Recent content by saab96

I've just put up some new and hardly used fittings on ebay. Get your self a fitting out bargain

If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. Fire on your own boat is bad enough. Fire on a neighbour’s boat in a marina is especially distressing since it had a diminishingly low probability but is now very clearly coming your way. Why is it so important to warm the boat before you get on board...

Does anyone know if this outfit still exists, or knows of John Pollard? I left a main sail with them in 2020 and forgot about it during lockdown. Now John Pollard gave me a story about having an interested buyer at around £500 but now never in when I call. Today they seem to have blocked my...

Did you ever use it? I was aching to be running from a gale but once I bought the Seabrake it was like the gales knew better than to take me on

Of course its better to burn hydrogen than diesel. Imagine if we could convert the engines we already have in boats and cars from diesel to hydrogen. We wouldn’t need to damage the environment by buying millions of brand new electric vehicles if we could convert our old vehicles. We can. Soon, I...

Seabrake drogue, model GP24, for boats up to 35 feet. Unused. Seabrake | Burke Marine. Much recommended in the yachting press as a life saver. Fortunately I never had to deploy it. Current retail price £189.99 £140 plus postage. A real bargain

I can now recommend the RNYC Humber to Rattray Head as well as Henry Irving's Blakeney to St Abbs. I think I'll give it a bash after I work out where to escape to when the wind is strong from the north and east. At least the tidal streams don't seem frightening - but I could be wrong. Thanks to...

Thanks for all this useful stuff. I’m planning to move back to my home city of Newcastle after a long time away and since Brexit has forced me to sell up and leave Europe but I don’t want to give up sailing, and Newcastle is too far from the East Coast rivers that I know from the 70s and 80s, I...

Has anyone any experience of sailing this part of the coast? What are the rivers like, the harbours, the marinas and cruising the coast? Is there a helpful cruising guide for yachts? Thanks

lw1atbath@yahoo.co.uk and I look forward to a great read

I'll read and review. Is it paper or kindle?

On ebay starting £15 plus p&p Ocean Passages for the World NP 136, 3rd edition, 1973. Essential reference. | eBay Ocean Passages for the World NP 136, 3rd edition, 1973, prepared by Commander Jenkins for the Hydrographic Department of the MOD. Previous editions were 1895, 1923 and 1950. In...

Prior to the UK leaving the EU there was no long standing 180 day concession by the UK to EU nationals. Surely there was only the EU free movement, which allowed all EU nationals indefinite time to visit any EU country, which included the UK. So what happened next is the brexit restriction on...

I’ve seen reports. Obviously not the ones you have seen. A few boats damaged. Much fear. No one hurt. This is atypical orca behaviour. Probably an aggressive reaction to stress caused by fishing methods rather than any preference for eatinga human/ GRP sandwich. Therefore distinct from a “rogue”...