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For a fleeting moment I thought you had finally bought a boat.

I'm going to break the mould here and point out that it needn't be all financial doom and gloom. After moving aboard full time, I rented...

So you trust words of wisdom from a man a bit bonkers, and nearly as feckless as Guaguin ?

For putting chandlery owners children through boarding school

If you believe that you have a problem my friend :censored:

Keeping the water out and you bum dry.

Many years (decades) ago, family took a 31 foot yacht to Naburn (marina south of York) for over winter. No problem with air draft. In...

The only civilised tool for removing antifoul is a credit card

Some years ago I needed to remove all the antifouling which had many layers where bits had broken off and been overpainted without...

Interesting, as everybody knows I've zero interest in racing. Pre COVID had the boat professionally Coppercoated and on passage my...

I just saw that John Guzzwell has recently passed away aged 94. His Trekka Round the World is a classic, though I read it so long ago...

For lack of material I started re reading”RedMainsail” by PeterPye of his vougage to the west indies and back in the early 1950s...

I have inherited several early yachting books from around that era. I find them fascinating, like entering a different world.

Thanks for all of the replies on this, very helpful. The good news is that my problems appear to have been solved - it was indeed the...

We did it! Mission complete... Many thanks to all those who donated. I can confirm, sailing across Biscay is definitely easier than...