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We clearly share different views about the function and purpose of the CG/RNLI. I also don't have a list as my boat has large bits of...

Scroll up a bit to my post #8, it's Lady Natasha. Unless his situation has changed again in the last few days :ROFLMAO:

I use the “anchoring ratio” to keep harbourside costs manageable. I like the £15/nt number so presently I have an anchor ratio of about...

Kinghorn RNLI Lifeboat | Burntisland Shouts! 46 & 47 of 2024 At 13:25 this afternoon we were called to the aid of a yacht off...

My username is wonkywinch, not "yellow pages" :D

In my limited experience having called the coastguard twice they assess the situation and if there is no danger to life, then they...

Myself. I'd work out what resources I needed then call upon them. For a breakdown on the open sea, a commercial tow to safe haven. If...

It looks like a DIN (or sometimes called merit) socket. These are a popular "improved" cigarette lighter socket/plug that will handle a...

That doesn’t look original by the way the ‘1’ of the ‘12 v’ has been obscured. Might be easier to fit a replacement socket that you...

Surely these are decisions to be made by any skipper before leaving the safety of their mooring? And if your situation did become risky...

Thanks Vyv. I don't have a photo but it was the emulsion and increase in level that alarmed me after a check following c 20 hrs use (I...

You could try the 'crackle test', an ancient refinery check. Drop a blob of oil on a hot plate, a piece of steel in a mole wrench heated...

A further update, another 25 hours on the engine since and the level has not increased at all. There are still bubbles on the surface of...

The more you hire, the more valuable an annual policy becomes. Excess is normally £1,000 to £2,000. Multiplied by 10 hires, that's a...

I heard one on Lyme Bay a few weeks back. A Moody with a clattering engine. Pan call where CG painfully extracted all the required info...