Recent content by nickd

Couple of toy snakes from the pound shop - worked very well for me

At 16ft, with even a modest rig, I would want a serious bit of lead in the keel there is no way I would want to consider righting something that big that had capsized - think flying fifteen - So I would think that would make it very heavy in a bilge keel configuration compared to a long keel...

I used sticks like sh*t (screwfix and others) to stick battens to the roof of my Konsort https://www.screwfix.com/p/evo-stik-sticks-like-sh-t-290ml/22070 Put them up about 4 years ago and they are still there

It depends on whether you want to go sailing at all? If you want to go sailing leave it silver, if you want it to look great then spend every minute you are on the boat rubbing oil into it....

Pretty sure the timber is iroko Very durable, blunts your tools very easy - I would oil it for a finish

I think you will have a devil off a job sticking vinyl to foam. Normally one would get vinyl that was already backed with the foam bonded onto it. Having relined a boat I would say you would be in big danger of having flat patches where the glue will soak into the foam and stick the foam in a...

better that way than on my suzy outboard - where sheer pin bent so gear box broke instead - similar problem that I had to row home but then purchase £90 bits

Try google barton sliding cleats Brings up tons of them

Its entirely possible I fitted a surecal http://www.surejust.co.uk/surecal?pagenumber=2 to a sea water cooled bukh 20 in a westerly konsort Used surecal because I thought their fitting instructions and diagrams were the most helpful Water was plenty hot enough You do need a pump though, which I...

Before you fit it the conventional way, which is what I did initially, I then found that I could make a bracket to fit to the underside of my tiller when it was folded up out of the way, this made the whole job a lot more useful, because you can fold the tiller up turn the auto pilot and stretch...

I though the whole point of renting a car was not to worry about it

http://www.sealsdirect.co.uk/

does rental cease following consumption?

Think its time you learned some basics of leverage, raising the point a which the warp is connected has massively increased the sideways force and therefore changed the forces on the cleat

Seems to have all the drawbacks of an unstable surf board and none of the benefits So not only boring but potentially wet as well