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Ah, yes, I get it now. I was trying to figure out how they would work on the gooseneck casting! A bit rich for my budget, but there's a...

Quay Lane?

I'd say you dodged a bullet there. "Your boat is old..." Of course it is, most Contessas are, but that doesn't stop them being in demand...

I've yet to set it up on Jazzcat, but on Jissel, I found that a soft shackle attached to the clew of the genny allowed me to clip the...

This is the trick to effective single line reefing. Use cheap blocks and run the lines through the cringles, and you have a recipe for a...

I want to bring the lines aft, so I can hoist, reef and drop the mainsail without leaving the cockpit. We have a Kemp boom with three...

All that means in relation to the offensive weapons law is that my fine or prison sentence is bigger than yours.

Many decades ago, IIRC, Lawrence Corner (remember them?) had them, presumably left over from army activities in Malaysia or similar.

If you want insurance, you pretty much have to do it. In practice, a well set-up, correctly tensioned rig will last a lot longer than 10...

I'd agree with that but, a few weeks ago, we were on the boat, and needed some shopping. I forgot to remove my multitool from my belt...

Colregs say, broadly, that the stand on vessel should hold their course until it appears that they need to do something because the give...

Whilst, of course, each to his own, I cannot imagine not carrying a small "swiss army" knife or multi tool. The ability to do minor...

It's "Something Must be Done" legislation, which is invariably bad legislation. There's no need for it, any more than there was for the...

Try walking up to an angry man with a sword and report back.

I'm just watching breakfast tv. An article on the knife ban. Some of the knives are horrendous. Clearly not made for anything else but...