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jbweston
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Teak grating
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Grey looks good (although I appreciate that's a matter of opinion) and is somwhere between low maintenance and ultra low maintenance...
Thursday at 23:40
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How to deal with helpful people?
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I offer help and don't mind at all if it's refused. When alone or shorthanded I like it when someone offers help. I think there are two...
Wednesday at 15:25
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Is it just me? When I am on my own I am only too pleased if someone offers to help. I have fixed dock lines at my home berth, so I can...
Wednesday at 15:01
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I have on several occasion had 'helpers' do the wrong thing, or more often nothing useful at all, but as one who has often sailed...
Tuesday at 15:29
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I will usually offer to help....but I take my cue from those onboard...unless it looks like an inexperienced crew, which is often the...
Tuesday at 15:26
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I think only once has a willing “helper” actually caused us problems (on that occasion spectacularly so) I’m always happy to accept...
Tuesday at 15:26
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Lifejacket safety and crew amusement
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I think it's great that they sail with you and that you're willing to sail with them. I leaned so much from more experienced old guys...
28 Apr 2024
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Actually, that sounds great to me. I love the fact that those stroppy lads want to sail with you :)
28 Apr 2024
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Calorifier is it worth it
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I'd suggest looking into why the calorifier was producing water that was only warm. If the choice is between no calorifier and having...
28 Apr 2024
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Another thing and it is recent, under the username and join date/message count, it says 'visit site' Isn't that an invite to advertise...
21 Apr 2024
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What is this? I think it might be a swim ladder…
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Yes, the bow ladder, when rigged, is pendent. From the pulpit.
21 Apr 2024
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I think some of the rules date back to the days when the publishers sold a lot of advertising in their dead trees magazines and then...
21 Apr 2024
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What is this? I think it might be a swim ladder…
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I have one, possibly identical. I bought it in Sweden. The hooks go over the middle rail of the pulpit, one to port, the other to...
20 Apr 2024
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What load on the chain? You're trying to go too fast. You can pull the boat gently forward by just taking some belly out of the catenary...
16 Apr 2024
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My wife, who attends to such matters, merely winds in some chain, and the catenary then pulls the boat forward. OK, if it's blowing a...
15 Apr 2024
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