At last the season is upon us

[floater]

Been quite busy for the last few months and haven't looked at the boat since returning from Poole last October, however I have had this week off and in between family and domestic duties have cleaned and polished the Mustang, de wintered it's Mercury and fitted a later gearbox. I have even run it up in the tank, it started and ran perfectly.

Place your bets on how or if it runs at Chertsey,
after last years experience I know which side I'm betting on

[Rapier]

With the Day of the Inboards at Ivy Lake recently, we're assuming all outboards will run faultlessly at Chertsey.

My Pearly Miss Merc 400 has had the benefit of a lottery funds' worth of new parts fitted to it's gearbox following minor water ingress - what started as an impeller change 3 months ago... The NLA bits were got from Dunellin Marine in FL; can only add that I got the very best service and good prices for parts not available from Belgium - details at the back of the mag. Sadly Tango is still in a state of undress below following more water ingress last year. New floor this week and today's job involved 6 hours of cutting out more foul smelling saturated foam from the sponsons.