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There's something special when it's just you, the boat, and the moon. I picked up a mooring one time in Bradwell Creek , next to Peewit...

A number of times seeing that in mid Atlantic, I know I've got a day or two to prepare for a bumpy ride. Traditional way of...

If anyone wishes to learn the detail of which, I recommend "Rainbows, Halos, and Glories" [his Oxford comma] by Robert Greenler...

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Must get a bit draughty using it there.

Love my Baby Blakes

Lovely description of this in Michael Green's "The Art of Coarse Sailing" where in the end D Hillyard didn't like Green's friend and...

With 119 watchers (actually 120 as I have just added myself!) there seems to be a lot of interest in her; even allowing of those who...

Halos result from reflections from ice crystals high in the atmosphere.

Can't improve on the above, particularly moving away from white metal bearings. Faced the same as yourself onetime. I was fortunate to...

Quite striking in Essex/Suffolk tonight (Monday, 11th Nov)) . Can't say I have noticed in the sailing season.

I use webbing with 1.5x 2x the (usually suggested) 2t breaking load, whatever I find, and sew them with the Sailrite. Loose a bit of...

I find that you can lessen the effect a bit by using those magic erasers, which I suppose, is like using a very fine wet & dry .

Over 100 of them.... Read all about it. You couldn't make it up - but they do!

This shows the one on my engine The cap is at the bottom of this picture and you can also see the wire going up to the left