Recent content by Tomaret

Looking at the wake in the other photographs knowing the location of the fuel berth is critical.

Fourth floor, fifth room from the left of the building on the right? The convention used to be to mark your room with an x on postcards home from holiday. Or, if you are expecting something more nautical, standing at the stern. Wherever it is, it looks sunnier than Shropshire has been for many...

It depends on where you plan to sail. If you are in restricted waters where you might be tacking a lot (eg the Solent) a self tacking jib is a real benefit and, if necessary, you can throw in a tack at a moments notice without releasing the sheet and then struggling to haul in the genoa whilst...

Apple products may be expensive, but they’d only buy another 25-50mm so in length if I switch to Android and wno would ever get excited by an extra couple of inches?

You may be right. All I know is that at the end of the season it was firing first pull, never to fire again. The mechanic said that it had lost all compression. It was an air cooled Honda. I use Aspen because from personal experience given my patterns of use, I find the engines start better with...

I used Aspen 2 for my o/b for one season and over the winter it gave up the ghost. Then I read the warning about not using it in marine conditions. I must learn to read the instructions first! My current o/b runs on Aspen 4 plus marine grade 2 Stroke oil, and start first or second pull, even...

We are an Apple household - phones, laptop, Macs and iPads - and our Android favouring sons tell us that we’ve fallen victim to clever marketing.

Ordnance Survey disagree with you. Britain is the island, Great Britain is Britain and its off lying islands, including Orkney and Shetland, and the British Isles is Great Britain and Ireland and its off-lying islands.

Apart from committing the cardinal sin of describing Grimsby as being in Yorkshire, you have produced an interesting read, and whetted my appetite!

Last summer a single-handed sailor in a mobo made a mayday call in the Solent, as we were heading west past Cowes en route for Weymouth. We listened to the exchange with Solent Coastguard and quickly realised that the casualty was in our vicinity. We were able to spot the boat and went to her...

Lures of different kinds for fishing - the ones that get away often take the lure with them so you can’t have too many on board - and perhaps a decent filleting knife. Leave them to buy the line and reel.

There’s a Bowman 57 for sale that did the World ARC a few years ago. I’ve done a North Atlantic circuit on her and would happily go further. The owners did an West-East crossing in her two-handed as well as the trip from the UK to Las Palmas.

I think he will have to make a few posts to establish his credentials before posting of the For Sale forum.

It may not qualify you for anything, but it might get you certified😀. (Truth to tell, I’m slightly envious that you have the determination to did it.)

My little black box appears to have given up the ghost, so looking to replace it, rather than the whole system, if possible.