Recent content by Alfie168

A cargo ship and oil tanker have collided off Hull. The first film I've seen on the news looks like a war zone with flames and black smoke. It looks pretty horrific at first sight 😕 BBC News - Oil tanker and cargo vessel collide in North Sea Oil tanker and cargo vessel collide in North Sea -...

I used to live about 300 yards from where the Pippin was originally manufactured in Ralph's Lane Wyberton. I went round and had a chat with them and I was very impressed with the overall quality of the boat and it's simplicity. About a mile away was Parkers who then made the 235. Pippin moved to...

Well I thought Port Solent, but I wasn't quite sure. It's one of the few marinas I've been in and out of more than once.

Funny you should say that. SWMBO has just got off the train from Tunbridge Wells. The station announcements on Southern Region were all about delays due to Trampolines on the lines apparently. It was all very Reggie Perrin.

Now it's Storm Jocelyn jostling for position to come whooshing in tomorrow.

The policy of not dredging drainage in the Lincolnshire fens of all places, allegedly for "environmental" reasons, but really as a cost cutting measure ( profits ) was one of the reasons we sold up and left the area pronto in 2010. They are sleepwalking towards a major inundation. The insurers...

For once the ageing and badly maintained electrical infrastructure to these houses didn't go " bang " last night, but I had arranged my emergency lighting on the kitchen table.. just in case 😁

Has anybody been affected ? We have no floods at all here( I can see the river Nidd from my house) yet only 25 miles north, flooding on the Ure and Swale has blocked roads and no doubt York will get another pasting as the floodwaters head downstream. It wasn't even all that windy here last...

I worked in a motorcycle dealership for a while. Can't say I ever saw a Gilera, Benelli or Maico. We were part of a group with Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha franchises. We took some absolute crap in as trade ins though and not that many were resold by us. We shifted them into the trade. I have to...

I ran quite a few two stroke motorcycles and never had a sniff of a problem with any of them, but then I thought Suzuki engineering was always a bit more robust than Yamaha's or Kawasakis, even if the Suzukis were more conservative in some respects. Note: this is 45 years ago now.

Damn phone won't let me share photos ☹️ it's a Mac 26M being used as a river cruiser in York without a rig whatsoever. Too many bridges, but it is another string to its bow that you can use it as such. I think windage is the biggest difficulty when manoevering in crowded gusty anchorages. They...

It all looks absolutely ghastly 🤣

You recently had an opportunity to buy a boat ! Are you one lucky feller 👍

Glad they got the boat off OK. I can be found swimming most years close to the point she went aground, but not this year unfortunately. I saw this one aground in Concarneau in June. The channel was clear and not rough.

The phosphoric potions are becoming rarer and most over the counter potions are Citric acid based now . All I can say is give em a go, but I don't think they are as good as they once were and the hydroelectric acid is a new one on me too, but I'm no expert. I've recently (within the last two...