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Loads in Lidl 🙂

It may be the little bells they wear on their collars? 🙂

Depends on the type of extinguisher but mostly common sense stuff. We weigh and shake dry powder inspect for rust and check hoses, check pressure on CO bottles put a sticker on with date of next service. If they have been discharged or gone past their five years we replace them and hand the old...

Admittedly not RYA but in the construction industry the fire extinguishers need to be inspected annually by a competent person. My boss sent me on a course ( 2 day) and i am now a competent person. We have about 150 extinguishers which keep me busy for a couple of days a year. I’m not sure how...

Oh boy…i said i needed help not another ground for divorce ?. The first bit i get but the second bit may earn you a visit from a violent Seth Efrican

just to make things clear …This is my wifes idea and NOT mine. A further caveat she is an architect and not an engineer. She reckons that “reverse displacement “ would work. So basically fill it with a known quantity of water and work out the weight of the water contained within. I scoffed at...

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Well being as how as i was fully ‘laden’ i will let you work it out ?

Go to your local commercial waste transfer station and drive onto the weighbridge. Go home. Take the dinghy off the trailer and go back to the weighbridge to get the weight of vehicle plus trailer. Hey presto. This is a bit topical for me as i am currently ( yeah really) sitting in the queue of...

Hi How’s things? I was talking to Ros on one of our epic drives down from Orkney and she suggested i talk to you lot. I am however going to write it down as i will only get confused and cry. ? Right here goes… This is all going into a 12volt system I have solar (about 850watts) controlled by 3...

Ok. You caught me out! These photos were taken after BC had been sitting on a trot mooring in the Hamble for ‘several years’ when we first bought her. The coppercoat was around ten years old at this point. Now we are slurping around in the mud most of the time there is very little ( if any)...

Before and after approx 30 minutes jetwash. Coppercoat just makes it easier to get the growth off I reckon

At the risk of repeating myself (albeit a long time ago) i often use CT1 as part of my job. When using it, in order to get a nice finish and not end up with it all over the show you need two things. An old container mug/cup/glass etc full of warm water with a LOT of washing up liquid in it and...

We use a type of matting with a diamond shaped pattern which fit underneath the existing foam. It solved our damp problem but I’m too insensitive to notice if it’s any more comfortable. We are also trialling a couple of rolls of seriously cheap non slip matting that we got from Lidls that seem...

I did this a couple of years ago and sheeted the whole boat. The problem that i found was the weight of snow/water would bend the mdpe. I cured it by sliding rebar up the ends and using the end caps ( v. cheap) for scaffold tubes to stop it marking the decks. It worked well until a large storm...