Practical Boat Owner

Home-made mud guard

hen I moved my day boat, , to a drying mud mooring, I soon found myself in a sticky situation. After a few days of grounding in the mud, the stuff was oozing over the fore end of the centreplate case onto the soleboards of my boat and the cast-iron centreplate was getting jammed. It was taking about 25 minutes to free the plate each time, so I had

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