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by Jeff
Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:15 am
Forum: The Yacht Forum Yacht Club
Topic: Complete Nump... Novice
Replies: 16
Views: 38771

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...
by Jeff
Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:53 pm
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: Whereabouts of Tempest Isabella
Replies: 19
Views: 51191

Awesome
by Jeff
Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:12 am
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: Whereabouts of Tempest Isabella
Replies: 19
Views: 51191

Nice.
by Jeff
Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:53 pm
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: Oh dear Iv been banned
Replies: 4
Views: 19266

'Icing on the turd' :P
by Jeff
Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:40 pm
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: Oh dear Iv been banned
Replies: 4
Views: 19266

It depends I suppose on the reason for your ban?
by Jeff
Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:14 am
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: Whereabouts of Tempest Isabella
Replies: 19
Views: 51191

Wow! Great find. Thank you!!
by Jeff
Thu Jan 15, 2015 7:14 pm
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: New Year Sailing Resolutions
Replies: 7
Views: 23138

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...
by Jeff
Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:31 am
Forum: The Yacht Forum Yacht Club
Topic: Complete Nump... Novice
Replies: 16
Views: 38771

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...
by Jeff
Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:10 am
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: New Year Sailing Resolutions
Replies: 7
Views: 23138

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...
by Jeff
Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:14 pm
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: New Year Sailing Resolutions
Replies: 7
Views: 23138

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...
by Jeff
Tue Dec 30, 2014 11:57 am
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: Merry Christmas!
Replies: 8
Views: 23425

Thank you :D
by Jeff
Tue Dec 30, 2014 10:03 am
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: Merry Christmas!
Replies: 8
Views: 23425

When I get a spare moment I intend to do a closing blog post with full details of the new member of the family, Hamish Arthur. Born on Nina's birthday - so she thinks he's hers - a problem we'll have to deal with in due course I suspect :)

He's doing very well. Rose also.

Must dash...
by Jeff
Mon Dec 29, 2014 11:10 am
Forum: Safety, Technical, Engineering & General Yacht Banter
Topic: Merry Christmas!
Replies: 8
Views: 23425

Lucky indeed! Well done T&V on cooking a Turkey on the boat also!

Happy Christmas all!!

From Jeff, Rose, Nina, Lunar

and Hamish!
by Jeff
Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:31 pm
Forum: Liveaboard Issues, Comment and Debate
Topic: Anybody out there living aboard a yacht...?
Replies: 6
Views: 36901

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...
by Jeff
Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:24 pm
Forum: Liveaboard Issues, Comment and Debate
Topic: Kids. Home schooled?
Replies: 1
Views: 13632

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...