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BBC News - San Francisco: Two-storey houseboat towed through bay Watch: Is that a house floating through San Francisco Bay?

The wax is premixed

A lot of open source software struggles with the documentation. It's often written for the techie, by the techie who wrote the software, who therefore knows it intimately. This often means that the instructions assume a greater understanding of the software than exists. What it often needs is...

We didn't go on any of the boats on display, so I can't comment on the interiors but my impression was that the big brands were all aiming at a sector of the market that doesn't really exist in the UK. There were few sub 45ft boats. Some of smaller brands had smaller boats. Not being in the...

We did our CS with Endeavour Sailing out of Puerto Calero on Lanzarote.

Here's a webinar all about Lithium batteries on boats It was hosted by an insurance company, so all those stories about Insurance companies not liking Lithium...

If you are giving position to 3 decimal places, then by the time you have finished, your position has changed (unless you have got yourself stuck on a rock!) and the info you have given is wrong. By the time any external assistance gets to you your position could be massively different from the...

Where else are you going to get a modern boat interior?

12vplanet sell a unit that does water and air heating powered from 240v or diesel. Truma Combi D6E Water & Space Heater With iNet X Control Panel (Diesel or 230V Electric)

Yes. All still available

Speak to ASAP Supplies. They supplied a rebuild kit for my Sherwood pump (not the same model as yours) in a couple of days when I couldn't find anything online in the UK

The models have been built with a specific set of parameters. Conditions recently have seen a number of those parameters with values outside of nominal e.g. The jet stream was further south than the models were designed for. This meant that forecasting has been a bit of a guessing game! The...

Is it possible to call other vessels via AIS on the plotter (B&G Vulcan) and say a Garmin VHF?

Do you have the Sherwood part number?