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Frank Holden
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Books for your voyage
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Anyone embarking on a long sea voyage on a small boat should take along a copy of 'The Custom of the Sea'.
Yesterday at 07:59
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Skin cancer - sailing in Scotland
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I believe southern Chile/ Magallanes Province / TDF/ etc has the highest incidence of melanomas on the planet.
10 Apr 2024
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The tide doesn't rise and fall!
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You've been reading too much Bowditch. In the Anglosphere they are surely tidal streams. I blame Benjamin Franklin and him naming the...
10 Apr 2024
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Jeanne Socrates' JSD
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That's exactly how I was taught to stream a Walker log and how I deploy my towed AquaGen impeller. Warp goes in on the port quarter...
9 Apr 2024
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Jeanne Socrates' JSD
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Well I've whizzed through the Fastnet Inquiry pdf but the only item of note relevant to this thread that I have found is attached below...
9 Apr 2024
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Bidet on a boat ?
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Just fit a bum gun in the head The Bum Gun, a Beginner's Guide, 'Cos Toilets in Asia Ain't Easy
8 Apr 2024
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Holidaymakers going to EU caught out by 10-year-passport rule
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Be thankful you have a UK passport if you ever think of coming to Chile, to call the visa requirements if travelling on an Australian...
28 Mar 2024
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Beta Marine alternators
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Nope, much the same down south. Strong NW'lys with rain = stay in bed. You tend to move only when calm - esp northbound.
25 Mar 2024
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Beta Marine alternators
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Thank you for all the replies. Today a 7 hour motor fron Rilan back to Anihue. Started the day with batteries at 12.5V with normal...
25 Mar 2024
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Frank Holden
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Beta Marine alternators
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So, its a mystery. Yesterday after motoring for 4 hours in a glassy Patagonian calm and the batts were sitting on 12.3V when I rose...
25 Mar 2024
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Frank Holden
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Beta Marine alternators
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Mine is certainly behaving like a battery sensed alt yet when I asked Beta ( last year when I ordered the engine ) about getting a...
23 Mar 2024
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Frank Holden
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Beta Marine alternators
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The Beta book says to run at not less than 1200 rpm when charging and I imagine 60 amps is putting a fair load on things. With the Volvo...
23 Mar 2024
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Here I am at anchor off the coast of Isla Chiloe using the marvels of modern telecomunications while my shiny new Beta 35 putters away...
23 Mar 2024
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Where was I today?
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