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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!
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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.
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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!)
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Swiss Army knife or Leatherman.
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Its the end of days I tell you!! All over Norfolk babies are being born with six fingers!! Oh.,......,
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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.
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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.
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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)
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If you can find a diesel Morris Oxford/ Austin Cambridge it'd be a doddle!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Hmmmm - "From Ibiza to whatever I want to call it this week" doesn't really scan does it?
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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
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Could it be the control wheel for a Kitchin rudder?
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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
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Joshly - we may have stood near each other on the water tower turn at Foxhall,although I went on a T90 - small world innit?
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Iain - that's the one, sort of Anthony Quinn in Guns of Navarone kinda thing
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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.
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You will,of course, have to get a proper yottin kep as that manky old cowboy job just won't do!
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JawsOrca - Good choice for a mid journey stop, the Butt is our favourite watering hole South of the river. (Orwell that is)
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Well said Bill. For us the only drawback at Sutton Staithe is the speaker in the room with the stove. Kills learned mardling!
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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.
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Stocking up? What do we need?
in The Broadscot Lounge
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Not rats, but we once had a mink overwinter on Valoma. Never did get the smell out!