Recent content by Fiddlesticks

Mads and Ava over on Sail Life are worth a watch.

We use Draytel's pay as you go service over cable broadband. You get a geographic number so people can call you and cheap VOIP to landline calls. You manage and top up credit online, and use an Internet phone (Siemens Gigaset) that plugs into both your internet router and also old fashioned...

Nothing useful to add, but best wishes. "Rise again!"

Have had some success with using two passes with a circular saw and find toothed blade. The first just to score the surface, the second to go through.

I saw that. Sent him a few quid to help out, it seems like a good cause. Ebay seems full of chancers these days.

The use of language to obfuscate true meaning is a curse of our modern age. At least they didn't encounter "buoyancy issues resulting in a negative floatation event".

Not sure about how realistic it is, but there's a good book called Fast Track to Sailing by Steve and Doris Colgate. Wouldn't hurt.

Mum is just back from France. UK paper vax pass was OK in place of the Pass Sanitaire, but they wanted to see it everywhere.

A few of the comments said the same. Personally, I was wondering about the depth of that galley, but I'm sure he knows what he's doing.

Nasty disease, son had it. The NHS were no help at all, but we found a retired doctor who knew a lot about the subject, and had started a non-profit community clinic to help people with Lyme. Although I was initially sceptical, the coil machine treatment worked for him.

Is the case you're making that we should cull Orcas to save a few quid on fibreglass repairs, or that they are actually endangering human life?

Mine... Previous one (corded Screwfix brand) spontaneously combusted when I tried to cut along the grain of a 5 foot long 6cm thick bit of timber.

She doesn't have much luck - a few years ago the Zebu sank in the Albert Dock.

Slightly different take here :

This video attempts to answer the question from the point of view of a single American guy on a low-tech engine-less boat.