Roberto

As the saying goes, if you invent something foolproof, someone will invent a new kind of fool.

When mine was past its expiry date, I replaced myself the batteries (cost some tens of euro for exactly the same battery pack) and at...

If it doesn’t have GPS I would deregister it, remove the battery and bin it

The OP message says video deleted, if it's just for a bit of fun

A locking soft shackle with the "traditional" version, probably 90% of the soft shackles I use

Conventional theoretical advice is to attach a spring from the bow (rigged to slip) to a point well back and motor forward against it...

In case one wants/needs to use a soft shackle for the snubber, a long one "prussiked" around the chain (as many turns as one likes)...

In my youth I sailed an engineless 9m racer (a half tonner, at the time), it was fun and we learnt a lot in sail handling for safety...

Several years ago there was a Bowman 40 in my marina, very nice looking boat, IIRC it was RYS it was the first white ensign I saw. No...

HR has a higher number than both of them, Oyster comes very near, not exactly proletarian boats :) Indeed it's what (a certain category...

As of boats used for ocean cruising, a few months ago I queried the Ocean Cruising Club data base for the different monohull boatyards...

'Production' vs 'blue water' boats... As has been said many times, all sorts of boats can do ocean crossings. My own observation of what...

The central screw is steel inside a steel winch base bore, it can come undone (unlike steel inside light alloy). I'd second try and...

I've never had any problems selling on this forum, although I'd like to see the arbitrary, unrealistic and unjustifiable £400 limit...

It's one of those old boats you are not surprised to find basically anywhere in the world, say like an Albin Vega. Norway? Alaska? New...