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FREE DIGITAL MAGAZINE Motorboat NOVEMBER 2017 Owner Aordable practical boating USED BOAT GUIDE Sunseeker Martinique PRACTICAL Parker 750 DC l FLIR Thermal Cameras l West Bay Fitting Eberspächer heating welcome aboardwelcome Ian Esland Dawn on the River Thames. Boats returning from the tideway as the sun is breaking through the mist at Richmond impending winter doom, but sooner or later they will be right, and it is up to us to make sure that our boats are ready for it. On that basis, we have tagged our useful winterising guide on to the end of this issue. Even if you don’t intend to winterise your boat, it is worth familiarising yourself with the procedure, if only to be prepared to do so in a hurry, should the weathermen give us due warning of a particularly cold snap. Just one night of below freezing temperatures can be enough to cause minor damage. For those that like to use their boat throughout the year, we have another couple of timely features. Fitting Welcome to the November issue, many boats, so it pays to be a little over heating is about the best thing you If some of the more sensational tabloid cautious with regards to winterising your can do to improve the year round newspapers are to be believed, the worst boat. If there is one thing we can predict comfort onboard your boat, and this winter in decades is just around the corner. about the weather, it is that it is highly month we show you how it’s done. We I know that we have heard it all before, and unpredictable. Hurricane Ophelia, the also test some kit that helps you see certainly down south I can’t remember the most eastern Atlantic hurricane on record, in the dark, which is invaluable as we last time we had any seriously bad weather. was a timely reminder of that, and these prepare to put the clocks Having said that, each year, we still get few years of mild winters may well have back, and edge ever the odd night that is cold enough to cause lulled us into a false sense of security. The nearer to the From the Editor some frost damage to unprotected parts of tabloids seemingly warn us every year of shortest day. contact us Motorboat Owner Editor, Neale Byart Sub Editor, Pam Born Subscriptions: 01268 922991 Digital Marine Media Ltd 01268 922992 Production Editor, John Frew [email protected] Suite 6 Philpot House, [email protected] Station Road, Advertising: 01268 922994 Contributors: Rayleigh, Essex SS6 7HH Associate Editor, Claire Frew Brokerage, classified & display Peter Day, Pam Born, t: 01268 922991 01268 922993 Advertising Manager, John Steward Ian Esland [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cover photo: Sunseeker Martinique 39 2 November 2017 Motorboat Owner © Digital Marine Media Ltd 3 Single page Online Advert 2.pdf 1 21/02/2015 13:59:49 9 Superior CONTENTS & BOAT SALES Marinas NOVEMBER 2017 CAL I 16 PRACT PRACTICAL HOW TO 17 REGULARS Fitting Eberspächer heating 18 Now drill a 25mm hole. Try to stop the plug dropping in, if possible. Metal swarf is Work out the depth of unlikely to cause problems in your tank by dipping the the tank. The same cannot be standpipe into the hole Transfer that measurement to said for plastic swarf until it touches the bottom the top of the standpipe, and and mark the depth on the cut it 50-75mm short of the 19 standpipe with your finger tank depth. This ensures that it won’t pick up dirt from the NEWS 20 page 6 tank bottom 21 Ream the cut end with a YOU WILL NEEDsmall drill to open it back up to its original diameter. Pipe Install the standpipe into TOOLS cutters will squash the pipe, the tank. Nip the large nut • Screwdrivers/sockets for hose and fuel clamps and a hacksaw will reduce the up with a spanner. Don’t do Feed the fuel hose from the • Spanner 24mm for fuel standpipediameter with rough edges it too tight, otherwise the tank towards the heater. INBOX • Spanners for mounting bolts and electrical metal washer will cut into the Copper pipe is often used, connections 22 page 14 • Electric Drill rubber washer but modern rubber pipe to W e love a retrofit upgrade here at • Electric screwdriver the correct ISO is accepted by Motorboat Owner, and you have probably • Philips screwdriver 23 • 3.5mm drill bits the RCD and BSS read about many of them over the last few • Hole cutters appropriate to ducting, vents years, but there is one upgrade, above all and exhaust sizes 24 others, that increases the usability and • Sealant gun CONSUMABLES comfort onboard your boat, particularly if • Sealant you like to take advantage of the quieter, DIFFICULTYFit the fuelRATING shut-off valve to out of season, months. That upgrade is, the end of the standpipe. This of course, installing standalone heating, oooois fixed with a compressiono The hose can then be secured Q&A that is, heating that doesn’t rely on being fitting that should be done up to the shut-off valve with the page 26 plugged into shorepower. On a motorboat tight, but not so tight that it supplied fuel clip. Standard This hose, which must be the best solution is to install a diesel fired these, in the samedamages way thethat olive Hoover is to hose clamps should not be no more than two metres warm air heater and, while there are a vacuum cleaners.28 used, as they may not meet long, should now be fixed As we often use our Sealine S28 in the ISO 10088 every 500mm and routed to number of manufacturers of such kit, the 7 Eberspächer name is synonymous with November 201 where the fuel pump is to be mounted 24 CUTTING EDGE November 2017 page 44 TESTED page 46 Moorings for all types of boats page 46 Tested Raymarine FLIR M100 & M200 Thermal Cameras p16 PRACTICAL Appendix Practical Fitting Eberspächer heating Winterising guide River Thames . River Severn p50 Norfolk Broads . 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Invented in Australia, the (RYA) has reminded UK boaters Seabin is an automated rubbish collection to report any poorly marked device and will collect floating debris and fishing gear using an online micro plastics down to 2mm in diameter and form. The association claim that has the capability to collect 83,000 plastic since the launch of the ‘simple to shopping bags or 20,000 plastic bottles complete’ form in May 2017, ‘just per year. The Seabin sits alongside 1,000 85 reports have been submitted despite oysters, housed in protected cages on the pontoon at Camber Docks, which were considerable anecdotal evidence that introduced as part of a scientific project, launched in 2015. The Seabin will also incidents occur much more frequently. be demonstated to young students during site visits focusing on ocean health. The reporting of 58 entanglements and 27 observations has proved useful in identifying hotspots around the country and the RYA has today published a ‘heat map’ of poorly marked fishing gear based on the incident reports.’ A petition recently launched by the Cruising Association (CA) urges the Minister of State (DEFRA) to improve the way static fishing gear is marked for the safety of all British RIB and motorboat building on the up small craft at sea. The RYA stated ‘With over 3,200 signatures to date, it is evident An industry report released by membership that boaters feel strongly about this issue, however, these concerns are not organisation, British Marine, has revealed presently supported by the existing incident data reported to the RYA. The RYA that the revenue of the UK boat building takes the view that unless the petition is underpinned by data, it may simply be industry has increased by +1.6%, generating seen by Government as an emotive demand for action based on nothing more £859 million in turnover in 2016 and unit than opinion rather than factual evidence. For that reason, the RYA continues production climbed by +1.5% to 9,907 to urge all boaters to report sightings and entanglements wherever in the UK units. ‘This growth is led by small and they occur.’ Stuart Carruthers, RYA Cruising Manager, explained “For many medium sized boatbuilders, with the lion’s years the RYA has been concerned by reports of boaters who have experienced share of production absorbed by the mid-sized powerboat market, sailing dinghies fouled propellers and entanglement with sea-fishing gear such as nets, pots and and rigid inflatables boats (RIBs)’.