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Could you pop into JWD on the way home and check my fenders are still attached, please?

Sadly, Ken McCulloch is no longer with us and his boat (and gearbox plug) has moved on. It may still be a problem but certainly not his!

I didn't realise that my ditty box was so valuable.

I don't suffer much from my CO32 table - fold it out, lower it and you have a king-size bed across the boat. Where I'm more likely to...

Philistines! It is, of course, the icon of sailing perfection - a Contessa 32!

Just checked - eBay will flog you a rivet gun and rivets for about £7.50. It won't pull 6mm rivets but that's not what you need...

Piers? Pah! If you are going to hit something how about the Ardnamurchan Peninsula? Officer drunk when ship ran aground in Ardnamurchan

Have you asked Andy?

If your mast is down you are probably in a yard. Just post which yard and a forumite with a rivet gun (and probably Monel rivets) will...

You may well be right but if, for example (and a ferry was available), I took my car to Norway I could drive to the toe of Italy with...

..... as this thread is drifting already ...... as a holder of UK and Irish Passports with a boat on the UK SSR and resident in GB I had...

3.1.2 The prescribed limits under the Railways and Safety Act 2003 for mariners are:  Breath - 25 microgrammes of alcohol in 100...

Yes, but ....... From the Government publication you reference: So just miss out England and Wales. Once you have passed through...

How a CO32 sailor can contemplate anything less than a 165% genoa beats me! However, I have a hideous cruising chute (in Edinburgh) that...

You may be leaving it a bit late for early season, aye, even in Scotland. Owens, Saturn or my favourite MC Sails are all on the west...