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a. Wireless. b. If it does not meet COLREGS it isn't legal. But yes, better than nothing, which is common on tenders. The other common...

A bend is a knot joining two ropes. Sheet bend. Fisherman's bend. Overhand bend. Carrick bend. Bending on a rope is a verb and is not...

Some things can't be unseen, so I don't need to look again.

Then for you (fellow tri sailor) I'm going to recommend Gill waterproof socks and deck shoes instead of wet feet of boots. They were a...

Not very bright. SOS is 10 miles in the US, not 3 miles. The stern tricolor needs to be 2 miles. That's 12 hours when it's new. I...

Are you still sailing (the wet feet gang) or are your boats up for the year? And it won't get properly cold for another month.

I was being polite. I’ll formally consider myself bonkers if I sail barefoot.

I wonder if that theory has ever been systematically tested. I'd bet dinner that the correct sole will outgrip skin on every surface...

... Which most in the UK would deem to be about 1-2 months, at most, out of a 12-month year.

^^ I'm not sure how that helped. Hell, just swim across the channel. It's been done.

:ROFLMAO: . There had to be one.

The greatest challenge, IMO, is the haze and fog. Below is an exceptionally clear day, for most areas, and notice that everything in the...

Obviously, this whole thread is largely in jest. The shopping cart in question was very well buried in the mud, probably for decades...

I got a shopping cart once. In fact, it held quite well. Lots of fluke area? Perhaps the best that lousy Delta ever held.

The problem with being pedantic is that it never ends. :ROFLMAO: a. It is a Prusik hitch, not a knot. A bowline, for example is a...