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Non-boaty boots, the Japanese fishermen / fish processing plants boots are excellent, you can climb a 45° wet plastic hatch. After a...

I use a piece of tempered glass about 15cm x 60/70cm as cutting surface, they are sold around 10e as bathroom shelves, together with a...

Besides hot knives for serious stuff, I came to like this "Thread zap", it's quite good for finishing sewing thread, rope whippings...

Using non stretch multiplat won't help......

A wet shave every time for me, I just can't get on with an electric razor.

The data sheet available (attached)when I bought the first bank had a useless charge profile that was based on many hours of charging...

I'd add another option: furling sails with non-twist rope luff (with or without hook); they can range from gennakers to storm sails, for...

Not research but calculations, and see my post above where Marine How To Did experiment. @JumbleDuck, who is a respected engineer and...

Me too, bulkhead watches on the boat are all UTC (my PC too, helpful with radio and weather stuff). Wristwatches local time. I even have...

useless

Don't dry sand unless you have professional quality vacuum kit, which will capture 99.9% of the dust. It's fine you saying you'll wear...

What does Navily say? :)

These are the mechanical components used by good light alloy hull boatyards for through deck bolts. 1-4 steel washers, 2-3 nylon/pvc...

Lanocote or even simple lanolin works well, I use them on a wind steering system made of aluminium components held together by stainless...

I use the transducer tied to the extremity of this clamp (I think it's sold for people fishing from those sort of inflatable floating...