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Vendee Globe 2024, Brits
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I don't understand. I assumed that medallia were leasing the boat for her and would repatriate it to close their involvement. It seems...
Thursday at 22:41
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ridgy
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Sailing around the world on a budget
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Not world girdling but I have a share in a boat in Greece that doesn't have a fridge. Well it does but it only works when the engine is...
26 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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Sailing around the world on a budget
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If you're not afraid of a bit of woodwork then you can get a kit for this, about £500: Hebridean self-steering wind vane Would seem a...
21 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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so who buys them?
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In the same way that nearly all new cars are bought on some kind of credit, you would think that many new boats are also on some kind of...
19 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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cutting perspex(?) washboards
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Good excuse to get that table saw you've always wanted.
15 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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Yachtsman lost in Biscay
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The boat at appeared to be USA flagged for some reason and out of UK waters so maybe not. Since the boat was lost not sure what they...
11 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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Any affordable NW swing moorings or even very cheap marinas? Preferably near Liverpool
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Avoid Fleetwood marina, expensive and you pay twice for time on the hard.
9 Feb 2025
R
ridgy
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Account of the Estonia sinking
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Yachting Monthly's Scuttlebutt
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Bit of a long read about surviving it but quite interesting. A Sea Story
9 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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Any affordable NW swing moorings or even very cheap marinas? Preferably near Liverpool
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If you just want storage near Liverpool and not use the boat any more then nowhere cheaper than fiddlers ferry in Warrington, 450pa and...
9 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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Pull/push pit mounting of Hella nav lights
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Ooh, being a practical boat owner, one of this weeks jobs as it happens. Might be a bit low rent for some with a shiny new boat. 7cm...
7 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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What a shame
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Not that many. Have you seen the price of med charter these days? Absolutely eye watering, we have a share in something older for...
6 Feb 2025
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Sailing through overfalls: how to sail safely through them.... Or go around?
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Did you check the tidal stream atlas or did you just assume slack would be at low water? It isn't. See here Skomer Tides
5 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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No more offshore racing for pre-RCD boats?
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Yachting Monthly's Scuttlebutt
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Been wanting to do the AZAB and a two-handed Fastnet for many years but my current boat doesn't meet the stability requirements. I was...
3 Feb 2025
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ridgy
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What a shame
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There are plenty of people who refuse to have second hand anything except houses and they are not necessarily that rich.
31 Jan 2025
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ridgy
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Sigma 36 - Liverpool/Cumbria/NYorks areas
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Can't help you with the Sigma but a Westerly Storm can be had for similar money to a Fulmar, is slightly bigger, faster, and has modern...
31 Jan 2025
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