Recent content by Superstrath

At present that date suits me, with any luck at all I won't have to cry off again, I can advise nearer the date regarding spare berths etc.

Well, looks like you all had a good time. I must say that I spent most of Sunday outside, wishing I was on a boat, but obeying orders and trying to recuperate. I am feeling a lot better, it would have been daft to go off gallivanting and carousing all weekend, but just as soon as you start...

Thanks for all the kind comments guys, I'm sorry to be letting you all down. East Coast in September, hmmm? I fancy that, so count me in, and one or even two regular crew, if you've space. Have a great time this weekend, I hope all the Southerners and other visitors have fun, there certainly...

Sorry guys, but I have this afternoon been convinced that this weekend's adventure would be a big mistake. I found myself in Carlisle Infirmary on Tuesday night after suffering a seizure on the M6. This as a consequence of suffering from a brain tumour since September 2006. My advisors tell me...

Re: You can\'t always believe what you read or see!!! [ QUOTE ] And by the same token, the earth is flat. If it was curved, we'd all slide down the slope. We don't, so it isn't..... And that's how the map-makers depict it - and they should know! [/ QUOTE ] Well, for most yachting purposes...

[ QUOTE ] You can correct them from the Notices to Mariners that UKHO publish for their own charts. Find the UKHO charts that cover the same area and look up the corrects for those - I think they are available on the web for the past 5 years or so. [/ QUOTE ] Tha same thing applies - once...

Re: You can\'t always believe what you read or see!!!

If the bold "Cliff" was still about he'd tell you that he ran domestic fridges from invertors on his boat. I saw them with my own eyes, I have no idea about his battery setup, but I can tell you that his beer was cold and he had ice to spare. He may well have explained it all on here in the...

My mobile has a compass, a level, a thermometer and a decibel-meter. Very handy, if I need to know the temperature, direction and loudness of my pants. Otherwise, useless. It's like the grown-up version of those Clark's Explorer shoes when I was young, that had a handy compass in the heel, and...

My favourite - K for knife.

I've got a canoe helmet that I bought last summer so I could sail the dinghy a couple of weeks after my latest bout of brain surgery. I then wore it on the Snowgoose, not for protection from the boom (It's way too high to worry about) but from the top of the bridge-deck door and the main...

I think I've answered this before on here somewhere, but I once chartered a Contessa 32 for a fortnight from Loch Linnhe. Me, my wife, her friend, and my old chum from Scouting days. After a few days battering about the Isles, I asked what was in the rucksac he had filled a locker with. "My...

I don't think that there's room to get even a strap wrench round the ring, but you can usually get a drift of some sort onto one of the stepped parts and give it a few gentle belts, this is what we had to do. Access was, of course, poor, but a very long, old, blunt screwdiver served as a drift...

Re: Knot so pedantic- flying bowline [ QUOTE ] the one shown in the video demo as the flying bowline he calls the left handed bowline (#1034 1/2) which he says is "distinctly inferior" to the right handed version. [/ QUOTE ] I'm still not sure. Look at #1035 in Ashley, the Angler's Loop tied...

Re: Blobbies up masts Well, guys, I went into the loft and pulled out an old Stability folder, and found one worked example of a heavy lift. On floating the load, the CoG moves up as if the load is at the derrick-head. Even though the load is only lifted high enough to clear the hatch coaming...