Ive just made & installed a Rain Seepage Prevention Device..

[Matt13]

Who said I wasnt techy?


Im sorry I didnt make a thread for those that wanted to know how to manufacture such a device but I am willing to make some more and send out for a small fee please make cheques payable to 'matts beer fund'.
Joking aside I made these a few weeks ago as I was worried about any rain getting through but realised they looked pretty sh1te so didnt put them on. I popped down to the boat today for the first time in a couple of weeks and rain had indeed got through the bimini upright gaps and the carpet was pretty damp so I put them on, im expecting them not to be there next time I go down to check though not because somebody would pinch them as they would see what an innovative product they are but because they will probably blow away. Anyway if it keeps the rain out then jobs a good'un!

Whilst I was down there I saw JP''s boat looking rather forlorn, hope the third shake down cruise is more of a success JP!

[betty boop]

oh bless- is it one step away from scrap heap or a quanitine threat for it too behave itself.

just kidding JP

[jokaboat]

Matt, you've just promoted yourself to techy status

So when are you moving on to rebuilding you engine management system

That's not a bad idea though, I have laces round the bits that the bimini pokes through but we still get a bit of seepage. Might crib/licence your design

[Matt13]

Matt, you've just promoted yourself to techy status

So when are you moving on to rebuilding you engine management system

That's not a bad idea though, I have laces round the bits that the bimini pokes through but we still get a bit of seepage. Might crib/licence your design

Engine management what? You mean the microwave?

You'd better be quick if you want to pinch my design there's a patent pending

[markanddawn]

Matt, you've just promoted yourself to techy status

Don't do it Matt, without you I am all alone in the non technical department

[Matt13]

Matt, you've just promoted yourself to techy status

Don't do it Matt, without you I am all alone in the non technical department

It's alright mark that's as far as I'm going for a while, it took a lot out of me I should have known better, we are still the non-techy tag team.

[markanddawn]

[baasboat1]

whats that ruddy big scrap pile then??? I had always assumed you were all boating in the lap of luxury

[jokaboat]

Nah, *beep* end of Southampton us

Hambles the posh bit.

[markanddawn]

Nah, *beep* end of Southampton us

Hambles the posh bit.

Yes but once you're out in Southampton water and Solent, you have some of the nicest areas to boat. Isn't it the boating Mecca of Europe? I bet it still costs double to moor there than South Wales, but then again you get blue water and we get brown water, although mooring in fresh water has many advantages My boat came from America(n) Wharf, down the road from Saxon looking at google earth.

[JORIDAPILOT]

I've been moved, right next to that huge pile of rusting metal, that is blowing bits of rusty debris onto my newly polished hull, eating its way in, I will be sunk before I can get down there, oh I forgot, GRP doesn't rust, but my highly technical tonneau support system appears to have not been re-erected by my engineer and so a great lake will be forming on the tonneau and seeping through, filling the bilges and I will be sunk before I can get there, oh I forgot, there are deck drains and an automatic bilge pump, so I have a chance. (Just how many words does it take to make a sentence?).

That pile of rusty junk is a way of keeping MDL's exhorbitant Hamble style fees from migrating up the Itchen

[jokaboat]

Blue water, rarely. But yes its not a bad cruising area. But then its nice to spend time elsewhere. It's the old over familiar thing.

[salamis]

What are we saying here then the Itchin is the ar** end of southampton Water and the big pile of rubish is 3 miles up it?

[jokaboat]

Basically once you get upstream of the big bridge and Ocean Village marina the Itchen gets more commercial with scrap yards, gravel yards etc. When you get nearer the top of the navigable bit there's quite a nice park (beyond warpa's base)

We're sort of in the middle,

For real class you need to pay double to get a berth on the Hamble

[Torque of the Devil]

We've just moved from MDL Hamble Point to SDS on the Itchen. I don't think the MDL Hamble Point prices are any more expensive than MDL at Saxon Wharf?