Frogmogman

An RM 890 is a newer boat. This RM 880 is still a couple of years younger get than the Sadler, for similar money (approx £54000)...

Theres no getting around the issue of the mainsheet, or indeed the traveller. But this heel angle of which you speak…. You’ll have to...

As a curiosity, on longer passages I keep an additional "weather log", a separate booklet with only weather related information, one...

On one of the RTW races, Clipper IIRC, the crew was killed when struck by the sweeping mainsheet. On a sail training yacht I worked on...

Like Stemar, I have a spreadsheet on my phone.

On passage, I have an Excel sheet to note our position, plus other useful stuff like tides and waypoints; my fuel tanks are translucent...

Is there any particular need to save them? There doesn't seem to be any shortage of cruise ship passengers. :devilish: :LOL:

I usually get my bagpipes out.

Both of my Bavarias bought new were essentially snag free. The first in 2001 needed 2 replacement hatches which leaked and the second in...

Is this true? I don't recall anyone saying that, somebody may have. Looks like a dodgy paraphrase to ginger up a response, not that I...

It’s a fair point, well made. My broker advises me that I should be able to get back what I paid for my 2016 lift keel Sun Odyssey 349...

Neither a mainsail nor made in Asia, but we had a vast symmetrical starcut spinnaker (160m2) for the Swan 43 that was made in Tunisia by...

Our grandson used to love going out after it had rained, making sure not to miss a single puddle to jump in. When daughter dropped him...

I read the book when I was about 11 and found it inspirational.

In school in the 1950's we had to write a competition essay on 'Heroes'. Everyone wrote about Davy Crockett because there was a BBC TV...