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December 14, 2008

Watch out for that rudder loss!
We lost our rudder in full sail about 1 mile of the coast during my day skipper qualification trip. It was an unplanned and scary, but a great to experience it as I hope I never ever experience it again. I would like to share my learning and hear from others who have a similar experience. I am keen to learn what can be done to get some POOR BOY steering when you have no ruder?

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June 3, 2008

Spring Bank Holiday Seamanship!
Passage planning calls for alternative havens, we knew as we set out for Ramsgate that weather forecasts were confused and we would deal with what we came across and keep several alternative havens in mind. In teh event we never reached the first check point!

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April 4, 2008

Sailing Nightsong to Dublin
The merits or otherwise of the full Scottish breakfast!

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March 26, 2008

Easter Weekend in the Solent - Cold but fun!
Even a freezing cold and windy weekend can turn out OK.

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October 15, 2007

More (Swale) Mud
A simple matter of moving Aurai from her mooring in the Medway to a Boatyard at Faversham in Kent a trip of approx 25Nm and close encounters with more mud!

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September 6, 2007

Medway mud!
A summary of a recent week-end trip with two novice crew identified through Yotlinx.

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August 5, 2007

Sailing Gigha and Colonsay, Scotland
20th – 23rd July 2007 Alan the skipper had chartered a Moody 38, Marna IV, for a long weekend’s sailing out of Crinan. The boat itself had been just fitted with a new propeller after two of the wrong type had been supplied, and indeed was still out of the water at Ardfern on the morning of the charter. However Tony, the charterer, did sterling work and had the yacht ready for us on arrival at Bellanoch Marina on the Crinan Canal at 16:00hrs.

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May 25, 2007

Rum Festival Weekend
Some random memories of a great weekend...from the crew of the Thistle!

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May 24, 2007

'Lemon infused houmous' & the Rum Music Festival
An account of the Rum Music Festival from a Thistle crew members perspective.....!

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April 12, 2007

Easter 2007 - Medway
This was, after a false start, the first event posted and sorted via Yotlinx for me and this is a quick report of how it went.

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