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Use really thin chain

We have a 20kg (or was it 25kg?? :unsure:) Rocna but some on here think the boat is under-sized for it. What should I do?

All answers so far seem to ignore the way carbon monoxide is formed. It comes from incompleted combustion which indicates that the CO...

What annoys me is I had the original which as bought with lifetime updates, which they honoured when they changed to an annual...

Add a few bottles of Rioja then you can tell the stories instead of reading them.

Are you absolutely 100% sure there is no explosion risk from diesel vapour/mist? I'm not.

I spent some years at BP immediately after the Buncefield fire, but not a full hydrocarbon specialist, just writing response plans. I...

Not on my wife's boat. She tells me where I want to go and when. :) I usually do the heavy stuff whilst she takes the helm, or sits in...

Soapy water and a brillo pad worked for me. The pad wasn't abrasive enough to damage the boat but still removed the weed residue. A...

I'd say it's irresponsible to do this for at least two reasons. CG or another vessel may want to get in touch with you urgently (clarify...

East Coast Pie Apples from a “help yourself” box near Pin Mill yesterday. Blackberries gathered at The Rocks this morning. Baked at...

The TruDesign spec says they are glass reinforced nylon. Nylon is sensitive to degradation by hydrochloric and other acids but should be...

The idea was brought back 'down south' by the several Scots climbers who had been employed by the British Antarctic Survey - including...

The lift associated with moving air in streamlined (ie not stalled) flow is given by Euler's formula, which states that the lift force...

The worst I’ve used was a CQR which came with the boat. I nearly wrote that it consistently dragged but even that would be untrue, it...