Stupid questions but .....

[NigeCh]

Aways wear a rucksack

Always wear deck shoes (Have a pair of winter wellies for sailing)

Never clip on. Never wear a PFD in a dinghy. Have only used the radio twice in the past 8 years. Hardly ever put a PFD on at night - It's too uncomfortable and restricts movement. Tend to sleep with all my wet clothes on to dry them out in the hollowfil fibre sleeping bag. Cook with gas on a boat with a gas locker that drians into the bilge.

Drink kye. Eat kippers and point two fingers upto the H&SE.

Use laminated Admiralty charts with Imrays as backups.

Don't have radar but do have a permanently installed octagonal in the double raincatcher position.

Go where the winds take me.

Anchor at min 7:1 scope .....

AND generally have a fine time all the year round. In fact, IMO, winter sailing is more fun than summer sailing.

So, NigeL, I'm an ananomoly with a long keel and I don't give a stuff what the other posters have posted about .... My wellies have unused strings ... WHY? because I threw the strings away when I bought them - It was the cut soles that I was after. The only people who wear wellies onshore with strings are pub posers.

I don't give a stuff about a lot of other matters too as long as sailing still can keep on being a fun thing

Cheers to you all,

NigeCh

PS: And I refuse to have animals or small children aboard.

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[charles_reed]

Re: Now the picture is emerging ...

In fact its the sewing on the webbing that UV degrades, not the webbing itself.

You should always have the strain at the end of the jackstays take by a flat-half-hitch and the ends sewn down.

This was one of the main recommendations to come out of the Sydney-Hobart inquiry.

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[Mirelle]

Re: Now the picture is emerging ...

Thanks, Charles, that is very well worth knowing.

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[Guest]

Good for you mate !!!

If we all stopped doing what we enjoy - what a bloody awful world it would be !!!!

Cheers
Nigel


<hr width=100% size=1>Nigel ...
Bilge Keelers get up further ! I only came - cos they said there was FREE Guinness !

 

[alan_d]

Wellies in dinghy

You lot must be able to get in and out of your dinghy somewhere dry - not on an open beach. Wellies essential.

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[chippie]

Re: Wellies in dinghy

I have often worn my seaboots in a dinghy, but they are quite different from what you Poms call wellies and we call gumboots. Gumboots can fill up with water whereas my seaboots cant as they are laced at the top . I know as I have been over the side in them and kept my feet dry. Not much good for swimming though, maybe I'll have another think about it.
In my motorcycling days I used to have a very small pack (actually an old gas mask pack) that I used to have in front of me for the very reasons described.

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[Mirelle]

Re: Wellies in dinghy

Actually, sailing around the Thames estuary often involves a dinghy trip to what is laughingly known as a "hard", with copious amounts of mud...which is why, before reading Nigel's post, I often wore boots, but I have now decided to keep the boots in the bottom of the boat and change into them when the boat has got her nose on the hard. I have big reservations about the lace up type because although they usually keep the water out they must surely let it in after a few minutes and they would then be fatal, as you cannot kick them off.

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[Ivy]

Re: Wellies in dinghy

Studland bay, I land on the beech quite often, and I usualy go bare foot, by the time I get to the pub my feet are dry and I can put my deck shoes on, but I guess the water is a tad colder in your part of the world.

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