Recent content by Suffolk Explorer

I agree with your estimate of 5 knots at Woodbridge mid morning. In over 40 years, I've never seen it flowing so fast.

Although I bought my Swift 18 when it was a few years old, I believe that it was supplied new with the furler fitted. The halyard was attached to the attached to a U bolt fitted to the top of the furling drum. I used a light line with a few loops to give x4 purchase and it worked fine. That...

I have successfully enlarged a 50mm diameter hole in a glassfibre hull to 52mm by taking a length of dowel about 46mm diameter (actually an old rolling pin!) and wrapping sandpaper round it until it just fits in the hole. Then rotating the dowel enables you to grind away all round. Wrap...

My chartplotter cover blew away in a gale when the boat was unattended. Does anyone have a cover that they no longer need, perhaps because their plotter is faulty or has been upgraded. Many thanks, Tony

I'm up meeting other 290 owners, but would attend by land as Wild Goose is in the Baltic. East coast based, and September would suit me better..

Thats good news. Thank you very much.

I'm starting planning for next year and wondered if any Forumites knew the current situation at the Juliana bridge at Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands. When is the Standing Mast route expected to be open for yachts? I cannot find anything by Googling and hoped that other Forumites...

Haven Refrigeration of Ipswich (www.havenrefrigeration.co.uk) did a good job re-gassing mine for a reasonable price. Its rather further to Fambridge so you may find someone more local.

A couple of years ago I found that you needed either a Maestro card or a special Dutch Railways card to purchase tickets from the machine at an unmanned railway station like Enkhuizen. Also needed Maestro for the out of hours machine for the Haarlem locks and moorings. In both cases a friendly...

I am amazed at this thread. Half the East Coast sailors seem to have been over in Holland this summer, yet we have recently come back from nearly 2 months there and we saw a total of 4 boats with red ensigns! We went over to Zeebrugge and then up through Zeeland and the canals to Amsterdam...

Navman Wind Instrument Yes, I have a Navman Wind 3150s for sale. PM me for details.

Yes please, I'm very interested.

I am looking for a Garmin BlueChart cartridge (the Traditional one, not G2) Number EU002R "Dover to Amsterdam and England SE" Thanks

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Torqeedo T800 pushed a Wayfarer along very nicely last week for about an hour in total, and said it was still 60% charged at the end. Still learning with it, and would be interested in more information about the internal electronics (why 6 connectors between the battery and the motor?) and a...