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07/09/2026

A riding turn is not a strength problem. It is an eight-degree problem.

The winch maker’s manual gives the number: the sheet must enter the drum at eight degrees, plus or minus two, climbing. Downhill causes overrides. So does flat.

Put the lead block above the winch and the sheet arrives descending. The heavily-loaded turn flicks up over the lighter ones and jams them against the barrel. Hauling harder on it is what turns a minor drama into a crisis.

The fix is geometry, not effort: lead block level with the winch or below it, so every turn climbs.

Already jammed — take the wind out of the sail, rolling hitch on the loaded part ahead of the jam, second winch takes the load, unwind by hand.

And never stand in the bight between the block and the drum. A winch turns twenty kilos on the handle into something near a tonne. A bight that comes under load closes on whatever is inside it.

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06/09/2026

Palma rises and falls about a third of a metre in a day. So a marina there can fix everything in place: a stone quay, bollards bolted on top, and a line running from your bow down to a weight on the seabed. Nothing in that system adjusts — and nothing needs to.

Now put the exact same berth in Brittany, where the water swings eight metres, twice a day.

It fails in both directions:
→ At high water, the quay is under the sea.
→ At low water, it’s four metres above your deck — and you’re not getting off the boat.

That’s why northern marinas look nothing like southern ones. The dock floats, riding up and down a pile, and you lie alongside it. Same step onto the pontoon at any state of tide.

Space is why stern-to stuck.
The tide is why it’s possible at all.

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05/09/2026

A lifejacket does not fail when you fall in. It fails over the next hour.

Three hours in a wave pool, an unconscious test manikin, a fully inflated lifejacket. Time to take in a lethal amount of water without a crotch strap: 29 minutes. With one: 53. Same jackets, same waves, one strap.

The standard does not even require a crotch strap. It only asks that the jacket be designed not to slip off.

Two more checks. 50 newtons is a buoyancy aid — it holds up someone awake who can swim. 150 turns an unconscious body face-up. And the CO2 cylinder has no expiry date, so weigh it against the figure stamped on the side and check the seal is not pierced.

An inflatable with an empty cylinder and no crotch strap is a yellow collar.

Source: University of Portsmouth for the RNLI.

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02/09/2026

📍 Sardinia, September 12–19. One catamaran. Seven days you’ll be replaying all winter.

Costa Smeralda from the water — the way it was meant to be seen. Porto Cervo. The wild islands of La Maddalena. The granite coves of Capo Testa. And Bonifacio, Corsica — where 187 steps carved into a cliff lead you from the harbor straight into a medieval town.

No marathons. Short legs of 12–19 miles, 2–3 hours under sail. Morning coffee in the cockpit ☕ Swim stop in a turquoise bay 🌊 Evening ashore in a marina 🍷

Catamaran, verified captain, everything sorted — masks, fins, fishing rods, even the dinghy.

Spots are limited ⛵

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01/09/2026

Charter platforms take 15–20% of your season. We take 0%. Here’s the catch →

There isn’t one.

No commission. No platform fee. We never touch your money. Your price, your dates.

What it actually costs you: one form and a date range. Publish your availability window — even the whole month — flip on proposal mode, and guests send requests directly to you.

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01/09/2026

⚠️ They had 31 minutes. They stayed silent for 32.

January 13, 2012. Costa Concordia.

22:01 — the crew already knows: hull breach, water coming in.
22:33 — the alarm finally sounds.
22:54 — the order to abandon ship.

By then the list is almost 20° — the certified limit for launching lifeboats at all. Past that, the equipment is useless.

32 people died. The official inquiry named the delay itself as a root cause — not just the captain’s mistake.

A lesson for everyone who goes to sea: your evacuation time runs on the ship’s clock, not yours. Be ready before. Not when it’s “time.”

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28/08/2026

That’s not bad steering — that’s the propeller. In astern, the wash hits the hull instead of running clear, and it doesn’t press both sides equally. The stern gets pushed the other way. On a right-handed prop — the standard single-screw fit — that’s to port. Every time.

Stop fighting it. Start using it:
→ pontoon on your port side
→ come in at a shallow angle, bow nearer the dock
→ one short burst astern takes the way off and walks the stern alongside

To find out which way yours goes: tied up, quarter throttle astern, look over both quarters. Wash on the starboard side means a right-handed prop and a stern that walks to port.

Left-handed props exist. Ask before you take an unfamiliar boat out.

Theory and practice year-round. Barcelona, Athens, the Canaries.
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28/08/2026

Stop guessing how long a passage takes.

Our new route planner is live on the site — and it’s free.
Drop your waypoints, set your speed, and it gives you real distances, honest leg times and the whole trip split into days on the map.

Use it when you’re sketching next season’s charter, checking whether a route actually fits your week, or showing a crew what they’ve signed up for.

Completely free. Go build a route.
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26/08/2026

Look straight at a faint light at night and it disappears. Look a little to one side and it comes back.

The centre of your retina is rod-free — none of the cells that see in the dark, in the exact spot you aim at everything. The FAA calls it the night blind spot: the central 5 to 10 degrees. Rods peak in a ring about 18 degrees off centre. That ring is where your night vision lives.

So a night watch is taught to look a little to one side, and to scan in short steps with short pauses rather than stare. An empty-looking horizon is worth a second pass.

Try it tonight on the dimmest star you can find — straight at it, then ten degrees to the side.

This is the kind of thing we actually teach: theory online, year-round, at your own pace. Then straight to sea for practice on a real yacht 👉 link in bio · sailssearch.com

26/08/2026

Мediterranean doesn’t fill itself. 🌊

It loses more water than rain and rivers give back — and the whole deficit comes through one 14 km gap.
Atlantic in on top. Salty Med out underneath. 3x the Amazon, every second.

That’s why Gibraltar sets east at 2–3 knots — and why you plan a westbound transit around the tide.
Close the gap and the sea drops half a metre a year. It happened once. 6 million years ago.

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