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Dear lovely East coasters, from the sanctuary of the river Deben, I have written a sailing novel that very kind people say is good. It’s available on Amazon by Jez Evans, I hope that this doesn’t contravene the rules to mention it but I could do with some readers and a 5-star review or two. (Or...

We were discussing (not quite arguing) whether the prevailing winds around the Baltic Skagerak/ Limfjord eastern side at Thyboron entrance would be northeasterlies or southwesterlies in Late June/early July. What are your thoughts, please?

Any ideas for a small but indispensably useful Christmas present for cruisers heading off (actually next winter) on an Atlantic circuit? Thanks for help!!!

This book was a slow burner for me but I loved it by the end. It’s got three distinct parts. I won’t spoil it for you. Beattie is painfully honest about what he thinks about his crew. And the ending is quite extraordinary. Gripping read.

Has anyone sailed Harwich to Thyboron before? What are your thoughts on this trip? I am imagining the Limfjord is a lovely place to sail a season. Is that correct?

My wife agreed to us taking the kids and living on a barge conversion on a pontoon, actually in a very nice spot, last boat out with a pretty view. But I can't help thinking that living on a boat would be inconvenient, so if we're going to do it, (and I want to) shouldn't we be living on a big...

Hello, all. It’s been 5 years since I crossed the channel. (We have been exclusively in the river with the kids). Next year we are thinking of Holland from Harwich. My little children will travel by ferry. I have a salty sea dog to help me get there. What’s the night shift? Is that a flotilla...

I've just been reading some 2009 forum advice about Ramsgate to Calais and the Goodwin Sands. We are starting from the Deben and planning to sail down to Ramsgate first before heading on to Calais. I've got a copy of the Thames Estuary crossing guide (yesterday) but I wondered what people...

I can't quite persuade my wife that we could live the dream and sail off into the sunset with our 2-yr-old. She (my wife) likes the idea. She can sail although she's nervous of the big bits of water. But she really can't imagine having a small child in a small (anything under house-sized) boat...

My wife thinks having a 2-and-a-half year old on board would be really hard. Is our little one too young for liveaboard life even if we only do french canals and day sail the med? Any thoughts?

Tagging onto the back of Ian C.'s thread about "actually doing it" and sailing off for a sabbatical, I wanted to ask if there were particular moments in life that create the impetus to sell up and sail away? So many of us dream of it, but only the few - you lot - (and more and more of you all...

Could anyone give a rough price to re-spray a 27-foot sailing boat in another colour? My wife prefers blue to white! Oh, yeah, ...and if I have to do a VC tar job over the winter would that mean I have to replace the gel coat and could do a colour change at the same time?

Can anyone give me some personal accounts of sailing in the swedish stockholm archipelago. I was there 10 years ago and sailed for 4 days. We only hit the one rock and had fair weather. Were we especially lucky? Anyone been around there for a longer spell and got an opinion about the place?!!

I think that she's a beauty. Enjoy. Jez

I am in the process of buying (oh,no, here I go again) a varne 27 - does the surveyor's recommendation to strip back and apply vc tar within in the next 2 yrs cause concern about going ahead with buying this boat? I hear it can be a big job and needs to be done under cover. All opinions...

The boat i'm thinking of buying has been given a poor survey ont its engine. I will probably not agree the price of a new engine from the owner, but is a reconditioned engine worth the money or should I at least try for a new engine? This one is 16hp, if that makes any difference. All interest...

Lovely weather - only trouble was i was working saturday, my wife was ill sunday and when we got to the boat today - the engine gave out after 150 yards!!!!! No water coming through - checked impeller - fine - inlet filter fine. No ideas. Engineer fixed some damaged seals last week but no jioy...

Do you own Morzen? Dragged onto the boat park at waldringfield on Wednesday/thursday?

Not that I couldn't spend the next few weekends in bed, but when is the optimum moment to paint the hull and varnish the woodwork. When I had a plastic boat, we slapped on anti-foul 2 weeks before launching. Is it the same for the hull as the bottom? Or should I just do it when the sun shines...

next year\'s cruise I'm beginning to get itchy feet already about where to go next year. Last year we tried ostend - robert is worth the 12 hour crossing alone - can anyone suggest a similar option from the Orwell of good value?