Huffling

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

55 to 60, BP depends, often 120/80, but it was far higher before exploratory surgery than it has been since I got the “all clear”. 71yesterday, no...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Nereid was the next one off the form although she is 480 and Galatea is 478 because the intervening boat, Hobby Hawk, (which I have seen, in terminal...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

The identical twin, “Nereid”, in the Cowes classic boat museum

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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Thank you George. I’ll take your advice and go for (2) and for (3) with shaped pieces either side.

I met up with “Mirelle”’s present...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Thank you, everyone!

I decided to celebrate my 71st birthday by downsizing the land base. I don’t yet feel the need to downsize the boat....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

More about the Thalatta:

https://thalatta.org.uk/thalatta-timeline/...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

There is no practical difference between a Putinesca and a Trumpette.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Oh, dear, those bronze swan neck vents right aft in the covering board need automatic closures. Sooner or later she will downflood through them, othe...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

It’s the same spot. I ought to have made that clear. The Walton and Frinton Yacht Club clubhouse is built on the site of the old post mill.
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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I wrote that in capitals to try to beat the spill chequer.

Huffling is the art of the huffler. A huffler takes Thames sailing barges to places...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I hope we have plenty more Storm Shadows.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

A close up, taken today, of the area in question.

The dirty looking stuff is old copal varnish. In cold weather this flies off in a shower...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I’ve said this before but I really think Leo is going to regret reinstalling that geared capstan. Wonderful to watch the work going on with it, but...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I don’t like questions which start by asking me “What would you do if some young man raped your daughter?”

This is only in part because...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Why on Earth would you want Watson (still alive) and Crick? A pair of ****s of the first water. They stole Franklin’s work and set out to discredit...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

My younger son is a medical student and a member of his university’s Officer Training Unit. His chosen specialties are surgery and emergency medicine...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

A point that iirc is made in the book is that one grows used to a particular varnish and sticks to that one for as long as it is available.
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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I should like to thank everyone who has posted in reply to my question. In the nature of things, some say it’s too quick and dirty and others differ....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I listened to a programme on BBC Radio in which the hypothesis that he succeeded, lived a number of years, quietly, and then failed in a second attempt,...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Standard Uffa Fox 14 . Known history. No repairs apart from the one that I did. The things holding the two layers of planking together are turned copper...