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dansaskip
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Unplanned voyage!!
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I can hear the old salts muttering in their beards and bemoaning people not knowing how to scull over the transom with a single oar...
Friday at 13:32
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DIY sailboat restoration project - shed needed
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Can't believe 6 years have gone by... But, with a tiny little pandemic in the middle, I've managed to finish the biggest undertaking of...
Friday at 13:19
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For me the problem with this is the detail that is lost as you zoom out. Paper charts often show "relatively" small hazards to...
11 May 2024
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Nothing wrong with charts! These new fangled chart plotters cause alarm and distress. As for these young whip-pa snappers with their...
11 May 2024
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Engine overhaul schedule
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Exhaust elbow well worth checking. Depending on make and model they can look fine on outside but do corrode on inside. When did you last...
11 May 2024
dansaskip
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Teak grating
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Why do you think they need some love? Look fine to me just plain slightly weathered teak
9 May 2024
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Sinking catamaran due to dinghy painter
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No, faorly certain it wouldn’t have sunk. But a boat that can rip itself to bits by means of a rope around a prop, that is surely poor...
7 May 2024
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Securing the anchor
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Looks a considerably more expensive gadget too. I will stick with my 6mm cord backing up a quick release shackle to a deck u bolt
27 Apr 2024
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I still have the small screwdriver tester with bulb in handle and test lead ... in fact I have a couple ...
25 Apr 2024
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Dead Yanmar
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Well I certainly have - an essential bit of kit in my electrical bag of tricks, but I am old school. Quicker and simpler to use than a...
24 Apr 2024
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A modern digital meter takes so little current that it can give a normal voltage reading through bad connections ...... guaranteed to...
24 Apr 2024
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Stainless steel diesel fuel tanks?
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Corrosion of the welds occurs by a process called sensitisation, in which carbon in the sheet metal or the filler rods forms chromium...
23 Apr 2024
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Does anyone ever do man not-overboard practice?
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The OP worded the question strangely, but in fact he makes an excellent point. If you fall off the roof of a tall building the recovery...
19 Apr 2024
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Arcona 460 sinks
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And another. Unsupported spade rudders for crossing oceans is just too scary for me though plenty do it. So much garbage out there to hit.
17 Apr 2024
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Should I - or not?
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I have one of these beasts mounted in the bow of my boat. Find it great to use, so I’d say yes
15 Apr 2024
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