Recent content by sails_02

Exactly, I had never been seasick before and found the experience to be rather humbling after quite a few years of boat and sea related work. Once in the Irish Sea I would have sold my soul for a helicopter to come and pluck me off that boat. Sea sickness does interesting things to your mind...

I would imagine the bulk of the sailors are making up numbers like myself when I participated in 2019, making up numbers among an experienced core crew. This is not exclusively a professional race by any measure, and I knew of a boat with a very poor maintenance schedule and a barely working VHF...

As a once kite surfer I can almost guarantee you that from the perspective of the kites you were as interesting an obstacle as a slow moving apartment building, and equally predictable. If you’ve ever been skiing you will be familiar with “the feeling” as a beginner of being overwhelmed by the...

Thanks that is very useful. How unusual is this type of summer storm? I suppose mostly not unusual for the area to see those wind speeds and to cope fine with the storm?

Wednesday off the coast of Amsterdam, very sudden storm developed out of the English Channel. Seemed to suddenly form and start gusting 50++ knots. I guess due to the warm sea temperature? Were there any contributing factors that would have predicted this? Weather seemed quite settled otherwise

chartered last year June South Ionian flying in via PVK airport 20min taxi from Lefkada, easy London flights anchored only for 7 days, got smashed by the microburst storm but otherwise perfect destination for easy sailing as the storm was an anomaly! used this team who were great Yacht Charter...

On ebay if you want to nab it at a discount Spinlock 5D Size 2 Deckvest, 3 Line Clip and AIS MOB device | eBay

Baby on the way, will be a while before I get near enough to an ocean to need any of these. £200 for all 3 incl postage Spinlock deckvest 5d-offshore Size 2 Condition : Bought new 2019, used for the qualifying and fastnet race and a race later in the season. Inflated to test once. Unused...

Yes agreed. Time to sell is ideal. The issue as you describe is with spotty data. The linked PropertyData app tracks re-listings quite well, but this is because houses have a canonical reference (the address) so it is always possible to re-identify a listing. Not so with boats in any useful way

As a fellow "browser" of perhaps less persistent nature than you, I've wondered if there is some indicator that would proxy your feeling of "slower sales in the range" I noted that there are 4 pages of ~relevant used boats, but I think a more useful indicator would be time to sell or number of...

Starlink "High-speed, low-latency internet with up to 350 Mbps download while at sea" Coverage below, would be interested to know if this is "intended coverage" because the Covered Now part looks to follow semi arbitrary boundaries in the Atlantic Source...

This seems about right, this article has some data, but the below chart seemed the most relevant. Excess savings is the red line, over the blue historical average. I suppose it makes sense that most of those middle class men need to burn down that red line before boat demand goes anything near...

Thanks, first draft was always going to be jigsawed marine ply, screws etc to get the dimensions, this I'm very familiar with, second version would be what you describe, and then third if we get there would be getting it drawn up with the learnings from one and two.

This looks spot on. Thanks all. Sketch attached, it is actually 3D, which might not be obvious, but the bottom base if flat, the leg is vertical and the top bit is flat again. It won't be load bearing but needs to be firm, so perhaps stringer or buttress of sorts along the back of the vertical...

I'm looking to get a CAD design fabricated. Will involve cutting (plasma?), bending and some minor machining, anodised finish. I don't think CNC would be cost effective. Does anyone have any experience or suggestions for getting this done? Looking at plate aluminium, about 600mm x 300mm x...