BobnLesley

The boy stood on the burning deck, His back against the mast, Though I doubt I can get away with any more of that on here. Masefield's...

And if space allows, leave them exactly where they are, tagged alongside the new one with a few cable ties; it saves storage space and...

Kiwiland was probably a much better place to get stuck than Ecuador. We took the realistic/pragmatic approach and within a couple of...

We definitely fall into the has-beens bracket: 2003-11 we sailed UK to/around the Med for 7 months of each year returning home to work...

But that's Scotland... In February! Just break an icicle of something, or leave your coke outside until it freezes

How? Why were you even using it? Perzactly! With sufficient cold beer you're beyond using Starlink and don't need fresh water

The beer wins.....

Way back when, we had friends in the eastern Med without a fridge (actually without much of anything) who had and swore by a set of...

Whilst an advocate of the KISS principal, there are limits. Our fridge died the day after we arrived in the Marquesa Islands and it...

The most ludicrous example of this that we ever saw was a boat we met twenty years ago during our first year in the Med: A couple in a...

I can eat well for two months without a freezer even with a Westerly 'fridge which is I believe designed to keep pommie beer warm in...

The corollary being: the unlimited budget boat filled with all kinds of equipment spends a lot of time in port unable to move while...

Always remember the budget cruisers mantra: If you don't fit it, then it can't break, but if it's already fitted... and working, then...

The important thing is to be able to as self-sufficient as possible if you are short on budget. We'd be happy to take The Annette around...

This 👍 I would concede that I am not au-fait with the latest top of the range hi-tech battery or indeed auto helm technology either, but...