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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Oil leak on saildriv of a MD2030

« Last post by geoff on Today at 08:16 »

That is the drain plug hole. The plug is screwdriver slotted but very a wide slot 2 or 3mm. Under the head of the plug is a nitrile O ring , maybe missing ? Geoff

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Oil leak on saildriv of a MD2030

« Last post by JM on Today at 00:18 »

Hello,
There is a small oil leak on the bottom of the saildrive of my Bavaria 36 2003.
The engine is a MD2030.
The leak seems to come from a small hole as shown on this image.
Any help would be appreciated

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Pink seacock

« Last post by Diverphil1 on Yesterday at 18:41 »

same boat same year, if you want to fit tru design type they will fit in all the spaces on that boat, i did mine 18 month ago, its a bit of a squeeze working in the heads cupboard but if you take the door surround off its better access.
i think i posted some photos under diverphil name.

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Pink seacock

« Last post by symphony2 on May 13 2024, 12:28 »

Not  everyone does and DZR is perfectly satisfactory. In some locations it is physically impossible to fit TruDesign because of the increased bulk compared with metal valves.

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Pink seacock

« Last post by IslandAlchemy on May 13 2024, 11:17 »

Just fir Trudesign ones, like everyone else does. The problem has then gone away.

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Pink seacock

« Last post by symphony2 on May 13 2024, 11:03 »

I had a multidisciplinary group running a module in our MBA on Crisis Management and inevitably the role of the media came into it. One of the team members was a journalist whose research was in this area. How to deal with the media was a key element of managing a crisis. 

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Pink seacock

« Last post by Mafi on May 13 2024, 10:14 »

Oh, Yngmar, I would never have you pegged for a cynic  No, I think he is just a little set in his ways, he has done good reasonable work over the last decade. Just a bit suspicious of new fangled things. Like horseless carriages and fire.

Love the “notion of moral panic”. Curious, symphony 2, as to what discipline that came under. A great one to introduce modern day tick-tock enfeebled students to. Though when I think about it, you don’t find too many witches in the Orkneys now do you……..hmmm

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Helm seat B49

« Last post by elias on May 12 2024, 19:39 »

Do you think the Bavaria 50 or 44 will fit ? Era 2003-2008

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Pink seacock

« Last post by symphony2 on May 11 2024, 23:38 »

Don't be too hard on them. Plain brass fittings have been used for decades by European builders (including Bavaria) and there has yet to be an epidemic of boats sinking. This is not to deny that they can dezincify over time - many years but it rarely results in failure as they are under very little stress in their normal function and even dezincified through hulls are plenty strong enough until you apply force against them such as hitting with a hammer.

In another life I used to introduce students to the notion of moral panic, and this would make an excellent example along with the witches in the Orkneys and the child sex abuse in Rochdale.

Of course now that superior metal fittings (DZR) and composite are available at more sensible prices compared with bronze it makes sense to fit them at replacement time.

As an aside I had to bite my tongue when the surveyor for the buyer of my 2015 B33 reported the same pinkness and I took the line of least resistance and adjusted the price, knowing full well there was nothing wrong with them and it was unlikely that the buyer would replace them anyway. Add moral blackmail to moral panic - but there was £90k at stake and he was an almost perfect buyer.

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Pink seacock

« Last post by Yngmar on May 11 2024, 18:47 »

So the guy who makes money from replacing your seacocks every two years is against replacing them with ones that never need replacing again?

Very strange and completely inexplicable!