steve yates

I commented on the Sailing Brothers blog since it was brought up as an example, inspiration or information source for a circumnavigation...

I was going to say same thing when first reading OP's post - but thought ... maybe I'm wrong ... But looking again - I have to agree -...

Over the last 2 1/2 years my son with a bit of help from me! has been building a Proa, Its a close recreation of a traditional Marshall...

No, thats just the same stuff surely! Use closed cell foam, like old karrimats or similar, But use a contact adhesive that will work...

There was a previous forum member, a farmer from the sw I think, did his round britain ( via cally canal) in a 17ft pirate express. I...

You could say you've done it, and if people say 'Did you go to Vanuatu?', you could say, "No, but I did get to the Isle of Wight and...

Any of them

Thats what I was referring to to in the last sentence.

They are not attacking humans on a yacht. They are either attacking a yachts rudder or playing with it, we don’t know the answer to that...

The most important thing about importing a boat is, that unless you are entitled to RGR relief on it, is that it must be certified to...

Would it not be a lot less work to replace them with other blakes? They are about the best seacock you can get. And also on those lines...

That's normal, humans Vs machine. A machine "trained" to work with a specific logic which neutral-izes biases will find all sorts of...

And yet…. You seen the results from ai on that thread about a boat register. It was mainly a load of bollocks.

Current "AI" is just a glorified search engine and content aggregator - Google on steroids. It's fed by content scraped from the rest...

This looks great, thanks for that, xmas viewing sorted :)