Recent content by ffiill

As I said it wasn't age or ill health.I mountain bike,hillwalking and swim.However my wife never took to it and it became a bone of contention given the amount of money it cost and went its way!At the time a go anywhere boat and retirement in the Med.was a dream which I thought I would fulfill...

At just gone 70 I have finally packed it in.Not a choice due to ill health but something that has crept up on me. My boat which sold last week after a very protracted sail period of ten years finally sold for a song. From when I bought it in the Firth of Clyde in 2005 up until 2015 it was in the...

Just came across a brokerage ad on Yacht World for a steel yacht.Clearly professionally built in Holland in the early 1990s its a flush deck about 40 foot with a tough looking low profile deck house. The sort of boat that would feel safe out in the Ocean. However it has a lifting keel and...

I drove past the new Torvean Bridge across the Caley Canal in Inverness yesterday and it had been unwrapped out of its tent where it has been since last year. It was across the canal. By the time I reached the Old Bridge in about 5 minutes it had swung! A beautiful piece of engineering and...

Just rereading my copy of set of the Sails-Alan Villiers autobiography and for the first time that at 16 in Melbourne his school was closed because of the flu pandemic and was converted into an emergency hospital. At the same time the family caught the flu and his Mum who was a widow was unable...

Smaller pad and discs are better for compound surfaces eg a hull as it can be quite easy to sand through gel coat on high spot!

Before you use any VPN make sure location is switched off as well as deleting any Google IDs and not forgetting to completely clear your history and Cookies forever.I also use Duck Duck Go search engine which is good at blocking tracing programmes such as intrusive google.It can tell you when...

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Heard about the boat builder working from home in his attic. the sales are going through the roof!

Just reviving this thread Diesel blown air great but what about the electrics. Designed to heat a cab in the winter how to they respond to long periods of use before motors wear out. Pricing per kW at £100 per unit compares favourably to domestic 20 kW burners. Whilst refleks et al look good...

I have a Roberts ssb radio whi h was coated in the stuff. The whole radio had gone sticky. A lot of hard work with meths cleaned it all off just about.

I have just replaced two out of three of mine. Other than a solar panel trickle charger and little real use they have done about 10 years.

Back in the 1980s when living in Lancaster I kept an 18 foot seawitch bilge keeler in the storage facility at Coniston Boat Centre(dont know if its still there)I used to launch it and recover it from the ramp next to the Gondela pier.If you didnt have a suitable vehicle the Boating Centre had...

Well as Im not leaving Europe so no problem-only for the minions!!!