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It really is bad when it's not right. I don't mind adjusting the pins when sailing with someone else on a nice day -as you say, tack by...

Haha, I'm going through Boatshed now looking at what other yachts have set up.

Here's my Saaremaa winning the 2003 Regatta in Tallinn ..... Look closely and you see a single line BH ... the sheet passes through...

Don't worry about it, beer 🍺 is just as effective on guilt as stationary genoa cars, keep drinking until the guilt moves

That what I do now but the guilt a killing me...

Not if it's as old as mine! Multihulls usually focus on outhalers, since we have a lot of beam to aid hauling and because they can be...

There’s lots of points on this thread I haven’t thought about. I’ll go down the weekend and have a good look at the angles when the...

Thanks guys, this has given me some options. I’ll ask the sailmaker about how this would work with my Genoa. Below is my track and car.

I had a discussion with someone recently about increasing the performance of my yacht, the conversation got onto sail trim and how much...

This may be the case for some sellers. A person who comes and has a look and quickly dismisses the boat as being 'not for them' is not...

I have to say I thought the music was a bit loud and I wear a hearing aid so that needs looking at, but you did miss out on a lot of the...

Unfortunately the reality of selling a boat at the cheaper end of the spectrum is that you get a lot of time wasters, the cheaper it is...

I arrived at the show at 10:30 and left at 18:00. Didn't step into 'the shipyard' where the stage was once...

Just got back from a great day at SIBS. There were more of the random stands this year, hot tubs, jewellery, booze, pet food?!?. Didn’t...

As an engineer working for the marketing dept., going to tradeshows was an exercise in herding sales people, frustrating and tiring at...