Recent content by Vanilla

We were on a buoy in Newtown last week but nobody came for money. I'd have been more than happy to pay £12.50 to see the seals and mist under the sunrise from the cockpit....sorry poor pics but you get the gist.

By sheer coincidence I'm looking at the forum today after well over a year offline...probably much longer. Haven't been intentionally avoiding but real-life priorities and interests wax and wane, and once I got out of the habit of logging on I sort of forgot about the forum. Now the boat needs...

Easy to forget having had a drink with Neil because it would definately have involved many drinks!!

Just wanted to re-open this thread now the race has finished and give huge congratulation to Neil Payter, sailing Solent 1 (33 ft) the only Brit to finish the Ostar. He came 2nd in the singlehanded...one of only 2 singlehanders to finish. Only 7 of the original 29 (iirc) boats starting made it...

"I'm staggered at how much money I've saved since buying a boat" "One anchor is much like another" "Oh good...I'm really glad those sailing school boats seem to be anchoring all around us" "What a friendly marina....all those people crowding round with fenders to welcome us back to our berth"

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Wow! Great

A friend used this school for her online nav course and spoke highly of it. I prefer face to face teaching myself as lack the discipline to study on my own these days. http://www.howellsail.com/

A lovely but very sad post. So young.........

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Very sad and shocking news. Nigel was a great contributor here and extremely knowledgeable. Condolences to "Mrs Nigel", his family and friends. What a terrible start to 2017

Do those of you with a "thing" about taking fenders in, also always put the seat lid back down again!!! :p

Oh God how horrible for you. So sorry. What a very sad ending to 2016. Do hope you can get something else to sail before too long.

Yes its wonderful. Thanks for alerting us

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