Elizabeth Skousen Episode 5

Practical Boat Owner

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PROJECT BOAT RESTORATION Halyard wrap

Sep 1, 2022

“You’re not going to want to put this in your magazine,” said sailmaker Paul Lees, shaking his head when he saw what I’d done. Not for the first time, I was looking at our Maxi 84 project boat and wondering how much my mistake would cost. So far, the

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Charter Checkout Procedures

Mar 10, 2020

One of my favorite parts of a charter is the checkout. I know, weird. But that’s the time I learn the boat that will be my charge, my baby and possibly my headache for the next week or two. I get right down into the bilge, engine room and anchor lock

Scootering

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Totally Drained

Mar 28, 2024

As a young Lambretta owner in the 1980s, it was vital to learn how to keep them mechanically sound. Failure to do so could mean a lengthy spell off the road, or even worse a bill from the local scooter shop. The ancient manuscript that called itself

Sail

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Cruising Tips

Apr 13, 2021

A notably unambiguous way of communicating the relative position of another vessel, a buoy or a landmark at sea is to use the old clock-face connotation favored by World War II aviators who had a lively interest in instantly spotting the chaps intent

NZV8

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Not Chicken Little

Apr 2, 2021

I have to tell you a funny story about old mate, Michael Eden. We grew up in Wanganui together. Michael — who still lives there — and I have been mates for 40 of my nearly 60 years; there’s a fair-to-even chance that once he finds out I’ve put this s

Yachting World

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£95,000 Of Damage

Jul 9, 2020

“We saw the storm ahead and diverted for cover in a marina as we could clearly see the skies above were very brightly lit. Not being in open waters we couldn’t sail around it “The strike was an amazingly loud bang, ear-ringing for a few moments – it

RealClassic

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From The Front

Feb 29, 2020

Warning! Anorak stuff alert! You have been cautioned! OK, that’s quite enough exclamation marks. But I felt that you needed to be warned that I’m going to talk about a tiny subject of interest only to a tiny number of folk. Rear chains. You are offic

Australian Muscle Car

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Feeling The Heat

Dec 15, 2021

The fire caused by spilt fuel igniting as Jacky Ickx restarted the Moffat Cobra in the pits at Bathurst 1978 was witnessed at close quarters by this writer. I was standing immediately behind the pit box looking in when it happened, and I can vividly

Practical Boat Owner

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Against The Grain

Oct 28, 2021

I probably have to take responsibility for sailing without a masthead aerial radio all this summer. The thing with non-sailing spouses (NSSs) is this: you’re used to them being intelligent and competent in normal life, and it really goes against the

Yachting Monthly

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‘The Boat Nosedived And Its Bow Folded’

Jan 7, 2021

On 30 November, whilst sailing at 27 knots on starboard tack, disaster struck the IMOCA 60 PRB. A strong SW air stream behind a front had thrown up a large and confused sea state. Kevin Escoffier, lying in third place in the 2020 Vendee Globe Race, w

Sailing Today

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Skipper’s View

Oct 28, 2022

THEY SAY THAT YOU know you're geting old when policemen start looking young. That might be true but to me a still more accurate gauge is when technology starts to completely baffle you. This has already happened to me sadly and I am regularly left sc

Yachts & Yachting magazine

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Skipper’s View

Oct 28, 2022

THEY SAY THAT YOU know you're geting old when policemen start looking young. That might be true but to me a still more accurate gauge is when technology starts to completely baffle you. This has already happened to me sadly and I am regularly left sc

Yachting World

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Ocean Awakening

Apr 8, 2021

Of all the yachting books I have read, not one starts like The Boat They Laughed At, by the inimitable Max Liberson: ‘I tapped the large man on the shoulder, interrupting his current occupation which was hitting the security guard repeatedly on the h