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The big news is that I'm retiring this spring! It's eight weeks not two.😊😊 And I have the Imray Cruising guide to the Netherlands.

We're planning a trip from Portsmouth to the Netherlands in June and July. Last time we were there we sailed on the Versemeer and Oosterschelde in a Wayfarer with a boom tent. That was in the 1980s, this time we will be in a 12m cruiser/racer with 1.7m draft. She has a holding tank. I've...

Are these still available? If so I would be interested - we're planning a trip to Holland from Portsmouth this summer. My wife is a regular visitor to Benfleet so collection shouldn't be too difficult.

Maybe Poole to Dartmouth for the next leg going well south of Portland Bill. Weymouth is a long way off the direct track.

Where I'm based the yard makes use plugs like this. There is a corresponding ring on the socket and you can padlock or cable tie your plug in place.

Wait till Leo posts a video about it. Somebody will offer to do a 3D printed part.

Was she the one who sailed through the spectator fleet at one of the starts and lost her mizzen mast in a collision with an anchor boat?

Found this video of a launch there.

I have a Digital Yacht Ikomunicate box. It receives all the NMEA 2000 data off the Raymarine network and sends it to the Windows PC at the chart table. But the only software I've found is a web app that came with the Ikomunicate called "Instrument Panel". It's OK but a bit cranky about units...

Cave lockers?

Where the bolts are glued to the underside of the table could you drill right through it then use longer bolts with big washers top and bottom. It won't be pretty but it will be a lot stronger.

I've done all those jobs on a 39 foot 1998 Swedish cruiser racer over the last few years. Your total looks about right. Mine were:- New mainsail in Vectran from Kemps £4,500. Full set of networked Raymarine electronics including 3 displays, autopilot and 7" chart plotter installed myself...

Was there a few years ago. No obvious landmarks on the shore. Reeds talks about a cross near the entrance but the one they mean is only visible very close in. There is however a conspicuous Croix de Lorraine on the beach a mile or two west of the entrance marking the point where De Gaule...

Are the locals up on the peak before dawn trying to find frost on the grass? Used to happen once or twice a year when I lived there.

I wouldn't rule out the Sigma 38. We sail something similar ( Scanyacht 391 - rating very similar to Sigma 38) as a couple in our mid sixties. Reef early to keep things comfortable and enjoy the speed.