Who else is so selfless in ensuring these poor immigrants get to Britain beaches safely......... Having worked offshore and at sea for over 30 years, I can honestly say that I and many others are disgusted at RNLI.

seas around the uk are treacherous

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I need to send him a hand drill just in case there is no electricity

It is really fun - but I might be biased! 😂

I was also thinking about swinging its ‘s’ bracket out to the side so the signal isn’t having to come through the entirety of the mast.

Volunteer service in the Netherlands too.

The RNLI (royal national lifeboat institute) are amazing and cover rescues at sea by boats and even patrol our beaches (lifeguards). They are a charity organization funded by donations. Was great to be shown aboard the lifeboat learning all the new navigational tools and tips learnt from its long history at sea and saving lives. 👏

Same in France

@@CrustyBalls007 I think in polls they come out as Britain’s favourite charity. I know they used to, back in the day.

Same in Sweden Awesome work by all volunteers

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Sorry there’s always divorce mate

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Depends on semantics of "currently sailing". It's about 1100 t displacement fully loaded so certainly up there. So if we say it has to be currently crewed and sailing then yes. The Bounties are smaller and also all sunk or maybe one still exists. Regardless HMS Bounty was smaller barely displacing 400 t. The HMS Surprise is about half but I do not consider her a faithful replica or original. Movie prop, though she can sail and is functionally a light frigate, even if the interiors are all wrong. 600 t or so. Now we have to stretch definition to not currently sailing but perfectly capable of doing so and still does occasionally. Not many of these tall ships sail all year round. They are massively expensive. Our next example and also likely the winner cost 30 million Euros to build and took like 20 years. I am of course talking about L'Hermione, a French 12 pounder frigate known for her speed and good handling characteristics. She sits comfortably at 1200 t or so and she has the Göthebord by speed as well being. French light frigate. Probably capable of 13.5 knots. She sailed transatlantic twice, touring the US and back home to France. She is a marvel and fulöy faithful besides safety equipment as well as built in the old way. That she does not sail all the time is quite normal. She would die soon. These ships needed major overhauls after 30-40 years. Now I did lie. As Frenchman I dis want to mention Hermione first, also a replica. But we must now leave the realm of replica and look at surviving originals. 1. USS Constitution. Seaworthy and still sails. Still serving the US Navy as a training vessel. 2200 t displacement. Yes that is the same as a 74 gun ship of the line. 2/3 of HMS Victory (3600t). We can see why she was a "Super frigate". 2. HMS Trincomalee (and Unicorn). Heavy Leda-class frigate, made of teak reinforced with iron bracing. A very modern ship. She rests now. Her days of prowling the Indian ocean and the Pacific have come to and end. She has not sailed since the 1980s. Approx 1500-1700 t, rough calculation from tons berthen. Someone should weigh the old girl. Her sister Unicorn no longer has masts, she would need some TLC but Trincomalee could sail. She still floats, docked. All the rigging and masts are good. Hull is fine. Made out of teak. Probably worth a fortune. Now we come to ships no longer or currently not capable of sailing: 1. Undoubtedly HMS Victory. She has iron masts and is bring made seaworthy again. But for conservation. She will never float again. She did for 160 years. 2. HMS Implacable. Last surviving 74 gunner from the lines of HMS Bellona by Thomas Slade (of Victory fame, prolific naval architect). 2200 t or so. Oh wait scratch that she was sunk in 1948 by the English. They put a shell in her. No money to restore. So she sank. Stern Gallery preserved. 3. Vasa. No need to elaborate we all know and love her. Not in sailing condition, wrecked and raised. One final category: auxiliary steamers. HMS Warrior, 10000 t. Iron hull. SS Great Britain: 3000 t. So yeah count it how you like Götheborg is somewhere between Nr. 4 and Nr. 10. Because sorry but I do count USS Constitution, Hermione and Trincomalee. All larger, faster, heavily armed and two of them originals. Götheborg is an Indiaman. A large trade vessel. Made to make the Swedish filthy rich. The others are light, heavy and super frigates.

No way it was a U-boat base. I used to live there!

I think I solved it. my fridge had been dying and was pretty much running all the time.

@@samholmessailing fair enough, but try to put the ammeter in the circuit just to verify and turn off the fridge and anything else on the boat you can when you do this test...... Automatic seat adjusters in a car have been known to draw even when the car is off.

It’s LiFePo4 which should be a lot safer than LiI-on and LiPo.

​@@MarcelLENORMAND Still safe or not lithium ion has an insane amount of energy in there. It is rare but if it does run away it can burn right through the hull. Burns real hot. Doesn't need air. The oxidiser is in the battery. Burns more like an aliuminium flare. Not quite that brutal but you need sans to cover it, water won't do it and then it's just gonna keep smoldering until it's fully burnt. Check out a burnt out Tesla. And that's aluminium that's melted. Not fiberglass. So yeah I would chuck that suckers overboard at the first sign of trouble. Can always fish it out if it didn't explode lol. Should ve waterproof. Tie a fender to it and tow for an hour or two haha. If it doesn't explode you should be good to mount it back in. :)

​@@MarcelLENORMAND And lithium iron batteries are still the same principle. Amazing technology though. Will make "lithium ion" affordable. Less performance but good longevity and comperarively cheap. At least once mature. Now its super fancy new shit.