Recent content by Ingwe

I think the main inhibitor to at least partial foiling mono's (big mini transat boats rated for offshore) will be IRC as I suspect JPK and Jeanneau have probably gone about as far as they can with their current 33 foot boats and the only way to get a big speed increase for the next generation...

There are a few first /seascape 27's that can be chartered in Croatia (for a price!).

The large twin chamber / triple action SUP pumps are now the quickest but they are between £60-£80.

The dual lock velcro might work but you will need a big area of it to get a good enough bond to hold a table - we use it to attach the instruments to out mast bracket, but we still manage to knock them off every now and again. It may be a bit extreme but the only other thing that might get past...

Nice looking boat, I disagree slightly and think sail wise it may be a little bit under powered for a chunk of it's target market as it's an ideal lake day sailor and I know a lot of the similar boats on somewhere like lake Geneva will run 120sqm as there big kites. Overall it makes a lot of...

It will be interesting to hear the full story as the AIS track has her going right into the west hand corner of Saint Austell bay, there aren't really any rocks in there so she would have virtually been on the beach if she hit land, but there are two large commercial mussel farms in that corner...

Absolute best would be Musto HPX, but best value would be the Tribord 900 series kit from Decathlon.

I am pretty sure as long as you leave the boat on the SSR there aren't any other big problems in spain apart from the VAT status which you already know about. The bigger issue for a fairly small boat in mainland spain would be where to keep it as a lot of the coast is fairly boring from a short...

Even the current generation standard Raymarine Autopilots would be better than a lot of helms at night so we aren't just talking about the high end autopilot setups. As for not being able to steer when away from the helm pretty much anyone who is serious about doing short handed racing nowadays...

I installed an android car head unit on a boat about 4 years ago all worked fine even had ais display working within Navionics via WiFi. The one big draw back was the power draw - we didnt measure it but it was using a signifficant amount of power even in standby so ended up taking it off the...

I think the answer to that is probably as I cannot think of any other sport where you would have a 46 year old trying to compete at the top level of what is now effectively a reaction sport. I suspect you probably do not want traditional sailors helming these boats at all as most of them are...

It must be 9 years since I sold the Grand Surprise at which point we were rating 1.028 and the J109's were about 1.020. We used to do ok though, we won a decent number of inshore races within Plymouth and won the main summer series overall one year and won quite a lot of coastal races crewed and...

It's a while since I owned a Grand Surprise, but it was possible to make them fairly competitive by reducing the sail plan a bit I got the IRC rating down to just being a fraction higher than a J109, but still leaving us faster than them in most conditions (this was still using asymmetric...

Given the form stability it looks to have and the fact its not exactly a lightweight boat I don't see the ballast ratio being a problem, yes compared to an old style boat it would initially heel more but then it would settle onto the chine the form stability kicks in and it would be pretty stable.

As others have said normally take the westerly entrance but there is one big exception. With a wind speed above 25kts, wind direction of about SSW and the tide going out strongly you can end up with some very nasty extremely steep waves off Penlee point, unfortunately at that wind angle you are...