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I think you will find a round turn (or better two or three) and two half hitches will work just as well. The two half hitches slide up...

If I know that there's a bit of wind coming, I don't have a dinghy up alongside, hoisted up on a halyard. I reduce windage if I can, and...

I spliced long loops of hard rope to make sacrificial "shackles" to pass through aggressive mooring cleats with two or three turns then...

if it's actually permanent, treat it as you would a strop on a swinging mooring. That is to say, a shackle the ring to a rope spliced...

wrap the rope around the ring a couple of times before returning to secure on your boat. it apparently stops chafing by preventing the...

Would certainly make a conversation starter in any marina. Looks like a modern take on the prehistoric triangular stone anchor. I would...

We took part in a French classic boat rally known as Vilaine en Fête a few years ago. One of the overnight stops was at Redon. Only...

Two anchor deployed in a 'V' or fork can manage a wind that oscillates first in one direct ion then another. If you use one anchor the...

I've tried that! Years ago, on a bareboat Eastern Med charter hol - just she and me - we found a perfect little island with a perfect...

Who said regularly? Have you ever spent a few hours at anchor with the masthead anemometer still hard against the 60kn stop when it...

Yes, it's an act of faith, and faith and experience can be increased by more anchoring. Even so, you never know quite how good a hold...

Anchoring is an act of faith. Even when we can see a nice clean sandy bottom there is no knowing what lies a few centimetres or deeper...

50 years of owning and sailing cruising yachts. Have never understood the need for boom brakes as use preventers rigged to the end of...

I have rigged two preventers midship with lines through single blocks back to the cockpit cleats both have quick release connectors to...

Never had a calcium build up in any of my boats over 50 years of yacht ownership. Probably because I never liked the idea of human...