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Forum: Our Community 19-04-2024, 10:51
Replies: 35
Views: 6,287
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Charged after visiting a boat for sale! Has anyone ever had this happen?

I'm with Boatie.

The OP left it on the pavement, and we trod in it :-)!

TrentePieds
Forum: Our Community 13-04-2024, 09:23
Replies: 35
Views: 6,287
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Charged after visiting a boat for sale! Has anyone ever had this happen?

We do not know, since we only have the OP's assertion to go by, whether his document is a contract or an offer to purchase

They are two entirely different documents with entirely different legal...
Forum: Our Community 12-04-2024, 13:02
Replies: 35
Views: 6,287
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Charged after visiting a boat for sale! Has anyone ever had this happen?

Is this anything more than a mistake make in the selling broker's office? Or perhaps a failure on you part to communicate clearly and unambiguously with the selling broker?

You do not say where...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 10-04-2024, 10:05
Replies: 8
PNW
Views: 702
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: PNW

Do Listen to Lepke :-)!

But here is a clip of how it's done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8lJ5UrJ8bI&ab_channel=TylerTurner

It's Depoe Bay on the Oregon Coast. One of the few hidey-holes...
Forum: Meets & Greets 07-04-2024, 09:50
Replies: 12
Views: 982
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: I'm new to sailing and having a mid life crisis

Ritchie:

Welcome to CF :-)

Addressing your desire to SAIL from Blighty to the Low Countries: From Ramsgate to Zeebrugge is 65 of 70 sea miles. In a small sailboat such as a 26 foot Westerly...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 01-04-2024, 20:20
Replies: 27
Views: 2,246
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Cutting Through Precious Wood for Fuel Tank Removal....HELP!!

That looks like a very conventional installation.

In your second picture it looks as if you've already got the dimensions of the tank established by the pink tape. If I were doing the job, I...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 01-04-2024, 17:59
Replies: 27
Views: 3,425
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Will a furled jib destroy the rig?

Scary, I'm sure :-)

Being unable to get rid of windage aloft in the twinkling of an eye imposes risks I don't like.

Poles and wires you canna get rid of, but canvas and sundry hardware? Aloft?...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 01-04-2024, 17:52
Replies: 27
Views: 2,246
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Cutting Through Precious Wood for Fuel Tank Removal....HELP!!

2378:

Cheechako has it right in his tidy little drawing.

I just want to make sure that you know that the component of the boat you walk on, which ashore we call a "floor", is called a "sole"...
Forum: Emergency, Disaster and Distress 29-03-2024, 18:08
Replies: 149
Views: 13,786
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Montanan sez: " President Joe Biden has said the federal government will pay the full cost of rebuilding the bridge."

When I saw JB on the telly make that pronouncement I thot: "That's queer! Is...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 29-03-2024, 17:10
Replies: 36
Views: 4,327
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: North to Alaska, OUTSIDE Vancouver Island?

Yep - there is very considerable talk in sundry watering holes in the Gulf Islands that Canada needs a wall on her southern border :-)

TP
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 29-03-2024, 15:48
Replies: 36
Views: 4,327
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: North to Alaska, OUTSIDE Vancouver Island?

"Oh, Sorry!" is what we Canadians say when someone steps on our foot :-0)!

TP
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 29-03-2024, 14:12
Replies: 36
Views: 4,327
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: North to Alaska, OUTSIDE Vancouver Island?

4009 said: "My nephew tried to make that trip last year. He returned to port without completing it. Not because of weather but because he took the inside passage and made the mistake of dropping...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 29-03-2024, 07:15
Replies: 48
Views: 2,802
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Private purchase of sailing boat

And [even if Montanan will find it a bit heavy :-)] its corollary:

"Penny wise, Pound Foolish"

TP
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-03-2024, 20:56
Replies: 6
Views: 425
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: SA/D on cutter?

TrentePieds is "permanently reefed" having an SA/D of 13. Yet in winter weather here in the benign Salish Sea I have to reef. On the other hand, on August afternoons in the same waters I wish my...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 28-03-2024, 08:54
Replies: 48
Views: 2,802
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Private purchase of sailing boat

Good job, Montanan :-0)!

I'm sure we've convinced HansTony, well and truly, that to make an expensive purchase from a total stranger without the intervention of an escrow service is daft/crazy. ...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 27-03-2024, 18:20
Replies: 48
Views: 2,802
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Private purchase of sailing boat

Ah! Yet another significant difference between UK and Canadian Law and US law.

I thank you for making things so wonderfully clear :-)

That I've triggered a rectifying response on so important a...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 27-03-2024, 17:16
Replies: 48
Views: 2,802
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Private purchase of sailing boat

HansTony:

To come back to your opening post:

Being from the UK you are perfectly familiar with a species of legal beagle called a "Notary Public", and with the fact that among the things they...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-03-2024, 15:06
Replies: 27
Views: 3,425
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Will a furled jib destroy the rig?

Zach, you said: "The presenter argues that a highly furled jib can result in a failed rig when the wind gets high enough...."

Well, of course! AS Gord May sez so rightly: "any rig can fail when...
Forum: Great Lakes 27-03-2024, 10:25
Replies: 13
Views: 530
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Removing spreaders?

Kettlewell has it right. You'll save yourself a lotta grief if you keep the mast central.

The solution is simple - and cheap. Build a coupla crutches outta common 2be4 and scraps of plywood....
Forum: Training, Licensing & Certification 23-03-2024, 17:01
Replies: 2
Views: 551
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Looking for a casual private instructor. (Vancouver)

Hallo Chris :-)

No takers yet, I see. Possibly because Pt.Roberts is such an awkward place. It used to be lovely "distant suburb" of Vancouver, and a bit of a summer resort. No more. Now it is...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 21-03-2024, 08:36
Replies: 9
Views: 513
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Catalina with unknown mast

Tyler:

Welcome to our forum :-)

Boats are NOT like cars! You do NOT need "Original Equipment" parts to make your boat good again. All you need is some pretty standard stuff you can find almost...
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 20-03-2024, 09:05
Replies: 91
Views: 7,035
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Jost Van Dyke Customs Shakedown

Thank you, Montanan :-)!

I think that in respect of Urotex's whinge, we can conclude that all things unfolded as they should.

To quote MySaintedMother: "You don't have to LIKE it -you just have...
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 19-03-2024, 19:41
Replies: 91
Views: 7,035
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Jost Van Dyke Customs Shakedown

Hm...

Under British jurisprudence, the skipper's employer (whether a corporation or other business entity whose "customary" business it is to carry tourists in charter, i.e. against a fee for...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 19-03-2024, 15:23
Replies: 60
Views: 5,702
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: Bavaria vs Jeanneau vs Beneteau

Thank you, sailingharry :-)

What a refreshingly sober comment!

If you were closer by, I'd buy you a beer. Or two :-)

TrentePieds
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 19-03-2024, 09:05
Replies: 79
Views: 4,407
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: I think I’m back to square one…

Whoa, whoa, Thomas :-)

You know the expression "steady as she goes" :-)

Slow down, get a grip! Start by making a list of the seacocks. How many are there? Six maybe? At ahunnertbuxapiece? No...
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