Hi there
We have owned Water Music for 18 months, which we love, but have decided that we would prefer a single throttle/gear lever on the Edson helm station to the current dual lever system. Has anyone else made this change. I couldn't find a thread on this subject.
We are also changing the engine mounts for our 3YM30 Yanmar motor and wondered if there were risks to installing non Yanmar mounts.
Many thanks for your advice.
Lynley
Water Music 2005 36 MK II
Hull # 2259
New Zealand
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Lynley and Dave
Water Music
Marlborough, New Zealand
C36 Mk II, 2005, Hull 2259
'Water Music.' Nice 'Handel' for this forum.
(Bad pun alert.)
Larry Brandt
S/V High Flight #2109
Pacific Northwest, PDX-based
2002 C-36 mkII SR/FK M35B
Agreed Larry. It is a great Handel. :) no pun intended. We didn't name it but we do love it.
I have emailed Edson who have responded with some frank advice re costs etc. As a result we will do some other mods which may result in easier operation.
Lynley
Lynley and Dave
Water Music
Marlborough, New Zealand
C36 Mk II, 2005, Hull 2259
If you do convert to the single handle system can you take some pics and write up a brief article? It would be good to see. I'm afraid with advancing age and stupidity I'll forget which is which with resulting ugly and expensive noises happening.
BTW, did your boat come with a Yanmar or did you replace the Universal? That was a topic on here a short while ago.
Happy to write it up if we do make the change. Water Music was delivered with the Yanmar. I am not sure whether that was the original owners specification or Catalina's.
Lynley.
Lynley and Dave
Water Music
Marlborough, New Zealand
C36 Mk II, 2005, Hull 2259
I am considering single handle control for Easy, let 's call it lever to avoid any confusion with German -born English Baroque composers...
Any success story to share from Water Music or others?
Whatever I try to design always seems to get in the way of something. Edsel has a bolt -on unit for my pedestal, but that gets into the way of the engine instrument panel. Tried to put it on the starboard side of the cockpit between the bilge pump unit and the ' pigeon hole ', but insufficient room for the unit.
The only thing I can come up with now, is installing an extra pole just forward of the bracket around the pedestal (the one the nav pods are mounted on). That will cost me the cockpit table and I'm a bit worried about the esthetics...
Any suggestions?
S/Y 'EASY'
C36 MkII #1739
Monnickendam -The Netherlands
www.taas.it(link is external)