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to Graham,
I read your topic “Steering issues found by surveyor on Vanikoro”.
You are asking if it would be necesary to replace the existing system by an hydraulic one, as suggested by our surveyor!
The C&N original system is a very good one: it is mecanical ( no oil leak to be afraid of, and better than a cable system with abrasion on the pulley and hazard of rupture) and as strong as a car movement transmission. It would be a pity to change this!
The only problem of “play in the steering” (not dangerous indeed)is due to the fact that every “cardan joint” of the transmission take “play” with time and that the addition of these “micro-plays” could make a relatively important “total play”.The solution is very simple and cheap: it consists in replacement of all small “croisillons de cardan”( “crosspiece” in English?)all along the steering shaft*; I do that in 1994 with a car mecanic for 60€ with a very good result.
An other problem is possibly to check the fixation on the hull ( on the vault) of the last
support (with a gear-box) of this ” steering shaft” before the lever (“crowbar”?)which support important strain. This is accessible under the aft-cabin bassin ( not necessary to dismantle the mirror!)and to be made by stratification with polyester resin.
* the problem, I agree, is to open this shaft on his all run, particularly under the aft-berth!
Please, Graham, do that by our-self and do not make unreasonnable expenses!Jean-Claude Limasset,previous owner of “Vanikoro” ( number 3 of the serie).
P.S.: an other point:It is not truth that the emergency steering system is inadequate; you have in the head cabin , on starboard chest an emergency steering bar which is adaptable on the “carré” of the steering shaft by a hatch in the desk, behind the mizzen mast. Of course, you have to steer in an inhabitual way, but it is only for emergency!
I am very happy to sell “Vanikoro” to a British one,…but a little bit desappointed to know that he is intending to change her name!
“Vanikoro” is the name of the island in Pacific Ocean where La Pérouse ( the French Cook) wrecked with “La Boussole” and died and it is a very “in demand” name for a pleasure boat in France…
But, I know, there are the Channel and Napoléon beetwen us!
As I am concern, I have in fact an ancestor who was officier in the Navy at Nelson’s times ( Edward Nickoll); Her frigate ( “Hussar”) wrecked on Sein Island in 1804, he was prisoner in Verdun, … and he married my grand-grand mother after the war in 1814. He carried on his career in the R.N., with his family in East of France, where he was buried.
Good wind, however, to Graham!
Jean-claude limasset
France (previous owner of “Vanikoro”)to Simon Davis,
Have a look to my advertising on the “Sell and Trade” part of this site (“Nicholson 38 owner Group”): “VANIKORO for sale”
J.C.LIMASSET
<jean-claude.limasset@club-internet.fr>
Tel.: 00 33 383 22 86 74VANIKORO is still for sale. Please see details above.
(edited by moderator to remove repeated content)I am intersted .
JCL
vanikoro@orange.frThank you to Marilyn and Mike for their welcoming greetings!
In fact I was mailing from “Vanikoro”, an Amel Maramu registered in Nieuwpoort (Belgium), that I brought in Spring 2011 and my further sailboat, “Vanikoro”, registred in Marseille (France)( the Nic 38 number 3 of the serie) is for sale in Port Napoleon (Port Saint Louis du Rhône, near Marseille).
If some body was interested, he can find every details on the following sites: – <www.kingsyacht.com> (Bucklers Hard- Beaulieu River (Hampshire), if British,
-or: <www.ancasta.com (Shipyard Port Napoléon), if French.
I am hoping not to regret (?) my old fellow, the Nicholson, with which I sailed from south coast of England to North coast of Africa (Tunisia) and recently the bottom of Adriatic Sea ( Venezia by sea…).
Best regards.
J.C. Limasset.
