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Hello Julie
sorry for the late answer, just saw your post today.
Of course I can send Info on Ayla. Please provide me with your email address so I can send documents to you.
Kind regards
Gerhard
Please reply to: whirlen@arcor.deDear Mayrilyn
thanks for the link and the detailed description you have made there.
Seems like I am not the only one noticing about the Nic39 weakness.
I am on my way to Samos to see how Ayla is doing and will be posting a few pictures of the setup Ayla is am having. But in general my investigations lead in the same direction as your solution. Remark: I spoke to a specialized pump company here and they have told me it would be advisable to have a check valve on the end of intake of the pump. They state that this will keep water in the hose of the pump so the pump will not be sucking air at the start. If this is a good advise I dont know ( doesnt sound good to me always to have dirty salt/oil water in the intake hose)
Please respond your comment
Kind regards
GerhardDear Marilyn
thanks for the prompt reply. It seems that your boat / hull has the same layout of drains from the cockpit like AYLA.
Ayla does not have drains to the outside and in fact I believe the holes have been laminated close since I have never seen any. The seawater / cockpit water goes into the sump underneath the engine and from there drains into the bilge Ayla has two electic bilgepumps and one manual one.However these are hard to get to pumps ( hardly to reach especially the float switch.
I believe I will mount a self sucking pump into the compartment which is below the step to the aft cabin and run a hose to the lowest point into the bilge. This should be much better to maintain.
Reason for this is that one of my bilge pumps always fails. ( nearly every year after berthing it is locked, sitting there dry).
I will post pictures having done this
Thanks for now
GerhardHello
Sorry for the late answer, but I did not get any notification on your post. I am currently in the US coming back eof Jan than I will call you if this is ok with you
Kind regards
GerhardHello Mike
you mentioned earlier that you will supply pictures of your installation. I would be intressted in such. can you send me to my email adress?
Thanks
gerhard
AylaHello Michael
the reefing point are not used since the foot of the main is not more attached to the boom. I have never used the rolling mechanism of the boom also not with the old sails.
The problem with the full batten are the mast sliders and since the batten are wide the require a special mastsliders which are hard to move up and down. I am trying to get sliders from Nautilus Sweden which do have bearings and wheels which should slide outside of the mast groove.
This year I had to modify the cover which I use to slide in the mainsliders as the ones for the battens are bigger. I had to cut open the opening and have had problems to have a new cover made which fitted good and did not stop the sailsliders ( sorry do not know what is the english word for it ) from going up or down.
Gerhard
Ayla
