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Try sailing the boat for a season before making any serious alterations. Your ideas will probably change with the experience and any...
25 Aug 2024
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As others have said, it is not a problem even singlehanded, raising the main and reefing at the mast. Indeed that is the set up I much...
25 Aug 2024
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Adapting one's reefing technique may help too. I always hove-to to reef my boat so no matter the weather it was always a calm...
25 Aug 2024
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I certainly would try. I like the idea of less clutter in the cockpit but it’s good to know how much if so as if I can’t manage I...
25 Aug 2024
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Why not try it and see how you get on with reefing at the mast before you spend something like £2500/3000 converting. We love the...
25 Aug 2024
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Another battery question - replace 3 lead acid flooded with single AGM?
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That's fair comment. But it's possible for some people to get good life out of 'leisure batteries'. And with the price of lithium...
24 Aug 2024
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Surely working life should also be part of the equation. My four 100Ah Rolls AGM are still working after 15years, though they may not...
23 Aug 2024
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Drip free refilling from 20 litre jerry can?
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I use a jiggle siphon. Bit slower but much less possibility for mess.
23 Aug 2024
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Another battery question - replace 3 lead acid flooded with single AGM?
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15 years ago I fitted 4 x100amp/h Rolls AGM batteries in parallel for house supply. I choose 100amp/h as being the heaviest I could...
23 Aug 2024
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Replacing the wall lining in our 30 ft sailing yacht
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I would suggest stripping the old carpet and doing the job properly, and yes I have done it on a 33ft Prout catamaran. Quite a few...
22 Aug 2024
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If you are going down the replacement route, something I am doing at the moment, consider adding a layer of insulation.
22 Aug 2024
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Has somebody broken the Met Office weather model?
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Interesting. I noticed fairly recently that windy.com (ECMWF model) has started showing orographic rain over out island on its map...
21 Aug 2024
srm
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Has somebody broken the Met Office weather model?
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At a guess they may be allowing for a far less stable atmosphere where geostrophic wind (above the friction layer) is more likely to be...
21 Aug 2024
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Boat Insurance and surveys?
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I had a similar large hike in premiums and no change in my risk profile a few years ago. When I complained that I was being...
21 Aug 2024
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H-Huges London Sextant. Help for dating
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Yes, should be OK. Its just that I have heard of instruments being effectively destroyed by someone using metal polish and obliterating...
20 Aug 2024
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