My Pearly MIss gone to a great new home, hope to see the new owner on the water.

After mounting the side panels, without issue, this week has been a rigging week. The anodised strip you see was originally bolted whith hidden square head set screws slid into a purpose made channel. The originals were brass and no longer obtainable and the Chinee versions in stainless just too lar...

Just a reminder to book your entry for this event, so that we can let our hosts know the numbers / allow them to plan moorings around what is always a busy period on the River Hamble.

Links to the event shown above.

ABP Marine and Lesiure guide.

https://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/Admin/ ... 202022.pdf

The steering finally fitted today. Heavy duty helm, with heavy duty cable and modified Glastron Attwood steering wheel. These wheels are plastic coating a metal frame and the frame can rust and crack the plastic. My wheeze is to clean up the metal showing (from the manufacturing process) and then co...

I was in the same 'boat' as none of my foreign licences were valid, so had to take a UK test soon after the 1997 cutoff. However, the law changed on the 16th December 2021 and he can now tow up to 3500kg MAM. Not sure whether you saw the link below? https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-rules-for-towing-a...

Fascinating...

And he still has his hair and eyebrows at the end of it.

Having removed the wire steering steering system I was ready to fit the Teleflex Morse rack version and Command 200 helm. I've used this system before on the Shakespeare Mini Clubman and loved it for it's smoothness, reliability and robustness. It's largely been superceded by SeaStar's new version, ...

In case you're tempted.

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Worthwhile finding an outboard version, rather than going to further trouble and expense?