Recent content by jamie_Cacique

PTFE around the bolt is not a good idea as this insulates the electrical contact with the engine block.

Oxalic acid is really useful especially for removing rust marks, just get some in powder form and add warm water (you can find it on eBay). But be warned it is seriously poisonous and will be absorbed through skin contact so wear gloves and eye protection. I keep my antifoul about 3" above the...

Thanks fantastic site What a fantastic site thank you for taking the effort and sharing with us. I doubt if I'll ever get to use it as it's too far east for me but I really appreciate the effort you have made. Thanks again.

She has lovely classic lines. I bought a GRP boat that had been standing for 10 years, it cost me at least double what I estimated it would cost (but realistically 3 times). For example the foreward bulkhead was delaminating, I thought ' just hack it out, cut and glass a new peice of plywood to...

I have driven past their premesis in Plymouth many times, it looks like they have given some of their floorspace to yacht parts but I'm sorry I cant comment on the company apart from the fact I have een them around for a few years. What were you considering in buying?

Similar has happened to me and at the time your mind just goes with the least losses, its only after when you are driving away you think "I should have told him to stuff it" and undo the work you have done.

+1 LOL

We chartered last year with sailingholidays.com for a flotilla holiday (we wanted something totally stress free. no destinatination issues and local knowlage of best/easiest places to visit.) OK the boat was 30 years old (maybe a bit less but we knew this when we booked) and we were quite...

Why the hell doesn't your wife drive the boat? +2 Come on it's a mans job to pull up the anchor!!!!!!!! a woman can easily drive the boat while you do it. She did it 5 times you should ba ashamed. ;D

Thanks Brian. Cacique has been through much much worse during her circumnavigation, between 16 May 92 and 6 June 92 on the leg from Opua New Zealand and Gladstone Australia, Cacique was caught by a surprise cyclone, freinds died and others had much damage, by 'heaving to' Cacique survived...

RangeRovers for the school run... Cacique Circumnavigated 1990 to 1993 plus two other Atlantic crossings not what I would describe as the school run.

Thanks for that :)

Yachting Monthly Nov 2012 James Jermain joined me for a sail, we initially intended to go from Brixham to Salcombe or to the river Yealm but the forecast was not good. We set off with the unusual delays of rowing in and out several times and sailing in and out of the harbour so the photographer...

Nathan Loving the vids that sunset in part 2 like your music too goes well with the mood,will look at next ones tomorrow, keep it up.

Geting back to the initial problem, I had water get into my Bukh 20, it was caused a few years ago when I went up the river to Totnes and the fresh water in the raw water cooling partially froze and pushed out one of the core plugs in the cylinder head (under the rocker cover). This is a pretty...