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What Bilge keel with a dedicated heads compartment and limited draft and beam?
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The only boats with narrow enough beam for you are probably those with the heads in the forepeak, usually behind a curtain rather than a...
Thursday at 15:05
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Does anyone recognise the antenna?
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Definitely a Raymarine GPS (possibly a Raystar 125)
10 Feb 2025
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The purpose of storm jib hanks over a headfoil, and the optimum solution
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The idea of using a foil for a storm jib is pretty silly. Unless you leave the mooring with it hoisted and furled the work involved is...
4 Feb 2025
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Led Hz
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It could be anything, or nothing, depending on how the manufacturer of the light fittings converted 12v DC to the lower voltage needed...
2 Feb 2025
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jwilson
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oars for rowing an enterprise
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Probably a good idea. As I said, and Ent with proper oars and rowlocks rows adequately for the few times you really need to row. The...
29 Jan 2025
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A mid-hul cut in front of the keel!?
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The Monsun hull has a trace of tumblehome aft, making it impossible to get out of a mould in one piece. Hence built in two halves, then...
28 Jan 2025
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oars for rowing an enterprise
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It has been many years, but I do remember the centreboard problem with rowing a wooden Enterprise, I think I remember blowing up and...
27 Jan 2025
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ColRegs & Submarines
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Coming up into the Clyde in a sailing yacht somewhere off Arran under power in a glassy calm with the aft-hinged forehatch open, a...
26 Jan 2025
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oars for rowing an enterprise
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I once owned a nice wooden Enterprise with two sets of sails, racing and smaller "cruising" sails. It also had proper brass rowlocks...
26 Jan 2025
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Marina rules around automatic bilge pumps.
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If I had the boat I owned 50+ years ago (wooden, open non-self-draining cockpit) and now kept it in a marina, I could certainly put up...
25 Jan 2025
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jwilson
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Advice on making good the joint between GRP an Cast Steel.
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If this is a Southerly, bear in mind that sooner or later you may (will?) have to completely remove the grounding plate and keel...
19 Jan 2025
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Valves on cockpit drains or not??
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I once had a boat that had - as was traditional - twin crossed cockpit drains each fitted with pipes to seacocks. To open or close one...
17 Jan 2025
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Hand Held VHF
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I used to like Cobra, as they came with both Li-ion and alternative AA battery packs - still using a 18 year old one on AA as a backup...
8 Jan 2025
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Fuel tank inspection hatch
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Don't use a dinghy buoyancy tank hatch - it would be 99.99% certain to leak diesel. I even had leakage problems with a Wema one...
7 Jan 2025
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Do you miss the London Boat Show
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I used to go to Earls Court every year. A really good mix of smaller cruisers, dinghies, chandlery. Went to Excel once, never again. I...
6 Jan 2025
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