Recent content by boataholic

We have recently had great success, first with swallows/swifts (?} perching on a lifeline; and, this week, with a family of Indian Miners (?) on steps leading to our dock. It appears birds get into habits of frequenting particularly suitable places. If you can break that habit, they seem to be...

Thanks to all respondents for your useful and informative inputs. Thoughts that remain with me include: no first hand experience of chain failure, either S/S or galvanised, has yet emerged; how many vessels in the general boating community have G4 chain, anyhow; I am, essentially, a fair-weather...

My new (to me) Her Shine (Jefferson) 50 is equipped with 60 lb Stainless steel CQR anchor and S/S 3/8” (10mm) chain. I have persuaded myself that it would be good to change the CQR to a rated Super High Holding Power anchor; probably, a Rocna 40 (83 lb). My problem is, should I stick with...

CPseudonym: You're a real gentleman and altruist.....there are not many of us left!!!

MARIN: Appreciate your cabin door lock-guard idea, though I might try to use those screws which require a special key to unscrew.

FlyWright: The Trimax cable looks as though it could be useful: I will see if it is available here in Australia. Thanks.

djmarchand/timjet: Thanks. Sounds as though I'm on the right track. I can see that a simple "eye plus padlock" combination could be made to suffice in most situations and could simplify the structure

Thanks, guys. I am aware that the risk is relatively low but I'm pretty paranoid about the effect that the theft of my expensive RIB and brand new outboard would have on my insurance premium, so I'm anxious to minimise that possibility. It sounds as though I'm thinking along the right lines...

Does the collective wisdom have any ideas on how best to secure an RIB dinghy, with outboard motor bolted on, when left at a public wharf. My thoughts are that stainless wire is better than chain; that the restraint needs to be portable enough to be carried conveniently in the dinghy; and...