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FWIW, I had a SH260 with original NiCd battery pack at its life end (+the alkaline emergency box was totally oxidized), I gently opened...

Fair point!

Though a spinnaker could, don t ask how I know :(

Thank you. Oh now I see it I did not enlarge the picture, there is one USB C port marked 'Input' :)

How is it charged? The specifications say 'Power adapter not included'

I bought a rugby one in case I need to go up the mast at sea (again), I really felt I needed it. At deck level my boom is high, the...

Build your own boat and sail round the world in it. Every schoolboy's dream.. Pity there isn't an Ikea flat pack equilivant that the...

+1 At least one etymology if from junk rigs with very deep and slender mainsails throughout the luff with long battens, the boom is...

Sorry, it's the other way around :( It's not "other people", a rally (like the ARC) often crowds out anyone else on the spot, let...

Suffice to say I left the land of my birth at the age of two. Twenty one years come February since my boat and I first arrived in Chile...

I have serious difficulties in trying and follow on the plotter my previous track when going southward, I often twist my head upside...

Bear in mind that if you are tempted to visit Rabat by boat, the port can be closed in big swells off the Atlantic. We couldn’t get in...

Well… I look at a job and thing “that shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes” so allow myself 30-60 minutes because everything on a boat...

Alternatively, instead of protecting people's heads or limbs, make the whole hull deck and fittings less dangerous. A winch receives...

It wasn't two fatalities by boom strikes..... One of them an experienced yachtsman who'd done the SHR several times got smashed against...