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Shepherds pie on the cabin sole, while sailing through the Raz de Seine. What do you do when it’s 2 in the morning and the food is on the floor? Scrape it up and eat it!

On my 3 blade there were rubber stops that needed replacement every few years. Otherwise just basic cleaning and greasing.

Tieing to the guard wires puts a load on the stanchion when alongside (IMHO). So I tie to the wire when coming alongside for ease of adjustment, then transfer to the stanchion base.

The Royal Navy does refer to submarines as ‘boats’. All other vessels are ‘targets’.

Had to perform the snip and pull through on a golden retrievers paw, on the tow path at Cookham. Outside the sailing club so pliers were to hand. Fortunately the dog was perfectly well behaved. Doubt that I would do this for a pit bull!

On the Topper website it says the rudder and daggerboard are polypropylene. There may of course be added fillers… with an SG of 0.97 it would not take much to make it sink. I remember them as being much heavier than a wood equivalent.

Entering Plymouth Sound in rough weather: A post from 2013 discusses this, and see the MAIB report on Kishmul of Ayr.

A very sporting achievement! Sailor finishes epic voyage around 262 islands of England and Wales

Just seen a review in the Guardian of this book, about Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Polish engineer at Gdańsk shipyard who sailed round the world in a sub 30 foot boat in 1976-78. I confess to never hearing of her.

We had two flat steel spanners made up by a local engineer. The handles were about 6 in long.

The owner was Keith Irons in 2011, a member of Little Ship Club. So google says.

Tom Cunliffe once said, “When things go wrong, aim for the boat which looks least expensive.”

I guess it is Dielette.