Boat Forum / Sailing / July 2005

Last week an odd boat sold on Ebay;  it was a single-hander, about fourteen
feet long, in which the skipper sat forward of the smallish, wing-like sail
and, I imagine, steered with rudder pedals.
I recall seeing this boat in SAIL magazine perhaps 20 years ago.  The seller

18-04-2005
At Weston County court, an extremely generous offer was made by myself
to John Bunt to settle the matter in which he claims I rubbished his
cheap batteries.

But then, they all run fromthe bunyip evntually.
Maybe it;s my breath.
Maybe not
Bertie

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/072605_local_yacht.html
Complete with the thief, with a bullet hole in his head.
Sounds like the thief pissed off the wrong person.
Joe

Hi all friends from sea!
I am a boy who eagerly wants to get aboard and enjoy the sea life.
But i have never been aboard and dont have any idea how difficult it
could be.

Cold fronts are the single biggest hazard here in the
Northeast.  Right now we have a major downpour,
thunder, lightning, hail, and gusts up to 65mph.

I wonder if anyone can give me a little help here.
I used to do a bit of boating about 25 years ago, mainly dinghy
sailing (not racing !) with a bit of pottering about in motor boats
and small cruisers (~20ft) but, due to various commitments over the

I am currently purchasing an old Ballerina in need of tlc but generally
in reasonable condition.
One immediate problem though is that the rudder is well and truly Kaput
big time.

Does anyone know if it possible to launch a small sailing dinghy of the
beach at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight?
In other words is there easy access bfrom the car park.
Joe

By our Std. HOT
Temp 79 Deg. F (80 Pred)
Hum 44% and heading down
Wind Calm :^(

Greetings All,
I see ASA still has it's weak plague running it's course.
Hope all are well. Just returned from Ixtapa Mexico. Bought
2 hectareas of beach front bay with 750 meters of frontage. Might put

Does it start this weekend

I hope someone can help - I read somewhere recently that in Holland some
marinas operate on channels that are blocked on UK sets - was it CH31a which
is used by the UK search & rescue services?
If I remember correctly, it was mentioned in one of the UK sailing magazines

By the end of August I will be ready to buy my dream liveaboard yacht
and have narrowed it down to a Moody 44.
If anyone knows of one for sale, I would be interested, and could save a
brokers fees for the seller, (probably the best part of £10,000).

D-Day: War's over, man. Flonkers dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is!
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?