PeterV

Summer 1979, left Herm bound for Swanage with a SW 5-6 forecast, myself and 10 year old sister on board Dad’s bilge keel Sanre 27. By...

John Cherry did my Westerly GK 29. Very pragmatic and sensible, very experienced with Westerlys.

Don’t they have a lot of sail training boats like that in France?

If you meant to say Challenged for the Americas Cup, you’d have been correct. Sir Thomas Lipton didn’t win it once.

Have you tried asking Raymarine? Whenever I’ve had a problem with any of my instruments I’ve found the manufacturers very helpful.

I was shocked at least!

My Garmin is a Garmin Echomap UHD65cv, connected to a McMurdo Smart Find M10 AIS.

I bought a Garmin, it was very good value because the price included full chart coverage of all the areas I’m likely to sail in.

The Garmin plotters also show targets, CPA is shown green if astern, red if ahead.

Painting is certainly an option and as Jamie says, doesn’t prevent you redoing the headlinings later. Replacing the headlinings...

Not so. It depends on the construction and how it’s done. Coating epoxy on the outside of a wooden dinghy, leaving the inside with...

I have the UHD65cv. In menu, tracks, active tracks, clear active tracks. Deletes all tracks and starts new ones until you delete them...

Although the bilge keel Snapdragons were poor sailors upwind, the centreboard ones were not. When I started cruiser racing most of the...

The first Snapdragons were 23’ and 26’. They were replaced by the 21’, 24’, 27’ and 29’ range. The 25’ Snapdragon is one of the eBay...

I assume they couldn’t afford a long enough ensign staff. Perhaps we could start a crowdfunding page to help them.