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Well we did the power boat and 16 gallons an hour was fun, the weather forecast here looks quite good too. Sailing is fun, wondering about whether a mobile phone is OK for navigation? Ian

Sat tied to a mooring buoy nursing a hangover on Sunday morning, blowing 20 gusting 30kts. there was a lot of fuss and bother on the next buoy downstream with three or so raggies messing around with bits of string and chains off the buoy, one of the boast escaped their raft and as they motored...

Just thought I say thanks to the folk who recomended various configs for a rib on the davits. Raggie came in too fast and bent one of the davits, eventually got a replacement and a cheque from the gent who bent it. The combo is pretty good, the engine management packed up and was replaced...

Just looked and signed up to these forums 10 years ago,,,, blimey Ian

Noticed another oooo you're going too fast and making it all bumpy moan from a raggie thread ........... again!! why do raggies moan about wash, obviously never been out in any kind of sea outside the solent!!! as for slowing down creating no wash, ever been passed by one of these fellas...

Thankfully only on the outside....it's minus seven degrees and the water in the marina is a frozen slush about two inches thick

in a harbour, if you are on a boat of any sort then a good hight wash will confirm how well you are secured for sea before you get out there. On the sail boat I realised when a mobo went past and the scotch bottle fell off the helm seat I'd not secured for sea so it was rectified before I got...

Here tis: http://digitalveneer.com/ Luvley runaround :)

Working, the boat now sends me a text if: The wheelhouse door is opened, PIR in the wheelhouse activated, Shore power goes off, (and again when it is restored) If the door or PIR are triggered after the text I get a phone call to listen into the boat. Bilge alarm float switch will trigger...

The carpet fitter just finished the wheelhouse, photo. It's come up again and gone off to the binder to do the edging as it will need to fold back to get to the inspection covers. A frantic phone call later in the morning from him that the gas alarm was going off, thinking the worst that he had...

Sure someone will be along soon to answer my daft pleadings for help! I was losing a couple of pints of coolant every hour or so of running on the stbd engine. This aft I poured in a bottle of coolant and ran uo the engine, changing the caps over between engine, then by chance found a loose...

Maybe and urban myth but still funny:

ok, maybe we are mad owning a boat but erectile disfunction and suffering from mental stress?? I, for one am bonkers and mr wiggly still works, Ian

Spotted the inevitable, guess what:- there is a new night vision camera available to connect to their plotter, prices range from 5,000 to 15,000 of your finest pounds. Have the marketing peeps maybe got it wrong?? Ian

Thanks HLB for all the effort: Looks good Ian

Looked at this one:- http://www.easyalarms.co.uk/alarm_systems-nophone_alarms.asp Just wondering if there are any other opinions or suggestions? Ta Ian

Makes me wonder if when JFM lauches his ocean liner we could organise a fire tug or two spraying sea water all over her? Let's face it, his new vessel is probably better designed foot for foot and more sophisticated. Just a casual thought Ian

still has the towing challenge!! Ian

I saw a twister - called Indigo - took me back a bit... It is said that the old owner now sails an AWB?? Ian

We decided to move Alice a new home, closer to home and mentioned to MDL that we may be vacating our berth, OK they said we'll calculate the refund, now what we do because you want to terminate the contract is turn you into a temporary berth holder and take off all the discounts..... So we owe...