Oil on the water,Yanmar GM10,ground control do we have trouble?

Yanmar GM10 genset picture,the air box is the round tin with a tube sticking out of its side.

The internal mesh cone that supports the black foam air filter membrane,I advise this is retained even if you do not fit a new filter?

No not Carlos Santanas great music,rather black spots of oil coming out of the exhaust on our Yanamar GM10 genset diesel engine,it needs to run at around 3000 rpm to get the right voltage reading,so its doing a bit of work and runs at a good temprature,recently I noticed black spots on the surface of the water around the exhaust exit,for sure a sign of injector troubles,except I fitted a new one about 200hours back,so now what? This had happened twice now so very much a worry for me,then on running the engine a third time,no black spots,why?

I decided to check the engines air filter and see if it was blocked,it was not,it was missing! on the Yanmar GM10 the filter,is just a bit of thin black foam mounted on to a cone of metal mesh,the air box is clad inside with a thick felt about 6mm thick,I think both are more a sound sheild than an air filter,in my case with the engine tucked out of the way and under the floor,no air filter is required but that cone should be refitted to stop ingress of any rag,or even the sound deadening in the filter housing.

What was happening was as the foam fell apart,it went into the engine,was part cooked then thrown out of the exhaust,hence the black spots,this is a new one to me!I can imagine this has happened before?

Roy

Yachts Teak Cockpit Tables

A cockpit with no table is a very empty place when your entertaining or having a meal,all those days with plates of food on your knees will soon be gone,the table hinges down when not in use,its removable too.



We have made these for a very long time and supply them complete with a 316 stainless support bracket and special back flap table hinges,the method of fixing to your steering pedestal is open to discussion,this table has alloy back flap hinges,which we pushed out the center pins,so to fasten to the wheel pedestal we just push in a long stainless rod,simple and works well.

Dans Eureka canoe.

We have sold Eureka plans and suitable materials to build this really nice boat but never the CNC cut panels making it a kit,now we have an order from Dan for such a kit we can offer it in our ever growing range of kit boats,this is from 8ft to 55ft,size is no problem,smaller or larger if you have the design.

Michael Storer Wooden Boat Design

Eureka 155 - Light plywood touring canoe - another launching.
Length - 15'6" (4.73m)
Beam - 34" (0.86m)
Weight - 44lbs (20kg) - Gaboon (Okoume) Ply
Can be built down to weights of 34lbs (15.5kg)

Simple to Build
Great Paddling Boats
Half the weight of most fibreglass Canoes
Comprehensive Plan Pack with step by step instructions and many illustrations

Plans U$75 plus postage also can be ordered online on these sites
Duckflat Wooden Boats - Australia
Duckworks Magazine - USA
Seawing Boats - UK
CKD Boats cc South Africa

Ians Cape Cutter 19 continues to brite work

Well nearly,he is setting himself up for a bit of varnish and thats not a bad idea as it really brings a boat of any size to life.

One of our Cape Cutter 19 kit builds,this one is in Picton,South Island,New Zealand.
Note,due to a licence issue,we may no longer cut the Cape Cutter 19 as a kit but we can offer its larger sister,the Cape Henry 21,its the same boat but sized 10% larger but has a 30% greater volume,which sounds like a good idea.




Mail in today from ian.

Hi guys,
Just a couple of piccies as an excuse to stop work. The hatches are beginning to look like hatches. The toerail bases are all glued in place and I decided to use them with plastic sheeting down to laminate the curved toerails in situ. I'll glue and bolt those in place after painting and probably oil them or use some Siccens or similar - got to succumb to a teensy bit of brightwork, what?
Cheers,
Ian

TMP gear boxes (thamesway marine products)

The Henry Meadows logo.

Trivia,Jaguar bought out Henry Meadows,the gearbox and engine manufacturers,it seems its the same gear box that TMP still manufactures?

Henry Meadows

In December 1964 Jaguar acquired Henry Meadows Ltd, a company that specialised in producing both engines and transmissions, and whose factory was conveniently located next to that of Guy Motors – of which full advantage was taken by Jaguar as one of Meadows activities was the build-up of engine/gearbox assemblies for the ‘Big J’ trucks produced by Guy Motors. It was the marine aspect of Henry Meadows Ltd that was largely concentrated on by Jaguar, although the company continued to undertake machining and assembly work for other firms – both within the Jaguar group and on “outside contract"

Does your TMP / Henry Meadows gear box leak oil?
The alloy facings of the various casings are mated using only a sealant,no gaskets,after a rebuild about seven years back mine always leaked a little oil,nothing so bad you would worry but it was there.Recently the leak has got worse,again,not so bad you would remove the box but a drip tray was requirecd to contain the oil.Yesteday I fitted a new spin on oil filter,GUD Z93 type,ran the engine in gear for around 3/4 of an hour,the leak has stopped! I can only assume that as the filter became blocked,it was causing a back pressure and the oil gallery passes through a casing joint,the 90 to 100 pounds pressure was enough to cause the leak,with a new filter and I assume no back pressure,the oil runs free and has no need to find a route that in my case was a leak,its at the bottom of the casing by the way.

