Recent content by Neeves

There are seabeds where a Danforth and Fortress will simply be inadequate - primarily weed but also any pebble seabeds (though in our experience pebbles are a bit like hens teeth. Weed is a different issue and we would want something with a bit of bite, and the Excel, Spade would be top of our...

I wouldn't use a Danforth but would use use a Fortress, weight in an anchor is overrated. I think you will find it exceedingly difficult to source a genuine Danforth (in the UK). I'm sure some copies are good but most seem to be sold without any brandname - and if the manufacturer is not...

Petersens is distributor for K&W - check their website. You could use the trick, oft quoted by Noelex, to cut the lug off the appropriately sized shackle and cut your own slot (so as to allow you to use a screw driver). Noelex suggests drilling a fine hole in the remnants of the lug to allow...

If you Google 'Fortress Chesapeak mud tests' and or use the search facility on the Fortress website you will find the results of tests in thin and soupy muds. Practical Sailor has a summery, I recall a key word being 'Soupy Mud'. Fortress was obviously the best, they paid for the tests, but...

Is it that difficult? Surely someone here has done it before. Rudders are surprisingly heavy, so need some caution. I'm not sure why you think dropping a foot will be enough, plan on the need to remove the rudder - or drop it fully. I don't know Bavaria rudders but did drop our rudders...

But the data requested is surely freely available and someone,.not necessarily the OP, will be able to oblige I'd have a search but I'm in foreign parts with restricted and monitored internet access. For the poster who wanted the polars: the James Craig is fairly active, she does Sydney to...

There are purists who sail to their location of anchoring, works well in an empty bay, a bit stress full if its busy. Its the 21st Century - you have an auxiliary motor to reduce stress. I'd want windlass connected to engine battery, as we always had the engine running when using the windlass...

You could simply post here and get an assessment of your plans and ideas. Paul is a practising, professional Electrical I am sure he will have views that might reflect some in the industry. Jonathan

As usual you provide words of wisdom, nothing good ever came from people thinking .... so let other people do the thinking - totally unnecessary for us. Jonathan

I thought the spec details suggested that if anything she was 'light' Jonathan

Be patient. Luck, being in the right place at the right time is never planned. Jonathan

I know nothing about this yacht except it was dried out along side us. The owner had built little stools between hull and seabed and being lightweight she had a minimalistic draught. I thought it might be appropriate and intriguing.

Its all idle speculation until Fred is willing to go and visit and decide if he can afford both the time and effort. Personally if he loves the idea of an Ovni I don't understand why he has not booked a visit - the reluctance suggests he is not sure of an Ovni or he's unsure he can invest the...

Our vanity sink discharged well above the water line, like most, all?, bilge pumps and had no seacock. Our shower sump, galley sink also discharged well above the waterline and had no seacocks. The reject from the desalinator was...above the water line and shared with a vanity sink. If a...