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Great Guy, Great Sailor, Great Fun! Will be very much missed by all who had the pleasure to know and sail with him. Thoughts and love to Karen and the Family.

Difficult to add much more to this collection of great and good "old (sorry!!) salts but remember each trip is different - that,s one of the many delights of sailing - nobody does, or ever will, know it all. Remember your mistakes and keep a "Lessons Learned Log" it will prove invaluable and you...

With regard to Ian Grant and his forthcoming Atlantic Circuit, I would like to be among the first to wish him the very, very best of: Good Luck Fair winds Calm Seas Blue Skies Blue Waters Clear Horizons Tight Lines Dolphins on the Bow Huge Tuna Safe Anchorages Cool Beer (in abundance!) Cheap...

Hoped no-one had noticed!! Not needed at the time as Cruising chute not quite the right sail for the conditions at the time!! It was actually designed to fire cans of Fosters over half a mile to Asterie when he sends Pan Pan saying he's had to start on the Champagne.

Of course they do!! They also have guns that are extremely accurate and people who know what they are doing. I doubt if the Captain or the Navy would ever admit to it but, trust me, it happened, and we saw the funny side of it. On a more serious note, it was definitely one for the "Lessons...

Would the very nice lady on the Swan 46 "Sleeper" we were alongside in Honfleur on Monday afternoon, who thought the mid ships fender on our rail was theirs, please do a stock check of their fenders and send the over stock back to "Talulah", L23, Campers, Gosport, c/o the office. It was a...

Umhhh!!! but Champagne by the pint sounds do-able!!

So there we were, last Saturday, mid channel, south east of Bembridge, laughingly "racing" in the RORC to St Helier in our Najad 390 trying to qualify the boat for this years Fastnet (it's a been there, done that thing!!) when we hear "Securite, Securite etc Warship Westminster reading off 4...

This fella's only got half the luck. He has a boat - GREAT! But he also has a SWMBO! Judging by a lot of the posts on the forum this is not lucky!!!

correct! thanx bignick

Thanx Talbot Instructions to all crew are kicker tension off main sheet not tight downwind or not more than 15 deg off. i.e. the sail shape is not variable but the boom position is, therefore let the boom be the variable. seems sense to me but one can never be sure with allsorts doing the...

thanx Jerry You have pretty much confirmed my thoughts. When you are the only person sailing the boat, furling tension tends to become consistent and the "bunching" you suggest probably never happens. Ours is a boat share and we have several different crews and tensions tend to be inconsistent...

Re: Don\'t bother. Ken, I have much respect for you as a man and a sailor BUT are you honestly saying you have never experienced an accidental gybe? If not, many congratulations!! If so, you must have thought you didn't want to experience it again. Brian

You and I both KNOW that WAS a serious answer!!!

What pupose does it serve???? Other than to create a problem when rolling in. We have it on our Najad 390 which is used by many different crews and it is always getrting jammed. So much so that one crew managed to wind the first batten round the foil so tight that the batten shattered near the...