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About Me
- steve
- A welshman displaced to wonderful Plymouth in SW England; a novice sailor, motorhomer and boat builder with a passion for all things to do with the sea. Follow my journey as I learn to sail Arwen, grappling with charts, tide tables and passage planning so that I can become 'a dinghy cruiser' And by the way, just occasionally, little snippets about our travels and adventures. Subscribe on this blog and at www.youtube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy for videos about dinghy cruising. I look forward to hearing your comments, tips and thoughts.
My Blog List
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Bill’s Small Sailboats - The Future - Regular readers will be aware of the lack of recent articles. My custom for many years has been to post to my websites (no longer active) and to my ...
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All Change - One day it's blowing a gale, grey overcast and feeling like winter, there's flooding due the spring tide being pushed up by the wind reportedly as much ...
14 hours ago -
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea - My last art post was about the simply awful Hogarth exhibition at the Tate, which was just terrible, having no interest in art or Hogarth or historical ...
1 year ago -
A fluid life - Almost two years ago I was standing on our station platform, nervous and masked, heading for eight days quarantine in Yorkshire before starting on my five ...5 months ago
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FOR SALE - Sailing Just For Fun: Rare opportunity to own wooden gaff cutter Shoal Waters. Owner retiring. New sails. Yard trailer. Spare original sails. Ghoster sail....
6 months ago
Popular Posts
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If you search a few posts back you will see that I built a new outboard engine maintenance stand. I based it on plans off the internet but ... -
What I was aiming for was something like a cross between this……. and this...... But what I got was this………… Not... -
How do you keep busy during a lock down? During the BIG lock down in spring, I cut and constructed 35 wooden garden steps with gravel infill... -
Below you will find information to help you, should you decide you want to give it a go. There are photographs from my strip-down along wit...
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You can see the video about changing the impeller, the gear oil and the shear pin below. Below is a photographic summary of how to cha...
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The stand is finished. It didn't take as long as I was expecting - which means all the plans I have listed for occupying myself during ... -
Southpool Creek is a lovely 2 mile jaunt from the busy Salcombe fairway. A ria (flooded ancient river valley) of farmed hills and shorelin... -
A quick winter project is a second galley box for Arwen. The first galley box project can be found here https://arwensmeanderings.b... -
The two galley boxes alongside each other for the first time. Slightly different heights and widths for various reasons which I won't b... -
I’ve been thinking of putting a tent on Arwen but I can’t afford to get one purpose built so I’m going to have to improvise. There are two ...
2 comments:
Great Video Steve. I have my oars on my Scamp attached like yours I notice a line near the rowlocks is this used to secure them from going overboard
Thanks David.
Yup the line secures them during sailing because I keep leaning on them by accident, or worse sitting on the coaming. Cut a long story short, after the third time of losing one overboard as it jumped out of the rollick, I decided to tie them on. Not ideal but it works. At least my MOB drills became perfected!
Steve
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