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anniebray /stevebrassett, thats handy to know. thanks

The Marine Pack includes a 12v power cable but the NMEA cable costs about £20 and inserts into the same place, so you can't use both at the same time.

If you decide to insure it ,you may have to be a bit shrewd and BS the insurance company. Reason being, that when I phoned my car insurance company to insure my daughters car for me while she was out of the country, they said that she would have to ask them to do it. I said that she wasn't in a...

That seems reasonable ,at that price it's probably worth giving it a go. Just seen KevB's post and it looks like it might do the trick.

Moisture absorbing granules can be bought from your local Shed (Homebase etc), but they will soon get saturated and need replacing and it will work out expensive using them on a boat. A damp caravan or cupboard in your house would be more viable. If you haven't got any power then ventilation...

To be effective de-hums need to be used in an enclosed area,so it's best not to have much ventilation, otherwise you're trying to de-hum the whole planet!

Re: More on \'Captain Calamity\' If CG weren't out attending real incidents, they'd quite often be out exercising or patroling anyway. So the cost would be less relevant than perhaps the risk, if it were in severe conditions, which this wasn't, or if another incident were compromised.

I thought all alcohol was poisonous!?

Good point..

The first step should be to find out how it got in that condition to start with and cure that problem. Also I would start from the outer edge of the damage and work in towards the middle.

If he wasn't happy he should have slung it himself,or given instructions how he wanted it slung or not.

Chocolate labs are more clumsy apparently, so probably least suited.

Re: Mayday \"Sally\" Two lifeboats attended, could only hear CG due to my position, another vessel stood by until they arrived. Vessel was towed in shortly after. I'm pretty sure there were no casulties.

Hi Ditto everything said so far, also fin keeler goes pretty good to windward up to about F4/F5. 5knts easy and have had 6knts with reduced sails and wind on the beam, great fun for little money.

Re: Getting a Euro\'s bank A/C Abbey have a new credit card called ZERO that says it can be used abroad and in ATMs without charge and no foreign exchange rate charge. Might be worth a look.