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Twister_Ken

Twister_Ken

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"Sunseeker International, the world’s largest privately owned yacht owner and largest producer of motoryachts over 80 feet has taken an unprecedented step to help boat owners protect the environment. Sunseeker will be fitting Wavestream bilge water filters as standard onto all its models from the Superhawk 43 to the Predator 108."
 
I'm surprised that they admit to their boats having bilge water in the first place. It's such a chore getting one's man to mop them out these days.
 
You could perhaps protect the environment better by towing it to where you'd like an artificial reef and drilling a hole in the bilge next time the 1000 gallon plus fuel tank runs dry after a quick cross-channel burn.

I don't hate motor yachts - just their fuel consumption!
 
Next they'll be telling us they are using additional insulation so that they dont burn so much fuel when ther Eber is running!

How thoughfull Sunseeker are!
 
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now then ken y all these racist comments about the GREAT BAGPIPE remember it is still an instrument of war n i could arrange a band to come n wake u up every morning. happy listening /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
ps yer i do find them funny even tho i play keep em comming
 
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Instrument of war? I thought bagpipes had been banned under the Geneva convention? Alang wi' bridies, low velocity oatmeal cakes and Black and White Whisky.
 
In all seriousness, I would happily run my gas guzzling MOBO on bio-diesel - greatly reducing my carbon impact. Its just a shame the Government are about to increase the duty on it for marine users by 666% (hmm, coincidence????) from 3.31p per litre to 20p.
 
I have to be a bit careful as Sunseeker are big and good employers where I live and a popular local company - except when they block the roads with thier low-loaders getting the things down to the boating lake ! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
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In all seriousness, I would happily run my gas guzzling MOBO on bio-diesel - greatly reducing my carbon impact..

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Has anybody any idea how many acres of land it takes to produce a litre of biodiesel? Just wondering...
 
Most is made from the used cooking oil from mass catering which is a awaste product difficult to dispose of otherwise (but needs some glycerine to be added). I agree that the wholesale conversion to biodeisel would be a problem but at least it would be a use for all that set-aside land which the EU (we!) is (are) paying for.
 
There was a report in the papers last year talking about large areas of forest in Asia being chopped down to grow bio fuel crops . Don't ask where I saw the story , it'll take someone with better search abilities than me , or a better memory , to find it
 
There was a similar story recently about increased demand for soya beans (apparently for bio-diesel amongst other things) putting more pressure on the Amazon rain forest, formerly described as the "world's lungs".
 
There doesn't seem to be any point in having bio fuels to reduce carbon emissions , if it means destroying the ' worlds lungs ' by chopping down the forests
 
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There doesn't seem to be any point in having bio fuels to reduce carbon emissions , if it means destroying the ' worlds lungs ' by chopping down the forests

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Brazil is leagues ahead of most countries with the use of bio fuel
 
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You could perhaps protect the environment better by towing it to where you'd like an artificial reef and drilling a hole in the bilge next time the 1000 gallon plus fuel tank runs dry after a quick cross-channel burn.

I don't hate motor yachts - just their fuel consumption!

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Hi! I know nothing about boats, and I'm as thick as two short planks - and I think I know what you mean - but not all motorboats have 'bad' fuel consumption (some use very little, and/or some don't even go to sea!); quite a large number of sailing boats are often seen happily motoring about all day, even when there's a nice sailing breeze; and you never know when you might want assitance or a tow from a nice passing motorboat...! However much fuel it's using! Or not.
Anyway, Best Wishes.
 
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In Scotland, bagpipes recently faced the axe under rules to slash noise pollution. The EU proposal was intended to ban noises louder than 87 decibels… ‘The Sun’, 2 August 2005

In 1745 Charles Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie…. His terrible defeat at Culloden caused the government to disband the clans and to ban the wearing of kilts and the playing of bagpipes…..

Soldiers learning the bagpipes are banned by the Army Medical Directorate from playing for more than 24 minutes a day after a study concluded the pipes could reach 111 decibels.


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What price 'Scipio' and' The Barren Rocks of Aden' noo? Ony McCrimmons oan here?

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