mikegunn

Just one more general point about touch screens which comes from usability assessments done on their use in cars - part of my day job...

Cut a hole in the bowsprit and re-enforce it with a tube then pass the forestay through it. Although the Dyneema will have the...

Hello again - I found the notes I made when entering Calais for the first time, in May this year. These should put you at ease. Police...

Meanwhile, the best commentator by a nautical mile is this chap:

I use the small self adhesive pads, peal off backing as normal but use CT1 to stick, works well

In many ways it's incredible that 2 teams working completely independently have produced two such incredibly evenly match boats. The...

I agree. The only alarms that annoy me, even a little bit, are when Jobourg announces their traffic and weather updates. Even in the...

I’ve recently renewed four of my lifelines because I’d discovered several strand failures. All the failures had occurred where the lines...

What you do to your boat is entirely your choice, but if you did that on my boat you'd be politely told to use your dinghy - or possibly...

I was taught that it's best to make a round-turn-and-two-half-hitches aound one leg of the pontoon cleat, and have the figure-of-eights...

Basically caused by not flushing adequately combined with the high "hardness" of sea water. Bacteria in the seawater or the "waste" act...