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- Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:15 am
- Forum: The Yacht Forum Yacht Club
- Topic: Complete Nump... Novice
- Replies: 16
- Views: 40916
Hi Marc! We found with all of our boats that we sailed much better with reduced sail in most conditions - except very light airs of course. Even our last very heavy boat sailed great with reefed sails. Which was fortunate as the mainsail was chopped off at the bottom by a previous owner. I think you...
- Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:53 pm
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: Whereabouts of Tempest Isabella
- Replies: 19
- Views: 54190
- Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:12 am
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: Whereabouts of Tempest Isabella
- Replies: 19
- Views: 54190
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:53 pm
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: Oh dear Iv been banned
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20490
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:40 pm
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: Oh dear Iv been banned
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20490
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:14 am
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: Whereabouts of Tempest Isabella
- Replies: 19
- Views: 54190
- Thu Jan 15, 2015 7:14 pm
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: New Year Sailing Resolutions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24429
I tried Drag Queen (great name!) but it lacked something I found essential and which I can't recall which was a feature of My Anchor Watch Pro. MAWP allows you to set the anchor position as where you are right now, or, some distance at some bearing from where you are now, which is handy. And the fil...
- Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:31 am
- Forum: The Yacht Forum Yacht Club
- Topic: Complete Nump... Novice
- Replies: 16
- Views: 40916
Awesome stuff :) DaySkipper. There's quite a lot of facts to learn but for most I suspect the 'secondary ports' and tidal vectors in passage planning are sticking points. Fortunately for me I still remembered doing vectors in maths at school and uni so the tidal effects on courses came relatively ea...
- Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:10 am
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: New Year Sailing Resolutions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24429
Ah yes, a Spade. Do it. You will be very glad you did. Ireland - excellent :) Hudl anchor app. Go to Amazon App Store and search (and pay) for 'My Anchor Watch Pro'. It's brilliant. Does have a lot of settings but well worth spending 30 mins getting your head around them. I set it and used all of th...
- Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:14 pm
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: New Year Sailing Resolutions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24429
Childcare. And I want to try Surströmming. And possibly Kiviak but doubt I'll find a UK source. And ferment more things. I've so far, since land life began in Oct, fermented swede, carrots, cabbage, celery, radish, cucumber, courgette, onion, brocolli, apples, malt, grapes, sprouts and parsnips so f...
- Tue Dec 30, 2014 11:57 am
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: Merry Christmas!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 24897
- Tue Dec 30, 2014 10:03 am
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: Merry Christmas!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 24897
- Mon Dec 29, 2014 11:10 am
- Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
- Topic: Merry Christmas!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 24897
- Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:31 pm
- Forum: Liveaboard Issues, Comment and Debate
- Topic: Anybody out there living aboard a yacht...?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 38234
Update. I have as of two months ago stopped living on a yacht. We did 5 years without a berth at all, mostly at anchor. I blogged all about it: * How it began, and life aboard with a baby and a dog: http://www.yacht-forum.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=50 * Life aboard with a toddler and a dog: http://www.ya...
- Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:24 pm
- Forum: Liveaboard Issues, Comment and Debate
- Topic: Kids. Home schooled?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14725
Hi Mike. Only just saw this post for the first time for some reason. Sorry you've had no replies except this one. What did you decide to do in the end? I'm torn on the subject. I think the education system is pretty useless on the whole and with academia in mind err towards home schooling as the pre...