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The diameter of this O ring is 15mm external, 12mm internal.

A bit late perhaps - I don't check in very often - but I've been using ZyGRIB since July 2013 on a Macbook air that was new in February of the same year. As an ex-Windows user I had a Devil's own job to get it to work initially, but once I figured out how to install the application and getting...

Lofrans Panther electric windlass. Alloy case of windlass itself diagnosed as corroded beyond repair - 12v motor and internal workings all in good order. Please see my eBay write up for full details. Portsmouth/Gosport area...

I suffered with mal de mer once at the age of nineteen and the memory of the unpleasantness has not left me, thirty years on. So when I was asked to crew on a friend's delivery trip from Holland to the UK South coast in 2006, I invested in one of these relief bands. I read a test in a yachting...

Thanks all - some things to think about.

Nearing the end of her Theory course and taking the exams soon, SWMBO is looking for a Solent-based sailing school to sign up for her DS Practical Sail, intending to do it in the five day format rather than at the weekends, hopefully some time in April. Schools suggested so far include Nomad...

I wanted to keep my options open. Have both a 907 and a 4.5kg bottle in the locker, each fitted with a regulator and a short length of hose attached to it, ending with a push fit connector. The hose leading to the boat has a push fit on it, so I can hitch up either bottle in seconds, without...

I have just done exactly this. Rigged a new hose with two push connectors and now have a choice between a 4.5 Calor bottle and a 907 Camping Gaz bottle. The Calor bottle holds 10 pounds of gas and costs £18 to exchange for a full one when empty. The Camping Gaz bottle holds 6 pounds of gas and...

Next time I make the pilgrimage to view Harrison's clocks, I will pop in and wag my finger at someone!

Well, it's funny you should say that... I have always know the painting on my bulkhead to be The Immortality of Nelson, but the original at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich has this plaque at the bottom of the frame... Perhaps we are right and the NMM has got it wrong....

The Apotheosis of Nelson, painted by Benjamin West. The original hangs in the National Maritime Museum :)

My Volvo D2-55 consumes about 3.1 litres an hour at 2000rpm pushing my 6.7T 10.5 metre yacht. If it consumed a pint for every horsepower per hour (31 litres an hour) I'd expect the bilge pump to kick in! :)

+1 Bought a new Yamaha F2.5 four stroke o/b in 2007. It weighed 20kgs and never, ever started first time. It was a pain to lug off the rail and onto the dinghy transom too. Yes, it was quiet, but it was also very slow. Traded it in for a 1990 Mariner 3.3 two stroke (completely rebuilt with...