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I've been given a Genoa in far better condition than my old one, the luff is one metre shorter. Would it be best to hoist it up the foiles and have it a meter off the deck or keep it close to the furler and have it a metre short at the top?

I’m thinking of offering crewed day charter on my sailboat in the Algarve. Can anyone point me to the Portuguese equivalent of MGN 280 Small Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure, Workboats and Pilot Boats or similar. Looking for information on areas of operation and safety equipment...

We have just sailed from Gib to Barbate to Rota to Faro.The weather was good and allowed us to pass Capo Trafalgar etc close and keep under 20m and stayed shoreside of the tuna nets . Had pingers onboard ready to deploy but no sighting of Orca. A few damaged boats in Barbate from Orca. One...

I am a uk citizen but live in Portugal with Portuguese residency. I have a Polish registered boat in Greece that I want to bring to Portugal. The boat was EU vat paid in France in 2003 , I have the document. As we know the Portuguese may well ask for a T2L . Where can I get one ? From France...

CE and RCD are all good. I will take copies of the documents to the Capitania in Portimao as suggested.

I live in Portugal and have Portuguese residency. I’m looking at a boat that is registered in Belgium, the owner bought it New in South Africa in 2003 and has had it registered in Belgium since then. I have asked the broker for proof of EU vat paid but am not convinced by the document he has...

Pumps removed , two were stuck. Soaked in diesel for a couple of days and they loosened up. All back together and after a bit of bleeding she fired up. Running good again now. Thanks to all who passed on advice.

Yes , the Polish registration is popular at the moment. I see they do commercial registration for the same price. If in the future I wanted to do day charter for instance would the Portuguese allow a foreign flagged vessel for this or would they insist on Portuguese registration?

I’m a Uk citizen but have Portuguese residency. I thinking of buying a certain sailboat. The boat is EU vat paid and has Belgium registration which the current owner will have to cancel if he sells. I would like to register it in Portugal as that is now where I live . Does anyone know how easy...

I’ve removed the throttle control plate , I can’t get a great view because of restricted access, but all that I can see looks ok. The springs are still attached etc. The first spring seems to be one which returns the throttle arm but I can’t see how the arm advances the throttle. The control...

Took the injector pumps out today, two were stuck . Managed to free one but the other is proving more difficult and is soaking in diesel for its sins . The throttle control rod now moves easily if I grab it from the plug end at the rear of the engine but it still won’t move with the throttle...

I managed to get down to the boat today. I removed the large plug at the rear of the engine. The control rod will only move a couple of mm . Would just one sticking injector pump cause this ? Thanks for all of your suggestions.

Hi, do you mean behind the throttle control cover under the lift pump?

Hi, yes , I have done that and no fuel is reaching the injectors on top of the engine. Tracing back no fuel is leaving any of the three injector pumps but there is fuel at each of the three banjo feeds into each injector.

Hi, I’ve bought a boat from an old friend which has a Penta 2003. It use to run and start well . Last time I heard it start and run was around 4 years ago. It hasn’t been started since . I’ve hooked up the fuel feed to a fresh can of diesel and have bleed the filter on the engine and fuel is...