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Can't remember the last time I went sailing in shorts, t-shirt and a canoeing buoyancy aid offering loads of flexibility. Must remember...

My floaty thing is a centre-cockpit, ketch-rigged motor-sailer. Does that sound pompous enough? I also consider it my bounden duty to...

Yep, the same correspondent recently called me pretentious for simply using, er, English words that I'd picked up here & there. Does...

Some years ago our friends had an old Angus Primrose Moody. It had that deep area by the anchor where you could put a bung in and fill...

I always look for sand…but the sea grass is ever expanding….and a lot of sand is only a couple of inches deep with sheet rock...

When I bought Sheolin she had sufficient scale build up in the heads discharge pipework that pumping out was difficult. A gallon of...

Pretty intense at times. It would be interesting to know what anchors the other yachts were using and how they had their snubbers rigged.

It's a good video. I like his competent, polite and helpful style. So many 'experts' have a ranting tone which I'm sure puts off anyone...

We have sailed our Nauticat now for sixteen years, since 2004, must have been 42 years of age at purchase by my reckoning. I couldn‘t...

I showed two of my grandkids (12 & 8) how you could have multiple bowlines over a bollard and any one of them could be cast off without...

Probably not even wrong. A few hundred meters of this chain (co-skipper for scale) in the seabed would likely hold our boat in typical...

I used to have a small, plastic coated, mushroom anchor weighing about 5lb with 50' or so of 3-strand nylon. Designed I think, for...

This 'Fred Is Being Hijacked! The 'Best Anchor Beggars' are at it again, sneaking back in to swerve and subvert us back into their...

Here's a tip. Select a low voltage range on your multimeter (assuming it's not auto-ranging) and see if there is a volt drop between the...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm almost certain now that the alternator is as it always was and it was the VSR being non functional...