MauriceMynah

Sorry to be such a thicko Vaughan, but I have found some senders that have two terminals that are designed for boats with two helms (thus two control panals). I'm not sure I've read you correctly but are you saying that if I were to get one of those, I could use one of the outputs to a guage the other to the alarm? I would dearly love to go to Peachments and ask them these questions, but it's a two hour drive and I'm bound to forget what it was I was going to ask when I got there!

THe 'Stirling' unit is rather advanced for my simple brain and all I really need to know is that the alternator is working and that the batteries are taking a charge. Everything else is a bonus.

A very happy birthday from me too to Inge too. PS, how's her leg?

ZimbilV, Halfrauds is a good idea, I'll have a look there. Are the sender units universal? (for car/marine). Your first point about my not really needing dials, Partly yes I like dials so the bug has bitten, but mainly, especially with the engine temp, it's good to keep to know what the engine is doing if for example one is gunning it a bit over Breydon. Vaughan, Good point. As I already have warning lights and I suspect an audible alarm for oil pressure and water temp, there must be sender switches there, but I don't think 'switches' do the same job as senders for dials, and I'm after both.

If you want more youngsters to come to the broads there needs to be more in the way of facilities for clubbing. Personally I'm all in favour of clubbing youngsters.

I doubt that the general reduction in BA 24 hour moorings has had a significant effect anywhere except perhaps in Horning where moorings are scarce anyway. John, Whilst I agree that September is a great fishing time, I'm sure it has more to do with the fall in the price of hiring when the kiddywinks go back to school, and perhaps that there is more peace and quiet to be had when the area isn't infested with screaming kids.

I don't think so, I seem to remember the first two or three weeks in September are the busiest time on the broads.

Thanks for the info Vaughan, the engine is indeed a Beta. Where exactly is Peachments? ... come to that I'm not that sure how to get to Brundel by road, only ever been there by boat!

Ok, Google has helped me a bit here, I have established the difference is between BSP and NPT, but still don't know which one Beta Marine uses. Also as many know, I still sometimes read (though no longer contribute to) the 'other place' as I have friends who still use it. I have gleaned some info there too as another member has a similar problem.

So! I had this idea for a bit of a project for my boat. I wasn't over happy with the instrument panal on Nyx. In fact I never really have been. Since then a generous forum member gave me a manufacturers (Beta Marine) instrument plate with one large hole, about 3.5" (rev counter) three smaller holes about 2" and several half inch holes for warning lights. It also has the appropriate holes for the stop button and the ignition key. Great I thinks to myself, all I need to get are the instruments and I'm away. Not so fast sunshine!!! you need senders too. That's when I started to do some research, that inturn replaced each of my questions with several more. I have the rev counter already, just a case of moving it to the new panal. but it's the others that are causing me worries. I have decided to have an oil pressure guage, a coolant water temp guage, and an ammeter. If anyone thinks of a better combination, please do say. I have found out that there is the American system and the European system. I am going for the European one. WORRY No 1 I find that there are two sizes of thread for the senders, They are both 1/8th inch but one is NPT the other is BSP. I do not know the difference between those threads nor do I know what the Beta uses. Can anybody help me there please. WORRY No 2 I would like to have an audible warning as well as the dial for both the oil and the water temp. I think I've found the 'splitter' for the oil, but can find nothing to split the water temp to enable both the alarm switch and the guage. Again, any advice would be most welcomed WORRY No 3 I have found oil pressure senders and guages that goup to 5-bar, 10-bar and even 25-bar. Which one do I need? Finally (and if you believe that you'll believe anything) I have been looking at ASAP supplies. does anyone recommend them or would advise me to avoid them? Many many thanks to anyone who will assist me here.

Floccinaucinihilipilification again!

The seller is a boat owner, of course he's deluded!

Yup Hylander, Bishops Stortford is where the bishops used to ford the river Stort. It is a tributry of the river Lee.

It's how you use it in the funnel next to it that worries me!

£4.46 each atNorfolk Marine or £1.45 each at Crofts (curtains and blinds supplier) That's if I swallw my pride and go brass/chrome which I think will, have to happen. hey ho lack-a-day. Thanks very much for your efforts guys..

Nope, what I'm really looking for are some like the pics I attached, only in SS. but thanks for looking

For many years my parents owned a cruiser on the river Stort yet twice a year took out one of Royalls finest. They used to get funny looks too, but as a family, we're used to that! They didn't want to move their cruiser to Norfolk as they thought it would look so much the 'poor relation' as it was 6' 10" beam but 32' long. (Creighton Inlander) Anyway they liked the extra space that Royall Ambassador gave them..

I'm Coming through! Yeee Haaaaa

Sadly Iain, no, not really! Fussy whatsit that I am I'm after solid ones rather than these ones which are pressed steel. but thanks for trying.

Ahh, shame, not quite what I'm looking for. The nearest I've found are these on ebay. I'm after Stainless if I can get them at a reasonable price.

Can I have some details of those hooks please Tim, I am going to re-jig Nyx's canopy and I will need some. I'm after the solid ones not the pressed metal.

Discussions have two sides, this thread seemed to have just the one. I'm not for one moment saying that any of the doom and gloom merchants were "unrealistic" and I don't for one minute question their qualifications, Further had the points raised been prefixed by "in my opinion" or similar I would have felt less inclined to raise the point, however (and to speculate) I wonder if there has been anyone reading this thread who has changed his mind and decided not to bid as a result. I further wonder if we shall see any of the boats concerned in future years. If we do, and the person who decided against bidding also sees them, I wonder what he'll think then!

Nobody wants to see anybody getting 'stung' and if someone is thinking of bidding for one of those boats and wants our opinion then they are more than welcome to ask. I would then support quite a bit of what's been said (though possibly not all) However my poiint is this.... Is it absolutely impossible that there is, in amongst those lots, a boat, that is basically sound, with a working engine (including prop) and that if the new owner is prepared to put up with the current shabby condition will see him ok? Is iot absolutely assured that all the boats on offer are wrecks with no hope of redemtion, just promises of tears and disaster ahead? I'm sorry Vaughan but the prop point is speculation unless you know otherwise. Will he? Are you sure? or might that be more speculation.

Would their spares department be called Bona parts

I wonder if the amounts might improve if the various forums discussing the subject were talking in a more positive manner. All I've read here is "wouldn't touch 'em with a barge pole" and "Have you seen the hole in that one", not to mention "They've been left open so they may well have been robbed of anything worth while". How about mentioning that Broad Ambition was in a pretty poor state till some people with some skill and some cash got hold of it.. Look at her now! Janet Ann, Royal Tudor, and Nipper didn't look like they do now when they were first sold from the hire fleets. There are people out there with the skills and the desire to 'Do them up' and may well sell to some such people.... that is if they aren't totally put off by this thread. Buying anything at an auction is a gamble and it's worth pointing that out, but suggesting that for all we know they might not even have propellers is a pretty damming piece of speculation.