Recent content by Lakesailor

At whose request? I notice someone in the Greece thread I started asking for it to be merged with the very long-running "Greece Ups The Anti" thread which had become a circular argument about semantics. I started the new thread to discuss immediate news about Greece. Two different objectives...

Not an issue. The ring is not really for mooring to on this type of buoy. I used strops attached to the riser chain with a pickup buoy. In this pic I had a chain strop and a nylon one. I gave up on the chain as it corroded very badly at the point which was awash. Two ends of the same bit...

Items offered at low start prices on eBay often get lifted to more reasonable prices if your "friends" start bidding.

None at all. It was a floating throwing line which I boat at a boat jumble. Very tough. Very stiff.

My boat was on a mooring so the tender was alway attached to a stern cleat to prevent it bashing the boat. About 6ft of painter left it dangling nicley astern. Usually using a loop I had tied on the end. It was a biggish loop I used for securing the tender to the ring on my mooring buoy so on a...

Did you swing by a weighbridge to confirm your suspicions? It only costs about a fiver.

Thought it worth repeating. :)

Interesting to you as an increasing income stream as you are

You have a go at me when I am sympathising with you. I despair because you asked if anyone had actually weighed a boat and everyone tells you it's design displacement. Like that is an answer to your question.

I despair.

By noticing which side of the cockpit it emerged from it's fairlead on?

You obviously know too much. Us ignoramuses are not having any troubles :D

Strange. I don't have a Photbucket account. If I right click on either of Vic's posted images and choose open in a new tab I get just the image. Yes it has a photbucket URL, but just for that image.

Are you assuming that all browsers resize images? We still get complaints from people whose browser grows scrolling bars when an image too wide is posted.

It's good to see everyone has such a clear understanding of the Rules.