It looks good, it wasn't cheap, but it doesn't work! Name the object of your anger...
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Tohatsu 18 hp outboard started going wrong at 11 months because the lower seal was leaking water into the lower cylinder. Catastrophic failure of the lower bearing followed. Despite Tohatsu advertising a 5 year warranty I have had no satisfaction and virtually no response from the chandler or Tohatsu. Mind you I think I just got unlucky most Tohatsus are like the energiser bunny.View attachment 46456
210 feet of 10mm x 28mm anchor chain. Italian manufacture I think?. Getting rusty and so badly worn/stretched that it no longer fits the gypsy.View attachment 46457.
AFTER JUST 18 MONTHS!
PREVIOUS ACCO CHAIN DID 6 YEARS
210 feet of 10mm x 28mm anchor chain. Italian manufacture I think?. Getting rusty and so badly worn/stretched that it no longer fits the gypsy.View attachment 46457.
AFTER JUST 18 MONTHS!
PREVIOUS ACCO CHAIN DID 6 YEARS
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JumbleDuck
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On my last boat I had hank-on foresails: storm jib, working jib and genoa. I usually sailed single-handed, which made foresail changes a bit of a pain, so I was delighted to find a contraption in a chandler's "reduced" section (yes, the alarm bells were ringing had I but listened) to make it easier. A sort of handled stainless steel cassette affair, which you clamped round the forestay and ran the hanks onto so you could remove the sail in one easy move. So keen was I that I bought two of them.
I never, ever worked out how to use them. Occasionally I'd get one out, clip it round the forestay, grunt in disappointment and put it away again. Those damned contraption stayed on the boat, unused, for nearly twenty years. I still have one somewhere, which is available free of charge to anyone who wants the curse.
I never, ever worked out how to use them. Occasionally I'd get one out, clip it round the forestay, grunt in disappointment and put it away again. Those damned contraption stayed on the boat, unused, for nearly twenty years. I still have one somewhere, which is available free of charge to anyone who wants the curse.
Greenheart
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These are extremely amusing, just as I was hoping. :encouragement:
Of course, I generally find things which cost good money, are pretty good.
Sorry Sniper. I was thinking of snipers as potential solutions to the human problems we encounter.
Of course, I generally find things which cost good money, are pretty good.
Ithangyou!
Sorry Sniper. I was thinking of snipers as potential solutions to the human problems we encounter.
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I've wasted a lot of money on mainsheet blocks and jammers that haven't worked well.
Also in a way my 60m of good-quality anchor chain - not the chain's fault per se, but it turns out the boat has too fine a bow and won't carry it. Going to have to ditch it in favour of a mostly-rope cable.
I'm sometimes disappointed that we have a cruising chute instead of a conventional kite, because there's a huge downwind dead zone in which it doesn't work. My parents were intimidated by the idea of a spinnaker, hence the cruising chute, but mum told me the other day that when they use the boat they never get the chute out anyway. If my mates and I are the only ones who use it, we might as well have had a proper one.
Pete
Also in a way my 60m of good-quality anchor chain - not the chain's fault per se, but it turns out the boat has too fine a bow and won't carry it. Going to have to ditch it in favour of a mostly-rope cable.
I'm sometimes disappointed that we have a cruising chute instead of a conventional kite, because there's a huge downwind dead zone in which it doesn't work. My parents were intimidated by the idea of a spinnaker, hence the cruising chute, but mum told me the other day that when they use the boat they never get the chute out anyway. If my mates and I are the only ones who use it, we might as well have had a proper one.
Pete
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I've always used a candle for drawer rails, but silicone is ideal for plastic. I have exactly the same problem with the lid on my pool pump.
A suggestion regarding the large fender: leave it in the marina, use a wired bicycle lock if necessary.
My candidate for the question posed in the OP: iPad. I couldn't do without it, but I also hate it.
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Fourbees
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Fitted a Swedish Tiller Tamer to the last boat. Easy to install, sounded a good idea, but would not hold the tiller long enough to allow the helmsman to go and adjust the Genoa, let alone nip below to plot a position... After that we invested in a Raymarine tiller pilot, which worked at first but eventually went haywire!
Trundlebug
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Yes I think all of the car / auto / rechargeable type ones are useless.
The only 12v ones that work are the "Dirt Devil" type which plug in to the cigar lighter socket.
Ours pulls about 8-9 amps but it's got some grunt, brushes and vacs effectively. The bags are a bit small but at least they get filled up.
Tam Lin
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It looks good, it wasn't cheap, but it doesn't work! Name the object of your anger...
My boat.
My boat.
Plevier
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Hand held Dyson is very effective and you can get a 12/24V charger for it.
Costs a lot more than ones that don't work of course!
Trundlebug
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Yes, but the Dyson also costs a lot more than the Dirt Devil type... by several orders of magnitude.
I must admit I didn't know Dyson did a 12/24v charger though
Koeketiene
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TackTick windex
pelissima
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Raymarine ST60 wind