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A good looking boat... I shall have a read up. Although I'm increasingly becoming more and more settled on the Sadler 26...

My tuppence on the issue. Assuming your experience is limited and you intend to move on to bigger boats eventually I would not be...

As someone who has studied naval architecture although is not employed as such, I have been aware of MCA LY3 for a considerable time...

Very instructive. However it is possible that someone else put the matter of MCA legislation into your mind 2 weeks ago: Bayesian. 🧐 .

That's the point at which I'd be thinking of taking a reef in on my last boat, a Nic 26

(y) It's quite possible, if your mouse pointer lingers over a forum members name, to do this by accident. Done it myself, sometimes it...

I wonder how the OP got on? He has not been back since May so I guess he has either sailed off over the horizon or taken up golf.

I just saw that John Guzzwell has recently passed away aged 94. His Trekka Round the World is a classic, though I read it so long ago...

Read post 20. I have made no claims about stability that are not in the public domain. .

I have a feeling you are going to tell me, whilst you are at it lets see the stability curves for both boats.

The point of the original video is in response to recent events, not to establish anything about stability. The stability of these...

When I was young and keen, setting off in bright sunshine and returning in the wet and dark a few times cured me.

I guess the difference is the J class has 50 tons of lead on her keel and will pop up, the other is approaching the point at which it...