Recent content by eebygum

Planning ahead for this year…. Does anybody know of any Irish vets who will issue a European Pet passport for a dog to a UK resident; ideally on the SW coast ? We will be travelling from Anglesey to Baltimore with our dog before heading over to France. Any significant changes in the rules...

WOW, that is extremely clever. I did quite a few searches before turning to YBW as a last resort but I definitely try the AI approach next time.

Hi. Any thoughts on why my fan only works in freeze mode ? Is my controller knackered ? I have a Danfoss Bd2.5 Isotherm fridge which has an issue with 12V cooling fan (I’ve tested this connected directly to the battery and it works fine) If my Isotherm controller is set to the freeze setting...

My Autohelm wind instruments have been working fine all season (the masthead unit was serviced at the start) and was showing correctly True and Apparent direction and speed. The log for speed is also working. Now the True direction has stopped working… it just points vertically to 0 degrees at...

Cool Technique, must try that one day 👍

It’s not a flat concrete base like many drying out grids, eg Douglas IoM (I was there earlier in the week but there wasn’t the depth for a 1.85m draft) At Penrhyn harbour drying grid there are spaced timber’s on the floor at right angles to the harbour wall; on a fin keel there is risk you lie...

Yes, I’ve spoken to Dickies, they don’t recommend their drying grid for a fin keel. I’m moored north of Menai Bridge (opposite Bangor pier); I thought of Beaumaris pier but there is potentially a lot of public nuisance ! Somebody has suggested the slipway at Dinas boatyard which I think might...

Does anybody have experience of using the cheaper Spare Air systems similar to the one below for quick underwater maintenance ? Are they practical for a 5 min diving job at less than 2 metres ? https://amzn.eu/d/1uFRLoc My shaft anode came loose last week and started spinning around the prop...

No it’s not a motor cruiser.

Very good point…. A very similar thing actually happened to me 15 years ago… my boat broke its mooring and was found drifting in the Menai Straits. A local commercial fisherman secured the boat in a local harbour and contacted the RNLI who contacted me. A gale was coming in the next day and he...

Agreed Agreed. On my mooring (behind the one in question) I have my phone number on the mooring… specifically so people can check if they can use it. Equally I have no problem if somebody picks up so long as they either leave one person onboard or display their phone number on the washboards...

Unfortunately I think the woman who owns the boat has no shame… she lied to the harbourmaster, left without paying her bill; left the boat on a private mooring and allegedly had gone back to France.

Good advice but unfortunately the harbourmaster does not have the facilities to go through up the Menai Straits and tow the vessel back and impound it. Unlike your squatter, this owner has not even stayed on the boat, just taken over the mooring and pissed off. If for arguments sake… somebody...

If somebody has long term squatted on your private mooring, what would you do ? I will keep these details fairly generic … I’ve left my personal professional maintained mooring and gone into my local marina for the evening on passage for the Bank Holiday. The harbourmaster say’s have you...

Hi, I kept my boat in Torshavn for over a week when my partner flew out and we rented an amazing AirBnB (PM if you want the details; it had its own Jacuzzi looking out across to the sea and a private sauna - a bit of luxury after all the sailing) and hired a car to get around all the islands and...