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    Help with fluid dynamics

    Instead of buying new hose, fittings and doing an hour's work, why don't you just buy a 5/16" valve instead of the 1/4" one?
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    Advice ref what to offer for a boat?

    I agree with Biggles Wader. If the seller is a reader of this forum and reads a post that says you have made a bid that you don't expect to be accepted then you had no chance. You should have posted that a friend of yours just bought the same boat for £48k and that you had no intention of...
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    Are lifting keels worthwhile?

    Mine has a one inch diameter bar that you shove through it to take the weight when it is raised. Regarding the choice of lift or twin keels, there are pros and cons, as with everything.
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    Are brand new boats a vanity??

    If you are retired at 58 in this day and age, you don't need to engender any more jealousy by buying a new boat!
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    pay as you go internet dongle - argos success

    It does say you can't use your phone for tethering if you are abroad.
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    Fuse panel for Katie L

    Breakers are meant to protect the wiring, not your equipment.
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    Boat not been lifted for 9 years- advice sought regarding purchase

    @lydiamight Maybe because they take photos years before they put them up for sale?
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    repairing Scheffer furling foil - impossible?

    Could they buy a few extension kits? They seem to consist of just a foil, liner, joint and rivets. As in here http://www.riggingandhardware.com/p-46383-schaefer-2100-10-6-extrusion-extension-kit.aspx No idea about UK suppliers.
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    Lithium battery question

    Ahh, I should have read that this was a commercial product before commenting!
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    Dogs, cruising?

    Just remember that a wet dog is considerably heavier than a dry one. I could barely lift my old labradoodle back into the boat when he fell overboard (which he did a lot). This time I've got a miniature one!
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    Difference between 4 stroke and 2 Stroke Outboards

    "Massive" in terms of engine power, not physical size. I have read that tests showed them dumping two gallons of fuel an hour into the water. In the sea that might be a drop in the ocean but in a lake, however big, it's totally unacceptable. (I'm not arguing about whether that figure is true but...
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    Origo stove?

    But think how gutted you'd be if you did one and then did the other a week later.
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    Difference between 4 stroke and 2 Stroke Outboards

    If you don't like 4 strokes then blame the jet skiers. It is they who insisted on using massive two stroke engines in America's freshwater lakes, with with half their fuel, gallons a day, going unburned straight into the lakes. That is what I understand started the two strokes bad, four strokes...
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    Difference between 4 stroke and 2 Stroke Outboards

    My old Volvo S80 car burns a lot more fuel during my twenty minute drive to the boat than my 2 stroke Suzuki uses during a day's sailing!
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    how long is my boat??

    Oops, misread the original post!
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