AntarcticPilot

I once sent an enquiry to Akzo-Nobel, the makers of Dulux, asking about the suitability of their paints in a marine environment. The...

There won't be any further damage. Aluminium forms an oxide (corundum) layer almost instantly on exposure to air. If it didn't...

Except all the radios for boats I have seen require PL259 to attach antenna cable to radio. Yes BNC far better for joining cables. I...

I am using the paid version. I've worked it out now. UK charts installed. I'm finding the interface bit clunky compared to Navionics.

You have to use the paid version of OpenCPN, not the free one.

A PL259 is a shielded banana plug with a +/- 20 ohm manufacturing tolerance. Deserve to be left in the 1940s where they belong.

For some of those reasons I wouldn't touch a random home build alu boat, but thankfully most modern production alu boat yards understand...

Yes, but! If circumstances arise where aluminium is in an electrochemical circuit, it can dissolve very rapidly; it is much less noble...

A pretty ordinary one, really. His father is Jerome Poncet. His mother is a biologist specialising in the birds of South Georgia, and I...

No I can't see the problem either. But it's a fact there have been aggressive confrontations in the past by entitled fishermen claiming...

Those are BNC connectors, and I would replace them like for like or upgrade to TNC connectors. BNC connectors provide very good...

Not sure that it was an Ovni, but I saw one or something very like it arrived in the Falklands having sailed single-handed from Spain...

On my friend's ships, it seems that there's a complete disconnect between the hotel side and the marine crew. Besides, I can't imagine...

The guy at the bottom looks like his shorts are on the point of falling down. Compared to that, the rest looks quite sensible!

Don't paint. I lust for a Boreal 47 Mk1, they then got stupid and the Mk2 has twin wheels, they are not painted.