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A weather/UV protective sleeve for your genoa, by Hood. Used, but in good serviceable order. Faded blue on outside, bright on inside.... 10.5metres x 50cm open. I won't have a need for it this season, so if you do - and want to protect your shiny new headsail - £100 Inspect/collect near Bath -...

I've removed a pair of 'OK' foredeck cleats - close to toerails about 3 m. from bow - and will mount a pair of 'much heftier' 300mm replacements onto teak pads on deck, using 4 x 10mm s/s bolts. These to take anchoring/mooring snubbing loads imparted by a ~3-ton boat kept on a trot mooring...

Huge waves filmed by cruise ship passenger Biscay, from a Saga cruiseship, recently. A reminder, perhaps, to repack the JSD....

I'm fitting much stronger anchor/mooring posts, removing the one centreline 'samson post' ( for several reasons ) and looking to mount these 'bad boys' port and starboard. The intent is to mount them on 48mm teak blocks, broadly as shown. ( yes, there's more to do... ) This should raise the...

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Is therea point to this 'doubling-up', or am I missing something?

There's a handful of ocean wanderers who have used and refined their Jordan Series Drogue over many years. Few have more experience of deploying and riding to a JSD than Jeanne. Here are her thoughts on stowage ready for deployment..... Jeanne's JSD in its bag

I need to run new mousing lines in respect of all the halyards for my presently-horizontal mast. Most of those I'd fitted have rotted. I have a set of 'lecky's grp Fishing Rods, to run light line/'lecky cabling along ducts and through bulkheads, but doubt it will manage multiple passes within...

This on Facebook! Outrageous...! Liffey Water

I'm more than a little pleased to be able to advise completion of my revised anchoring setup, with the delivery of a set of Crosby chain connectors and Green Pin shackles to complement the reel of hi-strength Grade 80 6mm proof-tested Crosby chain that turned up earlier. This now permits me to...

I find myself with a length of Marlow Profurl 2 11mm torque rope, which cannot have eye-splices formed due to the structure/density of the rope. It is possible to 'sew' an eyesplice in, but that requires a very expensive commercial machine and a similarly-expensive trained operator. Milady is...

Or should this better be in the Jesters space for single-handers....?

The RYA is, as is now well-known, a commercial/trading organisation which relies, as do many others, on the goodwill created by its paying members, staff and affiliated groups. As elsewhere, first impressions make a lasting impression. This morning, on making telephone contact to identify the...

There are still folks who think it's a Race and want to ask about handicaps and so on. They won't be told! They're also the sorts who won't RTFM.

I have 50 metres of brand-new Gunnebo-KitoCrosby KLZ-6-8 Hot Dip Galvanised 6mm Grade 80 high-strength anchor chain to sell. This is rated at 4.4T Min Break Load, is Proof Tested, and weighs just 1 kg per metre..... saving about 1.5kg/m. on the 10mm chain I have. I sourced and purchased a drum...

Bag only. £40 postage paid UK.

I'm changing my anchor chain spec and have been looking for G70/G80 6mm short-link. So far, I've found G80 6mm by Crosby, but in a BLACK finish intended for commercial uses. Who can advise on how such a finish will be affected by salt water exposure - and could I live with that?

I imagine rather fewer folk keep a log these days, far less a traditional journal. That's a pity, in multiple ways. I sailed a lot on 'Other Peoples Boats' ( OPBs ) over the years, and derived - and learned - quite a lot from reading past log entries. Just now and then, there would be a whole...

Here is a very short 'how not to do it' video, illustrating a 'seamanship' principle unlikely to be encountered by most 'Jester' participants. Keeping a watch.... at all times :love:

Several years ago I sailed a season on the successful Farrier FX-9 tri 'Triohe'. That boat had no conventional boom, instead using a grp batten along the sail-foot and the multi-part mainsheet attaching directly to the sail's clew. I know that wasn't the world's first example of a boomless...