BLUEMOMENT

We spent five days in Belfast in mid August. Cheap, good facilities, excellent location. Only regret is that we didn't bother digging the bikes out. I did lots of woodwork and generally made a nuisance of myself with power tools all over the pontoon, and nobody batted an eyelid. I don't think the mo...

Watched this one unfold with some alarm. That landing craft is a couple of lochs over from my own mooring. Not ideal to have an unlit, unmanned boat drifting around the area. I saw the dive video from before they lifted it, very odd looking inside the wheelhouse and seeing lifejackets pinned to the ...

I'm been personally involved in three rig failure incidents, although two were in Wayfarers. First one was when a clevis pin had been substituted with a split pin and the shroud came free in fairly lively conditions. Mast snapped but was sleeved and put back into use. Second one was my own Wayfarer,...

Just to wrap this up, at last- my new circlips, bearing, and seals all came from eBay, and with only a moderate amount of swearing I managed to get everything together. For reference, circlips are measured by the bore or shaft diameter, not the groove that they sit in. I've gone for stainless ones a...

Thanks but I think I should be OK. No actually sure what model I have anyway.
One of the circlips got mangled on the way out so I think I'll replace those too.
Had to resort to putting the alu tube in the freezer to pop the bearing off, worked a treat.

Don't get too good a tan - "they" may not let you back in. And then there will be the cavity search probably based on "intelligence" from a phone call suggesting you may be a "person of interest". Not that I'm in any way jealous! Of the cavity search? Each to their own...

Bringing this thread back from the depths of history. It has taken me this long to actually get round to tackling this problem. My short term solution was quite expensive, I bought another boat. Anyway Kelpie is slowly being put back together so that we can sell her (I don't fancy my chances of sell...

You lot have cheered me up no end.
At some point in the early hours of new year's day it dawned on me that I turn 40 next year. I was so upset that I was forced to open another bottle of gin (we seemed to have finished the whisky).

That is really impressive. You'll be glad to know the boat inside out when you are hundreds of miles offshore.
What's the plan now? Still heading for the Canaries this year?

Have they published a figure for the final dredged depth? Newton is a little way out of the main centre of town, although reasonably handy for the Tesco at least. And you could probably nip round by tender if you wanted to- assuming they give you the gate codes for the existing marina as well. The n...

Agree, good book. My MiL got it for me a couple of years ago, I wouldn't normally have thought of Mairi Hedderwick as anything other than a children's author.

At the end of last year one of my closest friends suddenly and tragically passed away. John, who was only 33, had gained a pHD and ran a small renweables engineering company on the Isle of Raasay. He was also a keen sailor and had previously lived aboard a 26ft SCOD which he refitted and sailed to N...

We recorded sustained winds of over 40kt yesterday aboard the feed barge at work. It's kind of fun driving a power boat in those conditions but I'm feeling it today!

Sandwick is still just a proposal. A fairly major development, with big breakwaters, new road access, etc. Newton Basin isn't developed yet either. It will need dredged, some infill to create hardstanding, and of course the pontoons themselves. It will be great for SY to gain a dedicated hard standi...

wully wrote:You don’t need to follow it chapter and verse....

I’m sure you won’t obey all the stuff on a web forum either?

Haha certainly not... but I do try to learn from other people's mistakes where possible...