An update on the post above and a question.
After making sure i do a clean boot of my machine I have had some QUALITY hours at sea - i cant express enough how much these mods have made a difference to such a disappointing vanilla game, so thank you to all the mod creators and for this thread.
I still get the issue from my other post, randomly now it seems (i did assume it was a memory issue as windows was caching huge amounts of ram 8gig + after playing other games). I have waited 15 minutes, when it works it takes 3.
I ran the dbgview app and it says "recmanualcategory not found" in numerous cfg files which exist so not sure what this means or even whether its the cause. As i said i can play the game on reboot.
I also get a ctd when opening the torpedo doors via the deck tdc binoculars.
Trevally your list from may has slightly older versions of some mods, how often do u update? or do you have favoured versions for stability?