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Anyone else here stuck somewhere in the Red Sea? We left Langkawi before the world went mad. Even in February when we departed Cochin it was relatively ok just a little concerned. Djibouti we were permitted to enter then after week the port closed leaving us not permitted on land again. We...

As the Admiral onboard I ensure duties are shared fairly - he cooks breakfast, I do supper, I do the Nav, he fixes heads, I put down the anchor, he brings it up.... anything else is up for grabs for the first person who decides its their turn. It’s taken twenty plus years and more than half a...

Temptress’ Admiral here! A hunt through our 2014 inbox found the info you require: Janine Roberts e: janine2020@hotmail.com p: 659502501 or 928822623 Hope that helps S

As a self-confessed thermal cooking addict (I own two pots. One the UKs Mr D and the second a Japanese brand) can I address your points: 1. Yes you can brown the onions and meat but you don’t have to. I often do and accept that the thermal cooker doesn’t save prep time, just cooking gas; 5 mins...

I use a pressure cooker onboard for all the usual soups, stews etc but also without bringing to pressure it’ll bake a reasonable loaf (crusty on the bottom and sides but not on the top but the skipper doesn’t mind) and it’s great for popcorn ( try using coconut oil for a hit at sundowners)! Make...

That's our thinking too. On ocean passages we usually only have the gps, AIS and instruments on. We enter our destination waypoint (& others to avoid obstructions if needed) and steer to that. It saves power and the rest is unnecessary. Log entries are made in the book very few hours and on a...

As we currently have 4 displays on a cockpit bulkhead I think we'll end up with 4 separate displays again unless someone can do a very good filler job... ?

We inspect our rig every few months and before each and every passage longer than a couple of days so trips up the mast are routine. My bigger concern is whether the little solar panels on the instrument heads in the cockpit will charge well under a bimini!

Our VHF is a 25year old Sailor and I'll be sad to see it replaced. I'm hoping it can be repaired.

A mite difficult as we are currently based in Singapore but I agree a visit to a showroom might be useful if I can find one locally.

We've done that and more very comfortably with our Jeanneau SO47 but a similar boat may be slightly over your budget, a tad longer than you are looking at and aft cockpit....

Thanks to Mother Nature we've got the opportunity of renewing wind, speed, depth, radar, vhf and autopilot (just the tip of a long list sadly): We thought to go wireless for the instruments/transducers i.e. Tacktick but apart from that and the fact that the AIS and wifi boxes still seem to be...

La Lisa's would your service stations service our XM liferaft? Thx

Thx will give them a call in the New Year

We have a XM 6 man RORC pack life raft and it needs servicing - the list of approved servicing agents for Singapore is by manufacturer. Can any one advise who currently owns this brand? A web search threw up a number of defunct companies until I lost the trail ?