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How To Guides

Our how-to guides provide step by step advice on repair processes, and selection of marine products to help keep your sailing boat or motor boat in great shape.  From deck fittings replacement to replacing Jubilee clips and pipes to looking after your battery terminals and fibre-glass repair, this is the place to search.

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How to replace a boat cleat

One satisfying way to smarten up your boat it to replace old corroded aluminium cleats or chrome plated brass cleats with good quality marine stainless cleat. Access To Remove...

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Guide For Fitting Hoses, Pipes & Fittings In Your Boat

This is a guide for how to fit and maintain the hoses and pipes in your boat, the principals are generally the same, whether its marine engine cooling pipes, attachment to sea cox, boat cockpit drains or even tubes for fresh-water plumbing.

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Guide To Selecting Pulley Blocks

General Guide On Pulley Block Selection When it comes to selecting pulley blocks for sailing boats the range of options at first can seem daunting to say the...

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Sacrificial Anodes

Sacrificial anodes for boats are a relatively cheap way of protecting the key parts of your boat from corrosion due to the effects of salt-water and electrical currents.

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