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I liked the canal, the views are amazing, the pathways alongside are well kept, and the amenities are OK. Singlehanding could be done more easily with vertical lines though. Having the locks still operated in the same way as they were over 200 years ago is avoiding progress. A couple of the...

I once took my family camping at the Bois de Boulogne site in Paris. I remembered it from the 70's when it really was a smelly old school 'French' pissoir & shower. It had been revovated and improved somewhat when we were there, maybe 2005, but on this particular day the Ladies shower block was...

Just at Kerrera, which is a good set of pontoon's, but spoiled by the surcharges of £3 for electricity, and £2 for a shower. The shower's are OK, but without any stool/chair/side table to put stuff onto, and a shower tray that was as slippery as ice; (really dodgy), and I'd not touched a drop...

Preparing to enter the last lock and leave Crinan, I was chatting with a lady from another yacht about Crinan. She'd far more experience of canals than myself, here, EU & the America's. She found it ridiculous that the locks were in such a poor state, and told me that on Canadian canal's there's...

Funny thing 'Solo'. I'd imagined that when they said that, I'd only be allowed to go through with another boat, rafting in the locks, I could see their point. I actually started through on Thursday as a French Yacht turned up, so I could go with them. I'm a GK24, quite beamy, and the French...

I've just been turned away from the canal until Friday, as I'm solo. This is 2024, and if you want business, you provide a service. I've twice been through the Caledonian Canal Solo. The 100 miles diversion isn't practical, and I was offered the opportunity of an unendorsed "Pilot" for £100...

I think that this might help also.

I'm there now, and was very surprised by the quality of 'shore side facilities', in that they're of a pretty good "International Hotel chain" standard. Superb stop off place on the way up to the Crinan. Gotta say, that having only stayed here and in Largs, they're both better than anything I've...

The item that your finger is touching, should rotate independently from the 'foil'. Am I right in thinking that your problem is with the foil not rotating? If the foil does rotate, then each mechanical issue is in front of you; I'm sure that you know that so this is a "what if?" sorry! Yes, the...

Hand wash by gently massaging it in a kitchen sink with a "natural" soap, once the 1st stuff has been removed. Why wouldn't that work?

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I disagree with Seastoke, but from a slightly different view perhaps. I've always found it to be very efficient and reliable, although I've also suffered with this carb. problem which can be avoided by assiduously emptying the carb. However, at the moment, I've just bought a GK24 with a Mercury...

This might help your problem? Post #14 is very thorough. I did see that you've covered this, but it might add to your knowledge in the future.

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In the diving industry, that's called "Wet stored".

Sorry Steve, but for personal clarity, your advice is to not use the drain, but just to run the engine dry from turning off the fuel tap? It matters to me to get it right, and you're the bloke that gets it right!

I always turn the fuel off to let the engine run dry, and if I'm not planning on using it in the near future, I empty the carb. to drain the small, remaining amount. This carb. drain is very accessible with a small 10mm. socket, through a designed gap in the body of the motor. A 10 second job. I...

It entirely depends on the radio, and in part it's age. My Standard Horizon GX2200 is able to have a new MMSI reset by me, with the radio in place on the boat. There's a procedure in the radio menu that addresses this, requiring me to gain a code, which I then send to the manufacturer, and they...

If it's about LR's, shouldn't John Morris 'mod'ify opinions here, being as he's a regular on a LR forum, which will be able to say the number of teeth on the ring gear of each model!

As above, plus they've the AIS app. It's certainly going to be much easier 'up here', given the distances between anywhere and anywhere else, and the relatively few number of boats.