Recent content by Lee_Shaw

You sound like a baccy chewing survivalist from Missourri. "Weez gow-na have us a leeyanching boy"

4 weeks of rounding a series of unending, (invariably) wind-over-tide headlands, or 4 weeks in the shipping lanes, what's the fun in that?

I find myself drawn (over and over) to the Manta 19, but would stand corrected by someone with better knowledge of such matters.

+1 Coastal yacht delivery means motoring a hell of a lot. 10 knots is not a lot of wind at all, might as well not have any if it is abaft the beam.

Twisters are great boats, no doubt, at £15-18,000 it's hard to think of a better class, but at, and over, £20,000 other classes come into consideration for a Jester Challenger looking for a folkboat type, the Halmatic and Barbicans being two, and the Rustler 31s, which are rare in good...

The main reasons I think motoring at night is a recipe for disaster are, firstly, the coastal seas are littered with lobster pots, which means that there needs to be a hand on the tiller and a person up in the bows keeping a watch, crew at the bows, hollering back to the cockpit ruins any chance...

Good post but, engine at night, nah. It's a recipe for disaster. IMO.

For overnighters sometimes there isn't any need to to be up on deck all night if you're under sail. We recently sailed from Falmouth to Milford Haven in one go - took over 36 hours, to pass Lands end took all day and the channel took all night and most of the following day. The only thing we saw...

Not being able to leave the tiller seriously restricts the choices. Normally dragging down some main sail and/or towing a big loop of rope are the options. But you can't leave the helm so you're pretty much looking at hanging on/praying. Controlled luffing isn't a long term solution unless it...

+1 Ask for help. Neighbouring boat owners will also be very plesed to help get you off the berth.

And add me too.

She's gorgeous.

At 20+ thousand the Halmatic 30 starts to become available. And at 10,000 the halcyon 27/contessas/loads of 27ish folkboats etc are available well equipped. It's not immedialtey apparent, to me anyhows, exactly why any Twister (no matter how well equipped) is worth more than 15,000, that said...

Could you not drain any water off from the jam jar regularly, and put in loads of extra diesel?

Pretty much any boat sub 40 foot, it's mainly how they're set up than any particular set of attributes per se. That said, the Folk Boat derivatives are popular for mainly coastal sailing, for extended offshore sailing, larger, similarly shaped boats seem to be prefered. It can't be overstated...