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Good to see that the fellowship of the seas is still alive and well😉

An alternative to renewing/painting the UV strip might be to make a sock for the sail. Many sailors do not want a UV strip at all and...

Two accounts of fitting non-metallic shaft bearings here Stern gear. Bottom of the page.

Many years ago we owned a boat that had non-metallic guard wires, plastic coated laid synthetic fibres. The terminals on these...

I have used Sandtex that worked reasonably well on a previous boat. Five years ago I did my Sadler decks in white International Deck...

Even for those I would think that an anchor weighing 50 kg on 3/4 inch chain is probably adequate. Until the OP returns to advise the...

We kept boats on moorings north of the bridges for some years. This was some years ago but I doubt that much has changed, as the demands...

They don't mention terminals I think. Presumably it is not possible to splice ends on, unlike the braided type? I know a...

By 'fairly safe' I meant, as my post clearly implied, that the owner is unlikely to be returning. I was assuming that the OP had...

In the Menai Strait at this time of year it is fairly safe to pick up a buoy as many boats are now hauled out for winter. Most moorings...

There is a brass ball valve on my 40 year old boat that is original. It is the galley drain valve, still operating well and never...

I bought a rigid one that size last week. It was from Eco-worthy, claimed to give 190 watts thanks to a transparent construction that...

My Sadler 34 came to me with a calorifier but no accumulator. It had been used successfully like this for 10 years. An accumulator is...

As Tranona has explained, you have a galvanic cell between your prop (manganese bronze = brass) and your shaft. The anode adds another...

Adding to Tranona's post, anodes need to be able to 'see' the objects they are protecting and be fairly close to them. For seacocks on...