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I'm not knocking the boat - everything I know about them says they're great, and everyone has to do their own risk assessment, but I...

Jazzcat had a couple of 60 AH batteries that powered the domestics and one starter, and everything worked fine. I got a fridge. My next...

When I passed my driving test, my instructor said, "Well done! Now you can learn to drive." That was well over 50 years ago, and I'm...

On my Snapdragon 24, the 3.5 2T from the dinghy pushed it along nicely when the big engine was sulking as long as the water was...

Before reliable diesels for small boats, people went sailing. Go back a century, and engineless boats were how stuff got moved around...

If the hooks on the disk itself are in decent condition, my experience is that when the velcro lets go, it's time to change disks...

I used bioclean to get rid of a stench of MAB caused by a diesel leak. It contains microbes that eat oil and similar organics. Just pour...

My little varmints had their share of chats with Mr Slipper, but only for deliberate breaches of well-understood rules. Talking to them...

If you want your wife to come with you, I'd look for a boat with a proper head where you can close the door and a few similar creature...

We can only speculate, and have a bit of fun doing it, but as a highly qualified armchair expert (I have several comfy armchairs), ISTM...

While I tend to support the notion that there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing/ wrong boat, unless you lot are feeling...

I think I'd want a cat with some serious sailing performance before I fitted electric power, because you're never going to have the...

AIUI, that's the starting point, but the gravitational influence is tiny. It's a bit like pushing someone on a swing, a tiny push at the...

Get your skates on Wansie :)

These days, it'd probably be classed as a first boat. O tempora, O mores - I had a review of my old Snapdragon 24 that described it as...