Recent content by hoppy1848

Hello, is the any further news on the Jester Challenge 2021? Are there dates etc? Is there a link to a information website? With thanks. Mike

Thanks everyone for the replies and experience. It will be a hydrovane if anything. Survey today and I'll see the damage there before finalising. Another question. Any idea of resale value for the hydrovane after say 3 years?

Hello, does anyone have experience of the Mr V Windvane? Comments on accuracy, reliability and value for money would be very helpful. I am toying with putting a hydrovane on my Moody 31 MK ii because I would like to sail AZAB next year and Jest 2016. The thing is, I am likely to move up to a...

Captain, many thanks. It is a 'Freiberger' that I've seen on ebay. The link looks terrific to.

I want to teach myself as best I can, Celestial Navigation. To this end I have bought Tom Cunliffe's 'Celestial Navigation'. In the book Tom comments that 'some of the cheap plastic one's work very well'. I am tempted to buy one of the ex German Democratic Republic's sextants which regularly...

Can anyone advise where I can find a calendar of single/short handed events covering the next few years? Thanks

Thanks Yes I guess a 'per annum' rate of 5kts would require one heck of a water tank on board. CBT- many thanks for your response. Really very useful indeed.

At the end of July I am making a passage from Scheveningen to St Katherine's Dock. I have the appropriate charts and pilot books but I'd be really grateful for anecdotal advice as to the best route into the Thames, tides etc. My boat is a Moody 31 Mk11 (fin keel) and a safe assumption for...

Thanks Deepjoy, many thanks- that's where I'll go. I'm taking my boat out of the water in March?April and will get the raft serviced then before probably undertaking a passage from Cardiff to Hartlepool in June. Again my thanks

Can anyone recommend a company that services liferafts. I am based in the Bristol/Cardiff area and so anything local to that is ideal otherwise further afield if necessary. Thanks a lot and Merry Christmas Mike

My wife and I fancy a passage through the Rhine, into the Danube, out into the Black Sea and back via the Med. Couple of preliminary questions: We anticipated taking the Moody 31, steeping the masts in the Rhine and Danube. Is this possible given a keel of 1.8m- are there throughout the...

Trip to Lundy Sorry not to have completed the story but have been offflinefor a few days. Sadly could not get out of the channel beyond a line between Minehead and Aberporth Power Station last Saturday. A real pity but the stron wind was right on the bow in a mixed sea. Anyway ended up having...

Thanks everyone. Alan's contribution confirms that staying in shore can pay some dividends against the tide. Suspect that I'll depart an hour or so before HW and see how it goes. Incidentally my boat is a Moody 31 Mk11- Sea Wanderer,

Morning everyone and hope that this is the first of many happy posts. Next Friday I am looking to planning to sail to Lundy from Cardiff. HW at Cardiff is 00:30 on Saturday morning. I understand that should I begin the passage some three hours before HW, and sail close to the Welsh coast I...

Hello. Iam new to this forum and hope that I am posting in the correct section. I am considering purchasing a 'Mystere Flyer 26'. Any thoughts/advice on the history, performance, pros and cons of this type of boat would be most useful and gratefully received. Thanks and Merry Christmas.