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Pinholes occur when you apply with augmenting temperature. The wood gets hot, the air in the wood has to escape. Varnish with descending temperature.

Which I was younger

At the end of this clip you see a lot of little boats with extensions above the mainsail to make a bermudian into a gaff. A few light spars, a sail and some ingenious ropes can fill the gap between bermudian and gaff. That is, in light winds. You can hoist before or behind the main.

Our boat was build in 1945 as a Bawley with a big boomless gaff main. The first owners / builders designers ware not happy with the steering and they cut the main so it was shorter, and put a yawl sail behind it. That way the steering problem was solved. In de 70 s the boat was sunk in a river...

I have earned to do what my hart tels me

What about this : we anchor since 21 years summer and winter. I have some places that I know to be good at certain wind conditions so my boat is often seen at those places. One of those spots is very good, it is very windy but no waves, the sea wind comes over a low hill, my wind generators...

We anchored there in 2001. Exactly as in the pic. My wife was furious. Not only because of the lack of privacy but the clothing or lack of clothing of most of the yacht lady s was to much for her. What I most remember was that during the night the wind and swell changed, stood into the bay. We...

Greece is also the only country that confiscates packages sent from the UK to Greece. ( Brexit) They hold the package back, then send you you a ransom bill. Here a sample: I became a bill of 180 € for DUTIES & TAXES, HANDLING CHARGES, BROKERAGE FEE, VAT BROKERAGE FEE, DELIVERY ORDER FEE, and...

An other anchoring ?????. We have a few days of very little sun, some rain, and the sun is already low on the horizon so I decided it was a good time to build the second wind generator together and put it to work. The big “whopper” as I call the machine is a self made low wind speed generator...

I had the most ?? bizarre ?? anchoring experience of my 35 years of anchoring. The anchorage was very crowded, but having spent last two lock downs (almost 12 months combined) at that place I knew where I could put my boat for some days during a Meltem. The anchorage is not only crowded, it...

I repaired our rudder this way : Reparatie roer Made new rudder out of white oak in 1995. Sheeted with 2 layers of epoxy cloth. After about 23 years water had infiltrated in the rudder and cracked the epoxy layer. So diving I just cut it off on one side. Two more years later the rudder...

Lots and lots of Delaware yachts all over Greece.

The package was delivered in 3 days from Parts4Engines to Athens airport in 3 days. There the customs held my package and Orbit couriers was given the handling. I became a bill of 180 € for DUTIES & TAXES, HANDLING CHARGES, BROKERAGE FEE, VAT BROKERAGE FEE, DELIVERY ORDER FEE, and VAT DELIVERY...

The Greeks found a new milk cow. I have a Perkins engine. After 41 years duty some parts are in need for replacement. Found a business in GB that sells new parts, ordered the parts plus delivery to Poros Greece, paid by credit card. Three days later the parts ware in Athens (Airport) and then...

Last year I made a stupid mistake. I paid online using an old eparvollo number. Had some old eparvollos in my laptop and copy´d the long reference number from an old eparvollo. Stupidstupid. I then noticed my mistake, took contact with my bank who “could not do anything” The Greek Aade site...