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I've had two done. What makes a huge difference is physio. Go private if you can and aim for more than the handouts you get on discharge show. It's the glutes mostly; seems they get cut thro and sustained effort needed to get them stretched and strengthened. Pilates after a while praps. Hope recover...

I was able to deploy an old joke yesterday. "Are you allergic to anything else?" Asked the doc. "Only country and western" said I. I got a guffaw and comment that an EpiPen is not available for that.

Yep, I wondered about the seafood crawling up my leg.
Wasnt much bother to put in another seacock and draw the water from there instead. Put a strainer bowl in line which proved its value when it filled with weed; rather it was there than inside the leg

Despite the big words I've ordered a Solomon Gursky was here on your recommendation.
Ta for the tip

RNLI have assisted two friends of mine in the last couple of months. One was heading for the Jester start but engine failed with headwind conditions. I was waiting for a rendezvous with him in Eastbourne and in touch via phone. He's no snowflake and has done thousands of miles including Atlantic cir...

I might open it if on same tack for a week or two but not short tacking up the Medway. Usually do washing up no more than once a day but if sailing it would be done in a bucket - it;s that sort of boat and I'm that sort of bloke. Oh yes, health and safety, I have two buckets!

Some folks use a scaffold board/
I've got a length of purlin from a loft conversion. No real need for it in these southern semi-suburban zones but if going a bit more remote I tie it up along a shroud

I was going to say it sounds like the best sort of partner: classy but robust. However that should imply low maintenance....which is where the analogy breaks down. Sounds pretty much like my state of repair - 90% done and 90% still to do. Boat still operational for jaunts of a few days but for owt l...

No experience of autopilots, assuming that's the below decks type but 3 tillerpilots have given up the ghost on me, despite several varieties of covers intended to keep water out. I personally wouldn't depend on a tillerpilot for offshore sailing, especially not single-handed. Before the Jester Azor...

Yeah but.....I keep learning the same stuff over and over again. The problem was that I twiddled the seacock twice but forgot before the beat back up river.

Expect most know of the Med further south but there's another that's closer - the Medway which has more birds and square miles of mud. Some club members had a trip from Hoo to Queenborough last weekend. Tis only about 6 miles but two boats anchored for the night up a creek. Quite blowy especially wi...

I bought the Antares charts and they're snugged up on my lappie. Trouble is I don't know what to do next. Checked over the instructions but got no further.
Can anyone give me a simple starter please? I'll probably try to get no 2 son to sit alongside me for when the concentration lapses.

Thanks. Bought two for the kindle

Sorry. Sorry (repeating again; must be those radishes). I made an attempt to edit out a 'Not.

I'll do my bit to boost the punter count. The medics have been at these last two years but chums have crewed to do most of the pulley haulywork I got Meccano in my other hip and anticipated heading north after a couple of months but then got hernia and had long wait for puncture repair. Planned a t...