Recent content by JMM

"We do not like the way those beastly foreigners apply the EU VAT rules, so if you buy one and bring it to stay here, we will hit you with a VAT bill (and a frud charge if we think we can get away with it)."

What corrections would you expect on a paper chart?

Re: there\'s expensive, there\'s rip -off and there\'s Vo**lvo prices I think that the model is that they supply engines cheaply to boat builders, then make up any shortfall on the prices of spare parts. Bit like Gillette and razor blades . . .

Don't forget that you will need a qualification from the RYA (not sure of its name) to use French canals JMM

So that you can cut the anchor loose in an emergency. Jon

It becomes a super yacht when on a broker's listing. JMM

Be interesting to see the effect on an Ovni!

First entry is user-programmable, any subsequent change has to be returned to factory (for a new chip, I think).

If you can lift the engine out easily, presumably our lighter-fingered brethren could as well . . .

If navigation buoys and lighthouses are redundant, does this mean that Trinity House is redundant too?

£2,500 seems pretty cheap for a Solent marina berth anyway, but may be worth trying Deacons Boatyard on the Hamble, or possibly one of the marinas above Bursledon Bridge.

It's still on the Hamble, but I don't know anything else about it!

Try photographic dealers or artists' materials stockists.

Are you giving the plug time to warm up?

Had the same setup, the Garmin had to transmit NMEA at 4300 baud, if I remember rightly.