Recent content by MikeBz

Thanks for all the help folks. It doesn’t float, so not polypropylene - which is good news. The burn/melt test in the video makes it seem more like polyester but I’m not sure. I can’t find any polyester that colour for sale, but it does look exactly like this: I’ll get splicing.

I've got a 40+m of unused 3-strand 18mm diameter rope which I'd like to cut into a few smaller lengths and splice loops in the ends to use as mooring lines. Question is how to identify what it actually is? It's a sort of cream off-white colour, man-made (melts), softish and quite...

Titchmarsh storage and cradle prices are here: Storage Ashore - Titchmarsh Marina

We went to Oostende the summer before last and asked the lock keeper where Customs was - “there are no Customs here, enjoy your stay”. Short walk to check in, took the Q flag down the next day.

That would be an interesting read. Available for £85 online!

How was the performance at say 250-300W - would you be happy using it at that level?

East Coast Pilot, available from various book stores, covers Ramsgate to Yarmouth. There is a new edition due in May. Updates and lots of other useful info available at East Coast Pilot | ECP.

With 1.6m draft, how soon after a forecast 0.5m LW (Harwich) tide would it be sensible to leave Titchmarsh (heading for Pye End)?

See the post immediately before yours.

Lot #2 is actually a Toy racing dinghy, designed by Tony Allen of Holt Allen (Tony’s Own Yacht). We used to have a fleet of them (numbers in the teens) racing. I know of 1 still in regular use. TOY - sailboatdata

Ian Bloomfield at East Coast Stainless in Ipswich rewelded a badly made S/S exhaust elbow for me for a very reasonable price.

That’s a great idea. With him jabbering his incomprehensible nonsense nobody would want to go near it.

When Foxs Coppercoat a boat they mask off the skin fittings and apply hard antifouling to them afterwards.

Well that answers that, thankyou!

I’ve had differing opinions on whether to antifoul these - TPO says not to, but ISTR reading the opposite opinion somewhere. I would have thought that a coat of antifoul would have less effect than a bit of slime/growth. Any direct experience for or against?