hightower
Is this something you need then? All I was going to do was to install a 4 way Isolator and controll the charging manually from there.
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Andy I did not want to have to remeber to switch stuff over and also how do you know when to to do it anyway?
I thought that for £90 you get the relay and the isolator switches and it does it all for you when the start battery is charged.
Its one less thing to remember.
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24 June 2007, 21:41
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I was just going to get two dual purpose batteries, one a larger capacity that the other and always run it on "both together mode" or one on the outward leg and the other on the inward leg of a journey, the smaller of the two batts was going to be used seperatly whilst fishing, to power lights, radio etc and whilst at anchor, mooring or berth to power a bilge pump.
The battery I've got at the mow is an Squadron Energy SFL 120 with a CCA of 825 and MCA of 1000, if I add another battery of the same type but with an 80 AH capacity, I should have plenty in reserve.
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24 June 2007, 22:22
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle Staffs
Boat name: blue it
Make: ribcraft 7.5
Length: 7m +
Engine: suzuki df225
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Isnt that what the RNLI are there for  Isnt Jono helmsman on the ILB and chief Camera man 
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16 July 2007, 18:51
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Took the vipermax out on the maiden voyage saturday, performed far better than ever anticipated, had a nice f5 swell to play in. pity we couldnt get any action shots but the last few pics moored up off a calm Abersoch beach.
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16 July 2007, 18:53
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16 July 2007, 19:56
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Make: Osprey
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still built by Osprey laminators up north, roy bishop is the Osprey uk dealer which Jono is now involved with to some extent, jono has took them forward leaps and bounds for sure,
infact all osprey hulls are built in uk as they have allways been and should bar a few be tubed by eurocraft,
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If I'm correct, the new stepped range of Osprey is no longer build in the UK.
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16 July 2007, 20:13
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Hi
Very nice rib and a nice day 
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17 July 2007, 08:32
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Town: Pwllheli-North Wales
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If I'm correct, the new stepped range of Osprey is no longer build in the UK.
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Correct, we are hoping for a sea trials in the Condor later this month in the Solent! Pics to follow
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17 July 2007, 08:37
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Town: Reading, Hants
Boat name: Juicy
Make: Sealine F43
Length: 10m +
Engine: 2 x 370hp
MMSI: TBC
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Originally Posted by Top banana
Took the vipermax out on the maiden voyage saturday, performed far better than ever anticipated, had a nice f5 swell to play in. pity we couldnt get any action shots but the last few pics moored up off a calm Abersoch beach.
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17 July 2007, 12:07
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Really nice
I guess you where running in the Opti to be able to see what performance she really has?
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17 July 2007, 14:10
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle Staffs
Boat name: blue it
Make: ribcraft 7.5
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Yes we had agreat day sun shining, for once, and a nice chop to play in,
didnt give the engine full revs as spent the day running it in, did manage 35knts at just over 4,000 revs so encouraging for a descent top end performance with the stainless 21in prop, wouldnt of managed wot as the
sea state wouldnt have allowed. my poor back took a few big landings .
Well Andy yours should be next, or downhildai. and believe me you wont be
dissapointed, look forward to meeting up with all the southern guys again,
cheers for the comments and advice.
Big thanks to waverunner for all his help, and Jono and Ian at PBS for
supplying me with the osprey viper max and the excellent back up.
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17 July 2007, 17:55
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Town: Stanley, Falkland Is
Boat name: Seawolf
Make: Osprey Vipermax 5.8
Length: 5m +
Engine: Etec 150
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I love the Vipermaxes, wish I had one 
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07 August 2007, 11:12
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Osprey
Glad to see favourable comments re Osprey Ribs - just to clarify things, we are the UK distributor - see our website www.ospreyribs.co.uk - and Roy Bishop (or Dave Page) will happily chat (for hours!) about Osprey. Contact him on 01902 491919 (office hours) or 017811 190764. We are also agents for E-tec engines and can also supply Dixon-Bate Rapide trailers.
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07 August 2007, 12:25
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No problem Steve, your boat looks great.
Keep your fingers crossed for good weather next weekend.
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08 August 2007, 16:45
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle Staffs
Boat name: blue it
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No problem Steve, your boat looks great.
Keep your fingers crossed for good weather next weekend.
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Im, thinking a 6.5 osprey may be on the cards, so leave me a slot in the
order book early 08
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08 August 2007, 19:04
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Town: swansea
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Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
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Originally Posted by OSPREY RIBS
Glad to see favourable comments re Osprey Ribs - just to clarify things, we are the UK distributor - see our website www.ospreyribs.co.uk - and Roy Bishop (or Dave Page) will happily chat (for hours!) about Osprey. Contact him on 01902 491919 (office hours) or 017811 190764. We are also agents for E-tec engines and can also supply Dixon-Bate Rapide trailers. |
I LOVE your boats - get your website sorted and I am sure you would sell even more of them!!! Don't under estimate the power of Youtube either - loads of Ribcrafts on there.......
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