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Mental health. “There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.” Bernard Moitessier...

Preserving the fortitude of one's soul.

Emptying the wallet

Many thanks everyone.. I guess I need a new compass for this device. I've been scanning ebay but I'm yet to see one. what should I be...

Nah, my guess is Portimao anchorage on the Ferragudo side, just south of the castle.

It's after lunch so gone home / back to the boat for a snooze ....

Thanks muchly to everyone who came up with suggestions on this thread - the discussion was super helpful to my thinking. I have now...

If the Rival 41 is “not such a terrible idea” (post #23) then how about Bowman 40 or 42? Not a ‘performance boat’ by any means, but...

That's where thing s like the Xc38 I mentioned earlier fit the niche - fast, strong, seaworthy, great interior. And a few circling the...

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Ah! The pleasures of a new boat (wreck).

I had some mysterious salty-bilgewater-after-rain problems. Even salty bilgewater from a leaking freshwater line to the heads sink. I...

I'm an idiot x2. I did it twice this year. So used to having 2 strokes before I think. Yamah 4hp. Oil locked both times. Locked solid...

It's a ghost town.

Do you wash your decks and cockpit with buckets of seawater? Could be salt left behind then rain washes it into the bilges through...