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Our best tweak was doing away with the cushions and infill in the fore cabin and replacing them with a custom made mattress with 2 inches of memory foam on top of 4 inches of foam, not cheap at £300 odd but not falling into gaps is priceless! Kathy converted a super king sized duvet to fit the triangle too!

No Worries still has the air-draught plaque (because its stuck with gorilla snot AND pop riveted to the dashboard) I won a Blake's ashtray on e-bay for a pound too! Still searching for Fen Craft or Helmsman stuff though.

Don't forget a few grains of rice in the salt cellar to keep it dry. (I also have an emergency stash of Swan Vestas dipped in wax and a packet of Rizlas in a waterproof tin - that damp gets everywhere!)

Swiss Army knife or Leatherman.

Its the end of days I tell you!! All over Norfolk babies are being born with six fingers!! Oh.,......,

Alan, as Strowie and Ranworth say, I just gave it a slight 'flatting' and wiped more on, left overnight hanging in the shed then did the same again - total actual hands-on time maybe an hour. AND no need to worry about brush marks or runs! I could probably left it another year but it'd faded a bit in the sun on the top surfaces.

I used Danish Oil on my mast last year and am well pleased with how its stood up to the elements. This spring a quick rub down with fine wire wool, a couple of coats dabbed on with a cloth and it looks good for another twelvemonth. Just make sure the cloth dries out properly before you bin it as they can combust apparently.

Good luck Griff - drilling and countersinking that little lot will be fun!!I did it with 18 feet of bronze for the keel band on a Dragonfly (clinker dinghy) and it was an illegitimate person! (ETA what a dragonfly is)

If you can find a diesel Morris Oxford/ Austin Cambridge it'd be a doddle!

Probably a vain plea, but if anyone out there has a Helmsman brochure from the late 70s with the details of 'FenDew' from Fencraft I'd be grateful for a copy or scan of the relevant page. TIA.

When we first had No Worries antifouled Robert at Sutton Staithe got five buckets of mussels off her, reckoned she'd not been done for 4 or 5 years! She's now done all over every 2 years (2 coats on the waterline) which seems to work.

I used to work with a guy from Barra - his first language was Gaelic! As the drink took hold he would lapse into it - when he started singing in it it was time to leave before he hit someone! Happy days!

Just a thought - are the drain holes in the channel clear? Our Bounty has about an eighth inch hole from the outside into the ally channel on the inside of the non-opening panes in the galley and head. These block regularly and need rooting out with a toothpick. Something we also had was a leak from the tap connection under the sink which did fill the saucepans under the sink - quick tweak with a small adjustable sorted that.

Hmmmm - "From Ibiza to whatever I want to call it this week" doesn't really scan does it?

Alan - I can confirm that over 60s were discarded as I was one! Of course I then became one of the 147, the telecon with the clueless totty MAY have coloured my responses online Mea culpa

Could it be the control wheel for a Kitchin rudder?

I wasn't at that meeting but did see the new 'motor racing is dangerous' notices the week after lol. I'm told I first went to speedway in a carrycot with a net curtain over it to keep the shale out lol. My T90 was red and white, Vincent flats and Dunstall "silencers" I thought it was the mutts nuts!Gave up riding in 78 after proving you couldn't ride a K*w*s*ki 200 through a mkiii Cortina. ETA: a mate of ours lives in Kesgrave (Glanville Place) but Thursday nights don't sound the same any more

Joshly - we may have stood near each other on the water tower turn at Foxhall,although I went on a T90 - small world innit?

Iain - that's the one, sort of Anthony Quinn in Guns of Navarone kinda thing

I'd be happy to buy a copy,Clive. It'd make a good addition to our on-board bookshelf beside the other guides scavenged off E-bay.

You will,of course, have to get a proper yottin kep as that manky old cowboy job just won't do!

JawsOrca - Good choice for a mid journey stop, the Butt is our favourite watering hole South of the river. (Orwell that is)

Well said Bill. For us the only drawback at Sutton Staithe is the speaker in the room with the stove. Kills learned mardling!

Can't do a link as I'm on a tablet but there's a thread on YBWs Scuttlebutt titled 'backwards under Wroxham Bridge' starring guess who. Mods: please delete if I'm breaking rules referring to a different forum.

(Snigger) that's the one, just don't mention propellers