Bobc

If you're interested, I have Garmin GPSmap 550 that you can have for a couple hundred quid. Already has UK charts installed.

Try Arzal, La Roche Bernard, La Foret. You might get a mid-river swinging mooring at the first 2.

Don't bother trying to free it up, it'll only seize again when you least want it to.

FWIW, one of several recent cases of new cable conditions after 6-12 months.

That would be our preferred scenario.

That being the case, get him on your side and work with him to get Seago to take resppnsibility for it.

That's quite an unusual failure on those engines. Glad you found the culprit though.

The Chinese do

Hopefully someone with more knowledge of metallurgy than I will chip in, but certainly I would not expect wire made from 316 stainless...

They do stick, but that gives other symptoms. Worth checking it and givimg it a squirt of WD40 anyway.

That's why you should use a company such as Allspar. Some of the "cheaper" riggers tend to use cheap steel from the far east, and the...

I think those are the best first moves.

We have to tell ours, otherwise we don't get free mooring in other marinas.

Use wool mops rather than sponges.

I've just bought another Tohatsu 3.5 2-stroke. I wish I hadn't sold my last ine to Dancrane. Should've kept it.