Recent content by LittleSister

I don't think so. It has a fixed skeg, so there'd be no point in the rudder kicking up. The Caprice, and other similar Robert Tucker (and others') designs, have a rudder the full length of the skeg, not just the lower section (which is what it looks like from the second photo - the part-length...

Frankly, you are just surprised at someone actually buying a boat, rather than just thinking and talking about it! 😁

Yes, they are currently incorrectly mounted and will be better seen by low flying aircraft than approaching vessels! They will also not show the correct cut-off angles to the sides and front, which is important at night and in poor visibility. Relatively easily solved. The lamps will be...

'Shrimpy' is a great read. His plywood Caprice proved itself impressively capable, and Shane Acton was a one-off and a very resourceful fellow. Actually, after circumnavigating, and writing the book 'Shrimpy', he set off again and did half of another circumnavigation, writing another book...

Not to mention that miles and kilometres shrink in those sort of temperatures! ;)

My transport of delights. :D Or, sometimes, that #**!"&**?@** thing!

The OP hasn't been back since the day he started the thread. :rolleyes:

And is it? Every Tuesday the Met Office publishes on YouTube a 'Deep Dive' - a 20-ish minute discursive and detailed look at the emerging weather for the next week or so, delving into and explaining some interesting/obscure aspects of the current situation or particular weather features or...

Do you think you'll be able to find your way to Harwich now? ;)

Nice photo (too big a file to post here) in the Guardian of the sailing ship Bélem transiting the canal, with the following somewhat garbled caption: 'The Bélem, a three-masted sailing ship from 1896 that is carrying the Olympic flame from Greece to Marseille in France, sails after crossing the...

It's all changed since then! ;)

Carpet!

I am not at all suggesting you ought necessarily do it for your current purposes, but I think you are very mistaken to think that because you're experienced at sailing a yacht doing a 5 day practical course will be pointless. I did a Coastal Skipper practical course decades ago (I already had...

What I have dropped: A clanger. Where I dropped it: In conversation. My life might have been very different had I not! Other examples: A hat, purchased only hours before for an outrageous sum from a Burnham on Crouch chandlery, 1980s. Went over the side maybe half a mile downriver from...

Must try harder! :p