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Sorry Guillaume, there is nothing in your pictures which looks anything like my TMP gearbox. I too think it is an hydraulic pump.

But how much was it to have it done in a nice colour?

I'm sure that's a TMP. The company's assets were bought by a hire fleet company on the Norfolk broads as (as I understand it) they had a number of these gearboxes in their hire fleet. ( Thamesway Marine Products: Homepage ) Exactly what the state of play is now with regards to spares and...

Cowes chain ferry.

Confucius, he say; "Great strength is derived from heaving metal around all day".

Facebook Market Place is by far and away the best way.

At some time in her life, your boat has been on the Pt 1 Register of Shipping. This was probably from new as it's a requirement of getting a marine mortgage. It might still be registered but either way her official number (ON) was 386576 and her Registered Tonnage (a calculated volume of the...

As I understand it, there is no longer going to be any differentiation of the content on R4 LW compared to R4 FM. So everything that was only broadcast on LW will be dropped. Longwave will simply transmit exactly the same output as R4 FM. Therefore the Shipping Forecast on LW will be as...

There's stil a Foghorn on the chart at end of the east pier at Ramsgate.

I see your very selective and inaccurate list has already been corrected, but it's worth extending it to cover the north part of Kent if you're worried about coverage of the Thames Estuary. Norfolk: Yarmouth: ALB Suffolk: Lowestoft: ALB Southwold: Atlantic Aldeburgh ALB + D Class Essex...

During the time I've had a connection with the RNLI, there's been an understandable cultural shift in the working of the RNLI. When I started, there was much greater autonomy at the stations with the Hon Sec and Coxswain having a huge sway over the Station's affairs, reinforced by the almost god...

Flag registration doesn't affect either immigration status (the 90/180) or VAT status of the boat. All these issues are separate.

" . . . Letter in Daily Mail 1st March." The usual guff about tradition, length of service, family connections, town in uproar, etc, but not one comment about the problems with housing a AWLB on the rotten pier, or where an alternative site might be on the Walton foreshore, or the duplication...

Parts of the Seine are being used for events at this summer’s Olympics. If independent testing shows the water is polluted then all the arrangements will be thrown into turmoil. As a result, the French authorities have cracked down on any sewage dumping boats anywhere near Paris at the moment.