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For all those who choose to keep their boats on river trots, pontoons and isolated moorings. The days of planning your sailing (;and clubbing) around the operating hours of the club launch could be over! Autonomous electric vehicle tech, able to handle real time scenarios eg involving...

Quite rare to have film footage of the rig going over the side whilst just cruising along normally out at sea. Food for thought perhaps Years ago when the YM team were crash testing their boat in various and imaginative ways they did a staged dismasting, I remember arguing the merits or no...

Anoraky but interesting to watch the current depression over the English Channel going from E to W then south a bit then...? http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/surface_pressure.html Can't actually remember seeing one do that before. Be a bxgger if you were tracking it using Buys Ballot's...

I know that quite a few on here are keeping their boats in the water still. And its a very fine line between happy sailor and smug git, but after last weekends T shirt sailing, did anyone else manage to get out again today? Apparently there are still mackerel about. Maybe they know a thing or...

This is the first time I have really tried following forum postings by phone instead of computer. It does seem very clunky. The phone or server fails to recognise posts that have been read, nor can one jump from a thread back to the list of threads, instead the only option offered appears to be...

There was a recent thread in this parish about best and worst online chandlers.. I reported that Foxes Online, with whom I had placed an order for a replacement battery charger, were unable to obtain supplies themselves and were quoted May as when they would get some more. Today they write...

You ain't going to make it.. without my advice!! I am sorry (and perplexed)that you are all too proud to ask for advice. ......This must read like sour grapes or sommat..but actually having ....,based on being out there,..I have worked up a heavy weatther junk rig that will realisticaly...

Hi I am thinking of compiling a list of all those peeps part way through a boat building project..I can then flog em specialist insurance/certification/crap and make silly offers on the unfinished projects if their owners circumstances change, Please co-operate fully i do like to make money out...

Does anyone out there have any knowledge as to how near the industry is to delivering a NiMh (Nickel metal Hydryde) replacement for the lead acid ships battery ? This post inspired by Shipswoofy earlier today querying the merits of NiCad/Dry cell/NiMh for torch batteries . How soon before we...