It's a great little lake and a friendly club - but do watch the steep, right-angled slipway - it's the only place I've ever seen a recovered boat slide off its trailer and relaunch itself! Keep the bow line on the trailer!

knarloid wrote: I'm jealous of the regular meets you have over there.

Regular Meets? Only if you're on the South Coast and have a boat that can handle salt water, is my view!

Roll on November - then I can get a fix every day! But not, unfortunately, in my Albatross, which won't fit in my suitcase...

This really is a can of worms! I don't know enough about what's on the market today even to attempt to answer the question, but we did have a debate a few years back about what constitutes a classic. Nick seems to have summed it up pretty well with " It's a definable something - fins, unusual inboar...

Geoff - I've scanned & emailed it. Let me know if you can read it!

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Nick's dead right! I should have said unhook the tube from the speedo and blow the tube out backwards, to clear the muck...

Tony Young has a nice one for sale - send me a PM with your email address and I'll put you in touch.

Assuming it's a 100E/E93A engine, the coupling has two differential LH threads, so unscrewing the big brass nut pulls the tapered & threaded shaft out of the engine side. As it's brass, the threads can easily be damaged. The nut & shaft is probably stuck, so lots of patience and alternating heating ...

Austin: If you fancy a modern instrument rather than a period model, try https://beedspeed.com/index.php/cPath/83_176 I used their GPT Digital Tacho on my raceboat - brilliant. It had a peak rpm memory, programmable overspeed light, and an option to read temperature as well. You can set it to work o...

Neither the size of the pipe nor the size of the pitot orifice should make any difference - the gauge is reading nothing more than pressure. If the pipe is a bit soft, that might be expanding and lowering the pressure at the gauge; if it's very small there could be an airlock - but in theory the pre...

Can anyone suggest the correct shade of dark blue for the fabric? I have a colour copy of an original in front of me, it's a dark navy blue flag bunting - not sure how I can describe the colour accurately! Also have a drawing of the original round-section pennant mast which plugs into the bow lamp;...