Recent content by Pete54

Or the Classic Motorboat Association forum, where they will definitely know.

It depends on where the paddle log is. Inevitably water has to take a somewhat longer route around a hull, than the hull straight through the water. Hence the need to calibrate the paddle log to compensate for the slightly higher speed of the water around the hull.

I can add a little information. My father ran a small boatyard in Dun Laoghaire during the early 1960s - Marine Sportscraft. He built at least two large plywood cruisers and I think supplied a couple of kits to local purchasers. He used the same adverts as Charles Greene - "Boatbuilding...

Probably dried out fuel in the carb, if the spark is 'good'. Get some carb cleaner with the tiny plastic long nozzle and carefully strip the carb down and ensure all the little passages are clear. This does take time and care. Make sure the fuel pump and working and generally that is it!

I can only speak about the French situation, but there, if you have residence (titre de sejour) and bring in anything from the Uk post Brexit, you are liable to TVA of 20% of the value. I have just run foul of this with a car, thankfully it is more than 30 years old so only liable to 5.5%...

Used Le tonk on a single scull I built - no brush marks, no holidays, no runs. Difficult not to like.

I remember seeing it during the late 1960s, I sailed from Thamesis at that time, just downstream from Kingston bridge, would have been 1966 to 1968- ish. Cannot remember the make of van though!

It is difficult to be sure - but I suspect that the titanium padeye needs to be rotated by 90 degrees to actually have the strength you quote. AS mounted it would suffer both shear and bending stresses - which padeyes ae not generally rated for.

One of the last French weather ships is the centre piece of the maritime museum at La Rochelle - France 1, retired in around 1985, used to be stationed at point R. Altogether more civilised than an ex-military vessel - which definitely seems to have a Bofors gun left on it!

This rae is pretty much at the cutting edge of what people can do. That is the sailors - who push themselves to a point most people could not sustain and the boat are doing things which simply have not been done before. Close on 10 tonnes doing 25kts plus and then ploughing back into solid...

I've owned a Robber 3E and presently have a GK24. The Sonatas, Pandora, Ruffians etc are all 'a size' down from the quarter tonners - not a big difference but enough to make the quarter tonners preferable in my view. Frankly I'm staggered to hear a Sonata is faster than an Ecume, Sonatas were...

The whole point of a risk assessment is that it is supposed to logical and repeatable - that largely reduces the 'opinion' and means it is justifiable. You decided to make a point and publish and so far have provided no justification for what looks increasingly like your opinion. A careful...

The whole point of these processes it that they are supposed to be enable transparency. Your 'risk assessment' remains unseen. You are very keen to give us your opinion and then to push it. The risk assessment if published would allow a much more informed debate. But perhaps you are not that...

If it is genuinely a Cat 4 race then in what way does a Cat 3 compliant LJ mitigate any of the risks? The light is irrelevant as Cat 4 is daylight. The sprayhood might have some benefit - but Cat 4 is supposed to be inshore in sheltered water so is there a real benefit? At fist reading this...

Amongst other things I fly light aircraft. The representative bodies for light general aviation are pretty numerous, literally an alphabet soup. The end result is that they spend much of their effort struggling against each other rather than presenting a united front against the regulatory...