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Forum: Electrics and electronics 07 March 2025, 21:48
Replies: 18
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Posted By lakelandterrier
Maybe I'm old fashioned but I do update thr ...

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I do update thr paper charts I hold as back up for my normal cruising areas with the official NTMs annually... quite theraputc and keeps up the "old" skills.

Try to...
Forum: Electrics and electronics 07 March 2025, 17:48
Replies: 18
Views: 602
Posted By lakelandterrier
Good to have updated charts every so often. ...

Good to have updated charts every so often.

How frequently do others (leisure not commercial) update their chart maps?
Forum: Electrics and electronics 06 March 2025, 20:20
Replies: 18
Views: 602
Posted By lakelandterrier
Thanks for all the advice chaps - Ribnet is still...

Thanks for all the advice chaps - Ribnet is still such a helpful place!

Update - got a 32gb card, re-downloaded the updates last night, and successfully uploaded upto date charts into the...
Forum: Electrics and electronics 06 March 2025, 20:13
Replies: 18
Views: 602
Posted By lakelandterrier
Thanks for all the advice chaps - Ribnet is still...

Thanks for all the advice chaps - Ribnet is still such a helpful place!

Update - got a 32gb card, re-downloaded the updates last night, and successfully uploaded upto date charts into the...
Forum: Upcoming RIB cruises 03 March 2025, 21:13
Replies: 7
Views: 910
Posted By lakelandterrier
Will be a god 90NM on the Sat for me 130NM if I...

Will be a god 90NM on the Sat for me 130NM if I head back same day

Will start to look for B&B for the Sat night. Can't do anything too rowdy in the evening in the at my advanced years - started...
Forum: Electrics and electronics 03 March 2025, 20:58
Replies: 18
Views: 602
Posted By lakelandterrier
Thanks everyone - great to hear from you Nasher -...

Thanks everyone - great to hear from you Nasher - I hope to see the re-invigorated Nasher's Revenge on the water in the not too distant future if yuo venture back down to Devon

I'll download again...
Forum: Electrics and electronics 03 March 2025, 05:59
Replies: 18
Views: 602
Posted By lakelandterrier
Hi A1an, I didn't know that could be a...

Hi A1an,

I didn't know that could be a problem, card is 128gb....I'll try one with lower capacity.

Nothing said anything about max card capacity on the instructions on Garmin Express.

Will...
Forum: Upcoming RIB cruises 02 March 2025, 17:38
Replies: 7
Views: 910
Posted By lakelandterrier
Hi Andy, Hope to join this year. As before,...

Hi Andy,

Hope to join this year. As before, if there are others from Torbay or Dartmouth wanting to cruise down in company happy to co-ordinate timings / meeting points

Anything planned for...
Forum: Electrics and electronics 02 March 2025, 11:44
Replies: 18
Views: 602
Posted By lakelandterrier
Garmin Plotter not reading SD card

Seeking some help....

I've just updated my Garmin Echomap charts downloading them through Garmin Express to micro SD card as you have to do.

Download appears complete, new SD card plenty of...
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 16 February 2025, 08:52
Replies: 11
Views: 1,003
Posted By lakelandterrier
What works for me is Ribstore Toobshine to clean...

What works for me is Ribstore Toobshine to clean the tubes - apply with green scouring pad and rinse off before it dries in small sections, and HypaTech tube proctector- it does not make the...
Forum: Upcoming RIB cruises 30 December 2024, 15:20
Replies: 0
Views: 361
Posted By lakelandterrier
Non Nacho Run Sat 4 Jan

Looking ahead a few days, tides and weather don't look too bad for Sat currently in the Solent.

Is anyone thinking about a non Nacho run to Yarmouth & the Wheatsheaf (or preferred hostelry?
...
Forum: Other stuff 24 December 2024, 11:00
Replies: 18
Views: 971
Posted By lakelandterrier
Merry Christmas to all you fellow Ribnetters &...

