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£300 in and out? Where is that? 😊

So this Woodskin: That'll be "International Woodskin"? What does annual maintenance look like please? Thanks to you and everyone else for responses to thread. Very much appreciated.

Thanks for response. Clean them out is a big ask. They are maybe 0.1 or 0.2 mm wide. Seems to me plugs need to come out before epoxy otherwise they wouldn't ever come out if required.

Hi, 45 year old boat. I stripped the varnish off last winter. 12 months later a lot of the dowels have splits either side as per attached photo. Any thoughts on causes and fixes would be very much appreciated.

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Just decompress and spin engine for 5 seconds or so. That will bring fuel up to pressure. If it works you definitely have an air leak.

Somehow i think there is plenty of scope for me to screw that up. Thanks though.

Thanks, yes i have read that. But somehow i struggle to think of the edge as super straight. Might give it a go though. Is there a particular thickness of glass you would recommend? Why do you need to bend it? Presumably when the edge goes you just cut a bit off?

Hi, I found this very interesting. Could you tell me what machine that is please? I have tried and failed to master creating a burr on a cabinet scraper. Incidentally i have very much enjoyed all your input on the subject of lacquer. Lots of hard work by you very much appreciated by me.

Nicolson. 31, small sidepower thruster. Runs off small start battery, no probs. Fitted 2016 £4.5k.

You might find a Nic 31 in very good order for low 20's.

My understanding is/was that a charger, unless very fancy, only had one sensor. Thus if sensor taken from a full starter battery it won't put much in the domestic batteries. Similarly if sense taken from run down domestic batteries, yet starter battery is full, then starter battery will get...

I am really no expert but i wonder about your mains battery charging set up. Anything with 'inverter' written on it tends to be expensive as does dc to dc battery charger. Why not just have two mains battery chargers. They don't need, imo, to be a huge ampage because, unless you have something...

A non existent knot in sailing which is used a lot in climbing is the simple overhand knot with a decent tail for joining two ropes. Simple, quick, strong, easy to undo. What's knot to like? Used commonly throughout Europe for joing two ropes together for abseiling but also for other things too...

I might be missing something, but i don't understand how to do tidal offsets on either my garmin or my tablet. Can someone tell me how, or is it just expensive?