Recent content by BobnLesley

Not a glass one, look around for one with a s/steel pot. Lakeland Plastics and hopefully others - LP's were crazy expensive - make plastic one-cup cafetieres which are brilliant for on passage night watch brews

A mere bagatelle: We got chatting with a mainiero at the Porto Cervo Marina in Sardinia during the 'good old days' when you could anchor within the harbour, clear of the marina's pontoons for free; you could get water and use the marina showers for free too - who advised that an overnight high...

No. If you suffer 'a big tear' you can (back on the boat or ashore) sew the rip before patching over it, this will give you a better chance of success.

Both our 3.3hp Mercury and 3.5hp Nissan 2T engines were able to get a 2 4m rib up onto the plane; that said we rarely bothered as the noise levels when we did were horrendous.

I wouldn't fit one if you paid me! Over the years that we were full time cruising we must've come across ten or a dozen people who suffered from swivel failures, while I can only recall one guy whose shackle let go and he didn't get a sympathetic hearing: the lad who snorkelled down to recover...

Based on actual experience: As suggested by julian, bike helmets are lined with foam and want to float, so in calm waters they are 'more hassle than they're worth'. That said, the water doesn't need to be much beyond 'glass-flat' before that aggravation is offset by the protection they provide...

Reassuring to know; I haven't used them yet, but our local Lidl was doing a special offer on those at only £4.99 last week, then with a 10% monthly discount I'll have got another fifty pence of them too; I didn't actually need them, but at that price... That's a gift worth having! We have a...

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When those let you down, there's always the getting married option; good quality wives can scrape and antifoul too.

Hampton Court: Man jailed for 12 years over £3.5m houseboat fraud

But do they recover as much gas/oil as they burned when they heated this shredded GRP to incredibly high temperatures of around 500°C in the first place?

Our cruising chute was 'fun' for light wind days in the Med, but on our twin head sailed (Solent/Slutter rig) 35-footer we released some stowage space and sold the cruising chute and snuffer in Florida, thereafter using our new, oversized and big-bellied lightweight genoa. We did keep the pole...

That Survey is 'Owned' by the person who paid for it; that said, provided that it's 'recent' I doubt that an Insurer would balk at accepting it. Then again, how have you come by the 'original' survey document without the consent of the chap who paid for it, or is this just a photocopy of said...

Glad to hear it's not just me. Besides, whenever the '...are you two getting another boat...' question arises, the First Mate and more importantly, Chief Anti-fouler, is invariably quicker with her 'Been there, done that, even got a couple of tee-shirts still' response than I am.

That worked on our Albin Vega one and as I recall it took nearer to ten minutes to grind