Recent content by eigerwand

This is the yachting monthly forum? a magazine that conducts yacht tests? When I learnt to read the Y in picture alphabets was always "Yacht" drawn as a triangular white sail. We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea refers to yachts three times on the first page

Harbour reopen

Harbour is currently closed whilst they are moving the ferry

I found one floating in the Solent which makes up for the one I lost off Alderney.

c2000/2001 Bavaria 34 ? Actually 35’ 6” LOA

In my view Garmin helm works pretty well on a tablet as a repeater for the 820 at the chart table.

Nothing to do with tides but it’s worth mentioning that the Solent is very busy at the weekend with race fleets and weekend sailors. For a first ever sail there you may want to consider leaving on a weekday.

Tides add three extra things to sailing that could impact your day in a bad way 1) the risk of being swept on to something that is fixed to the seabed. This is only really a problem when mooring/leaving a berth and the tide is running quickly. So if you start from a finger berth in a...

I know of three winds. The wind I can beat into at 30 degrees. This wind is really windy when I sail into it and rather disappointing when I sail downwind. The wind I can beat into at 45 degrees. I like this wind as it stays the same whatever direction I sail in. Bramblemet. This is used...

I have just bought three new black sets from raymarine for £36 and have just used the size c fixings. If you want 3 of any other size (so a,b,d ,e or f) then I will sell them for £7.50 for a set of 3. These are the black clamps that fit around the wheel spokes which are somewhat prone to...

http://gcaptain.com/grave-imprudence-and-incompetence-transcript-of-the-preliminary-court-inquiry-into-costa-concordia-disaster/?37904 Preliminary court transcript on gcaptain....

A Dutch racing pigeon landed on our wheel pedestal whilst we were crossing from Cherbourg to Portsmouth. Was with us for about an hour, I hope he didn't win the race.

yes, I see exactly what you mean, I hadn't thought about CG at all... I think I was trying to reconcile in my head the statement in post 75 "skipper rom working boat walks round to pontoon behind us and says 'shes about 2 foot too high in the water'. and HoratioHB's observation that nothing...

ha! (or of course you could simply drill a hole in the keel and attach it say to the boarding ladder... the splintering fibreglass as it was ripped out would surely attract someones attention...)

So if the waterline changes by 7 cm vertically then as the hull at the stern rises out of the water very gradually on such a boat then the point the water reaches to at the stern must change considerably more if measured along the hull. If I guess 20 degrees for the angle at which the hull is...