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Tide tables are the starting point, but the tide stream charts are the goto place to see when the tide turns in your favour to make your...

Not if you put them on your phone / tablet Tide Stream Charts : Monty Mariner 😉

Either of those or superglue, worth a try.

I sent you a PM a few weeks ago, did you get it?

Furler, I sail solo, but I have an inner removable inner forestay to hank on a Yankee or storm sail.

Just had a quote for a new Genoa, 11mtr luff 145% £1770 For sail repairs: Lake Sails in Poole - lady does repairs and covers, not vat...

I doubt that the top end of the pump is below the water line, but to be on the safe side, wrap a rag around the pump tube then loosen...

Can be that the changeover lever on the top of the pump is not quite getting into the home position correctly. It only needs to be a few...

Britool were rated as good quality when I was young. Personally I wouldn't keep quality tools on the boat with the risk of them going...

Looks like a home made version of this Oxygen Right Hand Nut and Hosetail

£68 for a 4 step. 'Reengineering' can make things stronger! Obviously it won't be very good as a fender but I've seen all sorts of...

Drill horizontally through the top supports and tie them together with a wooden pole or rope. Then good for another ten years.

200 ltrs seems a lot , over what period?

Probably long defunct as the post is 2006. Nowadays there might be a Facebook group. Many years back I was looking at the VV as a 1st...

First principals of fault finding - What has changed?