boomerangben

Brave man bringing an anchor of that vintage to this butter knife fight 🤪

I did my yachtmaster theory with Navathome. Good course and did my test on line too. Suited me ok. They have a time limit, but you can...

I did my Coastal Skipper (or whatever it is called) at Go West at Largs. They do charter and skippered as well as well as Friday to...

I'm intermittently amused by the 'old wives tales' of effective yacht radar reflectors which persist, year on year, in denial of a large...

I would suggest that the angle of downflooding in most leisure yachts is largely irrelevant. Drips and dribbles from leaky fittings and...

Well I'll stick me neck out and say beer should be on the shore or on a boat tied up somewhere......

Radars on in anchorages……. If you are a regular visitor in big anchorages where there are potentially dozens of boats, is it healthy to...

Some of you who get apoplectic about the way that others anchor, should try anchoring in more out-of-the-way places. In the majority of...

I find that a draft of 70cm is a great help in persuading most boats not to anchor too close :)

If AI becomes the norm ... if it gets better at being accurate ... then most of the fun will go from forums ... we'll lose the...

33 and 37 nearly identical? 5500 and 8000kg nearly identical? Not in my book they are not. Very different in resistance and propulsion...

Camping gas is butane so please don't mix. I think propane is a higher pressure in the bottle as well.

The pressure is the same until all the liquid has turned into vapour. Just don't mix bottles and gases.

Hull speed is not a hard barrier of course, just a sudden increase in power required for each increase in unit speed. Where narrow...

Lots of interesting ideas involving heat and sparks and so on. I assume this is is still within a GRP boat. How many of those suggesting...