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As ever, it's horses for courses. What's right for me, pottering around the Solent on a less than nimble cat won't be right for you...

My old boat had h section ally frames, and I never could get them to seal. Eventually, I cut them down so the h was an l, which I used...

An alternative if MCBs don't fit in your switch panel is to use a blade fuse circuit breaker You can get blade fuse boxes with LEDs...

The gleam looks lovely until the rub rail does its job.

I so want to make a comment, but I'd be accused of politics...

Get some cornstarch and spread it around in the bilges. The bit that gets washed away is where the water is coming in.

There was an article in PBO years back; someone was asking if they should get a spinnaker or a cruising chute. The answer was neither...

So far enough away that they'd be OK, apart from a few broken windows. Ah well, local papers are always short of stories.

Big +1 I always say that my love for classic wooden boats is second only to my determination not to own one until I'm rich enough to...

Th at may be true of the 9tonners but hillyard built some good ocean crossing yachts…..here a little 2.5 tonner

I'm with you on the two engines bit, but it does help when they're the best part of 4m apart, rather than tucked under a half-boat...

Harrumph! Incompetent skippers who can't manage their boats (quoted from a dozen threads about bow thrusters) I always fancied that...

Apart from a slight ingress of water, starboard side-deck mid ships, this is a dry boat. The above has caused paint to peel on the...

Fly the red ensign or union flag from the port spreader as a house flag. We fly a Breton flag in honour of Madame's ancestry. Years...

I berth a few hundred yards from the crane in Portsmouth Harbour where they load the bangy bits for the Grey Funnel line. The club...