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Shore Power Cable Coil
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With 'True knowlege being the product of direct experience' I now state that my overlength shorepower cable used on our permanent berth...
15 Apr 2024
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Suzuki DF2.5 Float Full of a Liquid
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I have repaired many plastic floats. To clear the petrol place in a pan of boiling water. Keep it boilingand you will see the gas...
12 Apr 2024
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Do check for yourself, but ISTR Epoxy is OK with petrol, Polyester resin isn't? I have successfully patched steel tanks with Araldite.
12 Apr 2024
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Arcona 460 sinks
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Perhaps similar to the Hanse solid aluminium rudder stock that snapped, sinking the boat. IIRC, some compromises had been made...
12 Apr 2024
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Island Packet-are they worth it?
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Their were factory improvements to chainplate material and drain holes were built into the internal areas. From 1998. This appears to...
12 Apr 2024
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The Sirius generally sail very well - particularly for a bulge keeler, which many/most are. They also make Island Packet look like Lidl...
12 Apr 2024
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Which is exactly why we chose our SP Cruiser. We have a boom tent, cushions and a table for our front cockpit, nicknamed the 'Jaccuzi'...
12 Apr 2024
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I’ve sailed on an IP SP Cruiser. Not much fun as a sailing boat but amazingly comfortable below. The galley is superb, the owners’ cabin...
12 Apr 2024
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A decade or two ago I went on one when we were looking for our next boat, I can’t recall the model, it was about 38ft though. It was a...
11 Apr 2024
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The hull was designed by Bob Johnson who was a McDonnell Douglas aerospace designer. The keel is just that, a keel. It will be filled...
11 Apr 2024
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Well, old son, it was not mine! The two I have owned, a 350 and the SP Cruiser, are full of light and have very light interior linings.
11 Apr 2024
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For some, of course, that is true. I am sometimes reminded of a comment Sam Llewellyn made in a PBO some years ago. He had gone with his...
11 Apr 2024
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Would have fender rub if they spend all their time tied up 🤣 16 years IS a new boat.;)
11 Apr 2024
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All reasons we chose Island Packet for our last boat and the current one. Brent Swain has a totally different philosophy of sailing...
11 Apr 2024
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I bought ours from Funky Monkey, self adhesive and they worked fine still in great condition 4 years on.
11 Apr 2024
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