jbweston

Mine certainly don't - I have to check and pay for updates!

I agree. In addition to the new experience, rounding 'big name' headlands always seems to be more of a psychological challenge than an A...

You're probably missing nothing other than the memory of a time when you were a first timer. I'm not sure that a twilight planet or...

Hamble HM seem to have sorted it all out now. I always run two turns of the genoa halyards round when furling. Going to check on our own...

When I bought the boat I'd been looking for a similar one with slab reefing as it was what I was used to and there were stories around...

This is a common issue with many who have the Selden in-mast system. Our local rigger told me when I queried the problem when we first...

If I remember rightly these Ohlson 38 hulls were moulded by Halmatic (Correction: that should be Tylers) Some were professionally fitted...

On my last boat I had this same setup. I found that the line used to slip on the mast winch if I allowed it to become too slack when...

However, discursive writing is alive and well here in the UK. On this forum Fred Drift is one of the leading practitioners.

I do the same, but with long and short tails. Each long is 10 metres, each short 5. So for example 2 long tails and one short is 25...

It isn't trivial. Very frightening for you. The sort of situation where unsympathetic people who've never been in small boats say 'What...

We were motoring through an intricate passage on the Swedish west coast. 1.8m draft. The twists and turns were well marked with proper...

Like your comments about the charts. I like them. But I bought loads!! :) Thet are available in lodsa places away from UK.

Me too, they had the knack of putting large scale detail on small scale charts. I'm sure I've done a whole week's sailing without...

Yes, they appear to run under the keel as the ship slides towards them. In those days, men were men - if they weren't flattened on the...