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limehouse gets my vote Barry

hope to see you around Barry

No we empteyed it out and it was fine

There Maybe a short video clip of two small boats in the shallows on breydon

What was you cleaning Jonathan I saw you clean your outboard when it fell off your rib on breydon . Still at least I was around to fish it out with you

Thats not the Queen Mary 2

Hello Gav Be nice to see you both soon. On the next bank holiday we are on the boat for the week so hope to spend some time with you. Baz "n" Shaz (she will kill me for calling her Shaz)

I must say that does look nice but how would i remove the stripe as it is painted on. The first year or so production came with the blue or in three cases a red stripe from 85 on it was an option so they say.

It is worth another knot at least

Me and Sharron are having different views on our boat stripe. I like the blue stripe as its retro which is very me. Sharron likes our boat without the stripe.(like the one in NYA which has had it removed) We are having the stripe repainting soon and sharron wants it removed or painted out So can I please have your views on the matter ( Wayne and Jonathan ) Barry and Sharron

I look on NYA quite a bit and the way I see it is that they have had some boats for a while and they are still unsold mostly but the boats that are ariving now and since october are flying out by the look of it. our friends boat (leopard a birchwood 37) has sold with no trouble full asking as well. I think people have got a bit of confidence back

I noticed that NYA put 15 boats down as under offer this weekend, so looks like boats are selling away with no problems. Barry

yes your right there as on my old boat with 290 stern drives, the anodes would last no more than 2 years at Acle on the northern broads. Do you think mine with last enough for the london trip?

Hi Just to say I have magnesium anodes on Osprey and they have been on for 2 years in two weeks time and thats two winters in the water and 9 days over that time in the sea, two weekends and 2 day trips. my anodes are around half way worn on the trim tabs and bars along the stern so they are working but last a little longer than 2 weeks sea use i think Barry

Hi Right i will probably get shot down over this but, I have read several times that if your boat is on the river and is only out to sea a few weekends and the odd week a year then you should use magnesium anodes. there is a boat in our marina that fitted aluminium anodes and after two year they are like new but his duo props were missing there blades. I hear goodchilds are first class see you soon at reedham

Hi NYA is all the same group as the repair yard. We did go through the whole system on both engines so fingers crossed. I think a company like NYA who has an ex lifeboat man working for them should know better . I have not gone back to them because we already had other problems that they said they would sort but you guessed it they did not do the jobs theys agreed to do . Barry

Some will remember this happening to me before and the last problem was down to fuel pipes routed wrong but as it turned out it was half the problem. This time we departed from GT Yarmouth and cruised down to southworld in nice seas at about 19 knots with no issues. We had nice couple of days there and then started back, by which time the weather had turned a bit and we were faced with a 3 foot short chop on the nose which in the turbo was nothing to worry about and we headed out at around 22 knots. Then at around one 3rd distance we had the fuel problem again and after a period of the power coming and going the engine gave up and cut out. I went down into the engine compartment to change the racor series 900 filter and when I opened it the chamber was empty so I could not restart the engine. We finished the journey at 9 knots on one engine. I had the day there today with Jonathan (crackerjack) where i fitted a new lift pump which made no difference . I had blown through the fuel pipe and the pipe to tank was clear so I took the flexi hose off from the tank feed to the racor and this is when we found the problem, I blew though the hose and it was blocked. on further inspection we noticed that the banjo bolt holes we 8mm and the banjo and pipe were about 2mm so any small debre could not get to the filter. Now these are the new hoses that nya (or who done the work for them) fitted for the bss when i purchased the boat the same people who plumbed it up wrong in the first place. This is crazy as the engineers who work for these companys should realise the danger they put people in as I was lucky it only affected one engine. We have now fitted 8mm flexi and banjo's and checked the condition of the tanks (alot cleaner than expected) so I am hoping this problem will be fixed. Any tips or advice on what I have done or need to do in the future will be great. Barry

Just to clarify, the skipper of the Birchwood has many years of experience with his boat in varying sea conditions. Under no circumstances would this have been attempted without the confidence of him dealing with it and no where in the vicinity of other boats not included in the test. As you could hear in the video, we were in constant radio contact with other. The reason for the video being posted on NBN is to demonstrate to other boat users the dangers of passing at high speed. This answers the debate that passing at displacement speeds causes significant less disruption than passing at planing speeds. Speaking from my own experiences, all my fellow cruisers (which are members of NBN) respect other boat users and slow down accordingly on Breydon. Smellylo, in no way should our testing be labelled as idiotic and reckless nor should we be compared to the very few idiotic boat users who you've had the misfortune to encounter.

Maybe if I went faster?

Hi Mark Boats looked like it was flying and sounded sweet enough as well see you soon

25 ft ian or im swapping with you

Thats easy mate, tiger glue you wont even need to use the bolts then.

Col I have held back from tyring to sway you one way or another but I think its turbo time for your next boat mate

I will be waiting with captain slow and the weather man but if we get up to a 5 or 6 I will open the taps and see if you lads can follow thanks everyone Barry

We have had an on going issue with Osprey. As posted before we lost an engine due to fuel starvation on the port engine. We have changed the fuel filters found a small air leek but evrytime we took it to Breydon waters for a test after about 400 yards under load it would happen again. After a lot of head scratching we noticed that the hand primer on the fuel pump did not feel right so we looked at it and then noticed well Jonathan did that the fuel pipes had been plumbed in wrong ( the pipe came from the fuel tank to the fuel pump then to the pre filter and then on to the engine filters then the deisel pump) so any crap from the tank went through the pump. So we stripped it down and found that the non return valves were marked up. we then took the pump to our friendly engineering shop (thanks Wayne and Tracy) where they re faced the valves and seats. Today we finished servicing the engines, re routed the fuel pipes. ( by the way when i purchased the boat the broakers put all new fuel pipes on for the boat safety hhmmmm not pleased) This lunch time Me and Wayne took Osprey up to Breydon again and wow we hit 26 knots one way and averaged 24 knots in both directions so I was over the moon and Osprey is 28 years old now and full of our stuff and is still acheiving the same top speed as they did when they were new with the 235hp engines. Jonathan and Wayne (hope your legs ok Wayne )thanks for the help im very happy with the old girl now. Barry