Recent content by chris-s

We have the same engine and similar vintage, in comparison yours appears to be turning over slower, maybe just a result of your repeated attempts. You haven’t left the decompression lever ‘up’? I’m sure you would have spotted that as it’s pretty obvious.

look for a Yamaha 8hp 2stroke, light and plenty of oomph!

To get a ballpark price checkout e-sails, Kemps outlet for standard sized mail order sails with prices online. Have had several of them and never a problem for a good general cruising sail.

It looks like with some careful use of a dremel you could trim away some of the backing plate enough to allow the chain plate to slide out, but photos can be deceiving. Our Beneteau has something similar but uses a large turnbuckle where you have a tube so could be split. But if you are going to...

There are plenty of modern antifoul strippers that will safely remove the stuff without damaging the gel coat. Depending on how thick it is you might want to remove some of it with a scraper or something first. We happily used an orbital sander with a vacuum attachment to remove the bulk being...

Rechargeable light work well for us.

This pair clearly have owners with a sense of humour…

If it’s some sort of old sealant, I’ve had good results this winter with ‘multisolve’ from toolstation and removing old sealant, old contact adhesive and the likes. Whitespirits does almost as well.

We bought the seago ‘ball’ shaped one just over a year ago, it’s ‘ok’, does the job but found a cheap electric oil pump off Amazon so much easier and quicker. It now tends to get used more for water which isn’t ideal as the little metal grill that forms part of the pump mechanism rusts. And now...

We had a similar mariner 4hp 2s that I could not get to run right at all, so somewhat reluctantly took it to the ‘outboard guy’, he knew instantly what it was, the crank seal leaking air into the case. Of course to fix it you have to remove the power head…so whilst you have it off, that might be...

In preparation for the new season, today’s job was to change the fuel filters and wake up the engine. Just for giggles I decided to cut open the primary filter and found this…. Sludge or bug? We’ve had the boat for a season, have always dosed with marine 16 fuel complete and filled the...

For the guy who turns up with a sawsall to just hack your transom apart, tuck a silenced Apple air tag under the the engine cover somewhere out of sight.

Lenses or complete units frame and all? Hadlow Marine and Eagle Windows (?) provide various refurbishing parts and services.

Reckon those eyes probably act as fairleads for lines to the luff reefing points. The isomat rigging on our Beneteau has something very similar.

C-Tec Multisolve, part of the CT1 family of products. Amazing stuff, works great for cleaning up cured PU adhesives, silicone sealants, old contact adhesive, pretty much any sticky or what use to be sticky product.