Recent content by Peppermint

Re: Right! I\'m back. Where have you gone?

Re: I\'ve never been a fan of sea anchors or any other sort of passive tactic in heavy weather. I don't do the lottery either. Once you go passive it's going to be a lottery whether you survive and going active again is going to be much more difficult. Anyway I'm not going to die skulking in...

Re: Nice see that the school wasn\'t to PC. Why not encourage children to throw plastic bottles into the sea? Where's the harm?

Re: I was told that you can do anything at all providing it isn't placing the boat and/or crew in danger. It is said that there is a bloke in the Solent who has failed many many many times. Examiners call in sick if he's up for the test. It's said he's run Tom Cunliff on the Brambles bank...

Re: Interesting point with Najad The story at the show was that to bring a boat to ExCel would add £3k to the price of every Najad sold in 2006.

Re: I don\'t have a problem staying awake during normal watch keeping with a crew, we just talk bollox all the way through. If I'm alone on watch I listen to the radio or a story tape. If I get sleepy I keep busy, move around, do some steering. Sweet biscuits perk me up a bit warm drinks...

Re: It\'s useful.. .. as far as it goes, though to me the accuracy seems to be less good than of old. It seems to be that provided the "usual" string of lows is creating the weather they're fine. As soon as it gets a bit off the wall they seem to loose their sense of timing and that makes it...

Re: Thanks Simon I'm sailing in the Solent this weekend so this is all good stuff.

Re: Thanks Simon Interesting stuff. How'd you rate the accuracy of the shipping forecast these days???

Re: Possible sometimes. It's a question of spotting when conditions are favourable. I don't care who you are, or what you sail, they're not always going to be right. So then it's down to whether you can be bothered waiting around for the tide to turn or the wind to shift. I'd expect to sail...

Re: I don\'t think I gave the impression that leisure was a driver. Then again I don't see accuracy improvement as an honest driver either. Your not going to fund this size of project out of the limited commercial applications that require more accuracy than is currently on offer. I'm not...

Re: A computer, on a boat,..... what on earth for?

Re: Never say never but it's hard to see the point of the expenditure. Increased accuracy is rather like improved dog biscuits. All very worthy but hardly essential to the common consumer. Increased security seems an unlikely outcome as the external disruption of GPS is likely to disrupt just...

Photosynthesis is reduced by the reduction of light. Sun's lower and days are shorter so less light available. Much of the stuff that grows on your boat isn't that dependent on photosynthesis. Fouling does seem to like warmer water though, so it's likely to be reduced in winter months.

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