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My boarding aid - a low freeboard 😊

There is a woman on the crew. Vastly experienced, about 55, and just as up for a callout as the 30 year olds. Being as keen as mustard...

There are at least two sorts of pacemaker. When I told DVLA about mine I then had to convince them it was the less-problematic one which...

Absolutely no offence taken by me at all. It's just that I don't want The Old Guvnor looking over my shoulder at posts here and getting...

@Poignard and @mjcoon. No offence intended. I was simply quoting what I was told as an example of not knowing the full background to a...

Not my experience. Our Lifeboat was an all weather boat, an Arun, then a Severn, perhaps yours is different. Two of the crew were...

There have been manual RO devices before - it's hardly a new idea. The verdict on previous ones was that you'd sweat out as much as you...

We do not know all the facts. I used to know a guy who would frequently take his smallish yacht out for a motor in fine weather. One...

I had my main anchor, a 15kg Bruce copy, at the stern holding the boat off from the rock and used the smaller spare anchor as a rock...

Unfortunately, on the East Coast it is very easy to be like Aladdin's Genie when he points out the emergency exits on the magic carpet...

"Safe!" And "Danger that way; safety that way!" Anything beyond that is a cherry on top! 😎

When introducing the gentle art of pilotage I would quote Mark Twain's river pilot. Lady passenger: "Gee your the pilot" "Yes mam" "You...

Watch out, Neeves will be along to tell us all to never use a Paradigm Anchor, but the far superior Bias Anchor - oh, and make sure you...

I don't even want one wheel - a tiller is just fine!

Sorry for the late response! This post (GPS Spoofing) gives the low-down! The global datums (WGS72, WGS84, ED50 and the like) all...