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<<What would a similar tax on boats be for...?>> Lights and buoys? <hr width=100% size=1>

Life is too short to read the whole thread so appologies if someone has already mentioned the SF classic "The Marching Morons". You might like their solution. <hr width=100% size=1>

Hello Iain, When I hear the word "deal" I am always suspicious. Typically deal is taken to mean some unspecified cheap softwood - eg pine or fir. Pitch Pine on the other hand is a durable softwood: used in many cases as a substitute for oak (eg in boat building and fitting out churches and...

There are dozens, however some that may be less familiar: Coasting by Jonathan Raban. An excellent book about a voyage round Britain by an author to whom sailing was a means to an end, as one reviewer said "Coasting is half travel book, half autobiography, half novel (never mind the...

Re: I concur... ...with the postings below. My last boat, a 45 foot motor junk used as a live aboard, had 24 volt electrics. A big advantage was the ease with which the engine (a 165hp Perkins) started - even when the batteries were low. In my part of the world 24 volts is commonly used on...

Re: Touch of Class Jolly good show. Glad to see someone else paying attention to the correct form. Of course bein' ashore, and as it's rather late here, I'm already dressed for dinner. Bein' in the Tropics I'm wearing Red Sea Rig. That's dinner jacket without the jacket. Since we have had the...

Just one point. If you scrub teak don't use a stiff brush which will remove softer wood and leave a raised grain pattern. Plastic scubbing pads, for example those made by 3M, are a better bet.

<<and over a prolonged period, they are going to get gassed>> My understanding is that one of the functions of a smart regulator is to protect batteries from overgassing. A smart regulator starts charging at a high voltage to optimise the charging rate and then reduces the voltage in stages as...

Re: Batteries PS and correction? This url gives a test procedure for determining the capacity of a battery. www.windsun.com/Batteries/Concorde.htm Note that they recommend replacement at 20% below rated capacity and not 40% as I stated. Terence

If you have had the batteries for five years that is pretty good going! General advice seems to be to replace a battery when its capacity has fallen by 40% of the original capacity (e.g. if you are only getting 60 amp hours from a 100 amp hour battery). When you replace one battery you should...

Re: Seriously though Folks Many years ago one of the boating mags suggested stripping out the hulls of unwanted GRP yachts and shipping them to developing countries for use as fishing boats. Might save a few trees. Perhaps HMG or the EU could encourage this by giving VAT tax breaks on new...

Before I was a R.C.O.S.A Round the Cans On Saturday Afternoons. Now I'm a Middle Aged Dinghy-sailor

Re:Nothing woofterish about cups and saucers. There's the tale of the trawler skipper who cursed the cabin boy for breaking the saucers in a storm. "Dang the boy now we'll have to drink out of the cups."

Re: Similar to Corporations etc That's fairly common in employment contracts. Fair enough for things that it is your job to create or develop. Request that the clause be modified - I do. I believe that the spirit of the latest patents and copyright legislation is that the IPR belongs to the...

Re:What is Duplex Stainless Steel? NM ?