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Absolutely the traditional way, but not for an epoxied boat, you want yo keep the water out of the wood as once it's in its hard to get...

Lots of fairly slight variations of advice. I don't think that there is much point is lessening the amount of epoxy you have on the hull...

To make the boat watertight, you either have to completely sheath the boat with epoxy and fibre or you have to completely fill the lands...

Short answer.... Yes Long answer, when epoxying it is best to apply before the previous coat is fully cured so you get a chemical bond...

I once saw 2 people go to the bow of a 23' hunter bilge keeler while it was on the hard to sort out the roller reefing. They soon...

Yesterday Ineos were keeping their windward foil sl down during the bear away, presumably to avoid nose dives going through the twilight...

If you are trailing and launching yourself , you should go overto Salcombe for Town Regatta and the Bang and Go Back Race, although if...

The trouble with chemical strippers on a clinker boat is that they get between the la ds and you can't get them out. Then when the boat...

I have a 14' clinker launch, probably Latham's of Poole, and have been through some of this myself. Re the engine. R3Ms are funny...

The "AI" is only doing what weather forecasters have always done. Use the available data and previous experience, Red sky at night...

A common enough name but, I expect that this David Robinson was the , now deceased, superstar sailing, high up at Proctors, first...

I would say that in theory you have a point, but in practice for the sort of situations we are talking about the reduced friction in...

Depends on where you are on power v drag. Once you have all the power you can use then you are reducing drag, downhaul/ Cunningham on...

Conditions are everything. This is Portland Race, going slowly with an overheating engine. You could have taken an blow up unicorn...