Fourth floor, fifth room from the left of the building on the right? The convention used to be to mark your room with an x on postcards home from holiday. Or, if you are expecting something more nautical, standing at the stern. Wherever it is, it looks sunnier than Shropshire has been for many...
It depends on where you plan to sail. If you are in restricted waters where you might be tacking a lot (eg the Solent) a self tacking jib is a real benefit and, if necessary, you can throw in a tack at a moments notice without releasing the sheet and then struggling to haul in the genoa whilst...
Apple products may be expensive, but they’d only buy another 25-50mm so in length if I switch to Android and wno would ever get excited by an extra couple of inches?
You may be right. All I know is that at the end of the season it was firing first pull, never to fire again. The mechanic said that it had lost all compression. It was an air cooled Honda. I use Aspen because from personal experience given my patterns of use, I find the engines start better with...
I used Aspen 2 for my o/b for one season and over the winter it gave up the ghost. Then I read the warning about not using it in marine conditions. I must learn to read the instructions first! My current o/b runs on Aspen 4 plus marine grade 2 Stroke oil, and start first or second pull, even...
Ordnance Survey disagree with you. Britain is the island, Great Britain is Britain and its off lying islands, including Orkney and Shetland, and the British Isles is Great Britain and Ireland and its off-lying islands.
Last summer a single-handed sailor in a mobo made a mayday call in the Solent, as we were heading west past Cowes en route for Weymouth. We listened to the exchange with Solent Coastguard and quickly realised that the casualty was in our vicinity. We were able to spot the boat and went to her...
Lures of different kinds for fishing - the ones that get away often take the lure with them so you can’t have too many on board - and perhaps a decent filleting knife. Leave them to buy the line and reel.
There’s a Bowman 57 for sale that did the World ARC a few years ago. I’ve done a North Atlantic circuit on her and would happily go further. The owners did an West-East crossing in her two-handed as well as the trip from the UK to Las Palmas.
On a pure cost benefit analysis the RYA has too broad a remit to be of much relevance to any individual water user, as far as I can see. I wonder how much the rebranding cost and who benefits? I was a member 20 years ago, dropped it and then rejoined when I did my Day Skipper but soon dropped it...
Nav systems either work or they don’t, and whilst they do what they were designed to do, why are they past it?
The rudder stock problem is well known on Dehler 36s and can usually repaired once - the Rustler yard in Falmouth did mine when I bought my 36CWS as a temporary repair whilst the...
Getting back to the original question, I fitted midship cleats to the toe rail of my 30’ Gibsea - not the most robustly built of vessels - and always used them to secure the boat alongside before putting on bow and stern lines and springs. Never had a problem or any signs that the toe rails were...