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Lovely picture. Thanks for that and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Singapore. I will on on the Andaman Sea for both holidays.......no snow there.

Alan and I met yesterday at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore and chatted about boats their designers their sailors and the characters attracted to them over a cleansing ale or two (in my case) and a...

Decided to leave. I am not bitter I simply prefer not to stay. Reasons ? To sucumb to the temptation of airing my views.....Unfortunately I find the content of the majority of what is posted these...

Is that Eckhart Tolle ?

I am replacing my small lewmar deckhouse/cockpit ports which have Al frames with Stainless Steel and twp ply tempered glass. Two reasons. The lexan simply does not stand up to the sunlight longterm...

Thanks guys - very helpful !

Did anyone read the recent WB article on flat paint ? I was thinking of giving it a go but I am wondering what the cons are...will it mark up/stain rather quicker than for example a one part poly or...

I'm pondering a big decision. Selling Maybritt. Why - she is too big - at the risk of repeating earlier posts Alan Pape Cuttyhunk 47ft Ketch.

To try and be as objective as possible and whilst she...

I had the time to read a long thread on a chap looking at a Peterson Schooner....its in Building/Reapirs.

Strikes me that this place is a little like university 90% of the people simply are not...

I was reading up on copper sheathing which I have been reading up on having recently seen a sheathed hull - hard to argue with the condition of it after all those years....and in the knowledge that...

Iain ! Maybritt is a 18 ton/47ft Chengal Ketch. ACB ! Yr mind is going - but then again it is a long time since we met and the pints of Ruddles might have dimmed your perceptions some what! I have...

I do not put any anti fouling on the propellor and am thinking of ways - quite apart from diving on the propellor weekly which is sometimes left undone as a result of a hcetic travel schedule - of...

Maybritt lives in Singapore and in a climate much like Florida. I use a coal tar epoxy - flexible and poisonous - the type used on oil rigs (expensive but good) and an oil rig antifouiling. Seems to...

Jerry - you must be a hardy sort to fall in love with the typhoon shelter at Causeway Bay !

The promise of the best ale in South East Asia remains should you make it down to my neck of the woods...

Hello (again) Voyager.

I should be in Phuket with Maybritt later in the year for the Kings Cup and perhaps a lick of paint at Yacht Haven altho I still face the ever present dilema of sticking...

Thanks to all that was very helpful indeed - now to find a supplier in Singapore.....

I keep seeing the advert for this product in Woodenboat - anyone here try it or have any thoughts - I am concerned that this product it is all talk and no trousers as it were....i.e. a gimmick. I...

For those of you who have read this far - John you are expressing what I would like the forum to be - one of my coments on a relatively recent thread - "What a load of crap" received the response -...

I am more than happy to stand corrected on the painted bilges issue - exactly what acids are you concerned with and how do they attack wood (a worrying thought in itself) - assume that they attack...

I have always taken the view that all that diesel and oil is actually good for the wood - no scientific reasoning for this - mere opinion that it probably presents a good barrier coat in itself.
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Jerry,

Someone in my neck of the woods !

Good to hear from you. I lived in HK for 10 years and ran a wooden junk. Great boat built in Aberdeen Harbour.

A boat yard in Causeway Bay Typhoon...

There was of course a gentleman by the name of Moitessier who designed and built a boat in Vietnam......

Thanks.

I am using springs fore and aft with bow lines but the boat still seems to come up hard against the pontoon a lot of the time.

The spings run thru the sheet block on the rail to the...

The fenders I have - the regular ones approx 10' x 30 I guess - scuff/damage the finish on the top sides largely because of the movement in the Marina pontoon where I am berthed and otherwise by the...