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It helps if your prop kicks to starboard in reverse - makes the uphill locks easy. just attach a midship line to the ladder while taking...

Some years ago the Crinan Canal increased prices hugely with the sop of "assisted passage". On arrival at Ardrishaig I was shocked at...

Not that I'm suggesting anything, just pondering ..... if I was to find an unoccupied vessel floating unattached I would feel it...

Isn't that what children are for?

Unless you have a fairly large water tank, any significant use of water - hot or cold - will reduce your cruising range between fill ups...

I'd junk it. It encourages crew to wash and waste water, some even wash their hair! Unless you have another 50kg of watermaker, of course.

Could you pop into JWD on the way home and check my fenders are still attached, please?

Sadly, Ken McCulloch is no longer with us and his boat (and gearbox plug) has moved on. It may still be a problem but certainly not his!

I didn't realise that my ditty box was so valuable.

I don't suffer much from my CO32 table - fold it out, lower it and you have a king-size bed across the boat. Where I'm more likely to...

Philistines! It is, of course, the icon of sailing perfection - a Contessa 32!

Just checked - eBay will flog you a rivet gun and rivets for about £7.50. It won't pull 6mm rivets but that's not what you need...

Piers? Pah! If you are going to hit something how about the Ardnamurchan Peninsula? Officer drunk when ship ran aground in Ardnamurchan

Have you asked Andy?

If your mast is down you are probably in a yard. Just post which yard and a forumite with a rivet gun (and probably Monel rivets) will...