Boat Forum / Sailing / January 2008

Dear Sailors,
Our company Polconn CSS together with Sail Training Association Poland
organize some offshore trip on the famous Polish training ship
"Pogoria": http://www.pogoria.pl/info.php

What are the origin of English words starboard / port ?
JaC

Yesterday while out sailing on the East Coast - and what a lovely day
for it - Thames Coastguard made a securite broadcast warning of a
negative tidal surge in the southern North Sea. The only implications
I can think of is that the bottom might be a bit closer to the keel,

Bit of a specialist question, but one that I hope someone will be able
to answer.
A friend is looking to by an Oceanis soon.  I beleive the standard
saloon table is fixed but there is/was an option to have the saloon

Don't kid yourself. If you think polishing fuel at the dock does any
good your wrong. It's just about a total waste of time. Anything that
clogs the filters will hide in corners, stick to the walls of the
tank, and will not be removed by simply circulating fuel through a

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I saw an article some weeks back about a sail propelled container ship just launched.
Has anyone a link to this?
Colin

I'm considering buying a 36' Jaguar Catamaran.
My major concern is that the bridgedeck clearance appears to be 21' at
the stern.  Does anyone have any experience with wether this is a
problem?

A yacht is a recreational boat. It came from Dutch word Jacht that
means hunt. There are some types of sailing yachts, the day sailing
yachts, weekender yachts, cruising yachts, racing yachts, and luxury
sailing yachts.

Video of 49er crashes.... you expect to see some of them burst into
flame.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=A_uAlyTYqcg
These boats look like a lot of fun, but challenging.

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I wondered if there'd be any wood in the Solent this weekend, there
wasn't. Then I saw in the news where it all ended up!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7199667.stm
Dunno if any other UKRS south coasters were listening on 16 but a

   this topic last came up in January 2004 but did not appear to be
fully bottomed out. Can anyone  give a brief summary on how VAT is
applied to a self built boat. If, as one poster suggested, you have a
bag of VAT receipts for the various components will that suffice? Or,

Interesting to see container ship with sail
http://www.skysails.info/

Looking for a spare part for a Volvo MD2B diesel raw water cooling seacock
basket strainer.
It is a brass perforated metal hollow rolled cylinder 10 cm long and 3 cm wide
that fits into the strainer which screws into the top of the seacock.