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    Oil Leakage. How Much of an Issue?

    Obviously not a boat but I did forget to put filler cap on once and mess was crazy. W.
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    Oil Leakage. How Much of an Issue?

    We had an immaculately clean bilges so any oil or fluid was an issue. I had a great engineer though so was kind of privileged - if I saw any oil or other fluids in the bilge I was going to be riding his butt and he knew I would. He was/is great engineer but owner wanted 'boat' run like a ship so...
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    Compass

    Baby oil works well - Tesco cashier never believed us on the IOW though :) W.
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    Hull to Amsterdam

    I think there was a Training video on Only Fools and Horses.... W
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    First Aid kit

    Cute nurse? W.
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    Requirement to send foreign passport when applying for new UK passport

    I have UK/USA citizenship and neither has asked for the other when renewing. W.
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    More Liferafts

    Probably not relevant but I recently had a 'discussion' with some one on a cruise company forum about how life rafts were launched on board, He called me a liar and said I didn't know what I was talking about until I posted a training video. Said he could throw it over for the passengers to...
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    Radar tuition

    I know its commercial but the basic radar observer course here in the US is 5 days. Although if the syllabus was updated 3 would be more than enough (that said it was worrying to see some 'professionals' ability). W.
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    Sorry, firearms on board.

    Smith & Wesson M&p9 Shield Ez M2.0 For sale - general community W
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    Sorry, firearms on board.

    Any donations of GBP1000 for rum can be sent to my PayPal account! W.
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    Welding for Amateurs

    Dad took a technical school course in his early 70's for fun to learn I think MIG/TIG - he was about 3 or 4 times the age of the other students! W.
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    Seen this?

    I think it was 61M for 2 spans when I looked it up because when i last went through it seemed a lot narrower than that! But the smaller ones are around 30M I believe. W.
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    New battery only 12v from shop?

    When I worked for the towing/ AAA battery compny here in the US they would have a bunch of stickers to put on batteries making them look like new... Not saying this is the case and this was regular batteries but worth considering? W.
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    Seen this?

    Interesting they have used a (Carnival) cruise ship, do any that large go beyond the barrier? It's been a long time since I was in London. W.
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