Water Rail Out And About - Aug 2021

[grendel]

8 minutes ago, gancanny said:

not the ideal craft to fish from

it wasnt even a canadian canoe, just one of those plastic ones with the cockpit sunk into the top surface, he was using a 2 1/2" socket as a mudweight.

[ZimbiIV]

JA, you cannot just leave it as

'Mystery Solved'

I am going mad wondering what it was!

paul

[OldBerkshireBoy]

18 minutes ago, ZimbiIV said:

JA, you cannot just leave it as

'Mystery Solved'

I am going mad wondering what it was!

paul

A small unmarked switch hidden away somewhere perhaps or plain simple brain fade from the man at the wheel. 

[Meantime]

 

18 hours ago, grendel said:

update on the electrics, 3 hours cruising isnt enough to get the batteries to the point of keeping the fridge going all night and starting the engine next morning, so the mystery of the battery still isnt solved.

 

16 hours ago, JanetAnne said:

Mystery solved 

Needs more than 3hrs cruising then! 

[ChrisB]

1 hour ago, gancanny said:

not the ideal craft to fish from

Fishing from a sit-on kayak is becoming a very popular sport now. Started in The States I believe. They have rod holders, drink holders, live bait holders all sorts

[ChrisB]

1 hour ago, grendel said:

it wasnt even a canadian canoe, just one of those plastic ones with the cockpit sunk into the top surface, he was using a 2 1/2" socket as a mudweight.

Like this

[gancanny]

1 minute ago, ChrisB said:

Fishing from a sit-on kayak is becoming a very popular sport now. Started in The States I believe. They have rod holders, drink holders, live bait holders all sorts

  yes, but obviously unstable to the unaware,        i suppose it depends on how much gear he was wanting onboard

[grendel]

yes, just like that but orange

[JanetAnne]

4 hours ago, ZimbiIV said:

JA, you cannot just leave it as

'Mystery Solved'

I am going mad wondering what it was!

paul

Very simple

Water Rail has one if these bl00dy awful battery isolators that has position 1 for engine battery position 2 for domestic and both which speaks for itself.

She will quite happily run just on domestics (position 2) including engine starting leaving the engine battery fully charged but not used.

On occasion, when the domestic bank is low, flick the switch to position 1 and the fully charged engine battery does the biz. 

I've never been a fan of these type of isolator because you can very easily run the boat off the wrong battery and end up with everything flat.

 

[Meantime]

3 minutes ago, JanetAnne said:

I've never been a fan of these type of isolator because you can very easily run the boat off the wrong battery and end up with everything flat.

Who would do something like that! 

[JanetAnne]

Here's what's going in this winter to replace the existing switch

Then we will be able to see exactly whats going on at a glance

[ZimbiIV]

So, basically a 'picnic' problem.

Fridge wise,  I was going to fit an audible alarm to sound when the power to the domestic batteries was switched of, because I wired it direct to those batteries, it had a switch between direct supply and fridge.

Then we sold the boat, still have the alarm somewhere.

paul

[JanetAnne]

We do tend to forgive Water Rail most of her problems, she is coming up for 90 years old after all. Fortunately Grendel is able to deal with her little tantrums as he goes, it makes for a more interesting holiday!

She has also done probably 70 or 80 nights this year split between her buddies so has had a fairly busy season. 

[marshman]

You ask a lot of a little old lady!!! No wonder at some stages she can feel a little knackered - don't forget you can overuse the old girls!!!

[grendel]

a boat that is not being used is just a collection of timber floating in the water, if they are used then at least you are aware of any issues and can keep on top of them as they arise, running maintenance is always done while in use, i feel sorry for boats that sit idle for a year or more.

[grendel]

As an example, if I go for a swim around the boat, she gets a thorough waterline inspection, and gets the underwater planking given a thorough feel for any issues that may be developing, which means plenty of warning before it comes time to haul her out for maintenance

[CambridgeCabby]

And often your swims are not pre planned 

[grendel]

3 hours ago, CambridgeCabby said:

And often your swims are not pre planned 

i would not say often as now with only one accidental swim, the pre-planned swims vastly outnumber the accidental one.

[Smoggy]

A vsr is cheap and a much better way to keep domestic and engine battery charged while not having one run the other flat then have engine battery for just engine and domestic battery for just domestic, if you want a jump start option just put a starter solenoid between banks .

[Vaughan]

10 hours ago, marshman said:

You ask a lot of a little old lady!!! No wonder at some stages she can feel a little knackered - don't forget you can overuse the old girls!!!

There speaks a wherryman!

[grendel]

11th August pictures Oulton Broad to Stracey Arms

[grendel]

August 12th Straey Arms Back to Oulton Broad, In company

[grendel]

August 13th Oulton Broad to Beccles,

remember I was running 3 seperats cameras, so imagesmay be out of order as they were downloaded

 

[grendel]

14th August, Beccles, a busy day, not many pictures taken

[grendel]

15th August, Beccles, then up to Geldeston