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The French did try to decimalize everything, and if their original plan to link the metre to the Earth's circumference hadn't fallen...

Of course it’s true…it’s in the Sun.

Is that correct? Surely transducers will resonate at the design frequency, even if the driving waveform is provided by the instrument...

There's no way a multimeter will help, I'm afraid. I think you'd need an oscilloscope to determine the frequency of operation, but you'd...

If it's done legally, there will be three charges - import duty, VAT and handling charges. These add up, as @Sandy says, and the...

I actually relate fuel consumption to litres/hour; currents, waves and wind make anything else fairly arbitrary.

How can you change an 'elastic' measurement to km / statute mile etc ?? The NM is based on angular measurement of a body that is not a...

Nautical miles have a direct connection with navigation; anything else would involve an additional conversion, and it would be necessary...

Entirely true, and I like the Southampton Boat Show - but haven't been for several years because Southampton is an overnight stay for...

And yet many times more visitors went to Southampton in September than went to Boatlife out of season. I've said this before, but I...

The other thing is that NEC is at the centre of the Motorway network, and has extensive carparks. It's far easier for a lot of people to...

I was thinking of busy places like Gourock Bay, Tobermory and many other places where anchoring would be liable to get you a foul anchor...

It's amazing what you can do if you have to. At the age of 82 I had to get right inside my Twister's cockpit locker to rewire...

Presumably, these new layings are backed by appropriate licensing, which should be on public record?

There isn't a single answer as attitudes to moorings vary wildly as shown by the differing points of view of @ylop and @jdc. It does...