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Yes please angus, pm sent

Buy a small trailer sailer in good condition and take your time.

The boat is sold and under new ownership

Theres a lot of truthin that, and yet…. And yet… :) I own two old boats, one was slowly done up over two years, and even now is out awaiting new rigging and engine, and the other is an even slower, more ardous and tortured project, thats been ashore for 4 years almost now! But jumping in a...

Very sensible approach. Take your time, get to know your boat and enjoy the trip. It will be a blast. Need to work with tides and weather but if anchoring I would be looking at something like this, to be sitting set up nearby each tidal gate from your anchorage. 1) Solent to swanage 2) Swanage...

It came with my boat when I bought it in 2015, so it was already second hand then. Had numerous issues with the carb and other bits and sods ever since. Its never been trustworthy at low revs. After covid outboards were difficult to get for love nor money for a good while and resale prices were...

Interested if Ian doesnt buy it.

Sell it and buya brand new one if you dont go electric. My engineer told me to do that two years ago, said I would get £600 for it so for another £600 I would have a brwnd new tohatsu with electric charging. I didnt listen and now its totally buggered and I am still buying a brand new one!

A slightly off beat take on this. The benefits of an electric ob are so huge, and the drawbacks so obvious, that perhaps folk could think about changing their entire attitude toward sailing to get the benefits? Go back to the "an engine is for manouvering in harbour only" mentality and actually...

True but theres all sorts of explanations. The most likely being they took themselves to hospital on arrival to patch up the injuries they got when knocked about. Once the initial adrenalin wears off and it starts to actually really hurt, they were already on their way. And probably not too keen...

Its an incredibly minor, local news item. You don’t really think that a single one of those sites will have done any journalism at all, or fact checking, by picking up a phone or going down there do you? They just grabbed the first thing they found and published it as “content” And it will only...

It didnt happen in gosport. it hit a wall in cowes, search was launched but couldnt find them then the boat turned up in gosport.

Its only a 30 foot boat, the devices cable sizes are only 1.5mm mainly anyway.

I'm curious, if designing and installing a complete rewire of a boat, is there anything that would be done differently if the system was going to be powered by lithium instead of agm batteries? ie, can I redo my electrics and then decide at the end if I want to go lithium or not for the power? I...

Scrub it up and if as you say, the base metal is sound then why replace it? I’d be more inclined to find out where the water causing the corrosion is coming from and sort that out.

This looks prettyinteresting Wind, Tide and Oar | encounters with engineless sailing | a film by Huw Wahl Premiere at greenwich maritime musuem then a seatour with screenings in hold of barge, showings here SEA TOUR | Wind, Tide & Oar

Im in interested, could i have a pic of the cone please?

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I’ll buy 1. Boat Mechanical Systems Handbook, Dave Gerr. h/b vgc £20 5.Shipshape Ferenc Mate h/b with d/j gc£6 6. Keeping Nyala in Style Sylvia Murphy h/b with d/G vgc £4 Please. Where in north essex are you? Steve

And I say that as a landlord :)