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LucH

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I know this is an odd question... but are there other good forums around, especially dealing with the UK community?

Thanks

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Benbow

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Yes.

The news group uk.rec.sailing has a wide base of knowledgable regulars.
The American-dominated rec.boats.electronics has a good pool of electronics expertise.

If you doubt me go to Google news groups and search these groups for some of the topics that have been discussed here recently. I predict you will find information at least as good. It is amazing how the same topics come round in all of these groups.

This forum has the atmosphere of a smaller group of regulars throwing in comments whether or not they actually can contribute anything useful. That is fine, it is more like how most people chat among themselves, but it is not the situation on the newsgroups.

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Hi Luc, and welcome.

Depends on your particular area of boating interest. This is undoubtedly the best place for practical stuff, both sail and motor, but there are various owner's club type fora as well which can be very useful on specifics. In my case I use the Fairey Owners Club <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/forum/>http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/forum/</A> ownersforum a lot because it's highly relevant to the boats I own. It's a little sparse at the moment because it's just changed location. However all the archived messages will be added to the new forum in due course. You could try doing a search using something like (boat name) owners, as search words.
Good luck.

Bill.



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itsonlymoney

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Welcome aboard.
You will probably find an owners club forum depending on your boat. But we dont know cos you have not filled in your profile. I use <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.baylinerownersclub>bayliner owners club</A>
Ian

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Cruising world 90% American but still a good read
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=35

BYM a virtual yacht club
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I've only just found this forum myself and it seems to be very active

One interesting forum you may wish to look at is www.yachtforums.com which is dedicated to yachts - specifically motor yachts.

John

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There are plenty of others - but most of them are deserted because this one and an owners' association are generally all you need.

(I speak from experience, as I run a forum myself but mostly post on this one!)

- Nick



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