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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Pink seacock

« Last post by symphony2 on Yesterday at 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 Yesterday at 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 Yesterday at 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 Yesterday at 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! 

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Installing Extra USB-C Chargers on 32c (2012)

« Last post by Happysailor on May 11 2024, 11:43 »

Hi UAT,

I have a later model en not the 301 panel fitted with the relays anymore, but can give some tips you may find useful.
Pick one of the F’s which are not occupied, very likely they are equally fused. Connect your “+” of the USB’s to the free connection of the chosen “F” on the board and link your plusses through. Connect your “-“ of the usb to the common “-“ rail and you are done!
Seems a simple job to do and I would not propose any additional fusing as it is already fused on the panel

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Re: Pink seacock

« Last post by Mafi on May 11 2024, 11:43 »

Many thanks for the swift suggestions. Just had a little scrape and there is shiny yellow beneath the pink. So I will leave them for the minute, keep an eye, and replace with Trudesign in due course, albeit in the face of complete opposition from the guy who normally helps me! Oddly enough it is only on the starboard side. The port fitting is fine.

Thank you all again.

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Bavaria Yacht Help! / Helm seat B49

« Last post by highhopes on May 11 2024, 07:30 »

Hello.
Having recently lost the helm seat on a Bravaria 49 (2003) overboard. We are finding it very hard to find a replacement. Bravaria have said that they no longer have the mould to produce a replacement for us and I can’t seem any for sale online. Various other sizes, but not for a 49.
we are looking at getting one made but it is sounding like a very expensive thing to do.
Does anyone know where I might find one for sale? or have one which we could arrange taking a mould from (reducing the cost of a remake) Thanks. (South coast UK)