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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 Wire A Waterproof Electrical Connector

Water-proof electrical connectors allow you to power electrical equipment for use on the outside of the boat, as and when needed

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Waterproof Wire Connectors, How To Extend Your Bilge Pump Wiring, Low-Cost Solution

Waterproof wire connectors have many uses around the boat, but finding a compact, reliable and low-cost connector has proved quite a challenge

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Boat Electrical Wiring Made Easy, From The Ground Up, Part 1, Comprehensive Guide

Complete guide to wiring a boat electrical system from scratch. Starting from the 12V boat battery, we look at configuring a complete electrical system including master isolation switch, main switch panel with fuses, bus-bar (electrical distribution bar) and various boat electrical components such as bilge pumps and navigation lights.

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Boat Electrical Wiring Made Easy, Part 2, Switch Panel Wiring, Cabin Light Wiring - Complete Guide

Boat electrical wiring from scratch: Part2. In this part we take wires from the electrical master switch to the boat main switch panel, and also from the 'negative earth' bus-bar to the switch panel. We consider the total current draw the we need to cater for in the main switch panel and the wire gauge needed to be safe for the maximum current draw in the boat electrical system

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Boat Electric Wiring Made Easy, Part 3, Bilge Pumps, Float Switch, Automatic & Manual

Boat electrics from scratch made easy! - Part 3. In this episode we install two electric bilge pumps into our boat electrical mock-up. Having already installed the busbar, master switch and main switch panel, we have most of the boat electrical infrastructure in place, so installing these bilge pumps does not take long.

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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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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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