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In the suggested setup - battery in the bow, and BTB charger, that's when the BTB will do its stuff. It would be a pretty special...

How much power does the windlass draw? I'd guess no more than about half the 300 amps of the thruster, so I'd expect the cables to be...

I wouldn't trust glue - or anything that relied on repairing the tear. A pro might be able to do it, but I certainly wouldn't trust my...

Hardway has what they call toast racks made of scaffolding pole. Knowing the club, they'll have been built by the members. Maybe these...

Emptying the wallet

Do you need an IoW address to get a place there? Actually, if I suddenly became a liveaboard on a low income, I think my first try...

Most of my tools are cheapos, especially the boat ones, because Neptune is a kleptomaniac with a particular weakness for tools. I do...

People who can't afford self-tailers? A plain winch plus a wincher (Barton Wincher a stupid price for what it is) isn't as good as a...

Could be - mines was second hand a few years ago

I don't know if they're the cheapest, but I usually get my GRP repair stuff from these people ECF - East Coast Fibreglass Supplies

A friend made the same expensive mistake, in spite of having a heater in the cabin that ran for a couple of hours every day during the...

I wish. My Mariner 3.5 is a badge engineered Tohatsu, and it has a right side and a wrong side. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to matter...

The tiller pilot on my old boat developed a weird fault. It would hold course fine, then alter course 15-20 degrees. I'd correct, and...

I got a memory foam mattress from Ikea and cut it to shape for the V berth on our previous boat. I hated it. I tend to move around...

If you really don't want to splash out for a new one, turn it upside down and tie it on through what is now the top step.