Recent content by jointventureII

Just up the road in Italy, it's dropped by 10°c. Snow in the mountains everywhere, feels quite nice compared to the usual 'monthly heat record broken for the 305th month in a row'

Looks lovely In the 3 years my boss had the SL118, I'm not sure I drove it from the lower helm even once, apart from on the sale sea trial to prove it all worked!

We saw a demonstration - I can't remember which cap was unscrewed but the flight of the rocket causes it to swing back into the wind significantly once it nears the top of it's flight, what @Plum says is absolutely correct.

The Maddalena archipelago is stunning but it just gets overrun - my wife's family has a house on one of the more remote islands (no electricity, water is collected from the heavens) and even we avoid it in August. It reminds me of a bigger Ecrehous / Minquiers. If you're heading to Bizerte to...

Seconded

Unfortunately most EU citizens (far from angelic themselves, it must be said) have this in mind when it comes to us Brits

Without meaning to drag this into a different debate, it's a been a complete pain the backside, the whole damn thing. For everyone, British or EU, it would seem. I now don't use UK suppliers for work, it costs too much to import. British crew are at a disadvantage in the Med, and all we ever...

They're good but be patient / tell the crew to be patient if and when you need to remove one as they are stronger than the wood they're attached to, at least that was the case on the SL118!!

The hot water circ pump is really quite a gamechanger. We've had them on all the boats I've worked on bar one. It might just seem like impatience but in practical terms it can actually save quite a lot of water - the example given was the transom shower and this is probably the best one - it...

60mph gusts at Jersey airport this morning as we boarded the flight to Heathrow....! The plane was shaking somewhat when on stand and they had to wait for the wind to drop to be able to load the luggage. Though it was right down the neck of the runway so in the end wasn't too bad during takeoff

No I've not for the moment, going to see what is out there 2nd hand. All this gear really retains value, it seems I still have to change all the seals in the steering cylinder and helm stations as it leaks like a sieve

Ah missed this thanks Dino, I went for a ST6002 / S1 course computer in the end. Pump reinstalled and all components hooked up. Took it out for a sea trial, seems to work pretty well. Up there with the most satisfying jobs I've ever done if I'm honest. Amazing what can be recovered and...

Agree, there already seem to be a lot of people in planing boats that now cruise at displacement speeds.

Exactly. This is what I did with mine and when you say labour is essentially free, this is it. If you have to start paying someone then it really spirals out of control and doesn't become a pleasure any more. I purchased mine for €10k knowing that the engine would be worth €5-6k if it all hit...

I managed to do this. Had a decent size bass on a Rapala J10 lure (2 x 3 barbed hooks). The bottom hook was in the fish's tongue, the other free hook on the deck. Fish was totally still. I put a wet rag over to try to remove the hook and it started flapping around like crazy, sinking one of the...