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By best example is being called up by name in Channel 16 at 0500 in a grey overcast morning in the Firth of Forth, hence the comment...

If you have the cash buy a transceiver. The VHF sets with AIS screens are difficult to read. Make sure you can display the traffic on...

Yes I instinctively used US gallons because it's the only time I refer to them these days. Still better than AI though! 😂

12 uk gallons would be more like 45 kg. ChatGPT doesn’t know anything and the old ones couldn’t do maths so the answer was simply the...

There are much better videos than this one on sheet to tiller. This chap has the jib sheet pulling the wrong side of the tiller.

Close. The fuel is about 40kg the tank could be anything but lets say another 20 with pipes. So 132lb which I guess is almost 2100 in...

Them’s big gallons. Or small pounds.

The moment anyone introduces "carbon footprint" or "save the planet" to a hobby I switch off. If you really believe in that cause your...

That aspect does seem nuts. Why software cannot be installed at worst case by a cable from a laptop I don’t understand

Pip’s last sail before the start. With wildly grinning guest.

Usage case is key. If you are a jester type and only intend to use the power to enter and leave port then it's a nice solution. If you...

I sailed 18 days nonstop from UK to Valencia using a tiller pilot / sheet to tiller / Hand steering on my twister. Similar instruments...

It is said that firecrackers are effective, not that I carry them of course;)

GNSS is the collective name for such systems. You can't jam GNSS and GPS (or Beidou, Glonass etc.) GPS is a GNSS. The latter is not a...

Buying a boat has been, without a shadow of a doubt, the most beneficial thing to my mental health I’ve ever done. Without the boat (and...