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    Chart Plotters for Dummies?

    Agree re iSailor. However - did you fall off the edge of the earth when you hit 180º West?
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    Talk to me: cruising in a Drascombe Coaster

    I have a Lugger in Australia, brilliant boat. I've lived aboard for a max of about a week with my -at the time - teenage sons - one at a time. Not the most comfortable - can't see myself doing it now. Have a tent for it.... see pic below taken at Snake Island, down by Port Albert , Gippsland...
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    Bucket List Cruising Adventures

    Mas aqui https://patagoniayachtcharter.cl/en/4-sail-in-chile Would be a good trip down to Porcelano. Spend the rest of you month up around Villarica and the lake district or head up to La Serena and the Elqui valley.
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    Bucket List Cruising Adventures

    Golly - so many contradictions in the OP... good weather + Svalbard... OK. None - very few - of the better options offer bareboat. This would be an idea if you have the $$$$ https://patagoniayachtcharter.cl/en/ Spent the last two weeks alongside Cumberland in Algarobbo where she is laid up for...
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    Suzanne Heywood and her Epically Misguided 70's Cruising Parents

    I guess this must have been a different Suzzanne Heywood https://www.fijitimes.com/a-life-on-the-waves-in-the-south-seas/ Poor child, i can identify with her though - abandoned by my parents and sent to a co-ed boarding school at age 11 with my slightly older sister. Having escaped from that...
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    Cable gland without pre-drilled/pre-slit rubber seal piece?

    No point in having solar if you remove it whenever you go to sea...which at the end of the day I doubt you would ever do anyway. They would be an absolute pest when stowed below. Simplest and most elegant solution - two index or equivalent glands, 4 screws a side, job done. Solve the 'two wire...
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    A giant has fallen

    There was a german chap paddled a canoe/kayak from Europe to Australia in 1939, arrived in August 39, bad timing. 'Seven years in Tibet' the book, not the movie, is excellent. By and large, if you weren't British - old chap - you didn't exist in the anglosphere. Take the case of Vito Dumas.
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    A giant has fallen

    Tilman wrote about crossing Africa (Uganda to Cameroons?) by bicycle in his first ? book which is in the 'big book of mountaineering' covering his early climbing days. He was also in first expedition up the 'Mountains of the Moon'.
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    Cable gland without pre-drilled/pre-slit rubber seal piece?

    I have 10 Index cable glands scattered around my boat, 1 frd, 2 at the mast, and 7 down aft. While the majority carry a a single cable one of them has two cables, one has three including a heavy co-ax , and the other one has six wires passing through it. Most have been in place for over twenty...
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    Cable gland without pre-drilled/pre-slit rubber seal piece?

    All of mine are Index marine https://www.indexmarine.com/products/waterproof-glands/ Pick of them are the two at the foot of the mast that - between them - carry *all* the wires up the mast. Pulling the mast? Simples. Disconnect all wires in the saloon deckhead by mast. Remove four screws on the...
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    GGR 2022

    I wish to retract part of this. While Montt is maybe the best place to get stuff fixed Algarrobo's Cofradia Nautica del Pacifico is Hamble del Sur. I'v never been in such an active marina with everything from Oppys upwards to big Swans. Boat is overwintering here before heading further south.
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    The Zombie Fleet

    Puerto Lucia Marina, Ecuador, has oil and gas bubbling up in it, not a lot in fact very little, but it is fascinating. Think farts in the bath. Equally interesting is the 'nodding donkey' - long since out of service- on a suburban block about 2 minutes walk from the gate. Prime waterfront real...
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    GGR 2022

    And their passing of the shore lines? They would win any spaghetti tossing competition they chose to enter.
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    Old men sailing oceans

    I met an older North American in Buenos Aires about 13 years ago, name of Geoff, who had just single handed a big heavy double ender from Ecuador(?) around the Horn to BA. I get a form email from him every other year. As I recall he then single handed her westabout back round the Horn to...
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    GGR 2022

    Don't think he hauled out in Montt, don't know if he cleaned the hull. Thought he just fitted new part to H/vane and fixed his dodger. Then parked her down in Boca de Guafo for a week to let the others catch up.
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    GGR 2022

    Puffin a threat to others? Oh OK. Bullshit! This , seen offshore from Ecuador last September, is a hazard to other mariners. I estimated 80 metres long by 15 metres beam, prop was about 2 metre diameter.
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    GGR 2022

    Whoopsie - I see that I only quoted the price of the drive unit before you add on all the other bits required.
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    GGR 2022

    And also - Foerthmann wrote what was quite a good book about self steering 20 plus years ago. Very good on s/s theory but considered by many to be just a sales pitch for his product .
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    GGR 2022

    Hydrovane USD$3197 https://hydrovane.com/prices/ Mine was custom made about 22 years ago, lots cheaper than hydrovane.
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    GGR 2022

    Foertmann is to self steering what Craig (?) Smith was to anchors before he was debarked. PS you can still see Puffin on Marinetraffic.com if you zoom in a bit SW of S Africa


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