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Had a great weekend with an overnight stop in a 24 hour weather window between depessions. WHere is it?

We are THIS close to changing to a MOBO ( 3 Hail Marys, I will go to church on Sunday and also whip myself until I bleed). Brief: One baby, one 2.5 year old, 2 adults, wanting to explore more with a shallower draft than 1.6m, getting cross channel to CIs and Brittany for holidays and doing it...

How about YBW Lights and dayshapes for \"other actions\"???? Following on from a previous post, can we come up with combinations of lights and dayshapes for "other" tasks and duties aboard a boat? 1- a ring/ball over a cylinder.....having a dump 2- 2 horizontal cylinders....do not disturb...

A large LPG tanker? I've beeen staring at one out of my bedroom window for the last few days. Definately > 50m BTW

This was prompted by a previous post about EPIRBs. The answers could range from the sublime to the ridiculous. I'll start with EPIRB, Small hand flare, handheld VHF and some microwavable cod and chips. Back in the real world, I wear a lifejacket and have the VHF. What are the essentials for a...

I needed a new forestay and shrouds this year and so had the mast taken down as well so I could do a proper inspection. I have a radome on the mast, the cabling coming down through a deck gland. There are a few wiring junctions a this point. The rigers told me there was no junction box for the...

I\'ve sold out and it feels good to not be a total PBO! Due to new baby, lack of time, new job and moving house, I've paid someone to do some bits on the boat, including preparing the hull and antifouling,and IT FEELS GOOD! I love doing jobs on the boat and discovering how to repair and...

We're off to Brittany for a family holiday in September and I'm hoping to find a boat to play on at some point- be it dinghy, cat, yacht or even motorboat, I want something to play on. We're staying near the Ile de Brehat. Any suggestions, or should I just dust off my golf clubs( ) and take...

...where you wonder if it's really worht the expense of boat owning and why does everything break at the same time? So far I'm up to new forestay, dodgy alternator, toilet not working and back flooding, fat seagull damage to windex,and needing a new prop. They've had to cut the radar cable to...

Before I go guddling in dark holes with a torch, does anyone know the reduction ratio of a Yanmar 2GM20 gearbox from 1990, or are there lots of variations. The original gearbox went to a shaft drive and the original 2 blade folding Gori prop. I have to post my old prop to a supplier so they...

As you can tell, everything on my boat is breaking this year and the bills are mounting up. I have an original alternator on my Yanmar 2GM20, which as I have said before is not outputting correctly- I suspect it is one of the brushes ( ? correct word). Is it worth getting a repair opinion first...

Is it true that if you are moored near a pile in a marina, underwater corrosion is greater. I seem to remember there can be a significant potential in marina water. I was trying to work out why my prop folding teeth corroded so badly over the space of one year, with a fresh shaft anode last...

I took my boat around to Dartside Quay today for a lift out for the usual jobs. Torbay was fairly bumpy and chaotic having had an easterly through the night and I thought my lack of speed was just the punching into a head sea. The sea off Berry head was behaving like Start Point on a bad day and...

Who\'s nicked all the Tall Ships? I went out on the Lifeboat yesterday to be at the start of the Tall Ships race, but unfortunately the visibility was so bad that the only entertainment was listening to the foghorns and seeing the occassional ship appear through the mist like the Marie Celest...

I tried to return my white hand held flares to the local chandler as suggested by Pains Wessex nd the chandler said they had been told nothing about it- this is in Brixham in the chandlers by the marina. Has anyone else had problems and are there any suggestions. I'm going to call Pains Wessex...

It's a transient problem I've had once before. Under motor, the instruments flciker fast and rhythmically, and also work unpredictably at low revs, There is a clicking noise on the VHF in time with the flickering. It is cured when the engine is turned off and the electronics are running on the...

My friend has just bought a Fletcher speedboat with a big 115hp OB on the back and asked me to go out with him to check everything worked. It came slamming home hard and fast that we tend to take our experience for granted as I spotted an alarming error which I am sure would have ended in a...

I went to Poole last week to do my 3 day sea survival training, so am now have a basic first aid cert( ), personal survival techniques and also fire fighting. Having done the jump, swum around the pool infull oilies, getting into a liferaft and spending 45 minutes in it, I would hate to ever...

The dark side is beckoning- after years of wanting a fast monohull, second child is nearly here, first child is very mobile, there are lots of lovely places I've seen to explore both in the SOuth West and Brittany and we've seen a multihull which we actually like the look of and want. I admit...

Tome- you\'re a legend Your wiring solution worked instantly- after all that, it was a diagram error. Thanks Tom. Have a beer. Alex