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From the top of the tower I can step up to the deck of the boat or sit on the platform and sand/mask or paint the grey line. With the bottom half of the tower the bottom grey line. The boat is 1.85m from bottom of keel to waterline, plus the cradle and the freeboard. A 5m tower that I bought...

Scaffold Towers | Aluminium Scaffold Tower | BPS Access Solutions I bought one of these, the 5m tower, for a Moody 41. I have cut and polished, painted the lines top and bottom a couple of times with a ladder and a) it's a looong way down (or at least feels like it) and b) it's a long way up...

Six transducers, :ROFLMAO:. Beats my five, but mine are all depth...I think...

Laurence I feel your pain. I've been on two different trot moorings, with two different boats for around ten years. I have described what we do, hope it helps. Like Doug I split the "slime line" or "slackline" and hang each half off the fore and aft rails while the boat is moored. That way...

There is a diesel place at Cardiff Marina, they were a bit pricey if I recall but did a good job. It is quite an old engine, so as DownWest says, anywhere that does road diesels should be able to tackle it. They were extensively used on old tractors and also on canal boats, so look out for a...

"Surge And Die", where the engine reacts exactly as you say is usually either a blocked filter or air in the system. Fuel flow is disrupted, the governer in the injection pump tries to keep the engine on a steady revs but can't, engine dies. As Rappey says that is the top of the governer...

I took the Cromarty Rose in 2008, it did have a two car turntable then. The bow door dropped open about 100m from the shore (100m from departure) and it couldn't return with it open (the door hung down so far into the water it couldn't get back to the ramp) so we travelled across with the bow...

Congratulations. Once you've made the offer, they've accepted and money has transferred, legally it's yours. (as long as the seller has the competency to sell it; you've done a little bit of due diligence by checking their original bill of sale) Fill out your bill of sale, signatures, hand...

Sceptre is sitting in Gloucester Docks, outside Nielson's yard, maybe waiting for the dry dock. We were berthed next to her in Gunwharf in September 2019 and I think she appeared in Gloucester not long after.

+1 for sabre and sena; shame they didn't have any in stock. We used them for the first time last season and they make a huge difference. Just being able to talk normally and be heard rather than shouting (into the wind) is great. I think you can link them to a radio too, or for music but...

@The Professional. I suspect it's this line that you're referring to and that could be made much clearer "When arriving direct from outside the UK you must phone the National Yachtline. You will need to inform the Yachtline if any of the following apply: ..." I take that to mean that you must...

Ours has boat name, number and port of registry (Pt 1 registered), and a cool logo our daughter designed. went down well in Russia as there was lots of stamping and signing on the way in and out. It's not entirely necessary and the most we've used it is to stamp the inside of all of our books...

I have a very similar setup, a GPS128 but into a SIMRAD RD68 radio. It's also worth going into the "interfaces" page of the setup and ensure it's outputting NMEA for the radio. The default for the 128 is a proprietary Garmin protocol (it shows as "GMN/GMN" IIRC on the setup/interfaces page. I...

I had a similar, but worse problem (more cracks) about 4 years ago when we bought our boat. There were a series of hairline cracks running from the base for (I think, from memory) about 40-50mm up the mast. We toyed with the idea of sleeving (internal or external, bonding, riveting etc) but...

Archie, that's the exhaust outlet end isn't it. Mine is pretty solidly bolted together but I'll see what I can do this weekend. (I'm not going anywhere :) ) why does he need to know that? He has the manifold. Andrew