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A piggy bank friendly option to consider: Cross cut (instead of radial) sails in Contender Fibrecon Pro Vectran - / DP Vectron which...

Maybe I should have another look in the piggy bank. 🤔

I don't think Don is making a fortune out of it...the plan fees mostly go to the designer. 15 entrants at 3.4k euro...most of that gone...

.......Well done, MDL! For a few years now, 'free' visitor berthing has only been available to those of us with 'grandfather' rights...

Wonder if Pip was getting her damaged MH0 off, for repair, earlier? Back up to speed on the 10.00 sched. 🙂

Problems for Pip? 06.00 tracker showing her running dead downwind @ 6 knots (just wing mast?). With nearby boats on the rhumb line &...

Yes. If Jean Le Cam's daggerboard entry, to the Vendee Globe, is his pension plan (as mooted on the VG thread), the multiple McIntyre...

Pressed the subscribe / alerts buttons, to see how he gets on. From the biog part of the video, he's got strong boat build /...

Starboard foil damage, for SVR: Heading home, to Mer Concept in Concarneau, to fit the spare. Hoping to be able to restart, for an...

Keel problems and sail damage for Pip. Can’t embed (FB) video. But here’s a link.

Sort of... It's a very complicated circle to square. 1 Over demand 2. The need for skippers proposing sponsorship deals to build new...

Boat tour.....And flavour of the KISS spirit, alive and well in the race fleet......

Pleased to see that the rules have changed again, for 2028. Levelling the qualification (if not the technological) playing field, for...

Sam G has fixed his primary (most sophisticated) pilot. Which failed during week 1. He’s been running on one, of two, back ups. Good...

Consider as well that if the skipper / CEO of a team can raise X amount of cash, then they have that as a budget to put the boat on the...