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We bought a Sadler 29 at about the same time as our closest sailing friends bought a 32. Although the 32 was better able to cope with...

I agree, but among those different from many of us are those in public life who appear to delight in flaunting expensive accessories...

Maybe those to whom the advice is aimed would include fishermen or working boats, some of which might feel that making a suspect package...

You may be right, but motives will differ. I’m not sure what luxuries we indulged in on our 34, but I suspect that we have given...

Yes, Sailorman’s boat was indeed an Oyster called Jolie Brise.

Comfort and speed are all parts of the equation, as is dryness. This doesn’t always follow size. On one occasion we sailed in company...

But waterline length is a good indication of the sort of speed you will be doing when cruising, including sailing and motoring. Other...

With so much heavy traffic going up the Scheldt I find it hard to believe that an anchorage would be comfortable. Although there is...

I’ve only just seen this, but wasn’t Sailorman’s boat an Oyster called Jolie Brise? Maybe this was the reason for his interest in the...

Yes, I have learnt my lesson. I have decided not to add the third question .........

Like many people here, I won’t be around to see the worst of what will happen, but this doesn’t mean that we don’t have real concerns...

As an owner of an 8.5m boat, I can tell you that its too small for comfort in an F6 and downright unpleasant in F7. Having had a...

Yeap. Well done. T'is no more than a dotted line on a chart. A virtual harbour. Navionics and C-Map have it marked! The plan is for...

I don't know about the "eye-watering salaries and stipends", I've always understood scientific salaries are normally on a fixed scale...

I have read of people crossing the Channel in a F9 in a S29 and I’m sure the boat would be capable of it. I think that the most we ever...