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Ask on westerly owners Assoc as a starter . As someone who might give a quote to recut if in Solent maybe try Covercare at Thornham...

Furler. Used to have hanked on sails when a lot younger and more crew, and they were good fun and gave something else to do ! Now I'm...

Since we got 2 headsails (one with self tacker) both on furlers to reef I cannot see any advantage in brass seized pistons on headsails...

I would also suggest Covercare for repairs -a great family firm and reliable to deal with

If Solent based, try Covercare at Thornham marina. They did my genoa (11.1m luff) a few years back and were notably cheaper than anyone...

I assume you don’t want to lug the sail round the country so are you looking for a Solent area price ?

Do you not need a pet passport from the NI into Eire ? If travelling by ferry he might need to also take his car or hire one for the...

You might also compare the cost of the transducers required for respective brands . We had an old Garmin 760 I think it was which had a...

Our fully battened main used to return to the stack pack but having replaced halyard with dyneema it’s somewhat slower in the last...

Too attractive for Torquay and not a drug dealer in sight either. Brixham is less developed I seem to recall

I should have perhaps said the use of the clip is to remove the need to undo the halyard when visiting but it does solve the firdell...

Sounds like it’s a conditional contract so the risk of dispute arising is that the conditions lack clarity but as said if it’s an...

Yes wile it would be easy for the supplier to make one of correct length it’s quite common to find that when suppled new the packs are...

I suspect you need a French lawyer to review the draft contract as I guess it won’t be what we see in UK so whether you can extract...

The device I saw attached to a drill bit Chuck and recut new teeth -I’ve never used one so welcome thoughts but the idea seemed to be to...