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To add to Captainsensible….. one of those auto inflating bags that RIBs have on their arches to aid righting after capsize And perhaps...

I couldn’t live with myself having an ultra marine anchor. Too shiny, too expensive

Was the power driven vessel alerting others to the fact of their constraint in accordance with Rule 28? Vessels constrained by their...

To be pedantic one is part of the other (you know this, but it might help somebody else to state directly that the angle of vanishing...

(y) #85 now edited to read properly.

AVS and GZ are the same thing, not another matter at all. Downflooding angles can be quite small on some vessels. Some quite big vessels...

no doubt the vessel will have been designed and constructed to well reputed standards by either a CS or other rigorous standards...

I will stick my hand up. I have messed about in boats since I was a little boy, did my first cruise single handed in my own boat at 17...

Absolutely. So why is it part of the syllabus, or more practically, why does it come up so often in teaching when the marking for a...

Fine if you are seeing his stern light, but if you seeing nav lights and a steaming light, you are in the bit where mines might not have...

I would have thought that pretty obvious. Follow his track & do not deviate one inch from that track :unsure:

I did my CS practical last year, my first experience of an RYA training school. I must admit to thinking that the standard required of...

There are two issues at play here…… 1) modern helicopters are designed for speed rather than their hovering characteristics (not to say...

There were in effect two phases between ye olden days and the present. From being permanently lost we first got Decca followed by GPS...

The holding capacity depends on the weakest link from the anchor to the boat. We know a lot about anchors, schakles, swivels, chains...