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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...

Yes. Mine's about a foot or two below the main forestay attachment on a masthead rig. No running backstays or check stays. You also...

We have masthead rig with furling genoa but also a removable inner forestay for hanked-on No.3, No.4 and storm jib. Yes it was a pain...

The Remigo One is similar in terms of motor power (1000W) and battery capacity (1085Wh). It's lighter in total than the Torqeedo 903 &...

Does anybody have any experience of the Remigo One?

Interesting snippets on the Calstock viaduct and Neeves' comment that 'They don't build them like that anymore' (posts 1&2). There was...

To expand on the previous answer, I think that they use a serries of doppler lidars on the shoreline with sufficient horizontal...

Happy to report that the lights are all on and it’s busy busy busy inside the INEOS shed. I thought I better pop down here and have a...

Lidar

I don't think I breathed at all during the last leg.

Mozzy, as ever, with the brilliant analysis of where the difference is, and a good guess as to what is causing it.