Recent content by PaulR

one of our gps aerials is mounted on the pushpit with its cable running through a deckgland to the interior of our boat and ultimately to plotter and vhf. Lost signal and having checked the nmea connections near the units they all seemed fine but eventually found that the outer insulation of the...

we keep our boat on a piled mooring alongside a neighbour, we moor ours to mooring strops , 2 to bow pile and 2 to stern pile. we have a line joining the fore and aft strops on which are secured 5 large fenders, each fender has its own fender line which we use to secure each fender to our boat...

Our Volvo 2030 has high rise exhaust elbow as shown. We can blow through it ok through exhaust manifold connection or through water injection connection, but, fair build up of deposits in section attaching to exhaust hose. Any suggestions on how to remove deposits? Any practical alternative...

Tip Top Sail Laundry Sailmaker in Portsmouth, England

how have you got on? cleaned or replaced?

hoping to get the odd night away this winter and so far have found that Bembridge (£3m)/ Beaulieu (£3.50m)/Cowes YH (£2.75m) and Lymington HM (£3m) are all showing on line these reduced winter visitor rates - very welcome reductions - have had a quick look on others websites but not found any...

morning, did you use it to shave raised caulk or to remove the caulk from between seams in preparation for recaulking?

my wife is also tea focused, i have claimed others think our boat is steam propelled because of the constant kettle boiling and have been encouraging her without success to keep her tea water in a pump action flask to save the repeated kettle boiling. My chances of ever winning this debate with...

and i understand no longer available to none members-shame as is great set up

we paint the exposed parts of our piles at my club with bitumen paint - seems to last and easy to apply

thanks - took ours along on saturday - very helpful relaxed approach from staff there - happy to make donation to rnli - thanks youboat (had to smile as amongst ours was some my dad had picked up at a local "give your stuff away day" which someone had left out - dad picked up a bunch of out of...

we last took our dog with us to holland in 2017 and what you say above is exactly our understanding - jazz went home with some of the crew by car and had the necessary to comply with the rules worming done by a dutch vet the specified time before the ferry home - all went very smoothly - no...

mine broke on our 34 nova - built c 91 - we got replacement from a european dehler specialist - sorry cant remember their name

suspect you are thinking of rydlyme

when team at gosport boat yard re step pur mast the last job they do is to hoist one of their team in a bosuns chair using the crane so he can refix the vhf aerial and the wind instruments to the mast head - perhaps they would be willing to try and feed a weight and line down the mast for you?