Tom Cunliffe

It’s obvious that when you do a job a number of times, it gets easier. A one-off task that might take me a day can often be knocked off in an hour by a professional. Partly, this is down to his ‘can-do’ attitude. ‘Some idiot has manufactured this.

He clearly isn’t as clever as I am because if he was he’d have made it a lot easier to get at, so there’s no way I can’t fix it.’ The big thing going for him, however, is that he’s had plenty of practice. Maybe not on my boat, but once you’ve seen one Yanmar 4JH, you’ve seen them all.

So why not just capitulate - stop barking our knuckles and not having the right tool, and let the proper guys carry on with it? I’ve found a number of answers to this. The first is the