Recent content by BobPrell

The rules about pyro flares are a gyp and always have been. I bought my first flares in 1975. They had self striking compound on the caps. I kept those flares in a safe place for yeas after they expired. I got them out at about age 35 years. The striking stuff had fallen off. I lit one with a...

It took me a while to find out what a ramp is. All good advice here. Have you considered using an asymetric spinnaker set off the bow? I take it you are not constrained by class and racing rules if you are solo cruising.

this sort of discussion is what makes more appealing, a yacht with junk or freedom rig or whatever, with NO standing rigging. When insurance gets involved, we have less and less choice about what rigging is deemed "adequate".

Easy to sneer at her stupidity. Did you not read "First he gained her trust" ? He was a cruising/social friend for some time. That gained the trust. Some people build the trust long before they decide to rip you off. They may be your child's spouse even your CHILD. Don't bother to ask...

I have done a couple of delivery trips with friends and they went mostly well. On one the owner got a bit stroppy because I seemed a bit smart-arsed. He was right I was nice and relaxed cos it wasnt my boat so breakages etc didnt hurt me unless the ship sank and my life was endangered. We are...

I agree Resto and Downwest, The tone of the first page was pretty downbeat, i didnt read all the thread. With the worldwide housing crisis, many will be assessing the floating home solution. So just to throw in my bit, I met one guy sailing a rough and ready rigged concrete yacht. It had been...

Is an insurance company going to accept as insurable rigging done by an enthusiastic amateur?

It is also an effective antiseptic. Recommended by my doctor of 50 years experience. So after you bark your knuckles undoing frozen nuts/bolts/screws smear some PetJel on.

She has an admiral does she not? I hope this is not a whoosh, I didn't read the middle 10 pages.

I am not sure what you mean there but I acknowledge what you do, so do I. No need to set set the slab reef very tight, as you would for sailing. This makes a pocket hanging off the boom. Lower away and stuff the bunts of sail into the pocket. This keeps things at least reasonably under control...

Wow, they do too. I had thought of ways to improvise one. Briefly, put part-filled plastic bottles and drums inside a set of overalls. I put "weighted rescue dummy" into my fave search engine. They can be bought at various levels of sophistication, and expense, of course. The high-end...

Oh duurrh. That was my guess for the background. How did he paste on the boat graphic and the Wind arrow? I could manage the dots and the lines.

Yes a short dissertation from the OP on how they are done would round off this very productive thread.

The proportions look more like a plank-on-edge racing yacht of victorian times. see https://intheboatshed.net/2007/09/10/a-new-yacht-along-long-forgotten-plank-on-edge-racing-sailing-yacht-lines/ Falmouth working boats look a bit more sensible for people who have to make a living on the water.

I agree Olewill. I have just had a long discussion with fellow sailors at a New Years Day get-together. Our consensus was that if WOXI (I love that abbrev) had stood on, they might just have got out of the way. We could not think of any good reason to tack where they did. We also considered...