Recent content by mlines

Thanks for the replies, may take a Recce drive this weekend (its the following weekend we are going)

Looking to join a boat for a tidal cruise from Teddington. As normal with these things the travel window means a very early cast off. A quick Google show no solid information on car parking in Teddington. There is a car park described as "Broome Road Car park" but this could be the Lensbury...

Its further away from your target area but the slipway at Yarmouth is one of the best slipways I have seen anywhere. It is free if you are booked into Yarmouth or £5 if you are going somewhere else.

We think we are having issues with our Webasto, it is giving us two problems that may be related. First of all, it appears to work and no error LED light is flashing on the control. Outside of the boat you can hear the normal sounding roar/howl of it working and (carefully) putting you hand...

For the bilge pump and oily sump water either disable the bilge pump or use an oil capture filter on the output. Our "sea boat" just needed the oil filter, the fuel pipes rotating so the examiner can read the type rating and some labels renewing on the isolating switch door. It also needed an...

You will love our boat then :)

We have bluefin LEDs on our transom, they only use a small mounting hole through the transom. See here

A quick google!

An 820 should be fine around Poole and Studland, I would look to get one with the bigger engine option as most are configured for river use. I would expect them to be the same at anchor as any similar sized boat, the dutch certainly use them in more open waters quite happily. I see that my...

I am not convinced that is correct. I believe you only need that on any part of the boat that extends outside of the trailer. Where the trailer, including trailer board, encompasses the boat it is not needed (this is an opinion only). Our trailer board with illumination and reflective triangles...

This is not the test that is referred to in the new CAA rules. The new test from December (you can take it now, I have) is more stringent. Although it is taken at home it is remotely moderated. The Moderator takes over your desktop and closes all applications. You then have to use a camera to...

My Mavic Air 2 sensors randomly pick up shrouds, aerial whips etc. which is actually a problem on a smaller boat. Recovering it back to the boat it keeps stopping and reversing away. I have to turn off the sensors or approach sideways to prevent any sudden unintentional backing off by the...

Agricultural vehicle licences, tax information and fuel

Farmers are permitted to move between closely located fields using farm vehicles without the vehicles or the driver meeting the requirements of the road traffic act. I know of boat yards moving boats from storage on a site separated by a road on the same basis

We had to fit clamp on ferrite rings to stop interference on the broadcast radio. Cheap as chips with a bag of 10 from Maplins when they existed