Recent content by Fill

You may have read Twister Ken’s appreciation of Val Missen (my wife & sailing companion, referred to by me as Mrs Mate). Today I attended her inquest. Val contracted mesothelioma because her employer, SE Gas as was, exposed her to Asbestos in the late 1960's some 5 years after the Factories...

No anaesthetic? He's probably Buddhist. Ie he wants to transcend dental medication

Words that Val chose for her funeral: “Where Corals Lie” Edward Elgar The deeps have music soft and low When winds awake the airy spry, It lures me, lures me on to go And see the lands where corals lie By mount & steed, by lawn and rill, When night is deep, and moon is high, The music seeks...

I used to have 2 ex-RN Nuclear Sub Navigation officers working for me, and if their attempts to direct me to Basingstoke railway station when they were desperate to catch a train are anything to go by they spend a lot of their time lost!

Absolutely right: I put down any success with examiners to plying them with large slices of Mrs Mate's excellent Dundee cake.

I liked the slogan on the bridge of the sinking ship: large friendly letters "SAFETY FIRST"

Re: COLLISION _ bulk carrier & Chem Tanker My "teach yourself painting for the colour blind" says that parallel lines meet at the horizon. QED that's where they must have collided.

If the engine is a Yanmar, with the impellor housing in an almost impossible location facing aft and with some other chunk of engine in the way, a pair of long nosed right angled pliers are the thing. If there's not room for the impellor puller these are ideal. They grip the impellor and are...

Better to have a baldie, if a dwarf is stupid as well then it's not big and it's not clever.

Thanks all: now selected some for insurance co. Will let you know how I get on.

There we were sat peacefully at home, boat peacefully tied up to the pontoon and next door decided to leave while it was blowing old socks. He smacked into us on his way out and he's done quite a bit of damage so, can anyone recommend a good (boat is only 2 years old) GRP repair firm in the...

If you have the time look up Scambusters (I think) on google and see some of the reverse rip-offs that have been achieved. You might find it an amusing diversion.

and how.. do you disconnect/reconnect when the mast is taken off for any reason? Just curious.

First diameter was by Eratosthenes (or something - ancient Greek anyway) who took bearings of sun from a well and then moved south and tried same again and measured distance of shadows. Came close but not that accurate. It was done more accurately some time around late 1700s when the great...

If the boat doesn't have a heater on and it's cold enough to freeze outside then the dehumidifier will stop working! Nice bit of positive feedback I think.