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2003-01-29 Happy
New Year! I wish you all a Happy and prosperous New Year. For my self I wish, that just a few of the many experiences you have made being in possession of a Moonraker might grant the Society to common benefit. Web-site. Our
web-site has from the beginning been optimized to a screen solution of
800x600. The connected counter however tells that 40% of the hits has a
solution of 1024x768, while just 26% has 800x600. The
rest is divided:
1152x864 - 5.5%, 1280x1024 - 2.5%, 640x480 - 1%,
and other solution - 25%. We have therefore re-designed some of the sites, so they to a higher extent appear reasonable with varying screen solution. The last 6 months of 2002
the site had 1188 hits. Web-sites
in common are often changed, either by simple updating or by major
re-designs. If you are interested in knowing how a particular web-site
looked back in time, then look to www.archive.org,
where all sorts of web-sites are filed, also old versions of moonraker.dk.
Moonraker history. The uncovering of the Story of
Moonraker is a long-standing project. Our call in Motor Boats Monthly February
2002 gave immediately after a few, but important contacts. Later the flow of
information has shrunken to almost nothing, and new information's accrue to
us inexpressibly slow! Leslie Mogford, Eastwood Marina in
Brundall, was one of the few who contacted us, and as a former JCL employee
and member of a group of former employees, he will be able to contribute
with many pieces of information. However, he also has a daughter Sarah O'Hara,
who her self is working on the project and she is hoping to publish late
2003!! She is sitting in the cosy little corner having directly access to all sorts of information, and we can't beat that and are awaiting the result of her efforts. Meanwhile we of course continue gathering information. We naturally has offered to help her with our pieces of information, if wanted. 2003-05-07 Get together in Kerteminde The weekend July19-20'th. a get together is taken place in Kerteminde. It seems to be a lucky punch date as the below mentioned 7 boats has announced their probably participation: 072 Kariba,
265 Moonlight, 305 Rimfaxe, 331
Sprællebassen, 356 Bolette, 372 Amanda,
379 Camillo.
Should others find, that participation would fit into
their sailing schedule, give us a hint, the sooner the better as it gives us opportunity
to try to find room for everybody. Cold Start Aid Perkins has fitted the engines delivered to the Moonraker with a Cold Start Aid. However, the equipment is not brought in a functional state on every Moonraker. A drawing attached to this letter shows what it takes to bring things in working order. Check this web-site: Service / Solutions / Cold Start Aid. Web site In Newsletter No.1 / 2002 we mentioned an initiative towards
those Lotus enthusiasts, who might be potential boat buyers. It gives us
great pleasure to note that the strategy has been a success, as we have many
hits from a Lotus web-site, where web-sites relating to Colin Chapman
is assembled, and here we are listed with our web address.
2003-09-02 More about propellers.
With eternally increasing prices on diesel, it isn't quite uninteresting to make sure, that one is sailing as economic as possible. This obviously can be done by putting the brake on yourself and "not give her the gun", but also by making sure that the propellers are optimized to the engine revolutions you normally do. Now, - if you always are doing 1500 rev/min. and never or seldom are "giving her the gun", you can choose to fit propellers, which gives you a better fuel economy isolated seen by the low engine revolutions, and that of course will be with larger pitch. Further about propellers. Moonraker is fitted with three-bladed "Aquapoise 55" type, with 55% surface. According to propeller producers, a lot has happened within "propeller research" since Moonraker came about. They are telling that fitted with a 1:1 gear, which Moonraker is, the propellers should be four-bladed and have 90% surface. This would result in smother running and greater efficiency. A company making profit by selling propellers might naturally be interested in stating just that? Never the less I am considering changing my propellers, and if I do, I'll return with my experiences, and if some of you are able to tribute with something about this subject please contact us. Web-site. Wiring diagram has been put on the web site (Service / Drawings / Wiring Diagram 1975) and can either be read on the screen and enlarged up to 400% or downloaded and saved as PDF-file. The diagram is made from a very bad paper copy, and some notes on the bottom have been impossible to decipher, that is why dashes and question marks in the text. Jan Pedersen, Laerkevaenget 27, DK 4700 Naestved, phone +0045 2940 9031 and +0045 5573 0494, e-mail jape@sport.dk, has inserted an advertisement searching a flybridge vessel, rather not older than 1972. About
interest for Moonraker. Again this year - being on holiday - we have had the pleasure that people are showing interest of the vessel, expressing how beautiful it is and asking to its origin. It fills my heart with great "father pride" though I have had nothing what so ever to do with its coming into existence. Advertising for Moonraker to buy! Swedes setting out from Stockholm to Kerteminde to look at Moonrakers! It's a real classic you are being in possession of! If our society has just a little part of this increasing interest, I'm not less pleased!
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2003-11-24 International Moonraker Register Unfortunately does many not know where to look for the build (hull) number, but this site can be helpful http://www.moonraker.dk/Danish/international_register/help.htm. The purpose is having the tentacles out many places and encourage Moonraker owners to send data about their vessels. Almost 100 owners have been contacted in Greece, UK, Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Egypt. - and even you can help by making notes of Moonrakers, and tell them about our web site and the Register, e.g. by using those inserts to be found on the Library site. Accidents. A couple of our members have been unlucky this summer. Villy Makholm in "Chivas" got damages on the hull, by a contact with the "Green Man" in Little Belt. Michael Pedersen in "Juma II" had engine failure at the entrance to Ishøj harbour, and heavy wind took the vessel into the stone breakwater, under which the hull had major damages which in the end lead to wreckage and loss. The vessel was lifted next day and the engines restarted, but the insurance company has declared the vessel a total wreck, and the sum insured 400.000.-DKK has been paid out. The vessel is subsequently sold by the insurance company to a father and son, who are auto mechanics. It is reported that the price was 150.000.-DKK. Web-site. Our
web-site is regularly distributed to servers, which don't have us registered
and our hits on the site is therefore steadily increasing and have now
reached 900 per month. (2002 the figure was 200 per month). Burned Moonraker. As mentioned in the last newsletter, 3 Swedes paid us a visit in Kerteminde at our get together. They thought about buying a burned Moonraker. Subsequently they have bought the vessel, a 1975/E flybridge build (hull) number 326. As can be seen on the photos below this is no easy task! Not a single room below hasn't heavy marks of the burning. They think of reconstruction of the flybridge, without getting one from the English moulder, so I guess it is going to be a very special Moonraker!
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