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    Raymarine C Series NMEA In-Out Voltages

    Hi, did you find an answer to your c120 problem.
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    Ideas for using old charts?

    I remember buying a block of old charts which had converted into a notepad. you might not like putting a knife to the charts, but its a way of reusing them.
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    SSR renewal

    You don't qualify for ssr then, but here is the info to see if your eligible. https://mcanet.mcga.gov.uk/ssr/ssr/notes.asp
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    Volvo Penta MD7A Impeller

    i have a Johnson pump on my md7a and I use a f35 impeller. the Volvo penta impeller is slightly to small for my pump which affects the amount of water which is sent around the system.
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    Separating flange from propshaft - gearbox end

    if you don't have the adapter seen in the jeanneau link, then here is a poor mans version with a few sockets and nuts and bolts. as seen on you tube... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM45997JCRI
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    28 YEARS since that storm...

    I remember being woken up at 3 am by the noise of the wind blowing through the trees, and trouble walking across the parade ground at the barracks I was at in Essex, to move my car away from the tree covered car park. we then got sent with our vehicles and generators to farms to power up the...
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    Cruising boats with large, open transoms - why?

    open transoms, those dual wheel steering styles , not my idea of a cruising yacht. I prefer a nice closed cockpit, if I drop something all I need to do is pick it up, and not a mad scramble to save it from going in the deep..... but probably most will not see into the decades of use, most of...
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    What's it called?

    I use these for the furling line attaches to stanchion posts (wl2) https://www.spinlock.co.uk/en/categories/organisers-1/product_groups/wl
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    What would you do?

    If searushs solution didn't work put more pies in the oven, to give to your rescuers.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Cheap waterproof 3G phone

    not sure that any mobile phone is waterproof, but you can get decent hard waterproof cases which should help protect your phone. look for a decent case and find out what phones it will take, and start from there... unless you have a personal favourite phone you prefer.
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    Zodiac C260 Tender

    pm sent
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    st2000 bullet proof

    after years of toing and froing from the repairers I ditched my st2000+ and bought a spx5, the main box in the saloon and ram out in the cockpit. no problems since and unit can be relied on. even got £100 for the st2000+ on a claimback offer from raymarine.
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    Easiest way to sand antifoul

    I have been scrapping my hull with one of these, http://www.gaelforcemarine.co.uk/en/Gelplane-The-Pro-Scraper-Hull-Scraper/m-1128.aspx?gclid=COnqqcfjmsUCFevItAodWiIA9Q all scrappings sucked into hoover. been 3 days now, but 32 years of antifouling is coming off, all back to gelcoat...
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    My impeller won't fit

    hi, not sure if your new to fitting impellers, if you are then here is a page for you to check if your doing it properly... http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/impeller
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    Westerly Konsort interior

    I have a boat around the same size as your konsort, I reupholstered the saloon cushions, it cost me around £120 for the 4 inch foam, and we bought a roll of material for £100, and got the swmbo into seamstress mode, and she reupholstered the whole lot over a bank hols weekend. she even threw in...
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