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If your cooling water comes in via sail drive I would check that you do not have a family of mussels in there stopping the flow of water I had same problem and cured it by removing pipe from seacock on leg,and with valve turned on poking a wire coathanger (straightened out) down it. you do get...

I had my antenna fail last year, the replacement is totally different the receiver is no longer in the a/e but in a different box that you fit below decks close to the display. the a/e is then totally passive a much better idea and seems to work fine.

the Admiralty produce an old arcive chart of the channel called "A NEW CHART OF THE BRITISH CHANNEL" dated 1746 size 57 x 29 cm (22.5 x 11.5 in English) the stock code is ARC 5453 looks very good framed.

There are still a lot of charts still in fathoms, and they are the latest editions.

As Chart Agents we sell both if you are comparing the folio packs you will find that the Imray 2400 in the west country covers a larger area but SC5602 goes up the rivers like the Tamar and Truro river Imray seem to have forgotten what rivers are. For interest, Admiralty folios outsell Imray in...

You should use a proper splitter or perhaps a 2nd VHF A/E (which could double up as emergency VHF A/E). Otherwise you will burn out the AIS receiver when you transmit on the VHF.

The Alternator exitation is via the ignition warning light until it is producing volts, once this is happening then the lamp will go out as there will be no voltage across it. From the symptoms discribed a would think that there is a broken wire in the alternator or an open circuit field coil...

I fitted st4000+ to our Bav 34 10 Years ago only problem we found apart from cutting the hole for the motor is that you must fit a rudder reference unit if you do not, it will not keep a very straight course in a bit of a swell, as we found out the hard way.

No the only difference is the area covered and the fact that the channel is spiral bound

Navionics Charts New are £189.99 for Gold and £299.99 for Platinum. Updates are 50% of these prices so £95.00 for Gold and £150 Platinum. with both you now get free PC app and Updates for the following year (downloadable)

I would second Lampol, only you have to watch out for the swell as it is so open to the Atlantic

for all our correcting we do it freehand (you can allways practice before you start for real) the most important thing is to have a good pen we use Steadtler with a 0.18 nib and the only extra thing that we use is a hacksaw blade for cables. If you do not want to pay £30.00 for a Steatler then...

OOps he is upright now but limping back to Millbay with safety boat in attendance and half of his high tech main flapping in the wind!

One of them has decided to go out for practice, Can't see which one as he has flipped and has been laying on his side for the past 10 mins, perhaps went out a bit to early as wind still very gusty.

What you need is Admiralty Chart no BA5059 (southern North Sea Co-Tidal and Co-Range Chart). It Costs £10.60 and will answer all your questions. We have it in stock