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I berth a few hundred yards from the crane in Portsmouth Harbour where they load the bangy bits for the Grey Funnel line. The club...

That strikes me as a sensible approach. Claiming to be exempt on a technicality may not work on a pedantic local harbourmaster with only...

I don't have a boating hobby, I have a boating habit. It's a bit like a cocaine habit - lost weekends, waking up in strange places, and...

Chafe is caused by the line rubbing on something. The solution is to prevent the rubbing, either by fixing the line on the cleat or...

I reckon you'd need something like this to fit in that little sump Pardon our interruption... Most of the others are just too big.

Just to give you some encouragement here are some shots of my GH after treatment. Not quite as bad as yours originally but pretty grim...

You'll still need the fridge indoors to keep the milk cool. Put it outside and it'll freeze.

Does Yanmar make their own engines, or are they based on Kubota or someone, like the Betas? My brother-in-law has a sit-upon mower with...

A properly reefed sail should set almost as well as the full sail. However, almost is a bit of a weasel word. A reefed sail, be it a...

Well, it must be said that it's something of a victimless crime. A sensible administration, assuming that isn't too much of an oxymoron...

I don't think it would bother me. Besides, there's an argument that, if you can't get far enough away, better to be tied up alongside. A...

I remember constant ads for them. Would it have been on Radio Luxembourg?

While a ship in poor condition with a goodly amount of potentially explosive stuff on board make for a good panic, and we're all gonna...

Pretty much any of the tide apps will give you an idea, but I, and many others, like Absolute Tides. It'll cost you a bit for the tide...

Changing all lights on board to LED is a very useful improvement. The chances are that filament nav lights are getting pretty tired...