Note,I have felt under the bottom of the gear box casing,there is an external section that feels like a half section of a tube,about 50mm long and 10mm diameter, it has a fitting on the engine side,it feels like a sump or drain plug,has anyone ever removed this? I assume this is an oil gallery in the alloy casing?

reply to roy@comlumber.com

Bronze nipple with a B SP 3/4" thread (British standard pipe thread)

The cause of the problem?

TMP gearbox,the engine is running,the shaft is in gear,left click the picture for a larger size and more detail.

This TMP box is mounted on the back of a Perkins 4108 diesel,with less than 2000 hours on the clock,its in good condition still,even better as we stripped and refitted it with new bearings and seals around five years back,I have some notes to consider with a TMP gear box though,the box was also branded as a Henry Meadows box too.

Thames Marine Products are in Weybridge,Surrey,England,new boxes are still made and repairs to old ones undertaken,a very good webb site with lots of info can be found at http://www.thameswaymarineproducts.co.uk/ the address is below,ask for Kevin,the owner.

Thamesway Marine Products
96 Thames St Weybridge, Surrey,KT13 8NH.
Tel & Fax No 01932-843072

The picture shows the gearbox fitted with a reduction gear,thats it at the back of the main box and hanging lower than the main box,beware! the reduction box has its own oil gallery,checking the main box with its provided dip stick does not check the oil in the reduction box,for which no dip stick is given,to check the oil level you must remove the bronze plug that is visible low down on the side (it may be on the other side too) then fill with a 20 grade oil (20/50 grade is ok) untill the oil comes out of the hole,then its full,replace the plug and close off the top filler plug,which has a breather hole,make sure its open,over filling will cause leaks.

There can be a problem with corrosion of the main housing due to the raw water (sea) cooling system,this is compounded by the factory originally using large bronze nipples where you see the pipes fit to the back of the gearbox,the box being alloy,mixed with bronze and sea water basically makes a battery solution,the result is corrosion,in our case bad enough to have a leak on the top of the casings where they are joned together.

TMPs web site suggests on some boxes you can run with no water cooling as long as you use no more than 2000 rpm,this was tried but we nearly cooked the box,so in our case we had to revert to water cooling.The leak area was opened out,mechanically cleaned, dried 100%, then sealed and closed with our 816 epoxy and 205 (thin) cure agent,when dried it repaired the box as you can see,Hammerite paint to the correct Perkins colour was used as the finish,the bronze nipples were removed and a pair of nylon ones (3/4"BSP threads)fitted instead,the box now runs at a normal temprature and is repaired without a very dificult removal,as the box and reduction gear weigh 50kgs!

How does it work? (There really is no easy way of explaining this)
The gearbox incorporates an epicyclic gear train for ‘Astern’ running and the input and output shafts are locked together in ahead to
give a direct through drive. There is a small reduction in output speed in ‘Astern gear’. In ‘Neutral’, when the engine is running, the
output shaft is prevented from rotating by a hydraulically-actuated automatic brake. When the engine is stopped, the brake retracts,
so that the propeller shaft is free to rotate. Gear selection is achieved hydraulically by moving the control lever located on top of the
main box. The gearbox contains its own oil pump and oil reservoir. All bearings in the direct drive version are force lubricated and a
renewable element filter is fitted. In the case of the ‘Reduction’ model the bearings are bath lubricated although bearings in the main
box are force lubricated as in the case of the ‘Direct Drive’ version.

Perkins 4108 wire loom

You will need a box of cable crimp terminal ends and a crimp tool,this one also cuts the wire,if you can not find these where you are we may be able to source locally for you and supply with the wire harness set.Made by SeaWorld (taiwan) item number 30318.

New tracer wires (colour coded)each cable is ten meters long,so long enough for most installations,we also supply a cable list as to which wire size and colour goes where,start at the switch panel,do those connections,feed the wires back to the engine and connect to each sender unit or supply point,this way you will cut the new cables to the right length.


