Should I stick telltales on charter yacht's main?

[RichardS]

Our boat is "modified" every season by charterers who do not bother with the provided ashtrays, chopping boards, table mats etc. They may feel that it is their home for the week but do they really treat their own homes like that?!

Richard

 

[dylanwinter]

bang on

Its not your boat. Don't mess with it without consulting the owner.

Do people really need to be told that ?

Tim

dead right

I was thinking about this and wondering why people have to ask.



But then I am an unreasoanble person

Dylan

 

[CoVianna]

Humber

being able to spend a day filming the humber yawls racing from the slug would be worth paying for

D

Amy Howson and Comrade are a sight to behold. They still hold my attention everytime I sail past them. Try locking into Ferriby Sluice (River Ancholme) for a closer static look if they are there.

Dylan, I would have thought that Blacktofts Nature Reserve and Trent Falls area would have been on your list of 'to film' locations. Lots of migrating birds there depending on the time of year obviously (I'm not a twitcher or naturalist!). Get a few seals on the mud too. Oh and its the only place I have seen eels on land too. Thought they were snakes at first!

 

[Ubergeekian]

The sluig draw 18 inches all the time

OK, can I dare ask a serious question? I've always thought that the Mirror Offshore looked a bit odd because the mast seems extremely short for the size. Another 30 - 50% in height and it would be quite good looking in a Tonka toy sort of way (my own boat, by the way, I find good looking in a Tonka toy sort of way).

Is the shallow draught the reason for the titchy rig? Did they sacrifice sail area for the sake of ditch crawling ability?

 

[dylanwinter]

dunno

OK, can I dare ask a serious question? I've always thought that the Mirror Offshore looked a bit odd because the mast seems extremely short for the size. Another 30 - 50% in height and it would be quite good looking in a Tonka toy sort of way (my own boat, by the way, I find good looking in a Tonka toy sort of way).

Is the shallow draught the reason for the titchy rig? Did they sacrifice sail area for the sake of ditch crawling ability?

never met the designer so I have no ideas what was going on in his head

every boat is a compromise

I assume that the short mast is to make it easy to raise and lower

and having taken it on the Broads and to the top of the navigation on the Medway and up the Blythe then dropping the mast is pretty quick and easy.

They did make a mark 2 - more ballast, taller rig

one bloke tried sturning one into a cutter with a bowsprit.

The boat has been brilliant for this trip - it sits upright on the mud, sand and concrete

the small mast keeps the sails small - although I would love a genoa that ran the full length of the forestay - I use the genoa a lot - but then I would have to upgrade the roller reefing, buy a new groove, buy a new genoa when the existing one is a brillaint shape.

The tonka toy looks are inevitable given the decent sized kicthen unit - under the hatch where you can stand to cook - and the separate heads.

The low draft is wonderful because I don't have to use a dinghy very often

I do have an ebay £30 - beach inflatable that I have used once. But usally I just run the thing aground on a shingle beach

when are you going to start watching the films?

very happy to give you a subscription on the basis that you might watch them, enjoy them, then eventually decide that after watching 5 hours of them - hopefully not all - decide to stick a £5 note in an envelope. Or if you don't do that - well I will never know how many you have watched and all I have lost is a bit of bandwidth.

Dylan