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Should you be missing a Brasserie Blanc on your travels that brands group also has a range of pubs which serve like fare -if in Dorking...
8 Sep 2024
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Go to Brasserie Blanc at Gunwharf and have the cheddar souffle to start (and the pistachio souffle to finish). I like to try new...
8 Sep 2024
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As a Gosport based boat there is a pub in walking distance over the bridge past Haslar hospital which is good and have had Xmas meal...
8 Sep 2024
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Fridge compressor - drawing current without running
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Schrödinger's Fridge. Unless you open it, you don't know whether the light's burning away inside. And it comes on anyway when it's...
7 Sep 2024
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As I'm sure you know, the loading on a winch is not wholly in shear. The load from the sheet or halyard is above the base, so there'll...
7 Sep 2024
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Backing plate material
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The way I set it up, the new metalwork took all the strain. The acetal pad was a backup if the metalwork failed, as the original...
7 Sep 2024
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I favour a GRP pad. Next time the boatyard breaks up an old boat, find yourself a piece of hull that is mostly flat. Cut your backing...
7 Sep 2024
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I was shocked to find a chunk of what I believe had started as 18mm plywood, spreading the load under the deck where my forestay was...
7 Sep 2024
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I've used stainless steel sheet, in various thicknesses and cut with an angle grinder. I've also used 13mm frp sheet in combination - as...
7 Sep 2024
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What do you think of this one?
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Yup, affirms my opinion that I do not ever want to own a boat with a skinny keel like that. You can argue that it was the boatyard's...
7 Sep 2024
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Wildlife in Chichester Harbour.
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Taken by a friend in Newtown.
6 Sep 2024
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2 v 3 HP.
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Thank you. For understanding my enquiry. 🙂
4 Sep 2024
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2 v 3 HP.
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I can't blame Munster1967 for wondering about this, it's a foggy area to me, too. The fact that there are tiny and not-so-tiny outboards...
3 Sep 2024
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Where to start… first dinghy
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I remember watching a large fleet of mirrors at Wroxham, crewed by extremely keen and competitive crews. It maybe a slow boat, but slow...
3 Sep 2024
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Oh wow! I still have my Osprey's spinnaker! It has the measurer's signature...from May 1986. So, still pretty crispy! 😀 Everything is...
1 Sep 2024
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