Merry Christmas to all you fellow Ribnetters & your families, and here's hoping for a 2025 with weekends of sun, calmish seas and no gales:thumbs:
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 24 December 2024, 10:54
Replies: 7
Views: 783
Posted By lakelandterrier
2024 Season

Just been totting up the log for this season - what with work, weather & family commitments not a great one:

Just 7 trips out
307NM
21 engine hours
236 litres of fuel used
Av 0.78l /NM
...
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 16 November 2024, 08:54
Replies: 12
Views: 1,150
Posted By lakelandterrier
Very sad news, condolences to his family. He...

Very sad news, condolences to his family.

He was a proper craftsman and always willing to share his knowledge with other ribnetters.

As Wilk has said his commitment and work - with Alex.- on...
Forum: Electrics and electronics 05 October 2024, 12:55
Replies: 6
Views: 1,027
Posted By lakelandterrier
Why are you after the smallest? My...

Why are you after the smallest?

My priorities would be reliability and ease of use.
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 29 September 2024, 19:04
Replies: 9
Views: 734
Posted By lakelandterrier
Thanks Fenlander, Both photos were portrait...

Thanks Fenlander,

Both photos were portrait on my 'phone - a Samsung not iPhone, so surprised they rotated on uploading, thy don't normally!

Yesterday was just one of those days when you...
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 29 September 2024, 11:25
Replies: 9
Views: 734
Posted By lakelandterrier
Not sure why the pics have rotated 90...

Not sure why the pics have rotated 90 degrees!:eek:

Mod edit: Fixed them.
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 29 September 2024, 11:24
Replies: 9
Views: 734
Posted By lakelandterrier
Eddystone Sat 28 Sept

Maybe late in the season and a gale raging is S. Devon today, but yesterday was glorious.

Planning to run Brixham- Plymouth and back, it was so flat in Bigbury bay we decided to male a detour...
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 24 September 2024, 18:19
Replies: 11
Views: 960
Posted By lakelandterrier
The standard 585 tank is 90l, there is a 120l...

The standard 585 tank is 90l, there is a 120l option. With a Suzuki 140 I get 0.8/NM so the standard tank is good for 85NM with a 25% reserve. on longer run I carry extra fuel in jerrycans.

I...
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 19 September 2024, 12:35
Replies: 12
Views: 1,237
Posted By lakelandterrier
Can't say I have taken to that layout - 2...

Can't say I have taken to that layout - 2 suspension seats :thumbs: but the only other seat "suicide seat" forward of the console????

Don't get it at all and that as a proud RC585 owner.

As for...
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 26 August 2024, 16:30
Replies: 6
Views: 815
Posted By lakelandterrier
I was brought up in Shaldon, my mother still...

I was brought up in Shaldon, my mother still lives there...as you say small world especially as you live just outside Gloucester - whereabouts? I'm just off Painswick Road, Feel free to drop me a...
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 26 August 2024, 14:30
Replies: 6
Views: 815
Posted By lakelandterrier
Hi, hope to see you out and about I keep my RIB...

Hi, hope to see you out and about I keep my RIB at Brixham.

First thing is you did get you and your passengers get home safely if rather wet.

I'd pretty much echo Sparticus:
Always check...
Forum: Upcoming RIB cruises 26 August 2024, 10:53
Replies: 18
Views: 3,837
Posted By lakelandterrier
Sounds like a great weekend Andy, shame I missed...

Sounds like a great weekend Andy, shame I missed it.
I spent Saturday and Sunday nights in a transport cross-dock operation in Dunstable, checking all was running well and welcoming the...
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 18 June 2024, 17:08
Replies: 20
Views: 2,786
Posted By lakelandterrier
When are you going down? I'll be there c. 16-21...

When are you going down? I'll be there c. 16-21 July.
Forum: RIBs & ribbing 18 June 2024, 17:07
Replies: 20
Views: 2,786
Posted By lakelandterrier
Agree with most of Treerat's suggestions - I'd ...

Agree with most of Treerat's suggestions - I'd beware Kingsbridge except on a rising tide it gets really shallow quickly!:eek:

I'd want to going into Exe in rising tide too - approach channel is...
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