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One rigger I used recently started by attaching his own rope to my main halyard and threading his rope through and using that to climb...

Round the UK is a two month window? Of all the boats mentioned so far, I have to admit an Evolution 26 on a good trailer sounds almost...

Lots of good information in your post and I think this was a nice summing up. I don’t think you were their target audience. I don’t...

But that is indeed the issue with a round Britain trip in a single season. As going in a fixed direction for months, can be faced with...

In which case, if short of time, I would skip the long boring delivery sail and just truck the boat up to Largs and sail the interesting...

If the small amount of water that’s let in -and it really is insignificant, then the solution you’re looking for might be better found...

Could have been worse; at least he was saved from eating a Fray Bentos pie!

I think you need to accept exterior woodwork on boats needs a bit of tlc each year. Always has done and I suspect always will do.

I’ve found ASAP superb in the past and used them quite a few times. They’ve even been very good as problem solving a characterful engine...

I don't know enough about your spray lacquer to know how well it would adhere to wood, or cope with the expansion and contraction with...

When I see kite surfers, I can’t help but think their kites could be the basis of good “get you home device” if you lose your mast...

We keep an electronic logbook using Signal K. Some entries like departures, arrivals, etc are automated, and crew can add other entries...

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

I'm waiting for the Anderson 22 to go pissing past the pair of them!

Surely the fish should be adhering to the Voluntary No Eating order applied to Studland Bay.