DJE

In the old days, when we only needed them for the channel islands, I kept a few blank paper forms in the chart table.

So the carbon is safely stored in perpetuity but it can be released by a yacht anchor? Anybody else find that hard to believe?

One submits a paper form by post. Or so it seems to say here.

_Timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs_ What 2050 environmental commitments ?

5 grand for a complete suit of sails looks iffy, for a start.

The museum in Oslo is worth a visit if you're in the area.

Looks like there is plenty of work for shipwrights in those parts.

An old friend who sailed a Hornet dinghy used to say happiness is a three-sail reach and a sliding seat.

I was in the Netherlands for seven weeks this summer and had no need for channel 31 at all.

Whatever the negatives are, doesn't stop me from wanting a go on one!!

I'm also fairly sure that this is the furthest into the race without a retirement.

Fred drift alert! That reminds me that long ago I bought a small dinghy as a tender (I still have it, decades later, and have to move...

Archimedes had it licked more tha 30 years ago! The ice at the North Pole is floatinhg so if/when it melts it will not affect sea level...

No need to adjust the backstay but you need some way of tensioning the inner forestay. Mine came with a Highfield lever which tried to...