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I sailed up to Lofoten in March and didn't think much of it (it is not required to import a foreign boat for temporary visits) . But in the meanwhile plans changed and I want to register the boat here. I do have the contact with the price. It's an old boat from 1978 and the value is under 200k. The closest custom office is in Bødo which isn't very close to be honest.

Is anyone familiar with this process? Is there any chance that the process can be done telematically without sailing all the way to Bodø?

Anything in particular I should expect?

I haven't been worrying about shore power much as I've always had it connected only at times when I'm with the boat. But now i plan to keep it connected throughout the winter to keep the batteries up and maybe a heater for when temperatures get really low.

The boat (fiberglass) is located in northern norway, where salinity is not crazy high but it is still saltwater.

I have a good victron battery charger / maintainer but no proper setup. So now I'm planning to make a nice plug for shore power with an appropriate circuit breaker.

I dont know much about galvanic isolators and was wondering if it's actually needed or if its more for steel/aluminium boats or whether i should get one?

This is mostly about how sailboats are built and how Orca attacks affect them but I think it's an interesting watch for Orca enthusiasts as much as for sailors

https://www.youtube.com/live/zy599gcThG8

I am fairly new but I have been putting in quite a few hours so I thought I'd throw in a few $$ to support the game and get something nice. And since characters are so expensive I want to get a skin for Ichihime which I really love!

I thought I'd go for Cat Warrior since it's obviously very cool but I kind of really like Spring Song too now. It looks a bit more detailed and idk.. More vibe and unique.

Just curious what you guys prefer to help me make up my mind

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Hi all! A friend of mine just got a clip on storm sail for his 28 feeter sailboat.

He plans to hoist it on the baby stay (not inner forestay which he don't have). The baby stay is attached in line with the spreaders (NOT swept back and ofc without added backstays) around half way up the mast and pretty close to the mast on the deck. This way the storm sail extends aft of the mast for roughly half its size too.

I don't think he plans to be out in actual storms at all but more of a way to depower.

He says that lots of people do use the babystay for a storm sail but i am very conflicted about this. Is this actually a thing?

Hi all! I have been reading and contributing to this sub for a long time, so i kinda feel i know about every single game in existence, but the truth is I haven't played many.

At some point i stopped getting games that my friends could maybe like and started buying games that have atleast also a solo mode.

Thing is, i live in a country and work in another. So i have most of my games back home and suddenly i find myself across the sea for weeks with lots of free time and the wrong games with me.

Table space is actually not a big issue, but box size is, as I'll have to move games around as i travel for work.

I normally like dungeon crawlers and adventure games, but i am now open also to something different. I used to like wargames a lot as a kid.

PnP and roll&write are out as i do have quite a few of them (mostly postmark games) and while i like them i value table presence and tactile part quite a lot.

At home I just had delivered (but won't be able to play until sept/oct) Fate of the Fellowship, that I'm looking forward also for multiplayer, and Radiance on the way, as i am looking forward to a heavier game (i loved lotr lcg but it felt too little replayable and didn't want to go down the rabbit whole).

Among my favs I have Bullet❤️, Bag of Dungeon 2, All is Bomb.

Last year I got Endeavor Deep Sea, not sure how much i loved it as euro game and I do love it! I play it a lot, although the brutal win conditions feel often frustrating.

Recently, here at work, I got A gentle rain, which i play often and love, and Kinfire Delve, which I was hoping would keep me company for many hours, but to my surprise I don't really like it. I like the gameplay loop but not a big fan of art and character design, and the last games got wrecked but insanely bad roll streaks that really frustrated me. Idk.

So I'm pretty much open to anything. I'm actually VERY tempted to get Deckers, which they have in a store closeby, by they want 70€ for it. And while I'm not THAT bothered by paying the price, that's like double the normal retail price (given in Norway everything is a little more expensive).

I've been looking at the white castle too. Not sure what to think of it.

I tries a while back One Deck Dungeon, but also didn't quite like it. Although fantasy stuff like this should be really up my alley.

So yeah just throwing out a blind hook here. Availability might also be somewhat of a concern, but i see they have deckers (70€) closeby and the white castle (40ish€). Not sure what else.

Not really into marvel and superhero themes, but I'd like some space themed game

Hi all! My new old boat's MD11C engine actually runs great. But it's a bit hard to start, makes a lot of smoke at start, but mostly it just keeps leaking fuel (could be oil but i doubt it) either out of the exhaust or together with the saltwater of the cooling system but I'd guess the first. I do also feel like fuel consumption is higher than it should be.

So far I have replaced all filters (which clearly had not been replaced in a while) and i removed the injectors and got them cleaned and checked by professionals (they said pressure test was good).

