oldbloke

Within reason, the only reason to have the clew close to the boom is to give more headroom. V important in a Laser dinghy possibly not...

You have just over 20 seconds of video of a reportable near miss. Video was apparently shot by a concerned passenger. Who saw the...

If you sound five hoots and the boat doesn't change course you can't really claim you are uncertain of his intentions. I'm not aware of...

It's a very odd situation. Westaway make very good sails, John Pollard is a very good sailor and I have always found him very pleasant...

Re the original post, feel free to claim when necessary, marine insurance companies don't tend to shaft you for having the teremity to...

I could not disagree more strongly. If you're becalmed with a rope round the prop in the channel in the Solent in front of a ship then...

Maybe £300 for the national champion's cast off is the compromise

The spreader ,and especially the end piece, look to be Proctor. Proctor are of course now Selden. I wouldn't have thought that you would...

I, more by luck than judgement, have never had to make an emergency call but, quite often when a radio call has had to be made in a...

Our house has very marginal mobile reception, last timex I was looking to buy a phone I looked hard but could find nothing on which...

Yeah, that's the trade off. However, it might be a one day event or even a one race event. Of course if you pick the perfect vessel for...

But they swap the chance of doing well in the series for the chance of doing well in the individual event

Generally speaking Flaming is dead right but there is no law about it. It's should be stated in the notice of race or sailing...

The danger with insurance companies taking the easy, and in the short term cheaper, way out is that in the longer term that culture...

It is normal for dinghy and keel boat classes, and sometimes for cruiser/ racer classes, to have sail numbers issued by their...