AntarcticPilot

The 200x series are very straightforward engines, and the only realistic pathways for water to get into the oil are the cylinder head...

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Actually, British Waterways, of which Scottish Canals is the Scottish bit, has a primary duty to provide navigation to vessels as...

Just to encourage you, I'm no mechanical wizard and my wife and I successfully did a top-end service on our VP 2003 a few years ago. As...

We bought a 40+ y/o boat with a lot of work to do when my partner was pregnant. It has been tough (but well worth it). Here's what I...

Perhaps bear in mind that family emergencies happen, and can seriously disrupt any work plan. Just for example, I recently had to have...

Do you know who is running AI weather models? The only one I know right now is ECMWF. They used 40 years of their own historical data...

Clever!

I know it sounds terrible coming from an old salty seadog .... but I have moved on from mousing with sailmakers twine .... I create...

I can imagine several possible ways that would probably work, but I think that the suggestion of simply sewing a loop in is the most...

Easier to sew the loops in afterwards using a sailmakers needle and whipping twine.

Yes; the accuracy of GNSS in Hong Kong is extremely variable, as you're often surrounded by steel framed tall buildings.

Of course, Creole is a schooner:

I'd love a schooner on aesthetic grounds! And for a light crew, it is much easier to reduce sail by dropping a whole sail than by...

Advantages: Sail plan divided into more, smaller sails, so easier for a light crew. More flexibility Good downwind; can set mizzen...