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I envy those able to remove the glue remnants with power tool! It’s taken me four weekends to remove the ‘gloop’ from a failed previous...

A new sail won’t be much more than that!

Also worth checking rigrite.com, they are US based but might get you out of a hole.

That would be fine, it might get lumpy if the wind is in the wrong direction but nothing like fully exposed to a southerly like ours...

Our boat is kept on a swing mooring in the Fal for half the year, just off Pill Creek, no way would I want it left there over the winter...

Can you not modify the cars to be towable? If the pin can be ‘held up’ then it shouldn’t be too difficult. Post a photo of them.

Think I would start with the wiring.

If you were unlucky enough to mob offshore, having some way to remotely deploy a life raft might be useful or even shove the...

Engine, pay a lot of attention to the condition of the engine, generally, that’s the most expensive bit to replace.

Our biggest outboard is 23kg and I don’t find it too bad to manhandle. Tho it is definitely more of a struggle pulling the tender up (on...

Lovely sailing day today. A gentle breeze and very little swell. I have recently brought a new to me 28ft sailing boat, today was my...

Hello Steve. First of all, thanks for saying that I'm no fool, I often question that about myself and come up with a different answer 😂...

Try mrflag.com

Well, apart from the little matter of your ip address 😉

An update - 2 rolls of the foresail and letting the main sheet down the traveler as well as dropping mizzen iproved things a lot. Even...