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Hi Loopy The maritime museum in Sydney have some drawings of the original Hull- rather than the grp. Not sure how far you would get with that. Unfortunately Halvorsen passed away a few years back. I'm not sure where Gannon ended up but Bajan Sailor has probably the best contacts on that...

Just bumping this up . If nobody would like it, then its for the skip.

Hi all In clearing out, I've found the manual handle for my Katadyn 40E watermaker. I sold that years ago, so if anyone has one and would like a handle for it - let me know. Its particularly well made and never used. Free of charge (Karma only!) to whoever can collect/sort postage or...

Brilliant thanks to all! Might even call by if in Barbados Martin and yes you are quite right... TCM!!

thanks all. Agree TQA. I got stuck in Grenada for a week with huge Northerly swells - almost impossible for people to move North

ah just seen the boat, so prob wasn't you! Wonder who it was then, he was def on the forum.....

Thanks TQA just what i was looking for. didn't realise you could charter out of union, whereabouts ? is jonty still there with happy island? I'm not sure but thought we might have met when we were cruising in about 2006-2010. bit not sure. are you on a cat?

Afternoon all I'm looking to charter a yacht or two in Feb for couple of weeks (big birthday) and wondered if any current cruisers have any hot tips on companies/bases etc. Particularly in the Grenadines. Might go as far North as Martinique and end South if that's an option. Have sailed...

Another Hijack, Irish Sea..... ?

Well on the basis of how long we've had them the risk of immediate failure is probably low, however our prime cooking is diesel (especially in the uk) so it would take us quite a wile to get through them I think. Probably got about 6kg of gas in each

Ive only just heard that the two 'plastic' gas bottles on our boat have been subject to a usa recall due to poor manafacturing and orher incidents. Whilst Im happy to make them safe and destroy them, they are both at least half full and of decent size. Any ideas as to how I can empty them...

LIferaft. Really nice Viking one. Had it for ages, bloody thing never gets any use.

Cheers for that! useful info for bext time.... ended up largely acedemic as wind dropped and ended up on the hook at llanbedrog. yeah know what you mean about going out to the causway buoy but wind was fcast SE so thought ti try to get a better angle..... not sure there would have been much...

any info on this appreciated for trip pwllheli to aberystwyth tomorrow. keen to go inside if poss. draw 2m cheers Pat

I used an expanding bung (£2.50 from plumbers merchants) and put it in from the outside. They are a really good fit and not a drip comes through, so you can grind the cones etc.