Recent content by Simondjuk

It's neither.

Did the fundamental difference between dive gear and the piece of advice given in the MGN pass you by?

Oh dear.

3.3 An inflatable lifejacket will normally contain a metallic gas canister and firing mechanism and it is important after each use to rinse the lifejacket with fresh water and hang it up to dry after each usage in order to prevent unnecessary corrosion

Whilst technically applicable only to the servicing of SOLAS life saving appliances, using a service station listed in the PDF found on this page: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/approved-service-stations-for-liferafts-boats-and-life-jackets and approved to service your make of raft...

I find it concerning how many people consider AIS a fundamental collision avoidance tool in the Solent, in daylight and good viz, on a busy summer Saturday afternoon? There are too many vessels and watercraft, large numbers of the fastest, most manoeuvrable and least predictable of which are...

Me three.

All this dangling from strings backed up by strings backed up by a string in the hands of an easily distracted assistant on deck who looks after the string that backs up the string that backs up the string makes me nervous. Just free climb the bugger those many points of potential failure that...

... could you please email your bosses and ask them to turn down the constantly refreshing ads, stupid 'article continues below' ads and all the other poorly judged advertising which is making this site all but unusable on mobile? Whilst I appreciate that advertising is necessary to survive...

Another tip to go with the halyard marking, if single line isn't a goer for R3, as it often isn't due to insufficient boom length for boom car systems and excessive clutter on external block systems, run a line from cockpit to gooseneck terminated with a snap shackle. Put on the appropriate...

5/6 with gentle gusts in the afternoon.

I think there may be some confusion as to whether they're being described as having gone alongside ahead, downtide and upwind or astern, uptide and downwind.

And imagining how preoccupied by non-stop CPA alarms they are only makes it scarier!

If you don't have or can't read the numbers for any reason, give a bearing and distance from a charted object instead. No one, not even the much maligned prompt cards, are saying not to, and the mayday procedure card that Captain Sensible linked to on the first page of this thread does suggest...

You could use a dry wipe pen and update it regularly, but reading it off from the screen of the VHF you're using is more convenient.