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Having missed the final deadline for leaving at Coastguard and findind no one to take them near me, I actually googled "disposal of incendaries". Local gov web site said recycling centre took them. Local gov help line knew no details so I checked with recycling operator, and they said no...

I have just replaced the aerial on top of my mast after nasty shock last year when it did not transmit when I tried to call in a mayday on behalf of a person in water. The new one is a Glomex 0.9m and carefully installed with its supplied new cable, before mast was re-erected, and then wired...

Brave men, determined men trying to go their very very best to save the crew of a stricken coaster. May their sacrifices never be forgotten. RIP

I am getting rid of my defective and also noisy Bukh 24 . It is to go in an LM27 and my yard assures me that most engines are smaller and lighter than the Bukh so another make will no doubt fit. I had thought to get a Yanmar 3YM30 as in the boat we just sold as gloriously quiet compared with...

As a one time Bristol Channel Sailor I always had 50m in the locker. A 13m tidal range meant that even anchoring in 4m at low tide, a full run of 50m only gave me 3:1 chain to depth at high tide. However I have now moved my operations to Plymouth and S Cornwall where tidal range is sometimes as...

Yacht Leg Company Style legs wanted i.e. metal and clipping to fixed point on hull not bolted through. For a 28ft longkeeler to dry out or stabilise while leaning against harbour walls French style (single leg on outside)

Having now acquired a boat with wheel steering in pilot house plus tiller at the stern I investigated autohelm possibilities.. The wheel is fairly small and not readily replaceable by a larger on so it is hard to fit a wheel pilot. Most tiller pilots offer no remote function except via a...

The boat I'm buying has a 36yr old worn out old Bukh DV20, good enough for a bit but dodgy gearbox and not what I want for possible long trips, where extended use of up to 30hrs might be required if wind dies or turns on the nose. I have the chance of a six year old Yanmar 3YM30 for £3k, and I...

Just passed through on the way back to the Axe. Fuel, showers, friendly service at the Marina. Half the marina is declining to soft mud but that's a legacy of the original council controlled rebuild in about 2000 when the river was diverted outside both inner and outer harbour and probably not...