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I serviced my life raft myself. A four person plastimo in a bag. I took lots of photos and videos as I pulled it apart. I tried to inflate it using a compressor and found that one of the pressure release valves had a manufacturing fault from new one tube deflated completely within ten minutes...

No navionics is for android phone and navionics HD for Hudi 2. The HD is more expensive.

I certainly like 5.0 and if anything it actually seems to run quicker. It also is quite different from 4.4.4. The latest navionics UK & Holland HD 4.2.4 is a huge improvement over the previous version. It has a divider function and can now show underwater contour lines and no doubt some other...

Yes, 4.4 is a later operating system than 4.2 But my nexus 10 has had continuous updates from when I first bought it by google through the android store. It was updated from 4.4.4 to 5.0 Lolipop yesterday. When I have bought any tablets they have never been at the current operating system...

An update on navionics uk/Holland HD on my nexus 10 with android 5.0 Lollipop. After a few emails with navionics I got an update through google app store this morning for the app which strangely has the same (4.2.4) issue level as the previous faulty one. THIS TIME IT NOW WORKS PERFECTLY. I...

You don't have to repurchase them. I have the same apps on my 7'' and 10'' tablets and also some of the apps from my phone. Some of the phone apps will not work on a tablet but you will be told when they are not comparable with your device. For example the tablet requires a navionics HD app on...

Two days ago I got an update on my nexus 10 for navionics uk/Holland HD went in well and it was a big improvement. Now with depth contour lines and a divider. That was with the tablet at android 4.4.4 and life was great. Yesterday my tablet was uploaded to android 5.0 lolipop. It has a lot of...

He's he is absolutely correct. The standard fuse and fuseholder on the eberspacher is quite pathetic for marine use. I have done exactly as you describe many times. You can buy a good quality in line blade fuseholder with flying leads and a well insulated cover from eBay and just crimp the...

The nexus 7 and the nexus 10 both have a built in GPS which still works when well out at sea well out of the range of a phone signal. It is only the nexus 10 that has a pogo connector. It plugs into the bottom of the tablet in landscape mode. It is held into position my a couple of magnets. It...

I have a google nexus 10 it has android 4.4.4 version on it which replaced my (now my wife's) early nexus 7. I find both of them very good but I can see the screen much better on the 10. For navigation on the 10 I have Navionics HD UK and Holland. When I looked today I could not see it on the ap...

I am going through this process just now with Strathglass which is a home built five year old craft. I am looking to downscale to a smaller bilge keeled yacht as old age has caught up and its effects on us. The agreed insured value is £50k. But do not expect to achieve that price. I have none of...

I already have built one into my boat. There is a 7Ah sealed battery located just under the deck and a switch which will transfer power to both the DSC vhf and the GPS from the domestic batteries to the emergency battery if and when required. There is also a hh vhf which is kept on a trickle...

Port Edgar. On some of the pontoons with the wind in certain directions the bouncing about is pretty horrific. It can be virtually impossible to work inside a boat, so don't blame yourself. The tyre 'wall' actually sometimes works were well there. My wife takes Stugeron about an hour before we...

When I bring my boat ashore each winter on the launching trailer I have to level the boat off as the ground at the sailing club is not flat. I also have to block it up to raise the tyres off the ground. First I use a spirit level across the bridge deck then I use the spirit level on the cockpit...

If you are wanting to move your boat foreword you will find it will push foreword quite easily if you reverse the trailer up the nearest steep slope and a couple of people (or more) will easily push the boat forewards. We do it quite often on much heavier crafts than the op's one when a boat is...