Recent content by rogerdog

Hello All, I appreciate I did not contact this person through PBO - but wanted to warn yourselves to prevent a repeat experience for anyone. In mid May my partner found a posting by <name deleted> for Yacht 'Fairwinds' moored in the Caribbean. She contacted him and met...

Hi all, anyone any experience of taking lifejackets (with CO2 bottles) a PLB (mcmurdo fast find) VHF hand-held and yaesu FT817 (both with internal batteries on a plane to the states ??? Having all sorts of trouble with a straight answer from Virgin best so far is lifejackets only if I...

Just wondering if there is a way to check if someone is a Yachtmaster without seeing the cert ??(too far to travel and photocopies have been forged in the past - the "facebook" episode) Something like the CORGI gas fitter validation database

Thanks Mike for the post - a very impressive and wonderful humanitarian effort there by Rick; truly heart-warming - the storm - worrying!

My girlfriend is going to crew on a yacht in this area (what's wrong with the Bristol channel I ask ) - just after any comments / points (hopefully reassurance!) that I will see them again ! Perhaps I've been reading too many web sites that label this area and Haiti in paticular as the crime...

would also add that incomplete combustion like this increases CO produced massively - so either don't use until fixed (best) or increase ventilation dramatically AND fit CO detector.

Hello all, in case any of you are interested this is the letter that I've sent out to most of the local clubs -I'll, post the 'poster' on there as well later - so if anyone's wants to come, you're very welcome to attend our 60th Year Regatta. We are holding our 60th year celebrations with...

agree 100% with Refueler - if you are serious with this, fibre optic (or wifi etc) for electrical isolation and some form of active hub connecting system to isolate any 'data storm' style failure of a device

Yes I can see that Richard - used to have my heating etc at home controlled by a computer that I could access from work etc..... but have learnt that such hi tec solutions are great fun to build, and interesting when they work -but have a lovely habit of going wrong in ways you did not expect or...

It can be done as many have said - however the more systems you connect together the more careful you need to be with isolating them in case of a fault condition - if they are simply connected and one instrument decides to continually 'talk' then the whole bus is jammed without some sort of...

Agree with Bilgediver - it's all to do with what is called the skip distance (or the resultant zone where you can't 'see' the signal) - ground wave (ie 'local' )will often only travel a surprisingly short distance as HF propagation normally relies on ionospheric propagation.(ie 100s or 1000s of...

[ QUOTE ] No. You could pick up a 2nd hand Webasto or Eberspacher from a lorry breaker yard and fit it yourself - not too difficult a job - would heat both water and air for heating. Wouldn't like to comment on cost but would certainly be much less than the 5k already mentioned. [/ QUOTE...

[ QUOTE ] Things I would want to know are Asking Price [/ QUOTE ] Exactly - "the make me an offer" - "realistic offers considered" etc cause me to clink the next button immediately also another vote for pictures - I like to see a few "overall" pictures showing her -followed with...

Watchet marina may still have a few left and will send by post.

@ TwisterKen superb !!