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Thanks.

Is it necessary to drain the engine oil to replace a mechanical lift pump? The engine is a Beta 20.

An incomplete "Handy Billy"? It needs another block and some line. http://seacontractor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Handy-Billy.jpg

I've my 135% on the furler and the 150% in the bag as I get too much weather helm in anything stronger than about 15kts with it. I haven't had the 150 up for several years as I tend to fly my cruising chute in light winds in anything from abeam aft. It is just easier to get it up and down...

The one that doesn't kill off the nasty sea critters. ; )

I must be the only Luddite on the board! It is easy to download The Offshore Encyclopaedia onto my Mac but when unzipped I have a large number of pdf's rather than a book in iBook. Dashew's instructions say that it is a CD and requires Adobe. Anyone know how to bind all the pdf's together to...

I had exactly the same problem. I eventually discovered a blocked filter in the fuel separator (it's a thing that seems to be out of fashion). I did not know there was one in it and therefore had never cleaned it. I can imagine that any partial blockage in the negative pressure side of the fuel...

What about UV degradation of the epoxy/Milliput?

An update. The paint manufacturer, Altex, has been immensely helpful. I phoned their help line and their technologist gave me 30 min of his time. His answers are:- Persistence with current methods to the stuck collar might eventually release it but I do need to get it off to treat the...

I'm renovating my aluminium boom. At what point does one give up trying to remove old bits and pieces? The rivets were easy and the stainless screws more difficult but now done. The collar around the spar which forms part of the gooseneck just will not budge! I have used hot water, direct...

Pity about the need to have bilge keels because the new Hanse 315 at £53 000 with a self tacking jib might have fitted the bill.

But you only need about 250ml of O2 per min and produce 200 ml of CO2/min. In your example, and taking the dogs requirements as equal to a humans, that is 400 l available per person/dog (O2 in air is about 21%). It would take quite a bit of rebreathing of the air in the cabin to lower the...

OTOH -buy a plotter and keep away from the sharp edges. You can still practice all your passage planning and navigation on paper.

Hi NickC. I have just put in a new Beta 20 into a 29ft yacht. Engine plus all the bits plus manufacturing a mount for the fridge compressor, a manufactured exhaust elbow, a new exhaust system, and a remote oil filter was NZD 18000. Thats about GBP 7500. I thought I had got off lightly until I...

Like ratbag I have also been let down by fridge "engineers" with things such as regassing with a different coolant (we use something different to you in NZ) without doing anything else, or servicing the compressor with new seals and oils but not changing the pipes so all the coolant diffused out...