The Canadian flag,marks this new order as our twenty fifth export country to date.

We posted this information on our blog early in the year,due to a rewire job on a Perkins 4108 diesel engine (46hp straight four),having stripped the original loom,we could match the wire gauge and colours too,we can not supply the original push in plugs but we can say what wire went where on the engine we were working on,some wires may be extras,as the engine had a generator originally but now has an alternator.Paul in Canada has just ordered a set of new wires for his boat down in Florida,we supply in ten meter lengths,you can cut to size to suit your own boat then,the new wires kit weighs around 4kgs by the way.
Check out this link to view the original posting we made,more pictures,info and a list of what wire is what colour and goes where?

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2009_02_08_archive.html

Starter motor connections.

The left side of the engine when vied from the gear box end,note the hours and date on installation writen on the engines oil filter!

The reverse of the panel,wires were refitted as they came off,we have to assume they were in their original places.

A standard Perkins 4108 control panel,note the key switch is an after market replacment,we have a 12volt socket under that black cap too,the silver button is the panel light switch.

The original loom when stripped of its cover looks like this,in this case it it is around six meters long.

The three Commodores!

Photo R McBride,Canon G11 Powershot,settings,an aperture of F4 and a shutter speed of 2000,left click to view full size.

Yes,two HBYC club presidents too,thats Dudley on the left,our clubs founder member,past commodore and president right now,Alister,center,was club commodore and was the clubs president in the past,with Alan on the right a past club commodore,marina officer and is club treasurer yet again,he did that post for many years in the past too.

The CAV (lucas) diesel water strainer filter

The CAV filter unit in place,the diesel is a dark colour due to some fuel additive,Combust 23 which I have added.
Note to protect your fuel pump,always have the filter before the pump,not after.

These are great ideas,I was after another well known brand,speaking to the agent he advised that the nearest place I could buy a similer type was just around the corner from me,they have the CAV type with a 296 Delphi fuel filter element.He advised me to check the way the ports are marked,for some reason they are back to front he advised,he was right too.

Left click any of these pictures to view full size and see more details.

Cav Delphi water strainer diesel fuel filter assembly.

GUD 629 filter is a straight swop for the CAV Delphi HDF296 filter,GUD is made locally so easy to source.

There are four ports,the reason is to be able to change the fuel feed direction,as in your incoming fuel line may be either from left or right,so choose which ports suit your application,the arrows are wrongly marked as far as I am concerned,as they are if you use the arrow coming in,fuel and any water goes into the top of the filter,then down into the glass bowl below,the water then contaminates the paper filter element.

Check out the top cap and the closed port on the left side,it leads to the central port which will feed incoming fuel down to the glass bowl,from where it goes up and throught the paper filter element and to your engine,as it is supplied the ports are marked the wrong way around.

Cadbury chocolates

With a posible buy out of Cadbury Chocolates in England,I thought this really good picture taken from Norman Dunns web site was appropriate.
try //www.norman.dunn247.co.uk for more pictures that Norman has collected.



The Story of Cadbury
Early Days - A One Man Business

Birmigham 1824
John Cadbury was one of ten children of Richard Tapper Cadbury, a prominent Quaker who had moved to Birmingham, England from the West Country in 1794.

In 1824, 22-year-old John Cadbury opened his first shop at 93 Bull Street, next to his father's drapery and silk business in the then fashionable part of Birmingham.

Apart from selling tea and coffee, John Cadbury sold hops, mustard and a new sideline - cocoa and drinking chocolate, which he prepared using a mortar and pestle.

Cocoa and drinking chocolate had been introduced into England in the 1650s but remained a luxury enjoyed by the elite of English society. Customers at John Cadbury's shop were amongst the most prosperous Birmingham families, the only ones who could afford the delicacy. Cocoa beans were imported from South and Central America and the West Indies.

Experimenting with his mortar and pestle, John Cadbury produced a range of cocoa and chocolate drinks, the latter with added sugar. The products were sold in blocks: customers scraped a little off into a cup or saucepan and added hot milk or water.

John Cadbury had a considerable flare for advertising and promotion. "John Cadbury is desirous of introducing to particular notice 'Cocoa Nibs', prepared by himself, an article affording a most nutritious beverage for breakfast," announced his first advertisement in the Birmingham Gazette in March 1824.

He soon established himself as one of the leading cocoa and drinking chocolate traders in Birmingham. The popularity and growing sales of John Cadbury's cocoa and drinking chocolate of 'superior quality' determined the future direction of the business.

