MBY article error maybe spotted before

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Looking through as old MBY August 08 n article entitled "so how do you go cruising"
I detailed boat owners navigation procedures, i.e. how much chart work and how much gps.

One couple have a 70 year old river cruiser with two 20hp twin cyl deisels
top speed 7 knots Livaboards on european waterways. So I'm thinking local map of canal would be in order yes? wrong see below: /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

quote : "our navigation is on paper charts with regular gps plots, steering by compass and with extensive tidal calculations before departure".
 
I didn't see that one, but I noticed that Hugo has the anodes mounted on the wrong side of his trimflaps. In last months article the old ones were correctly fitted, but then the new ones were mounted underneath which is never done in the trade, they will dissolve even more quickly with the slipstream if the boat is used often.
 
Good spot but the anodes aren't wrongly fitted, they are two part annodes with half mounted above the trim flap and the other half mounted below joined together by a central bolt. The photographs are both of the same set, just taken from different angles.
 
Continuing the series of dodgy port pictures/port captions (/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif) in the new issue there is a caption referring to "marinas near Genoa" then a picture of the church on the tip of the peninsula by Porto Venere /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
In isolation it looks amusing but if you read the rest of the article you will see that although their home berth is currently on European waterways they have previously undertaken plenty of open water passages. On the following page they also discuss a rough weather passage to Falmouth for example. It's all in the detail!
 
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