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Reflective Mood... Ghosts of the Solent.
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While pootling around this weekend, I spotted the concrete boat of the elderly couple my wife and I teamed up with for an impromptu pub...
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Recovering from falling overboard when single handed
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Us paupers on swinging moorings frequently tow dinghies so that solves the whole problem. Except the times when I'm well away from help...
20 Sep 2024
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I was once drifting in a flat calm in a Freedom 21, so very low freeboard. I was with a friend who was strong but inexperienced. I tied...
19 Sep 2024
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Google suggests a Freedom 21 is likely to have an outboard. If you have an outboard you have a ladder. (Lovely looking boat, BTW.)
19 Sep 2024
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Funny, but I wonder... I'd have thought there would be an excellent Yachting Magazine article on real world performance of...
19 Sep 2024
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A guy on a previous thread tried to work it out by looking at MAIB reports and the average response times were abysmal. It's only just...
19 Sep 2024
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I bought a mobile phone designed for elderly people with massive physical buttons I use specifically for sailing which lives in an...
19 Sep 2024
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Under its autopilot it steadily crossed the BC and ran aground unharmed on the mudflat near Newport. CG flumoxed but locals more used to...
19 Sep 2024
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Which really is no joke. I carry mobile and VHF round my neck on lanyards if I'm somewhere a bit lonely single handed and it's a massive...
19 Sep 2024
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Agree. We talked about this in detail recently and there is little hope a PLB will be quick enough because of the necesary process to...
19 Sep 2024
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Where did the boat end up?
19 Sep 2024
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Best antifouling this year?
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I've also given up on antifoul. I scrub a couple of times a season which I was having to do anyway. A scrub is a fraction of the time...
18 Sep 2024
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I've certainly read that in a RTW sailing memoir and I've read a couple of RKJ's accounts so I'd say yes, unless someone else did it...
18 Sep 2024
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Went today, ordered some new Raymarine instruments at a good price, talked to Nanni who were very helpful (Peachment are just down the...
17 Sep 2024
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"I can't help thinking not so much 'how accurate the rule of 12ths is?' but what an anachronistic lot we really are. " The older I...
16 Sep 2024
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