Recent content by Fox Morgan

Who said that? [Looks around furtively]

I'll explain the mystery name change if you like. Previously the person you refer to has worked in publishing and media their whole working life (since late 90s) and was bylined with their real name, but that was before the Internet and social media was much of a thing. It wasn't much of a...

After a summer of bobbing about and pirouetting and docking like an utter legend, on a joystick controlled sailing yacht I have more than a passing interest in the new Volvo Penta assisted docking system. Last year I was helping to load a Riva 76 to ship in Southampton with woefully inadequate...

Whoops, accidentally deleted the reply because mobile optimisation isn't very optimised on this site and accidentally wiped it instead of adjusting a typo. It said: Im going with A2 rigging in falmouth because they have an excellent reputation and were also on the race in an identical boat to...

I wasn't using the self tacker at the time, and generally didn't use it much at all. I was usually standard sheets on the blade (it was not cut for self tacking) Selden are still absolutely sure that the mast section I had was well within tolerances and didn't need any additional stays other...

Good question. The truth lies 4000m down at the bottom of the Atlantic. When I replaced my original mast in 2013, I was replacing the original dehler section. (It was an uneconomical repair) the replacement selden section was narrower but deeper, and therefore stiffer. The original rig has...

Well, here I am rummaging about the forum looking for other related posts and accidentally came across this. Thanks for the enthusiasm and positivity. Fair old made my evening reading that. I've been a little pre occupied the last few months with a whole load of ridiculous stuff. There's a...

Aye, so just to clarify a bit, yeah, my mast chuffin broke didn't it. At night. In the dark. It was a five and half year old selden mast, (entirely replaced the rig and sails in late 2013/ commissioned march 2014) We'd sailed conservatively, it was just a f5-6 with smoothish sea state. We...

This was the same quandary I went through when buying a boat. I wanted performance, but sturdy. I wanted something that could go into most places reasonably well on a normal range of tide but I wanted a boat with decent cruising or racing speed. I like to do longer passages and the higher...

"Scientists at University College London say the difference has more to do with discrimination and unequal opportunities than any innate ability." Prof Hugo Spiers thinks he has found the answer by looking at data from the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index - which studies equality in...

OK, come on then... Editors have little influence over certain elements of a magazine. The advertising is mostly beyond their control. Ensuring appropriate ads are used can go a long way to making sure a magazine is appealing to a broader audience. The magazines held under the banner of a large...

this comment ^ is also a hint at where women have gone. Incognito. it's a sad fact that (as I already gave an example to) we need to hide our true identity in order to get on with things. true story: A British orchestra management team were discussing the lack of ethnic diversity in the...

Totally awesome pic. that's why I'm still here because the good people outnumber the dullards. I've just been a little busy lately. :encouragement: :highly_amused:

No, I didn't want to get my informant and friend sacked. I did keep it though, as evidence should I ever need it. In the end I took a handsome payout as severance a few years down the line. It paid for an entirely new rig and sails, plus a few other fancy bits on Boogie Nights. oh...

The original question was where have all the good women gone? (inferring the bad ones have stayed fnar, or that there were indeed good ones to start with, double fnar) I suggested yesterday on this thread that a lot of women are now using a facebook group instead that is locked to only women...