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Downwind reefing is difficult on my boat. Mainsail: Fully battened, sliders between batten cars, batten cars are slider type, all...

Start with your passage plans, factoring in bad weather forecast delays and work the rest out from there. In my experience, bad weather...

Photos are good, annotated if necessary.

Two weeks sounds quite tight to me. How long have you allowed for transit?

I had requested my boat to be launched back in July and paid for the launce. The yard came back to me saying yhey could not launch my...

The only time I get an all in one price is for a lift, pressure wash and drop back in. Last one was about £330 for a 10mtr boat if I...

It took the surface coating off my Propex metal distribution pipe ☹️

An aside - 1st Channel Crossing - don't forget to extend your insurance from Coastal to cross channel and French coast.

If you use hydrochloric acid, it's a good idea to leave the bowl covered with cling film as hydrochloric acid fumes are a tad corrosive.

Similar to Mate-N-Lok Mate N Lok Connectors

No problem, just pick a calm day to move.

On the pontoon on an archway or adjacent to the pontoon?

Not alone at all but I think it's bearable for, say, a 10m boat with 2 or three crew just out for a weekend jolly. In fact it's a...

Strands of SS wire often useful, cut to make staples, a foot or so length folded in two used along with fids as a cord puller. Splay the...

Yes, sounds like an airlock.