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Not every yacht can sit on its keel. Personally I would never buy a yacht that couldn't be dried out against a wall, but perhaps that...

If you twist and turn the wire ends and add a bit of rope, you can then hook it somewhere or add another rope to a winch and apply all...

I kept some of the mast and deck fittings and pins (one for every different cable size) to make an emergency stay/shroud: it's dyneema...

I have just looked at the pictures: why is paint missing from the front half of the keel and bulb?

The yard I use lifts a boat every half hour (during their 6 to 9 month full working season), in/out the water. It includes commercial...

' That's how I would play it. The yard is contracted by me to do the work and they are responsible for doing it properly. There's no...

CAV can have various types of draining bolts, one type has an outside vertical groove about half way along the thread, one unscrews the...

Here we go again, recycling perceptions and half truths. Yes one Ben 40.7 was tragically lost - mid Atlantic in terrible storm...

Bit light on the bikini shots, but yes - she’s very attractive.

Yes, I was diving with SCUBA in the mid 70's. No fancy instrumentation and buoyancy was controlled by the residual air kept in our...

Without a shadow of doubt - quite apart from the amount of weight it's as far from the centre of the boat as you can possibly get

Wear gloves when you handle them :) Some types leave microscopic invisible shreds that can make your hands itch for days

FWIW, after having sewn, stitched and restitched the zip a number of times (with the so called UV resistant thread every year I have a...

Image of the day, possibly. LR boat

I guess the main merit might be making you feel "safer". :) FWIW I use soft shackles in many applications, not one has ever come undone...