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Frogmogman reacted to capnsensible's post in the thread Woman dies after shark attack while sailing in a catamaran 278nm SW of Gran Canaria with
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Or they thought you were food! On my trips, two simple rules. At least one person stays aboard. A trailing dockline with a couple of... -
Any sightings of @Concerto? The migratory Fulmar. Often found flying south, to roost on the Westerly stand, at this time of year.
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I emailed the RNLI complaining about the attitude of the chuggers last year. Got quite a surprizing response, I paraphrase, "not...
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Frogmogman reacted to westernman's post in the thread Recovering from falling overboard when single handed with Haha.
Don't worry - if you are "short & fat" you will never ever be "tall & thin". At best "short & thin".
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Frogmogman reacted to capnsensible's post in the thread Recovering from falling overboard when single handed with Like.
I've linked to this site on here before. Lots of good information if you dig a bit. No guesses here, they've trialed it all on...
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Frogmogman replied to the thread Recovering from falling overboard when single handed.Indeed. My boat has a sort of rope ladder arrangement one can pull out from the transom. No use if one went overboard when underway, but...
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Frogmogman replied to the thread Exceptional high tides.Really not exceptional, but entirely as expected for the Autumn equinox. Here’s the curve for my home port.
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Frogmogman reacted to Bristolfashion's post in the thread Pompous Boat Terminology and Boat Owners with Like.
Nah, it's the voyages / races that count. The bloke in a gnarled old folkboat just back from the Faroes has it over the £1.4 million of...
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Frogmogman reacted to capnsensible's post in the thread Pompous Boat Terminology and Boat Owners with Love.
There are two sorts of ships. Submarines and targets. A submarine is a boat. :cool:
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Frogmogman reacted to RobbieW's post in the thread Pompous Boat Terminology and Boat Owners with Like.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail :)
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Frogmogman reacted to Skylark's post in the thread Pompous Boat Terminology and Boat Owners with Haha.
There are only two, utterly uncontroversial definitions of a floaty thing allowed within this hallowed chamber and they are MAB and AWB.
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I knew him when I worked at the boat show. We had some great chats about all things sailing, and whilst we disagreed about a lot of...
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He taught me to be a sailing instructor. Top man.
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Have you tried wing on wing, genoa and main set with the staysail set but sheeted hard in? You are flying the genoa on the pole and the...
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Frogmogman replied to the thread Poling out a genoa.I was contemplating buying a pole, as my boat, being equipped with an asymmetric spinnaker with a furler, is not great for dead...
