Search found 5545 matches

by Rupert
Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:15 pm
Forum: Boats and bits for sale
Topic: Swordfish
Replies: 9
Views: 8142

Maybe its a Merlin called Swordfish....
by Rupert
Wed Oct 06, 2004 5:37 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Frostbite Dinner Nov 6th - Frostbite Regatta Nov 7
Replies: 25
Views: 15387

Nick - you are planning on getting a replacement classic, aren't you?
by Rupert
Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:46 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Frostbite Dinner Nov 6th - Frostbite Regatta Nov 7
Replies: 25
Views: 15387

Nice boat! I'd seen her advertized and was too much of a coward to go for it...seeing the pics, I wish I had, now! But once a coward, always a coward, I think!
by Rupert
Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:26 am
Forum: Events
Topic: Frostbite Dinner Nov 6th - Frostbite Regatta Nov 7
Replies: 25
Views: 15387

More likely they gave us the wrong price...or we are in the broom cupboard!
by Rupert
Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:42 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Frostbite Dinner Nov 6th - Frostbite Regatta Nov 7
Replies: 25
Views: 15387

Just to bring this topic to the top again! Kathryn and I booked a room for £50 last week, (no kids, hooray!) and they still had rooms left. I take it this means no one else has remembered to do it yet - hurry up, we don't want to be all lonely drinking in the late bar... (actually, no idea if there...
by Rupert
Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:29 pm
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Boom off the horizontal
Replies: 6
Views: 6178

Try Europe sailing if you think your boom is low....I used to leave the elbow holding the tiller extension in the air by mistake, and ended up with huge lumps where I got it wrong. Perfected sailing while clutching one elbow with other hand. Then came to my senses and sold the boat...
by Rupert
Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:53 am
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Varnish types/manufacturers
Replies: 13
Views: 10365

I have heard that storing tins upside down keeps the air out better...never had the nerve myself! Especially as the lids are so hard to remove the 1st time they never seem to be quite perfect ever again.
by Rupert
Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:34 am
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: another varnishing related question
Replies: 6
Views: 6336

I've not found anything. I must admit to having always thought you can have a shiny boat or a useful boat. Sometimes parts of a useful boat can be shiny, but never a shiny boat useful! Guess it depends what you want from life! This is my excuse for our cvrda boats not winning hundreds of ribbons at ...
by Rupert
Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:23 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Insurance
Replies: 28
Views: 22931

for some of us its the boat thats over 50....
by Rupert
Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:13 am
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Balcotan v Epoxy
Replies: 22
Views: 18473

Epoxy. Balcotan would swell, and your head would explode...Mind, the fumes from epoxy could have the same effect!
by Rupert
Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:11 am
Forum: CVRDA organisation
Topic: Travellers link
Replies: 2
Views: 6994

Clever! At, is my vote, unless we want to write the year up for the mags and website before then?
by Rupert
Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:14 pm
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Balcotan v Epoxy
Replies: 22
Views: 18473

Who'd have thought that the relative merits of 2 glues would get so many people reading about it!
by Rupert
Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:16 pm
Forum: CVRDA organisation
Topic: Travellers link
Replies: 2
Views: 6994

Stu - the link for the travellers takes one to the Bowmoor open invite! Good advertizing, but possibly not deliberate!
by Rupert
Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:37 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Insurance
Replies: 28
Views: 22931

I go round them all regularly, and apart from for the Minisail, which I would probebly never claimed for even if something had broken, I always end up with Noble, as they are the only one with new for old cover whatever the age of mast/sails. Bishop skinner, craft insure etc all would leave you stuc...
by Rupert
Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:01 am
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Varnish types/manufacturers
Replies: 13
Views: 10365

Just hope they don't break any EU rules, or something. They are full of poison, after all! I put 3 coats of woodseal on Saskia's decks, and then, in the absence of anywhere to buy something better, used Blackfriars yacht varnish. I've used it alot before, and apart from maybe being slightly softer t...