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    Cheap android tablet

    ASUS Chromebook inexpensive from Amazon excellent but ideally supplied with white imprint on keys not blue like mine.......
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    Painting aluminium Hull

    I believe.... if sanding to bare aluminium..... Rapid sealing with paint after sanding surface is necessary.
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    Bavaria 40 - where to put Solar?

    On 37 foot boat built a white powder coated aluminium housing designed to blend in over the main hatch garage and another in aluminium on top of the aluminium dodger over the companionway doors. Most observers fail to see the solar panels in those positions. Each is protected by 12 mm...
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    Pitting on an iron keel

    I believe from experience and from manufacturers website that Primacon contains aluminium and lifts epoxy overcoats
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    Pelagic Autopilots (Scanmarine)

    My friend says that you need a degree in electronic to set up the Pelagic. We have had a new mounting made as the Pelagic pin in a bushed hole is I feel, inadequate. My unit was shipped with a tiller ram that was not as advertised. Probably the end was manufactured for a wind vane not for...
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    Floating containers - ever seen one?

    In BC deadheads are more of a problem than floating containers. Dead heads floating logs, vertically floating logs pack force as they move vertically with the swell. My marina neighbour lost his 28 foot fibreglass sailboat to a dead head. Rowed ashore with his dog, lucky that he was close...
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    Sheet to tiller self steering

    off topic But Pelagic self steering has gyro plus compass and is less than $1000 US Waterproof too unlike those that shall not be named European tiller pilots
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    Steelboats

    There might be a reason that prevents the military, coastguard, commercial operations from using acid on rusty steel and then an epoxy coating.
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    Remote for tillerpilot

    You buy the Pelagic instead. Gyro. Yes Waterproof Yes 5 times more powerful Yes Remote Yes Cost .....much less Purchasing others
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    Primocon or Jotun Vinyguard Primer

    Not sure it's relevant... BUT Primacon now I believe contains aluminium So Should not be used as a primer under epoxy as it will for certain lift the epoxy. Learned from experience and by talking to manufactures tech rep. In response to written enquiry Note that the manufacture s website...
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    Tender conversion to sailing

    Suggest cutting out almost all of fabric floor leaving a bandwidth attached to the tubes. Glue with polyurethane glue An aluminum rib type floor to the remaining floor all around flap. The one I saw did have a through bolted reinforcing strip. A centerbiard slot and or seat cs n be bolted...
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    DIY Coppercoat: Scraping, Preparation, Application and Results after 28 months

    Interprotect Reading the manufacturers on line instructions NOT The label on the can Because INTERPROTECT contains aluminium and will after a short while corrode and lift a y epoxy overcoat. Interpreted is designed to be used without an epoxy overcoat. I expect you can guess how I know...
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    Tiller Pilot Advice Please

    Fully Waterproof Similar price With gyro and magnetic compass Same mounting position as those discussed and same mounting pin Pelagic autopilot Will purchase mine direct from US manufacturer soon
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    Travel (medical) insurance

    Medjet.com $270 annual Medical evacuation to hospital of choice worldwide
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    Which Tiller Pilot Simrad tp10 or Raymarine 1000+

    Main priority is long lasting reliability. You might like Pelagic unit. Unlike the recycled 1960 designed units mentioned the inexpensive Pelagic is...... Hold on a second...... Surprise.... W a t er p r o o f Pelagicautopilot.com Insert link to dead parrot video for hundreds of not...
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