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How about Sweden's west coast for some salt?

A new example - some chandlers recommend Blue Wave DIY fittings (see page 31 in...

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It sounds as if it may be "time to say goodbye". Life is change. If there is no near term scenario of an amazing improvement of the situation, you may be better off moving on. As sad as...

Overall, they can only survive if they pay out less than they have income. To withdraw from a market segment can make sense under this principle (although I would question the wisdom as it is very...

Painted bumper indicates that the original chrome bumper rusted through ... They are apparently wonderful to drive, somewhat similar to Cayman / Boxter, very neutral weight distribution, but most of...

Just touchin' up the antifouling, yep.

Does anyone remember expert systems? I think that was back in the 90's. The thing was - you had to have a good amount of knowledge of a topic to be able to say if the outcome of such a sytem was...

Is there a link between roubles and Murdoch?

Is the EU perfect? No. Is it better than anything else that has been done in Europe before for many centuries? For me - yes. Just imagine - you want to work or live in Italy or Sweden or Finland or...

May I guess? Converted RNLI lifeboat, double (or triple?) diagonal teak with fabric soaked in - white lead? - between layers (no caulking required), center board, the humps on the side filled with...

Things might be open to interpretation. I guess the contract is under Polish law and interpreting it might need a fair bit of understanding of Polish law. And even then it might be ambigous.
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Probably the higher volume designs will be automated, the low volume designs operated by hand.

10 years is good service - I would not see any need to change to another technology. If I remember correctly, already for AGM, you would need to adjust to a different maximum charge voltage, so, it...

Don't worry - I think it was the third or fourth year we had our gaffer that we approached something in the direction of a useable setup on the main. Certainly not perfect by all means. There are a...

Ordinarily, too much tension on the throat halyard and not enough on the peak halyard. The classic rule was to tighten the peak halyard until you got a light crinkle from the end of the peak to the...

Ah, it looks as if there is some room to drive the car in the penthouse. Knew a guy once who drove his motorbike in the attic when he did not have a driving licence any more ... So yes, a bit of...

Would go well into a Hundertwasser house ...

Pretty much impossible to argue you were endangered by people running away from you. Or is this different in the US? If it is not - he will probably face homicid charges.

Good to hear that the reflector might work. I will keep it on the backstay.

Yesterday, I had a discussion at the club - a very very knowledgeable colleague there pointed out, that our radar reflector (a tube type, diameter roughly 2 Inch, mounted in our backstay - at an...

About the early aircraft engines lubricated with castor oil - was it here in this forum, where the information was shared, that the pilots of these early aircraft used to drink red wine against...

Lupus - an interesting article. It is from 2017, so, the improvement of coverage hopefully has been done in the meantime ... Still - as the article points out, there is no gizmo which guarantees your...

Guns are not a big thing in Germany. Significant threshold to obtain a permit, involving mandatory training, demonstration of a need to own one (hunter, member of a gun sports club, in rare cases for...

We never went for inflatable pfd, we stayed with fixed buoancy. Having read the investigation report for the sinking that got me reviewing our preparedness, we will stay with fixed buoancy devices...

Just found it on the ACR page - ResQLink AIS PLB. Seems similar or identical to Ocean Signal rescueMe PLB 3. In principle the functionality that would combine both worlds - but the 20 cm length are...

The question is about devices carried on the person - they come in two flavors
1. the ones that transmit on 406 and 121,5 (Example ACR ResQLink) - I guess they are called PLBs, in principle they...

The plan is to introduce personal emergency transmitters this year on our boat. There are a few restraints - in the end, for us, it boils down to either deciding for AIS or for EPIRB (406 MHz + 121,5...

Back in the 90's, we had a real boat. Wooden gaff cutter. Little guy with his grandma, standing on the dock, looking down, the child saying "look, a boat" and pointing at ours. The harbour was full...

Normally no break locking on current cars unless you have switched off a lot of electronics (if you actually can switch them off). When the car first comes into the view, it seemed to be already at...

It sounds nice, but then again, whoever pays 35 k for a 12 footer will likely not want to spend the time on finishing one. So - those buying the 35 k option are not your target group for a low cost...

120+ makes sense. Impact speed - estimated around 30 mph? Sliding sideways, you absorb a lot of energy, it is like having all 4 wheels locked - and he slid a long long way. So, the speed he had when...

Speed before loosing control - I would guess significantly upwards of 100 miles per hour to arrive so fast and with so much remaining speed at the crash site. Police will investigate in detail I...

That sounds like a good approach!!!

I can't join in the discussion about streaming services because we have no music streaming service - from time to time, I buy a second hand CD from charity...

Not sure if it has been linked (some youtube does not show here in Germany) - Rolling Stones "Sympathy with the devil"

Percentage wise, kids coped mostly pretty well with Covid. Their grandparents much less so ... Keeping the schools closed was a major lever to ensure the medical system did not collapse from an...

Keep the paper charts. Paper charts offer overview and details at the same time, on the plotter, you loose time for zooming in and out. The advantage of the plotter is having the position. Paper...

A few similar discussions (but not very serious) in Germany. The thing is, that reliable analyzing of the data was only completed significantly later than the relevant decisions had to be made. Real...

One or two years ago, I was offering help to a motor boat single hander who wanted to leave the dock. Doing warps while controling engine and rudder used to be an issue. He did not need any help, he...

Fair winds and godspeed.

Remember the Eagles? "You can check out any time you like, but ..."

Two more thoughts on the current situation and where it started
1. The campaign to get foreign industrial investment into the UK must have been started in the 1980s - I would guess in the first half...

As for deindustrialization - Thatcher is mentioned often. I do not know a lot about her, but she is often blamed.

The second step might have been the killing of foreign investment in the late...

As is, I do not like the way the article paints the situation in Britain all dark without any reference whatsoever to issues we have in Germany. It is simply not the case, that everything is perfect...

For a pro, a camera is a tool. Even if the tool alone does not make for a good craftsman, a good craftsman will prefer to work with a good tool. Like any tool or machine, it will normally get...

As written - I do not know why this is discussed in the media with a lot of painting Germany as bad and evil and not aligned behind closed doors between allies as it should be amoung allies. And I do...

Not sure about the M1 needing kerosene, at least Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams suggests that up to the early 1990s even the US drove it on Diesel, that the Australians still drive...

Andrew, I am completely with you on the aspect of adhering to international law and so I am completely in line with the above.

What irks me are
1. Leading western countries have given up a lot of...

Andrew, I will stop arguing here for now. As you posted, you are normally a Germany friend and I am certainly a friend of the UK. It is just that I have developed a bit of a thin skin about...

Yes? With all that has been delivered and will be delivered? https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/krieg-in-der-ukraine/lieferungen-ukraine-2054514

You are damning Germany for good? All...

And no, the Russian invasion into Ukraine can not be justified. Thou shall not kill. Or - to go beyond Christianity and more generic - don't do to others what you don't want to have done to you.

For Scholz being on a demonstration in 1983 as part of the young people organisation of the SPD (Juso) - it is possible to claim "If you’re not a liberal at 25 you have no heart. If you’re not a...