Recent content by ClaireDuet

Don't forget drinks! I can get really dehydrated at sea and swear by these: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/high5-zero-electrolyte-drink-20-tabs/ I also really like this: https://ie.iswari.net/shop-product/Breakfasts/Buddha's-Awakening-Chocolate-Hit-Organic/85 It's really tasty and really nutritionally...

My boat is currently in Rossbrin Boatyard in Ballydehob in West Cork. Lovely little boat yard, and compared to the UK amazingly cheap. http://www.rossbrin-boatyard.com/

Thanks Vic Every little helps :-)

I have a 4hp Mariner 5 hp sail drive with a 5ah outboard charging coil. With it came a red and a black wire with 'plugs' on the end that I think I just connect to the coil. Apparently I can just attach the other end to the battery. But I also have a 20w solar panel through a regulator. Should...

I use WordPress for all my websites. I will admit that I have a degree in IT and I find it easy to use, very powerful and very versatile. However you can make it as simple or as complicated as you need.

No, no step through. Just a bar across the top...

Hi there, I am just about to fit a Navik to my Hurley 22 but need a bit of advice/experience please. In the Navik paperwork it says that the mounting bracket should be 80-90cm above the waterline. Has anyone any experience of mounting it lower than this? Mounted on blocks behind my lazarette...

And, in Toolstation, you get a complimentary free beverage while you peruse their laminated 'book of dreams'. I'm a big fan... :-)

Excuse me butting in, but I found a much easier way of putting them on. See my post here: http://littleyachtduet.com/tag/barton-winchers/ They're great, you'll love them... make sure you do 3 turns on the drum though! Cheers Claire

Is that including a lift out? That is mental! I replaced 2 no 3/4" ones last year, cost me no more than 40 quid as I already had some sikaflex. Needed someone on the outside holding the skin fitting with the end of a spanner while I undid it from the inside but it was not difficult. Just basic...

Always encouraging to see a lady skipper too :-) Beautiful boat.

#1 Absolute Freedom #2 There is a different vibrancy of experience alone: I find it all so much more vivid. #3 The sense of achievement, and self actualisation. #4 I just don't have the responsibility of anyone else's safety (see #1) #5 I just don't have the automatic confines of other peoples...

I tried Olj Deks D1 for the first time last year on my rubbing strake and am not going back to varnish. I did 7 coats onto clean wood before launch which is really not as arduous as you'd think. It's oil so you just slap it on and mop up any drips. Mid season I gave the bow area one side a sand...

Lol... The boat, the boat... Not that my friend is ugly :ambivalence:

Yes a rigger recently told me that Co26's are notorious for 'sagging' when you take the mast down, and then the rigging doesn't fit when you re-step the mast x months later... Personally I don't like the hatch/companionway moulding business either. I went for a test sail in a Co26 a couple of...