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Are you taking feet or metres?

Hopefully out on the water within the fortnight all being well

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the positive comment. Appreciated 👍

you are most welcome take care now

its a set up that seems to work fine good luck on yours

no - never launched over there - ought to give it a try though

Most welcome. Must admit it was a steep learning curve

a dilemma - everyone has a right to enjoy the water - and the families were having fun - just at everyone else's expense - i try to keep an open mind but.....!!

Yo be honest I have absolutely no idea. Given that there is a inlet valve just above the prop and an exit stream of water when engine is running....then I'd expect dribbles of water to appear anywhere below the engine but that's just me. I always thought that cooling water went up the shaft ....but as a very amateur sailor who has only done his engine service twice ....I truthfully don't know...sorry 🤔🙄😔

You are most welcome

I don't know anything about generators on small boats ...sorry....as for plans....depends where in world you are ......can get sent direct from John's own website. Sorry to hear about your arthritis. It is painful. My sympathies

So many variables to think about....and trying to anticipate them 🙄👍😉

Yeah tricky things are outboards full of surprises. Nice set of tips...thanks for sharing them...all helps 👍

Yeah depends on sailing conditions. I get easily seasick and so tend to keep it loose in benign conditions and tighten it up if it gets choppy. Not best practice must admit

thank you and you are most welcome

We have a phrase in the UK...teaching granny to suck eggs.....I'm an ex mountaineer, outdoor instructor and expeditioneer. Now I have leisure time, I find eating out of bags totally uncivilised and somewhat heathen like 😁😁😉😆

I have another galley box which is food provisions and I use insulated picnic boxes in that one. The main galley box tends to carry camping meals boil in bag etc as I'm normally only going for a couple of days. Might take another long ok at it though. Thanks for the suggestion 👍

Thank you

Have done. I think one or two of them need replacing for the harder nylon rollers...the yellow or white ones....that will help as well

@@plymouthwelshboy I was going to suggest that, but didn't want to overwhelm you. The black rubber ones get flat spots. we have red for glass, and blue for aluminium. I'd tend towards what ever is softer. In our case it is the red ones. which are also less affected by the grease. Now I'm convicted I need to grease mine which are black :-( A case of do as I say, not as I do!

You are most welcome. I'm toying with getting a decent inflatable kayak to tow behind arwen but also to take on our motorhome travels as well. Glad you enjoyed the videos take care now

@@plymouthwelshboy we also kayaked back to Forder from Cotehele this summer. Highly recommended. Any top tips for a new sailor looking to explore the Tamar/Lynher/Sound and nearby coastlines? Many thanks!

depends on what kind of boat you have. If you are using a dinghy and towing - explore your local slipways in advance before launching always helps. Get a good navigation app like navionics and if exploring up river - an OS map of the tamar valley is also useful.

@@plymouthwelshboy thank you!

Hey josh that's a good point. If you get a chance to grab a couple of photos of your rollers at that point I'd love to see them buddy

Thanks ... hopefully 😄

Yeah but the expense was beyond what I could afford

thanks - its a steep learning curve - fun - but STEEP :)

@@plymouthwelshboy very steep, almost 180 degrees I would say 🤦‍♂️

Yeah it's not bad for northerly skies but because we are on the side of a wooded hill. .skies to the south are often obscured hence I drive 20 mins to nearest beach area

It was cold I must admit. The trouble is you aren't moving around and so it sleeps into your bones if you aren't careful 😆

Happy new year back as well. Hope u are well

Thank you. I made the odd mistake but got there in the end.

Thank you. Good to be back

Thank you. It's at the beginning of a new journey 👍

F/2 8. ISO 800 and then around 40"

I've been privileged enough to travel through truly dark sky areas in Tanzania, Namibia and Arizona ..... The heavens hold truly spectacular sites and wonders to behold.

Thanks Chris. Astrophotography is work in progress....new steep learning curve 😆👍

Hey Mike. Thanks. Might see u out on the water over the festive break. Tale care now. 👍

It is a John welsford design called a navigator and is a superb cruising boat in the right hands

@plymouthwelshboy thank you ...I believe it would be perfect for exploring the 3600 miles of shoreline on the bay here.

It is a lovely boat of John's. Take a close look at his designs. The 'pathfinder' is a bigger version of my 'navigator'. But there is also 'Long Steps', 'Scamp' and the about to emerge 'Scallywag' - which is much anticipated.

