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How To Guides

 A series of guides, written by us, to help you look after your boat.

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How To Splice A Loop Into A 3-Strand Rope

A video guide on splicing a loop or eye into the end of a 3-strand rope.

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How Do You Wire A Bilge Pump?

How do you wire a bilge pump? We show how to wire in a manual 12V bilge pump, and wire an automatic bilge pump with a Seaflo bilge pump switch.

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Choosing The Right Anchor

The Bruce is an excellent all-purpose anchor as it performs well in most sea bottoms including mud, sand, grass, rock, and coral. It sometimes has a hard time penetrating harder surfaces, such as clay.

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How To Wire A Manual Bilge Pump With A Float Switch

How do you wire a bilge pump? We show how to wire in a manual 12V bilge pump with a float switch, allowing the bilge pump to automatically activate when there is water in the boat bilge

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How To Get A Tight Hose Or Pipe Onto A Fitting That's Too Big

chances are at some point you have come across the problem when you are fitting a new bilge pump or seacocks or some other marine hose and the hose you have chosen just doesn’t want to fit over the fitting

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Selecting The Right Type Of Automatic Bilge Pump

Automatic bilge pumps come in different types, and in this video we show you the differences so that you can choose the right automatic bilge pump for you

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How To Fit A Kill-Switch

In this guide we look at the type of kill-switch which is normally open-circuit, meaning that when the lanyard is in place the contacts of the kill switch are apart (known as open-circuit), when the lanyard is pulled out the contacts close the circuit.

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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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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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