Sail around the UK coast aboard ‘Confidence’ a small sailing yacht. We have pilotage tips, maintenance and passage planning - as well as plenty of footage of England’s beautiful coastline, as we share our boating adventures.
Good tutorial. Thanks much mate! Minor Feedback: Audio could be slightly better. There some hum in the indoor portions, and a wind sock would reduce wind noise in the outdoor portions.
Some wise words in your intro. A lesson I learned the hard way - Boats are not like modern Cars. More like the old bombs I had when I was young. If you just jump in and go, without checking everything first, sooner or later you will regret it. Upside of my experience is that after replacing my boat's engine, I am now intimately familiar with my new engine and peripheral systems. The wallet is a lot lighter, but I'm much more confident and methodical about everything I do on the boat.
I love my d 1 30 its a perkins block with volvo marinising it the 115 am alternator is great for charging and uses only about 2 liters a hour cruising great piece of kit
Thank you for your post here's a you tube link on anti-fouling you may find interesting & useful ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ioyuo9Xwk6Q.html
Thanks for that, I'm considering installing such a system on my sailing boat. The location of the heater will be in a aft lock not far behind the rear aft cabin, so vary close in distance. Question how noisy is it, don't want to be left with the choice of either being cold but can sleep or being warm but cant sleep due to the noise. Thanks
The fan is variable speed, and so on lower speeds it is fairly quiet. But the fuel pump clicking can definitely be the sort of thing that can keep a person awake unless it's mounted somewhere sensible
Congratulations on an excellent and well put together video. Some people recommend using white vinegar monthly to fill the toilet system, they say it helps dissolve mineral deposits such as calcium carbonate found in sea water if left within the system for a while. It might be mentioned in one of the Nigel Calder books.
Thanks for the comments. Yes white vinegar is something I use regularly - if I'm honest with varied results. Once the limescale gets properly a hold then really vinegar isn't powerful enough. But on a newly cleaned mechanism, the vinegar definitely keeps the worst of it at bay
Three mistakes were made there whilst changing the oil filter. The new one needs filling with oil, a film of new oil around the new rubber gasket and only hand tighten which others have mentioned on this thread. Hold the oil filter vertically and just below the housing whilst it is full of oil and fairly quickly move to the horizontal position and screw on. This engine also takes far too long to fire up, maybe the fuel system could do with a good clean out. Try and keep fuel tanks as full or empty as possible to avoid condensation forming within them resulting in microbiological sludge building up in the bottom where the water settles after dripping from the tank walls. Check coolant level, water drain in your filter and oil level before each start up day. Warm the engine up for a good 20 minutes. Use a good fuel additive with each fuel tank fill to keep the system, particularly injectors and fuel pumps clean inside. It is surprising to see when a well used fuel pump is dismantled for reconditioning just how much in terms of black deposits are removed from the small fuel holes if no additive has been used. Check torque of all shaft coupling nuts and bolts and all engine and gearbox mounts ever 500 hours. This will reduce the main machinery rattling loose and falling out of alignment resulting in vibration problems. Good husbandry of your marine engine will help give thousands of hours hassle free boating and save a small fortune over the years. If you have got a bit of technical ability about you or are willing to learn from books, do it yourself, no need to pay a character like me working for a company with a glossy website £60-80+ an hour to do it for you.
Hi Colin, thanks for asking. Yes all is OK. But I've been so busy at work that I hadn't been able to get to the boat since last year. I have been this week, and all is well. Hopefully start again in earnest very soon and start uploading videos very soon afterwards.
Great Video, The seacocks do you leave open or closed while boat is underway? In general if the toilet seacocks are awkward to get to, would you leave them open or closed?
Usually the seacocks for toilet in and out, and both sink drains are left open when we are aboard and underway just for convenience. In rough conditions though, bouncing into waves can force water up the piping at some pressure but that normally affects the sink rather than the toilet as there is no non return valves on the sinks... So certainly under those conditions we would shut all seacocks apart from the engine intake.
I think that you need to take high tide in to account and not low tide. Basically let out enough rode to handle the highest level so you maintain your ratio.
The Yealm (pronounced Yam, by the way, by locals at least) is one of my favourite estuaries. I used to holiday there staying with an aunt, uncle and cousins of mine in Noss Mayo, and canoed on the estuary.
Have you done any maintenace on the transmissio n (ms10l-b?). I've been experiencing trouble getting into gear (intermittent) and there is little in the way of documentation in the standard volvo canon. However, I drained my tranmission fluid and it was black and rancid. Any tips?
I don't have an opinion on which engine model might be the best. Too many variables. Plus I know every engine is unique... One might go forever without ever failing and exactly the same make and model might give you no end of trouble. Certainly simpler engines are easier to keep going with a good maintenance regime, but modern engines have efficiency, reduced size and noise in their favour
The sailboat around 3:45. Are they supposed to be taking that line through the harbour? I'm clueless when it comes to sailing but seemed like you had to take evasive action unnecessarily.
Well in this case My sails were down and power gives way to sail. So the rules say that I would have to have taken the evasive move. That said, I watched it back and there's barely any water where the sailor is headed. We had just passsed the green Starboard hand post marking the edge of the channel and he's also heading round the back of the MOD jetty which is a restricted area, so either way I suspect he tacked as soon as we were past.
I had an electric toilet on my previous boat, and quite splendid it was too. Two pumps needed... One for the water in and a second macerator pump for the outlet. But they take up space and are very noisy to operate - not good during the night with guests aboard.
Awesome video - we have had a bunch of black tank issues and are gradually solving them. Any advice is welcome - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AJgTR45qfOs.html
Im so glad you posted this. This way I can straight away hire someone else to do the job I wouldn’t be able to do myself but would only come to that realization half way through the process
During our 5-year world trip, we traveled/slept in various weather and sea beds with ultra anchors without any problems. I have an anchor one size larger than my boat needs and a windlass one size larger than the anchor needs.
@@confidencesailing All is well John. Had a couple of short trips in between the rain😀 Now the weather is changing I hope to get down the Thames past Tower Bridge and get the sails up⛵Good luck with your boat mate👍🏻
I don't know about Jabsco, but pumps from companies like SeaFlo don't hold up! Today I installed a new one, and it is leaking from under the upper valve cover... When I tried to unscrew the 6 screws securing the cover, one of the cylindrical castings into which these screws are unscrewed broke off! Is it really impossible to make a design with screws and nuts? Now what, should I change the pump again or try to drill through and secure it with a screw and nut?
Just a heads up to those reading this in 2024: the most limited depth is not in fact over the bar but on the leg up to the harbour entrance. The online depth gauge is for the bar only. I found there to be considerably less depth than that on the final approach to the harbour. As a result, I had around 1m under the keel over the bar but still ran aground. This is, I understand, an ongoing issue, but it’s not widely publicised. Hope this helps!
