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  • Alicatt
    Alicatt reacted to Ribtecer's post in the thread Bought another boat. with Like Like.
    A lovely day on the water 👍 And as I keep saying, it's wot connects us all here.
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    Alicatt reacted to kashurst's post in the thread Bought another boat. with Love Love.
    Well it went back in the water this morning, down a fairly steep slip way. The bathing platform was briefly under water.......I bought...
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    Alicatt reacted to jamie N's post in the thread Large logs blown ashore, Isle of Wight with Haha Haha.
    As @ProDave states, we do get these from the river, but also from the port of Inverness, which handles a 'tree tanker' every couple of...
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    Alicatt reacted to ProDave's post in the thread Large logs blown ashore, Isle of Wight with Like Like.
    Usual up here, rivers feed into the firth and each winter storm will bring some whole trees down river into the firth.
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    Alicatt replied to the thread Renovating Casper.
    Oh 100 litres of water in the tank sorted that fine
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    Alicatt replied to the thread Renovating Casper.
    Slightly bow down but not bad
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    Alicatt replied to the thread Renovating Casper.
    The “Betonplex” will be replaced with stainless steel when it arrives. Shelf still to go in above the sink and hob Mrs Catt is painting...
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    Alicatt replied to the thread Renovating Casper.
    Grrr! Tech drawing with the sink was wrong, it was 15mm too narrow to let the sink fit in the hole, thank goodness the sink was larger...
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    A few of those tick the boxes on our 45 year old boat, it is well past show room condition, the previous owner had the boat partially...
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    Oh boy did that hit home! our motorboat had an overpowering smell of diesel in it, after removing 20 litres of the stuff from the bilge...
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    Alicatt replied to the thread Renovating Casper.
    Sink and shelf out, support for the shelf was rotten and crumbled away Wife started painting in the bow berth, looks a lot cleaner...
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    Alicatt reacted to Gustywinds's post in the thread Boat Recommendations with Like Like.
    Its a VOLVO D4-260 DP which is a stern drive system apparently. All I could see was the lower section, the boat was moored stern to and...
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    Alicatt replied to the thread Renovating Casper.
    That's a nice big hatch, would be easy to lift the engine out of it and put something larger back in it's place.... :D But I would miss...
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    Alicatt replied to the thread Renovating Casper.
    Water tank rinsed and sterilised, floor laid in the lazarette. Engine mounts arrived, they are about 5mm smaller than the ones that...
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    Alicatt replied to the thread Boat Recommendations.
    With the drive leg being underneath would it then be a saildrive? I have a saildrive on my boat, it is a Volvo Penta S110 powered with...
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