Buck Turgidson's latest activity

You should try wearing it on your wrist!

This very instant. You have no idea when somebody is looking for a 30 foot sailing boat, if it is not on the market they won't buy yours.

Keep your old car if you want to be environmentally conscious. Regardless of type of propulsion you will never be green if you change...

doing the calibration helps the TP understand the boats deviation on different headings and tacks and will make it steer more smoothly.

Yes, because that is setting the compass that controls the AP. Nothing to do with any other instruments.

Yes ... and no. First, making electricity is only about 33-45% efficient (the rest is waste heat or consumed internally). Then another...

Were does the electricity that charges your efficient car come from? What are the system losses before it gets to your battery?

I'll remember that for the vasectomy!

Switch everything off. Get a plastic folder for your chart and use your magnetic compass and go sailing. Fix it over the winter.

Hope it didn't upset the killer whales. Imagine the uproar.....

My thoughts exactly. Time to get Ben off the boat and put Giles on.

I could just about live with the penalties in that race but the OCS against orient express today was much more worrying because it...

I use a jiggle siphon. Bit slower but much less possibility for mess.

Doesn’t time pass slowly these days?

Twister owners don't rant as anyone will tell you they probably have the best looking lines in the business for a Yacht of under 30ft...