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1. The toilet gets blocked with anything except poo and toilet paper. Using Bounty blocks it. Using tough tissue paper blocks it. Poking coat hangers down it wrecks it, and you need new parts. To unblock the bog, you need to get it out, so undo the two rear screws. The front screws only come out later, and they should spin anyway and they haven't lost their thread, so if you saw them off you need to buy new ones. Unlike most other boaty things, you will not get any help fixing the bog, except for getting cups of tea or coffee.
2. Acetone is exceptionally good on most things, esp cleaning plastic once in a while. But, if you use it indoors, the varnish will get ruined. So, petrol is quite good. Jif has been specially invented for cleaning bilges.
3. It's a crap idea to make a wooden cone for your anchor to tail around and not jam up in the anchor locker. The anchor takes no notice of it. It might work better with a stolen road cone, to be tried next year.
4. Rust remover is ace for cleaning sinks.
5. To remove any glued-on bits from the bottom of the swim platform steps, leave the steps down all night whislt at anchor.
6. There's no point in going mental at people doing anything at anchor. They don't take any notice. Just anchor further away.
7. Whilst attempting to teach the kids to waterski, the towrope can't get snicked by a perop, but can get sucked in underneath and wound round the jetdrive impellor, and the boat stops dead. There's no point tranna fix it from underwater cos it is very tight. Wave at jetski drivers who will give you a tow in. Tie your swimming trunks on or they will nearly come off whilst being towed fast. You need a toroid to get the thing on and off under the jetboat. If you drop the toroid socket in the water together with the screw, make sure you collect both of them from the bootom of the sea at the same time, otherwise you won't be able to find the toroid socket and will need a new one. They only sell toroids in packs of a range of different sizes. The spanish cab driver will wait outside whilse you try several shops, but a uk hardware store is better.
8. Regardless of what anyone satys about sunbrella material for things like sunpad cushions, if you wash it any thing above 40degree c it shrinks. New cushion covers are much nicer in towelling, tho quite expensive.
9. Wiring diagrams are often lies.
10. If staying Marseilles, make sure you are off before 8.30am, otheriwse the cops come round to check the papers. He will bring another cop along who is doing a visit from Paris, and will show him what everything means, and this takes all morning.
11. When the engine paint comes off a white-painted engine, just forget it. Heat resistant paint is total rubbish, and won't match.
2. Acetone is exceptionally good on most things, esp cleaning plastic once in a while. But, if you use it indoors, the varnish will get ruined. So, petrol is quite good. Jif has been specially invented for cleaning bilges.
3. It's a crap idea to make a wooden cone for your anchor to tail around and not jam up in the anchor locker. The anchor takes no notice of it. It might work better with a stolen road cone, to be tried next year.
4. Rust remover is ace for cleaning sinks.
5. To remove any glued-on bits from the bottom of the swim platform steps, leave the steps down all night whislt at anchor.
6. There's no point in going mental at people doing anything at anchor. They don't take any notice. Just anchor further away.
7. Whilst attempting to teach the kids to waterski, the towrope can't get snicked by a perop, but can get sucked in underneath and wound round the jetdrive impellor, and the boat stops dead. There's no point tranna fix it from underwater cos it is very tight. Wave at jetski drivers who will give you a tow in. Tie your swimming trunks on or they will nearly come off whilst being towed fast. You need a toroid to get the thing on and off under the jetboat. If you drop the toroid socket in the water together with the screw, make sure you collect both of them from the bootom of the sea at the same time, otherwise you won't be able to find the toroid socket and will need a new one. They only sell toroids in packs of a range of different sizes. The spanish cab driver will wait outside whilse you try several shops, but a uk hardware store is better.
8. Regardless of what anyone satys about sunbrella material for things like sunpad cushions, if you wash it any thing above 40degree c it shrinks. New cushion covers are much nicer in towelling, tho quite expensive.
9. Wiring diagrams are often lies.
10. If staying Marseilles, make sure you are off before 8.30am, otheriwse the cops come round to check the papers. He will bring another cop along who is doing a visit from Paris, and will show him what everything means, and this takes all morning.
11. When the engine paint comes off a white-painted engine, just forget it. Heat resistant paint is total rubbish, and won't match.
