Recent content by kimhollamby

Definitely check they are labelled correctly. I had the experience of them not being labelled correctly on an F36 and we wound up actually filling one tank almost to overflow when running on one engine.

I saw these in the DAME Awards. The 360° capability is so they can swim a boat backwards on anchor (to prevent anchor walk). Response of the fins was really sharp. The system itself can cope with up to 32 devices so (theoretically at least) you can have a whole bundle of fins and interceptors...

Well Mike, blame truly shouldered - all I can say in my defence is I've been doing exactly the same (albeit in the sometimes less than sunny UK), working on the basis I'd rather have a life full of rich experiences now rather than saving up for a life that might never ever come. So how about we...

Wow, that was when a 45-footer was a big boat eh? Not so very many years ago either (he says deluding himself). Nice to read your post Mike and hope things going well.

Thanks Mike – happy days. It'll get lost in the mists of time (errr... actually it is already lost in the mists of time) but the things we got up to in the 1990s particularly were different to everyone else, a bit like MBM plus with things like the club (peaked at about eight events a year) and...

Good thanks Mike. Formanda still needs to be finished. I've discovered the unfortunate truth that once you can use your boat again after two years of frantic work on it you develop an amazing blind eye to things like the cabins that have yet to receive their new head linings. Way more fun to...

I report with not a small tremble of the lip that my once awesome powers are greatly diminished to the point of complete emasculation, metaphorically speaking. My departure from IPC was marked by the downgrading of my ybw.com forum account from über admin to mere mortal. I wave my wand but...

True - actually the big prediction initially was that MySpace and Friends Reunited would rule the universe and we were running around trying to figure out what, if anything, we supposed to do to work with them...running a forum then was seen as brave and a bit bleeding edge - now I doubt most...

Ummm...oh dear well I have to hold my hand up to the creation of The Lounge but there you are. It was a horrible case of you cannot please all of the people all of the time and in that era there were loads of gripes about the motorboat forum not being about motorboating at all. Anyhow good to...

I had two Pedros, a 30-footer then a 33-footer, that I used on the sea everywhere from the North of Holland down to the West Country and Brittany. We also ventured up rivers and canals but they were primarily saltwater-based boats. The guy that sold them to me, Mike Oram, and his son Lance...

We loved the HT6.354s in Formanda in terms of how they performed and sounded at sea when we first got the boat. A pre-sale survey had thrown up good compression and oil tests. They smoked a little on start up and left a tell-tale sheen of unburned diesel in the water if we idled too long in a...

Actually if you follow the usual installation instructions then the heater will have been installed direct to the battery via a fuse. This to ensure any cool down cycle is allowed to run its course if you shut down the heater then close down the low volt circuits in quick succession.

Rocker stoppers Oh they've been quite interesting, in a slightly non-quantifiable kind of way. They are certainly no substitute for the £50k+ static stab solutions, but then at well 0.5% or so of the cost you'd expect that - and I think they do more than 0.5% effect, so you could argue value...

We've used Wessex too with good success and wrote about it in MBY. Only reservation is Wessex warn on the bottle to protect aluminium and they are right, we masked off all the aluminium on the deck but just one tiny area of a hatch was exposed to the chemicals and it etched the finish before we...

Ummm...I was walking through Windward Hall today and bumped into this Severely tempted to add this to Formanda's growing inventory of toys...