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Taken May 2024 from Havengore Bridge looking South-East at low water (height of tide 0.9m @ Southend) Taken May 2024 from Havengore...
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Long term boat project and family life, What (not) to do?
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I don't want to spoil your dream, but this kind of undertaking tends to either bond family members - or split them. Apart from the...
Sunday at 21:47
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I just spent a couple of days cruising on a hire boat from Buscot lock, just below Lechlade. The upper Thames is really delightful...
Sunday at 08:45
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What boat would you buy to circumnavigate the UK and beyond, with only £5k?
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Waiting to snag the unwary. As an aside, way back in the mid 70's a wave monitoring buoy went adrift from the edge of the continental...
Saturday at 13:48
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5k buy a Honda Civic and drive round.
Saturday at 13:48
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To celebrate this beautiful weather we are anchoring for the weekend…..so, the day started gloriously
Friday at 10:41
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Telling the difference between an algal bloom and sewage – Creating a better place
Thursday at 21:23
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Navionics-am i missing something?
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I used to use a freebie app called Anchor Alarm. Its most useful feature was the ability to draw an experimental 'swing circle' with...
Thursday at 09:41
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SYRINGES for WEST SYTEMS EPOXY
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Yes the pumps are crap aren't they. Second pair packed up on me this spring. Since then I've been using a ruler to mark the levels on...
Wednesday at 23:44
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Deben entrance 2024
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Hi Irvine, I wrote down the Harwich Harbour tide gauge reading but it is on the boat, however the photos below show what is lurking...
Wednesday at 14:05
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I wish I’d been given a £10 token at the chandlers’ for every time either I or my wife have shouted “Take a turn “ to some idiot who...
Wednesday at 10:42
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Although I think the seals can largely look after themselves, it would be considered bad form to disturb them during the breeding...
Wednesday at 07:28
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VSR/ACR before or after main switch?
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None whatsoever, as long as everything behaves itself. It was really horror stories like this from a fellow Finesse-owner... Batteries...
7 May 2024
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On a similar boat, with similar needs, I used one of these, set to charge the engine battery first, then the domestic, because the...
7 May 2024
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It is really only the house battery that needs the solar. Your current system is not ideal. Better to keep the 2 banks separate with...
7 May 2024
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