Recent content by Iliade

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Please can I take the snatch block and the large fiddle block. Sending PM

Slightly o/t, but in the Indian Himalaya we (or rather my mate, the designated rescue coordinator) got the data from an activated PLB about 24 hours after the incident. Fortunately the Dutch pilot had a. been spotted, and b. been carrying an InReach or a SPOT, I forget which, so he had been...

Waterproof mobile phones - I bought some rubber plugs to jam up the USB charging port after my S22 got upset by the sea water which had dripped into said port. It didn't actually stop the phone working, but it wouldn't charge for several days until I cleaned it with aerosol brake cleaner, after...

You could send it to: Automarine Diesel Services 2 St Leonard's Rd, Brighton and Hove, Hove BN3 4QR Phone: 01273 415296 But if the single cylinder motor is starting and running ok, I'd be mildly surprised to find the injector was hosing badly.

Mine are closed loops and don't like being loaded by rope from above. Hence I got a local stainless steel smith to fabricate one in s/s for me. He sand blasted it and it was a perfectly adequate visual match for the original and a lot stronger. Ones like yours would be pretty easy to cut from...

I have a vague memory of a 1960s/70s BBC program about a UK version of these hydroplanes, but with less top hamper, even smaller motors, and the kids lying down? We had a water-jet longboard back in the 1990s, but that took something like 15hp to get up on the plane.

Just a thought, you haven't connected the batteries in series have you?

Don't you just hate it when you have to lay a course with a potential inadvertent landfall only a few hours away... Why oh why don't autopilot manufacturers let us program anti-landfall turns at turn points instead of merely sounding whispering dog whistles when it wants you to confirm the...

To the o/p: Run a temporary (preferably fused) negative from the negative house battery terminal to the negative feed of the instruments, start your engine and observe the results. If still an issue, disconnect the positive terminal(s) from the house batteries, run a direct temporary positive...

As intimated by others above, If they all share a common negative connection, try cleaning the mating surfaces of said terminals & connectors and make sure they are correctly tightened. If attempting to pull a high current through a poor connection you could increase the resistance at that...

Ship struck and destroyed Baltimore bridge: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071 The only mercy is it was in the early hours or the toll could have been even more horrendous.😢

I have carried them all over the place in my hand luggage with only one issue, when Delhi airport security insisted on our putting several lithium powered ones into my checked in luggage, which the check-in desk permitted...

Perhaps too much of a bungalow for you, but well suited to single handed cruising in UK waters/weather... https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1989-southerly-100-9135261/

...And don't leave the protective film on in the hope that it will help. You can guess how I know and if anyone has any better ideas than just letting it degrade to the point at which it all falls off, do let me know.