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Do spare gas bottles need to be in a gas locker?
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Practical Boat Owner's Reader to Reader
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Can they leak with no regulator attached?
9 minutes ago
R
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Best coating for ply floorboards?
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Making some new boards as the old ones are manky and stink. What to coat with? The various floor varnishes from Screwfix etc appeal for...
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First boat and novice
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I thought the Fulmar was a size of boat I could live with for quite a long time if I was only sailing weekends and holidays.
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Best way to make this connection?
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I did try warm white led but the green looked white-ish from a distance so didn't have confidence in it. Plus the mechanism that hold...
Yesterday at 12:07
R
ridgy
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Best way to make this connection?
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Yes this is exactly the reason.
Yesterday at 09:39
R
ridgy
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Best way to make this connection?
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New tricolour, and current arrangement. Thinking inline crimps with a couple of layers of heat shrink but wondering about UV resistance.
Thursday at 13:28
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Congratulations to all the women racers on Maiden for their overall win (on IRC) of the round the world race - Maiden wins the Ocean...
Wednesday at 23:55
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Padstow to Milford Haven in a Northerly
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If you're leaving at HW Padstow, 0630ish then Windy reckons you've got a broad reach for 3 hours so get some west in. Wind dying off by...
Wednesday at 21:59
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ridgy
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What happened to Pete from Tally Ho?
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He did explain but underneath I assumed that he'd got a better offer elsewhere, financially speaking. I imagine Leo was watching the...
Wednesday at 15:58
R
ridgy
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Non boaty question rebuilding a box trailer
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I did this job last month and used treated timber, painted with shed paint: Wickes Treated Sawn Timber - 22 x 150 x 3000mm |...
Wednesday at 12:44
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Torqueedo new Travel outboards for daysailing
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They do, but primarily to boost their domestic power capacity, not for propulsion. The amount you can add to a 24' boat is limited by...
Wednesday at 12:23
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ridgy
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Torqueedo new Travel outboards for daysailing
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One is unreliable in the sense that it may not start. The other is unreliable in the sense that it may not get you where you need to go.
Wednesday at 11:50
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ridgy
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Torqueedo new Travel outboards for daysailing
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I agree it's completely absurd but having spent that much to go 20 miles, why not have a little insurance policy tucked away in a locker.
Wednesday at 11:48
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ridgy
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Torqueedo new Travel outboards for daysailing
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Wow that's a lot of money to have two unreliable engines. If you must go this route then I would definitely throw in the small suitcase...
Wednesday at 10:41
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ridgy
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Torqueedo new Travel outboards for daysailing
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Yes motorsailing obviously helps and is preferable thought the straits can be narrow of course for tacking. Even worse than too much...
Tuesday at 10:22
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