mattlad

Three years ago I drove down to the marina where we keep the boat in a scalpel sharp sports car. I loaded that boat and went away for two months. Setting off, I was banging locks, drifting where the wind, any currents, and wash from other boats carried me. Two months later I reversed back into the marina, unaffected by external factors steering to within an inch of where I wanted to go. I moored the boat barely nudging the jetty. I got off the boat, into the car which, braking aside, seemed awfully vague! (Tyres were fine before you ask!) So it's a matter of what you are used to........

Good call. I make sure any crew that travel with me know the basics as an absolute minimum. I can remember reading a story in one of the yachting monthlies about a couple who were out sailing, he fell overboard and she subsequently spent however long going round in circles not knowing what to do while he proceeded to die of hypothermia.......

Surely, on a boat, if they were too low ......Errrrrrr......... water would ......errrrrr....... come in........?

Wild? WILD? He was totally batty!

Because the best fish will be on t'other side of 'cut!

Looking at YouTube I think the in thing nowadays is to give a rev-bomb. Helps if you have a loud exhaust of course!

I ripped my P/O out. The "stainless" tank started leaking at a seam, I got a welder to do a temporary repair for me but it was about to go around a corner that would have made it inaccessible so I had the whole caboose ripped out and replaced it with a cassette. Big improvement! The old thank was never intended for my boat, and it ended up being cut and shut to fit. There was a problem with one of the baffles in the tank and so as often as not it wouldn't empty properly. It was a big disappointment to pay £15 to £20 for a pump out only to find most of the marmite was still there. At some stage (hopefully early next year) I'm going to fit a composting loo.

I can remember finding a set of air horns at work so I had an idea of fitting them to the car that I had at the time. I had to try them to see what they sounded like (like you do!) but rather than finding some wires and connecting the compressor to a battery I took the horns (there were five of them) and the hoses off it and connected to the garage airline (150 psi). While holding the horns in my other hand. Holy cow it was loud! I mean full nappy loud! For a few minutes I wasn't sure if I was alive, dead or somewhere in between.......

Rare.