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Hi there Brisyboy. I’ve got the boat at Manly. 20 years ago when I was getting g around the bay on trailer boats I used to see Fairway’s plodding around and always thought they looked like a great bay boat. Wind the clock forward to an alignment of my retirement and a pandemic and my travel...

Thanks Ted. I’ll get a sparky out ASAP. Hopefully an AVR adjustment is possible but probably a bit of wishful thinking to find 30-40V.

I have recently acquired a vessel in Australia that is fitted with a Lombardini LMG9000 genset. It’s a 2 cylinder 3,000rpm setup that is meant to be good for 9kva. It is 15 years old and has done 1,700 hours. Down under we run AC power at 240v and circa 50hz. It is producing the 50hz no...

Maybe a crossed wire there. The owner who sunk it paid $1.8. It was then auctioned as salvage. The auctioneer tried to open bidding at $35k and didn’t get a bid. We are left to guess what it actually sold for as salvage butt I’d be happy to have wager on it owing him less than $500k after...

I’m sure that there is a very interesting Loss Adjusters file worth reading somewhere. A ballsy punt by the new owner that’s paid off. It was last on the market in 2015 for A$1.8m. It passed in at the salvage auction on the auctioneers opening bid of A$35k.

A late post I know but so happy to see that you were able to save this vessel. I used to admire it when it was birthed in Raby Bay at the home of its original owners.