u/Mehfisto666

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..