Recent content by Alan ashore

Thanks. I’m happy with non setting mastic for some things, but sometimes I feel you really need the solid gasket that a curing elastomer creates.

For years Marineseal 033 has been my goto product for bedding fittings etc. I have just found out it has been discontinued. While there are any number of gun or tube applied sealants which are fine and dandy in their place, I REALLY like the convenience, ease of use and above all non-messiness...

In the event than anyone returns to this 6 yo thread with the same issue, I'd like to chip in some recent experience, having just had the same problem. I found first of all that beneath the level screw was a great deal of fairly solid gunk. I carefully excavated this and blew out loose debris...

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I haven't seen the river further downstream, but here just below Teddington, it hasn't been much of a draw off this year, with the high(ish) river flow. I needn't have moved my boat in fact. Any reports from Richmond? Have they actually been able to do any work? Sometimes they extend the...

It's a good few years since I made that trip, and I think I might find the worst of the steps a little daunting now. Absolutely agree about the handrail being the important thing. In many ways astonishing that in an age that is far more conscious of safety than earlier ones, handrails are not...

OK I'm in bad mood for many reasons. Perhaps the fact that my trusty old 1GM10 started backwards yesterday and smothered me in evil smoke hasn't helped (It's fine now, I was being impatient with it on a cold damp morning). I love the river. I have messed about in it and on it in all sorts of...

About 1.2 below maintained level just now.

The reduced level does indeed vary quite considerably. I will measure it for you today fairly accurately by looking at the wear marks on my piles. (As Julian probably said to Sandy....)

Ah yes, of course.

That's encouraging. I'd thought a tubular drift might be needed, but feared it would have to be a size more difficult to come by than scaf. pole!

Some time ago I bought a boat with very evil smelling cushions just as you describe. I found that taking out the foam, and repeatedly spraying it with household antibacterial spray, every couple of days for quite some time, worked extremely well. The smell did not return in the many years I had...

Fisherman: No it's fin,but thanks for the thought. Bikedaft: a) We'd certainly be in trouble if we started digging up the concrete! b) There isn't really anywhere they could move her to with the rudder over a dig-able surface, and in any case of course paying for cranage is the thing I'm...

Thanks everyone for helpful replies. Neil, I’ll be in touch if we decide to go down this route. It does strike me though that extracting the lower bearing from the hull with the stock still passing though it may be problematic, given that everything is presently so tight. It does have a flange...

Alright folks, humour me a moment. Our Fulmar needs new rudder bearings. Since we bought her a couple of years ago the rudder has been progressively stiffening up. Most likely the present bearings are an unsuitable material. In any case they are doubtless very old. As I'm sure most forumites...