Oh you are most welcome. It was a breezy day and I struggled most of it......I am, as everyone knows, not the most skilful sailor🤔😆 and try as I did I couldn't keep up with Polly. But, as they say any day in the water is far better than a day in the office .....thanks for stopping by...take care now 👍

hi - the crease is due to either of these issues - firstly the srit boom attachment i use slides down the mast occasionally - it should be set at half way between the tack of the mainsail and the lower forward end of the top yard when it is fully hauled up. OR its because i haven't tied the mainsail halyard on at the correct point on the top yard - it needs to be very aft heavy and i always untie it after every trip and never seem to get it back in the same place next one out it is one of the issues to sort permanently during winter maintenance. the downhaul on the tack is pretty tight

Something as simple as a small bit of wood screwed onto the yard at the right spot will give you a place to aim for and a way to keep the halyard from sliding down. In the video you were only using the part of the sail below the crease. Take a look at the jib luff tension, I think you need more. Stays to port and starboard off the end of the bowsprit might help too, I remember watching mine sag off to leeward before adding some. Small tweaks, one at a time and take notes as you go, it will come together eventually.@@plymouthwelshboy

@@plymouthwelshboy thanks, well it seems you have it all under control!

Useful tips to go investigate further. Appreciated 👍

Coaming.

the rig is brilliant when i have it set up properly and i'm not doing stupid things like sitting on my jib sheets or forgetting to release the appropriate one after tacking and backing the jib. John welsford's navigator is roomy, stable, safe, versatile, seaworthy. My standing lug yawl rig can be used in several ways. when balanced the boat sails herself with tiller locked off. There is good freeboard and you physically sit in the boat with a higher back coaming which makes it a dryish boat when going to windward. Plenty of lockers which also act as watertight buoyancy chambers. big locker under that foredeck. Everything happens in slow motion even in brisk breezes. And plymouth is brilliant - the yealm, avon and erme; all the creeks up the tamar and lynher. a relatively easy day sail to salcombe or to fowey. and all of plymouth sound to play in as well.

Great pleasure to receive your engaging response. Morwellham Quay was the furthest I managed to get up the Tamar. A potential father-in-law took us up to the museum on the quay and into the tin mine. All in a lift keel Southerly yacht.His house was overlooking the arm of the Yealm which dried out on low water springs at Newton Ferrers.@@plymouthwelshboy

It's a great stretch to sail. The yealm is lovely

Most welcome

Not in this one but plenty in all the rest. This one was a look around

Kick myself because it's the first time I have ever not carried the huge plough anchor that I have. Have never had to use it up that beach before...🙄...I'm always pleased if I manage to show how well a navigator can go.....most of the time my poor sailing skills just don't do the boat justice....you well Josh?

@@plymouthwelshboyYes, all good my end. Was just in Europe for a bit but now back home and planning some trips. Stay tuned!

looking forward to seeing the videos josh. hope europe tour went well.

Hi Peter. I do have a huge bruce anchor which has never failed on any ground but I didnt bring it on this trip. in all the times i have visited this beach I have always used the lighter danforth successfully. So it came as a bit of a shock!!!

True 😆

Most welcome. Glad you enjoyed them take care now

Most welcome. Will catch up with your latest tonight. Hope u r well 👍

It is and also to learn from others and to get their evaluations and constructive positive comments on your own approaches

And ridiculous spring tides

@@plymouthwelshboy it's one reason i'm a bit of a fool for big n heavy anchors

me too after that debacle

@@plymouthwelshboy I know that people get very 'het up' about anchor types and weight but few it seems have much actual experience of anchors simply not setting or dragging through soft mud. There are several places in our rivers where he have the dual problems of soft silty mud and strong tides. Just near where you were is one place where I dragged a decent sized ( I thought) anchor and the same thing again just downriver in Sandacre bay on a very windy day. Many of the modern anchors seem to 'float' in the soft silty 'soupy' top layer of silt/mud and won't bite through to the harder layer below. Worryingly I used to find that even among the JW members there were some very fixed opinions about anchors where actual experience was lacking. The way I got around anchor problems with my 3 and 4 Ton Frances and Deben (with high keel area) was to go up one or 2 sizes just to get the weight needed.

Taught me a lesson. Carry my oversized anchor as standard 🙄👍

Yeah....I used a Danforth which in the past has held up there no problem. But this time ....wow. Interestingly as I am replying to you now, I am watching a live report on local news about the spring tide flooding in looe. Flat calm, no wind, no rain and no surge and yet the most water they have seen across the harbour and town streets for some time. It seems to be getting far worse

It is foul stuff I must admit. Great exfoliating potential though ....must have done wonders for my legs 🙄😱😆

Thank you. Fell in love with the cap, no idea why but love the design 😆