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Not sure of your point here. I don't think any boats are stuffed full of heavy buckets. What I do know is that a bucket lost over the...

I shouldn't think that many boats are stuffed full of (heavy) buckets. A bucket of water in the sea weighs nothing. I thought you might...

I live and sail in a place where gloves are never required even in winter. In fact, winter is the best time to sail where I keep my boat...

As was the Tyler-moulded hull of my 1967 Twister when I sold her this year.

Mine is 53 and the hull is sound.

Yes. If Jean Le Cam's daggerboard entry, to the Vendee Globe, is his pension plan (as mooted on the VG thread), the multiple McIntyre...

I can't really get into this as it's a McIntyre production requiring the participants to buy rights to build and enter. A group of...

Summary: Relay for the keel motor packed up. Spare was inoperable when fitted. serviceable relay made from parts of both. While asleep...

Quite early one morning, noticed that a neighbouring yacht had dragged into shallow water, and would soon be around in the falling tide...

Pants. 5 years with them. No restrictions in the application or in any of my terms and conditions. Trust me I have checked.

She has my utmost respect as a sailor but I really can't watch her videos. I do wish her well though.

Pleased to see that the rules have changed again, for 2028. Levelling the qualification (if not the technological) playing field, for...

Perhaps there speaks someone who has never had a 28ft boat? Just about all the costs apart from electronics will be cheaper than for a...

I also used Pantaenius, no problem on going solo

There's something in the parallel with the parable of "The good woman finds a good man, marries him, then immediately sets out to change...