Recent content by ShinyShoe

He didn't get the worst possible fine. Did he? If the charge is only speeding... Do I expect if I drive at 110mph on the motorway to tell the madj that they should just slap my wrists and send me on my way because I could have done 150mph in the fog? Or... ...do I expect that if I drive at 150...

You are trying to be far too literal. I could add show me a car park that the cars move as I drive past or rotate at the whim of the wind, tide or a passing car. But the reason a car park doesn't have a 70mph speed limit is the same- the users are vulnerable. There is a risk of those users...

Your risk assessment is dodgy as fk. The time your throttle gets bumped your full force rib is now trying to jump the jetty, you are imbalanced and in the water. Alone (coz otherwise someone else was doing your line) Just turn the key. I accept a pull start is a pita. But I doubt a pull start...

Not sure there is ANY value in idling If you can idle. You can stop the engine as idle does nothing. If you can't stop the engine because you need some forward way on, then that unfortunately is what you need. Be much better to have a crew or someone ashore to take your line. I can only see...

I don't think use of a KC is considered standard in a boat with a low(ish) risk of falling overboard such as boats with stanchions, or raised gunwales. Not saying they never have a KC (I've certainly used sailing club committee boats where this would apply and they have KCs). Some of them are...

You need to get someone to check your technique. Because I drive various RIBs most weekends, and unless it's dreadfully set up it's not a problem. we bring our painter (aka bow mooring line) in board and slip knot it to lifeline. The line is just short of the boat length so can't chop in the...

Almost all of the RYA Powerboat Level 2 course involves close quarters manoeuvres like that. You fail if you remove KC with the engine on. It is VERY clear that our sport's governing body both on these courses and in places where they use RIBs like Dinghy racing, expect the KC on before the...

You can certainly get RS232 to Wi-fi devices. The NASA app I can't say. But I expect someone will have cracked the Comms from the RS232, so in it's simplest form you'd be able to connect via WiFi to a terminal and get / receive some text content that either will be plain text readable or with...

I'm sure you've thought of this, but you don't need to remove the existing 2 core that is stuck, just add a third core. Which then leads me to ponder the possibility of something like a car body. The two cores supply the two different lights +ve terminal. The mast is connected to the -ve...

Not everyone has to be ripped off for there to be some who are. I don't believe this one is dodgy. One of the oddities of a lot of these funding projects is that they are set up by someone other than the beneficiary. Perhaps that's for good reason: - expertise with setting it up - time -...

I think the concern with crowdfunding pages is they don't have a firm way to prove where the ££ will go. In this case the benefactor does seem to be linked NOW. I'm certain hospital porters are not well paid and even their NHS pension isn't going to be that amazing, IF they have 40 years of...

OK. 1. Yacht and Yachting got absorbed into Sailing Today at the start of COVID and went from 30:70 to about 5:95 dinghy to big boat. I assume the fora has headed the same way. The fora had been dying for a long time. 2. There are numerous Facebook places. RYA instructors have a group in our...

But a LOT of people don't spend £100k on a boat. Plenty are buying boats under £20k. Plenty are using their boats May to Sep. The heating might barely be used. Why would you spend 5% of the cost of you boat to heat a boat 3 or 4 times in the year? The OP was asking about dropping in a Chinese...

A notch using a cheap thermostat relay would be able to sort that. But tell us more about the fridge like a model...

You might want the fluffy ones - they reduce chaffe