In 1831, John Cadbury rented a small factory in Crooked Lane not far from his shop. He became a manufacturer of drinking chocolate and cocoa, laying the foundation for the Cadbury chocolate business.

These early cocoa and drinking chocolates were balanced with potato starch and sago flour to counter the high cocoa butter content, while other ingredients were added to give healthy properties.

By 1842, John Cadbury was selling sixteen lines of drinking chocolate and cocoa in cake and powder forms.

The Quaker Influence
The Cadbury family were prominent members of the Society of Friends or Quakers, one of the many nonconformist religious groups formed in the 17th century. Their strong beliefs carried into campaigns aimed at ending poverty and deprivation and many prominent Quaker-run businesses were part of reforms of social and industrial society in Victorian Britain.

John Cadbury's lifelong involvement with the Temperance Society influenced the direction of his business enterprise. By providing tea, coffee, cocoa and chocolate as an alternative to alcohol he felt he was helping to alleviate some of the alcolohol-related causes of poverty and deprivation amongst working people. He also incorporated some of these principles in his industrial relations philosophy. (See A Progressive Workplace)

Cadbury Brothers of Birmingham

John Cadbury
As the enterprise prospered, in 1847 John Cadbury rented a larger factory in Bridge Street, off Broad Street, in the centre of Birmingham and went into partnership with his brother Benjamin - trading as Cadbury Brothers of Birmingham.

The retail side of the business in Bull Street was passed to a nephew, Richard Cadbury Barrow in 1849. Barrow Stores, as it became, traded in Central Birmingham until the 1960s.

A major turning point for the cocoa and chocolate industry came in the mid-1850s, when taxes on imported cocoa beans were reduced by Prime Minister William Gladstone. The previously prohibitive chocolate products were now within the reach of the wider population.

Cadbury Brothers received their first Royal Warrant on February 4, 1854 as 'manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate to Queen Victoria.' The company continues to hold royal warrants of appointment.

During the 1850s business began to decline. The partnership between the first Cadbury brothers was dissolved in 1860, a difficult time in the company's history.

John Cadbury's sons Richard and George, who had joined the company in the 1850s, became the second Cadbury brothers to run the business when their father retired due to failing health in 1861.

John Cadbury devoted the rest of his life to civic and social work in Birmingham until his death in 1889.

South Africas Cape of Good Hope

Cape of Good Hope

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Cape of Good Hope; looking towards the west, from the coastal cliffs above Cape Point.
A triangular postage stamp from the Cape of Good Hope, 1855.The Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop, Dutch: Kaap de Goede Hoop, Portuguese: Cabo da Boa Esperança) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa. There is a very common misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa and the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, but in fact the southernmost point is Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres (90 mi) to the east-southeast. However, when following the coastline from the equator, the Cape of Good Hope marks the psychologically important point where one begins to travel more eastward than southward. Thus the rounding of the cape in 1488 was a major milestone in the attempts by the Portuguese to establish direct trade relations with the Far East.

As one of the great capes of the South Atlantic Ocean, the Cape of Good Hope has been of special significance to sailors for many years and is widely referred to by them simply as "the Cape." It is a major milestone on the clipper route followed by clipper ships to the Far East and Australia, and still followed by several offshore yacht races.

The term Cape of Good Hope was also used to indicate the early Cape Colony established in 1652, in the vicinity of the Cape Peninsula. Just prior to the formation of the Union of South Africa, the term referred to the entire region that was to become the Cape Province in 1910

A Proteus 106 catamaran in Thailand

Rick enjoying his Proteus 106,left click pictures to view in a larger size.





Thailand looks like a nice place to hang out,in this case the boat was built there too,from plans,our Proteus 106 kits followed this first boat to launch,it looks good and from the owners comments below sails really well.

Hello Angelo,


Photo's of my sail boat in Koh Chang, Koh Mac, Koh Kood Islands, Thailand

I still have poor fitting second hand sails and need more work, but having fun with the boat.

I Recently sailed to windward in 35 plus knots gusts of head wind and full steady wind of 25 knots with 2nd reef and 2 meter waves. Had some waves over the cabin top and really tested the boat build.

I was very happy with the boat and it pointed very well to weather. It was not a enjoyable beat to weather, it was only about 4 hours. But the boat got a good test.


