Recent content by Fr J Hackett

For me you would have two longish sails, Western end of the Solent to Dartmouth ( I wouldn't break it at Weymouth ) then nip around to Plymouth and take stock. Then a day sail to Falmouth followed by another day sail to the scillies. Then the next long sail to Cork or Kinsale then work your way...

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I don't know if some of the posts are tongue in cheek but if they are not there must be a few hair shirt wearing smelly buggers out there, I wouldn't want to be downwind of them. 😁

What sized boat? 50kg is insignificant on most if not all cruising boats.

If you have bubbles coming out of the rear, you probably need to see a doctor.

Mine falls into the most uncomplicated and simple solution. A wide open berth with a simple readjustment once alongside. It’s why I managed 25 years plus of owning recalcitrant long keel boats without damage or insurance claims to mine or others boats. KISS and as others have said have a back up...

Don’t really remember him but they are self employed contractors that will go where the work is and the work that suits them. There was until recently the most accomplished cabinet maker that made the hatches and the cockpit, he seems to have moved on. Dare I say it but it seems a tad cliquey.

I somehow doubt it.

Thanks so again it's simple stick the bows into a large open double berth the wind will push the boat onto berth 5, winch the boat across the gap into the nominated berth no reason to overcomplicate things KISS principle.

There is no indication of where the wind is coming from in any of his diagrams and if it was coming from the LHS as you think then it's even easier as berth 5 is unoccupied he pokes his nose into the unoccupied double berth and the wind will blow his bow off and on to the berth followed by the...

We don't know the wind direction other than it was a cross wind what we do know is that berth 5 was empty and open ie it was the obvious and easiest choice anything else just complicates matters. Maybe you should up your fitness or fit some bigger winches, for what it's worth I have winched a...

Looks as though the temperatures will be back to normal come the weekend (y)

I would say not if berth 5 was free then it is by far the easiest option and winching a boat across would not have been difficult maybe it would if it was a 55 foot 25 tonne thing but it wasn't. Even without winches you could sweat the lines and haul it across. Fannying about trying to drop...

Still 4 years without spending a penny. Hmmm

I would add blocked strainer / filter.