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Went there a few days ago to buy three different widths of wood to make some dresser shelves only to find that H&S have decreed it too much of a risk for a wood yard to have a saw. A wonderful service withdrawn, but I wonder if it is the mgt doing a cost saving. I don't know how many times...

Rigid. New. Unused in box. A couple of scuff marks on the frame where I started to attach fixings before realising it wouldn't fit around the backstay! £70 Pick up Bristol

Sailing Uma interviewed Combi this week including a bit about their diesel hybrid conversion. Looks like it ticks all the boxes for someone who likes the idea of electric but the expense and downsides are too much, or too many workarounds. Their website is lacking in information so wondering...

When I replaced the cable I thought that the mast would not come down again in my ownership so it is continuous from aerial to radio. I was wrong! So I had to snip it. When searching for in-line connectors I am deluged with cheap TV things. Can anyone point me in the direction of an...

My partner has a slight deficit as a sailor;she can't read the wind. Despite taking to navigation very quickly; and no problems with sea sickness; and loving the cruising life, she has difficulty working out where the wind is blowing from and what to do with the sails. So, as the mast is down...

This summer, in Kalmar, we found a place to refill our Calor propane cylinders. I'm wondering if there is a place around Stockholm that would do the same? Web searches tend to LPG garages!

Over winter, on Sweden, I asked the engineers to renew the antifreeze. Today, I checked and it was dirty black sludge deposit inside the top of the filler. I regularly service all the other usual stuff like oil and filters etc but always asked others to do the coolant. (This time I managed to...

Two things have started happening which I think R related: the clutch handle has started seizing when lowering the anchor; and the handle ring has turned so that the slot for the handle can be at the bottom! Just before this happened I noticed the pawls seemed to be clunky when raising the...

I have had two flexible 80W solar panels from Lensum. Both have failed after about three years of use. The second one we treated with kid gloves. Is this a common issue or am I just unlucky?

Two 100Ah batteries in parallel with equal length connector leads just installed. Load connected - be to one and +ve to the other. Charged to 100% with shore power through B2B charge. All well. But only one of them seems to be discharging when fridge is turned on! One of is 99% at 13.6V and 0A...

I am a little confused by the wiring diagram. It shows the positive from the alternator as 10mm2 running to the starter motor and that runs to the battery. As it is a schematic does it really mean that the alternator regulator is part of the alternator, and that the starter solenoid is part of...

And yet it's not on the BBC website!

I am about to be in the process of switching to a bank of two lithium 100 Ah batteries for the leisure side of a Stirling B2B system. The Renogy instructions say that the individual battery cells balance automatically, and I could have a bank of up to four batteries. What I can't work out...

Just puzzling over the place of a NASA BM1 in a battery to battery life po 4 setup. The lead acid starter battery will always be the first to charge so theoretically it should always be charged, unless we don't run the engine or have shore power for a while (It has it's own solar panel). And...

My 35 year old Bosch 800 router is showing signs of giving up the ghost. While it has been very useful I have found it fiddly to do some things with it. I made a wooden table/jig with fence for it but settng the depth was irksome. I had to practically dismantle it for every adjustment. So what...

Just heard on Moneybox that the £400 support is now available for Liveaboards. They say go to gov.uk site and search for Energy support non automatic. That's all I know - hope it's useful for some 🙂

Gull Oars 2.1m As new; only used twice. £50 Bought for a dinghy that turned out not to be useful but kept oars. We never got around to getting another rowing boat. collection only Bristol Dolphin Premium Shore Charger. Came to me in its box but I threw that away! Unused as I was given a better...

I have lots of experience in mooring and leaving pontoons but I have not been able to find a successful method under certain conditions. The boat is a 32 ft long keel and skeg. She has a high bow which catches the wind. Prop wash to starboard is quite strong. Only two of us on board. Suppose...

We need to post a new dinghy to an EU country. It is a replacement. On all the parcel delivery sites I have found they ask for item type codes and company import codes etc. Firstly, I'm not a company; and, secondly, it's coming back to the UK with the boat. Has anyone any experience of...

I can't quite remember my A Level Applied Maths. If my soon to be mounted PV panel should accidentally turn to vertical in my absence, and it should blow a F9 then the force on it would be about 50kg/m2. Assuming the force would be straight along the length of the M5 SS 316 bolts in the clamps...