zoidberg

Found myself in a similar situation and really felt insecure being boatless. Found this little gem in Freisland and ;ooking forward to...

Intriguing. I'll be more than a little interested to see what MingMing III turns out to be.

Oh for heavens sake, get on with it!! 🤣🤣🤣 .... better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't ;)

Am in a similar position as sold my ocean capable boat a month or so ago after finishing chemo and accepting that I would not use her...

I'm fitting much stronger anchor/mooring posts, removing the one centreline 'samson post' ( for several reasons ) and looking to mount...

What did you use for a tail weight? A JSD made with fewer drogues will behave differently for complex reasons (both the boat speed and...

Stretch is undesirable in a drogue so dyneema being lighter, thinner, non-stretch, and easy to thread the drogue tapes and to splice...

A knot was the downfall of Suzy Goodall's series drogue, leading to the loss of her Rustler in the Southern Ocean. I have no knots in my...

Use dyneema / spectra to make drogue fit in a smaller space for storage......

@ zoidberg This is a very substantial answer, thank you. And you touch on many subjects. I found that in all parts of life one learns...

IMHO you're going about this the right way.... Asking questions, researching answers, 'diving down the rabbit holes'. There are no...

It does happen. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention.... You might start with this: Fastnet Race Inquiry

This is one of those subjects where one's initial assumptions play a considerable part, as does vulnerability to 'confirmation bias'...

Skip Novak has huge experience of severe conditions, and his expertise is well worth weighing. He operates heavy displacement expedition...