Recent content by obmij

Realistically, there isn't a market for commercially refurbished elderly vessels. Even if the market would support profit costs, there would be difficulties with warranting the work carried out. Anyway, the current system works quite well! People do buy older boats, carry out works as...

That would be a bit odd. Bit like ringing someone and putting the phone down when they answer! At least if you radio check a shore station via DSC (and complete the call) you are not cluttering up CH16 and will go directly from 70 to your chosen working CH. Nothing wrong with a DSC radio...

GMDSS checks are made daily, weekly and monthly. For radios, daily is an internal test & weekly is a DSC test call which is acknowledged automatically. Voice test calls are also carried out using DSC rather than a broadcast on 16. This is why you rarely hear test calls from commercial vessels...

Nicely paced video. Gave a great feel for the leisurely nature of the passage. Must have been a little frustrating motoring but better than bashing into 30kts all the way down.

What I want to know is why YBW thinks I am interested in the top 10 deck shoes for sailors with wide feet! It's been there for years! I clicked on it once to see if would go away but it didn't. Does everyone see this on the homepage or is it just me??

Mechanical watches are a great match with sailing yachts. Expensive, outdated and inefficient compared with the modern equivalent..but like yachts, if you like them you like them and every other consideration is secondary. I wear an Explorer 2 as a daily. It's not a typical rolex and most...

I wouldn't think of looking on facebook for a boat (I don't even have a functioning account). Yachts and yachting would be way down my list as well. When I have been looking (and bought) it's been from boats & outboards, apolloduck, ebay & yachtworld although the latter mainly for dreaming...

I don't know if you're still following this thread but hope things improved and you've managed to get out on the water. Fair winds sailor (y)

There is a sticky on the YBW loading page 'best sailing watches, 12 options that actually help on your boat'. They are mainly plug in garmins which connect with everything from your plotter to your underfloor heating back at home. Bonza. A genuinely useful watch (and one which is sadly lacking...

Every day, at least twice a day, I receive a forecast for the area in which I am working. Depending on who is paying for it it will be from one of perhaps three providers. Sometimes we will be working with a number of charterers, each of whom will supply us with a different forecast. There is...

From your earlier post it seems like you are a competent and experienced sailor and that the skipper was fortunate to have you on board. Great, but not everyone is at the same level and many of those signing up for unpaid deliveries are doing so to gain the experience which you already have. My...

It is NOT the responsibility of the crew to ensure that the vessel is adequately provisioned, or that it is any any way suitable to embark on a voyage. That responsibility lies entirely with the skip. There are limited (obvious) exceptions for example if a crew member is instructed to carry out...

Some good advice from Doug & there is a lot to be said for getting out and doing it. I don't think any of the replies on this thread are trying to stop you from doing that, but you asked for buying advice and that's what you got. Anyway - buying without a survey is a perfectly reasonable thing...

I crewed on at least one reliance delivery in the late 90's..and we also ran out of food! 5 days to go and I was making ever thinner pancakes with diluted milk and a sprinkling of flour. Back in the good old days (a couple of days previously) we had some eggs left so the pancakes were more...

There's a fair bit of difference with cars, most obviously the consumer protection in place if you buy a used car from a dealer (no such system exists with used vessels). There are also 'write off' registerers, history checks and many more safeguards in place that just do not exist in the marine...