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I think these sort of issues have only become apparent since some people allow the electronic tail wag the human dog....

How much white plastic have you about you that a pencil or chronograph can scribble on?

Or totally confusing to every other seafaring nation..... Why not simply practice? I suppose these days everyone wants a gadget to do...

Those compact Li Ion "jump starter" batteries are handy for charging up stuff - and provide a spare torch. You can even attach a small...

I agree, none of the means of passing a position is without risk of a miscommunication. I’ve ended up 120nm out when using a lat and...

The whole radio thing is interesting. I have a hand held plus a spare battery but no electrics on board so a weeks voyage in isolated...

As there's no requirement for a pleasure vessel to have a VHF installed, how do they enforce that?

My feeling is, I'd probably be fine on a scope of 3:1 with the wind off the shore. Much preferable to being on the lee shore whatever...

I agree. Anchoring is everything to do soil structure, which might explain the variance in anchor test results and forumite opinions...

This is an interesting topic, and I am going to start a new thread for it. When I started sailing, as a new engineer, I understood the...

I was invited on board the Enterprise to identify if I could help then with exactly this problem. Spock showed me around and I...

That got me thinking…. Does the Starship Enterprise have a Vulcan anchor?

An anchor buries because of design, specifically the tension on the rode forces the fluke to bury. However as the anchor buries it also...

I have been working on the concept that shear strength increases with the square of depth - but maybe that's too simple and it varies...

I will show the results from a small Guardian G-5 as an example. This is the slightly simplified version of the Fortress anchor. It is...