BobnLesley

For many years I climbed my own and many other people's masts using a lightweight climbing harness and a wooden step connected by either...

Not much one can say to the devastation and therefor loss that everyone suffered.

As a stop-gap repair get hold of a suitably sized piece of 6mm Masterboard; a calcium silicate, fire and moisture resistant fibre board...

The 'best' place to be is where the hurricane/tropical storm isn't. And with modern forecasting and communications life's a lot easier...

Agreed, sharing one of those crowded Grenada anchorages is the very last place I'd want to be. Now just watch most of those who've been...

I'd assumed 50% behind so 15 days

Iif your toe rail is anything like ours, and bolted down with a multitude of substantial bolts, you could easily do as I did, and mount...

Many years ago when I regularly made the overnight Felixstowe/Zeebrugge ferry crossing for motorbike rallies in mainland Europe we...

Doesn't make much odds, it's really not about the boat; more important to have the right crew on board.

With a long keeled boat it really is magic. It really does have an effect on smoothing the water. But you will not believe me until you...

A flat-bottomed Parker with a very long, narrrow, flat-plate lift-keel heaves to beautifully, as did my Sadler32. There's much more to...

From the rules: Mainsail is what counts.

While we tended to heave to in heavy weather there's no reason you can't practice in lighter winds and we've often hove to for real in...

San Carles had a seriously good Fiesta sometime in August too, complete with bulls (only young ones) loose in the streets

Both our Vega and Trident Challenger would heave to under jib alone, but you drifted a little faster than you did with the main too, so...