Recent content by ironmaiden

We’re you born a knob head or did you have to practice! You can’t book any accommodation! They are turning people out on the streets!

Had a message from British Embassy in Spain repatriation is allowable just need to hear from Portuguese now.

At last someone who seems to have a grip on the reality of this total mess, what people don’t seem to realise is that a lockdown in this kind of circumstances can only be effective if done for a period of 36 to48 months. Covid will not go away with a couple of months lock down IT WILL STILL BE...

Please don’t lecture me on the implications of travelling home as you do not have any idea of our circumstances. We have been completely isolated for 5 weeks now we have had no symptoms whatsoever, we don’t even have to stop for fuel as we carry enough. Also before you jump on your soap box I...

The boat is our only home everything we have is there, so are we complete idiots for wanting to go home instead of living for god knows how long in a van with no facilities. I suppose it is easy to say we are whilst sitting in your cosy arm chair in your own home.

We need to get back to the boat which is in the yard at faro. We are stuck in our camper van in France and are thinking of driving down to faro Portugal middle to end of next week. We have a letter of confirmation that the boat is our main residence from the owner of the yard. What problems if...

We are wondering the same, we planned to go there as well but not if we cannot live on the boat, I have a feeling you can but the rate is higher then they publish on line. Would be interesting to hear from one of the liveaboards already in almarimar.

Will do in the morning, thanks.

I have just spent all evening searching the web and the forum here, trying to find raster charts for the Mediterranean to use on the paid version of open cpn on android tablet, without any success. There must be a source for med charts somewhere, so please please pretty please could some kind...

Yes he put a vacuumed pump on, I was bothered about the o rings in the connections because I put two new ones in, the ones that were in there had gone hard and brittle, one of them broke up into two pieces. The one I put in must have been OK as he put the vacuumed pump on and never said there...

Hi, we found a super guy just 5 mins walk from the boat yard, he came this morning and found that not only was there no gas in it but the filter was blocked solid, he soldered in a new one refilled it with gas. He spent 3 1/2 hours here and only charged 120 euro all in, so we are very happy. I...

Would anyone happen to know of someone versed in the black art of boat refrigeration who can service our frigoboat unit as it has decided that it no longer wants to play, compressor seems to work, as when it is switched on it draws the right amount of power (4to5 amp) then just draws about 1 to...

Do you mean it's not ;)

Thanks for the reply, do you know if it's possible to get some kind of mounting device to enable it to be clamped to the binnacle.

Hi all, I've search the forum looking for the best tablet to use for navigation but there seams to be so many to choose from. I'm looking at a huawei media pad T5 is there any folk out there using this tablet, and could someone confirm it does have full built in gps capability as in my search...