Summer approaches, warm weather can’t be too far away so here’s a reminder about the dangers of drowning. Drowning is not a noisy, dramatic event. Our body’s response to suffocation by water is quite different to the commonly held view that it involves waving arms and shouting for help. That comes before you are drowning. …
Climbing the mast is not for the faint-hearted but sometimes there is just no alternative. I don’t like heights but have become reasonably comfortable with being hoisted up the stick and I’ve done it at the dock, in the anchorage and under way. Here’s a check list for going aloft in a bosun’s chair assisted …
Electric level switches that are located in the bilge to operate an alarm or activate a bilge pump seem to be the least reliable piece of equipment on a boat, judging by the number of times they are condemned in sailing forums. In my obsessive, continuing, search for the ultimate bilge pump switch, I came …