I'm a bit at a loss on what to do now. Mechanics in these area are few and expensive and it's a bit hard to get appointments and move the boat there.

Any idea what could be the cause? I'm thinking of adjusting the valves next and eventually changing the piston rings and checking head gasket. But these last ones I'd do in the winter when I'll have plenty of time. I'm not very expert but I'm learning and I'm good with tools

Hi all!

I have fairly recently switched from a 28ft to an old 5.5ton 34 feeter. It's a medium weight ocean racer/cruiser which I'm really liking.

It has a theoretical hull speed of 7kn, but I find it actually pretty rare to reach it. With the old md11c 28hp engine i cruise finely at 6-6.2kn at 2000rpm (max 2500rpm), and when sailing I mostly also comfortably reach around 6kn, but i think i can count the times i got over 6.5kn.

For example a couple days ago we had some nice wind like 15-16kn of tws (close to 20kn of aws) on a close reach, and i think we could only get between 6 and 6.5kn of speed.

I did get over 7 a few times in pretty overpowered conditions.

So now I'm just wondering how easy it should be to reach hull speed. Is it something that i should achieve pretty easily or if it's normal to only get there with pretty strong winds.

The hull is clean but the sails are pretty worn out. The genoa is ok but the main while solid is really blown out i can tell that it really doesn't keep the shape that should have. So I'd be inclined to think of that as the main reason but having no experience on other boats I'm just wondering

Hello everyone. Recently bought an Aphrodite 34 from 1978 now in Norway and she obviously has her needs.

She is running an MD11C that is actually running great but has quite a bit of issues. Leaks a bit of either fuel or oil through the exhaust especially at start, takes a long time to start and makes a lot of smoke at start. While warm those symptoms don't disappear fully but get much less noticeable, but otherwise it runs very fine.

I have been doing some work on it, replacing all filters (fuel filters were clearly not replaced in a good while) and took down to clean and pressure check injectors which turned out to be in perfect condition.

The engine is fresh water cooled, some hosing as well as the exchaust elbow have been changed recently, but i also find some little leaks of oil/oily water from an air filter as well as at the bottom of the engine room every time and for the love of me i can't figure them all out.

Anyway, it's getting hard to find spare parts for it and while I'll try to fix it up and take care I'm also starting to considering getting a new/rebuilt engine maybe not this coming winter but the next one where I'll take the boat back south where i know some reliable mechanics that i can trust both in skill and price.

Don't want to spend that much for this old boat but was wondering what kind of engine i should look for, as the boat currently mounts the volvo S110 saildrive and I'm not sure if i need to find engines compatible with that, or if there is a yanmar engine with the same/similar size of it that can be adapted or how it works?

Hi all! Recently got Scorn's Stockade as my first and (so far) only entry of the serie after it being in my wishlist forever.

It's clear the game has been really thought out and fine tuned, although I'm flabbergasted they did not make the effort to fix the boss' challenge card "The Witness" in the new print. As for errata it should have a penalty of "discard a card" on failed challenge but it still shows as no penalty while going through the effort of lowering production quality.

It is also clear that the game kinda wants you to get more boxes for variety. It really wants to play double handed and ofcourse having more characters would greatly help with variety. This is fair enough given the low price point of the single box. I find it great to get a complete fun game for a good price with the chance to expand on it if you want.

The delving part is soo much fun! Luck is easily mitigated and if you play your cards right you can pretty much take off relying on dice rolls from the equation. Challenges are fun and discarding cards to delve further down the well feels super rewarding.

I'm not a big fan of these 2 characters but I find their cards fun to play.

But then you get to the boss and that's where everything goes to shit. Rolling darkness on the light/dark die (50% chance) will rain on you misery and nothing sucks more than going through your few available rerolls just to keep losing the 50-50 in a bad streak costing you the game.

That's it. Rolled light? Good! Gonna roll darkness a couple times in a row? Well sucks to be you see you on the next game I guess.

The divergence in how much this game relies on luck during the delving phase and the boss battle is somewhat disheartening.

That said, I love how quick the setup is and it's fun to get to the table and just play, so losing a 20-30mins game due to bad rolls isn't the end of the world and I definitely can see me playing this more than enough to get my money's worth

Hello everyone, I haven't logged in in a while so I'm not sure when this happened, but i see i am now required to verify with BankID, which I don't have.

Is this now mandatory or am i missing something?

I did have one for a period of time but that was a mistake from my ex bank with which i had a lot of troubles and i ended up closing the account and transferring to another one that does not offer bankID. I'm in the process of obtaining a fødselsnummer but being a liveaboard despite having worked here 4 years and having now a full time contract they are making the process really difficult as i do not have a stable address, but that's another story..