Best Regards
Cheers
Rick

Hout Bays refurbed marina goes back in place

We always seem to find this kind of work done right at the end of the year and just when the cruising boats start to arrive.In this picture the main spine has been serviced and replaced,next the repaired fingers will be put back and we will have all 122 mooring berths back in use.

Hebburn Smithy shoes a pony

In line with the horseshoe story, I found this picture which has just been added on the Hebburn web site,my grand dad worked on the ships in Hebburn,hence my interest in the east coast town of England,great men and ships came from Hebburn!
Roy

Two pages of photos added tonight
Posted by Norman Dunn on 25/11/2009, 6:37 pm

check out http://www.norman.dunn247.co.uk/ and www.hebburn.org for more.

I have just added another two pages of photos tonight. I love the rare photo that John Black borrowed on P336 showing Mr Phipps the Farrier at the Glen St Smithy shoeing one of Uttley's horses.(The Dairy Horse).

Norman Dunn

The lucky Horseshoe?

A horseshoe found in Brasil.

This one is as open ended as the Horseshoe I have on my desk,we were on Ocean Cloud,our Endurance 37,quite a way up one of the rivers leading into the bay in Salvador,Bahia,Brasil.On our way to Magrogipie further up stream,we had anchored close in for the evening, going ashore I discovered a large horseshoe in some mud by a stream,it came all the way back to Hout Bay with the boat on its return.

I keep it with the points or tails pointing upwards but once a Farrier told my dad that one point should always be lower than the other,this is to allow the devil an easy escape route should he pass by and fall in? This one I have has no holes in it,so it was never used,so does this horseshoe hold no luck? well if not the small brass one found when my dad escaped an Italian Prisoner of War Camp in WW2 certainally does have luck,he brought it all the way back to Liverpool with him and its still fastened (points upward) the the back garage door right now!

Roy

Horseshoes are considered a good luck charm in many cultures. The shape, fabrication, placement, and manner of sourcing are all important. A common tradition is that if a horseshoe is hung on a door with the two ends pointing up then good luck will occur. However, if the two ends point downwards then bad luck will occur. Traditions do differ on this point, though. In some cultures, the horseshoe is hung points down (so the luck pours onto you); in others, it is hung points up (so the luck doesn't fall out); still in others it doesn't matter so long as the horseshoe has been used (not new), was found (not purchased), and can be touched. In all traditions, luck is contained in the shoe and can pour out through the ends.

In some traditions, any good or bad luck achieved will only occur to the owner of the horseshoe, not the person who hangs it up. Therefore, if the horseshoe was stolen, borrowed or even just found then the owner, not the person who found or stole the horseshoe will get any good or bad luck. Other traditions require that the horseshoe be found to be effective.

One reputed origin of the tradition of lucky horseshoes is the story of Saint Dunstan and the Devil. Dunstan, who became the Archbishop of Canterbury in AD 959, was a blacksmith by trade. The story relates that he once nailed a horseshoe to the Devil's hoof when he was asked to reshoe the Devil's hoof. This caused the Devil great pain, and Dunstan only agreed to remove the shoe and release the Devil after the Devil promised never to enter a place where a horseshoe is hung over the door.

Some believe that if guests come to a house where a horseshoe is above the door, they must leave by the same door through which they entered or they will take the luck from the horseshoe with them from the house.

Jessica Watson heads south to Cape Horn.

ANOTHER LANDMARK PASSED AS JESSICA HEADS SOUTH TO THE CAPE
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009 (10.30am AEDT)

Overnight Jessica reached the northern most part of her voyage and rounded Kiritimati (Christmas) Island and is now heading south towards the notorious Cape Horn.

Kiritimati Island is one of the three major rounding points during her around the world voyage, the other two being Cape Horn and Tasmania. Whilst she will pass under the Cape of Good Hope, it is not actually a rounding mark.

Bruce Arms, who is an integral part of Jessica’s shore team, has been impressed with her skills in rounding Kiritimati.

“Jessica has displayed really impressive seamanship and patience in rounding this landmark. The wind conditions have not been favourable for her, with headwinds and strong currents, so it has been a very challenging few days. But we have all been so impressed with the manner in which she has gone about this rounding. She kept well clear of the island and did not take any short cuts,” said Bruce.

“Whilst everyone was rightly celebrating her crossing of the equator last week, the rounding of Kiritimati was in my opinion a far more significant achievement, as it has required a very high level of sailing skills to do so and Jess has come through with flying colours.”

Since rounding Kiritimati, Jessica has made good time and is now expected to cross the equator again sometime this evening (AEDT) as she is now enjoying favourable east-south east winds.