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My new boat comes with the old wind round the boom mainsail reefing, so I plan to replace this with slab reefing. I fitted one of the Barton slab reefing kits to a friends boat and with double line reefing it worked very well, using rams horns at the mast for the luff cringles. WIth solo sailing...

All good ideas thank you. Ifor Williams are just up the road from here, I will pop into the shop and see what they have got for their 1 ton trailers.

I have just bought a Sunstar 18 with a 2 wheel braked trailer. The jockey wheel has rusted solid, so I want to fit a new one before I collect the boat. The boat weighs 775Kg and the trailer at a guess another 300Kg. Would anyone know what I should look for in a jockey wheel? I see Amazon and...

Thank you for you replies which are very helpful. The boat is definitely the MK1 GRP and the pix on the Corribee web site in the History are just like the boat I am considering. I have read about various exploits and voyages in the MK2, but there is very little online about this earlier marque...

I have seen a rather nice Corribee Mk1 just up the road and wanted to ask if anyone has one of these boats, or has owned one previously. This is the grp Mk1 by the way. On Sailboat data the displacement is given as 508Kg whereas the Mk2 is given as 907Kg is this correct, is the Mk2 that much...

I am looking at a Sunstar 18 trailer sailer which is for sale locally and in reasonable condition for its age. I would like to find out more about his class of boat, but my searches of Google have produced very little beyond a listing on Sailboat Data. I would really like to contact an owner...

Thanks for all the replies! My iPad is a cellular model with GPS. According to YM or is YW who ran an article on this, there is no need to actually have a connection to a network.

Hi All I bought an iPad Air 2 with 128Gb HDD and now running IOS 12.2. with the intention of using it as an aid to navigation, but for various reasons was unable to do this, until now that is. I see Navionics have changed their software and now have what they call their Boating App. The cost of...

Thanks for those suggestions.

Would anyone know of a reasonably priced haulier who could collect my 21 foot trailer sailer from the boat yard in Sheppey and bring her home to North Wales? She is on the trailer, no cranes required just connect to a towball. Distance from Sheppey to Bala according to Google is 262 miles...

If you have access to a PC in the marina, local library etc, check your email and you will find the one from Hermes and there will be a tracking link. Click the link and that opens the tracker. Nothing to download, nothing to pay. I used Hermes and Parcel Force as my two main carriers and agree...

Hi Mike Many thanks. Makes sense. I will visit the link. I searched online with all sorts of phrases but drew a total blank.

Hi watching the Vendee 2016 and knowing very little about these amazing boats, I am wondering what is the purpose of the two booms that protrude each side of the yacht from the mid section? Are these to hold up the mast, work the dagger boards, or to act as spinnaker poles? Can someone explain...

I bought my Joshua she was fitted with an Autohelm 6000ST and I fitted a Cap Horn servo pendulum windvane for belt and braces. When I had the misfortune to collide with a submerged Chinese shipping container, said steel box mpacted the rudder and broke off the Autohelm steering arm! Next it...

Thanks for your replies. I enquired about a Sea Feather last year and the maker told me he had stopped making for sub 30 footers and was now concentrating on vanes for ARC type boats. Has anyone used a Vecta Vane? This is apparently an updated version of the SP. Your point Plank, about the...