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Best of luck finding a Trading Standards Officer to engage with!

I am not sure this is totally correct for you but could be useful.... I replaced my bilge pump with a Henderson Mk 5 and had to order...

I must come clean, I was sort of hoping that someone on here might be looking for this style of boat. Most people are pretty positive...

and I though East Coast water had some colour.... Cooker would benefit from a clean too. I'm surprised the broker didn't rectify before...

The main intrinsic problem is that the hull shape means she suffers from weather helm at relatively low heel angles, so upwind she won't...

Always interesting to hear from people with actual experience. If I had to buy a modern styled boat of that type the 290 would be at...

A Sadler 290. A lot of nice features that you don't often find in modernish boats: Sadler 290 for sale in United Kingdom - Rightboat...

Indeed, and though the legislation now seems to mean that imported boats need to be brought up to current standards, that is a side...

I cannot think of a single “yard” in the UK who could organise for their own staff or approved contractors to do a piece of work in a...

👍 It's an odd world. How do they police it, I can imagine people smuggling in tools under a long overcoat. I have heard of this in...

One item I can't fathom are yards that apparently don't let you work on your own boat. I have heard this reported before, not just on...

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Years ago I sailed with a bloke who used a refillable, hard logbook, I took the hint so these are the answer for me: The refills...

As others have observed, I see it as just a zhuzhed up search engine; with the added defect of appearing to know what it is talking...

Is Birkenhead drill still a thing? Is it women and children first or those who identify as women and children first? We need some...