30/01/2025
For several years now, I have thought about bringing all of the knowledge and information I have gathered over the years together into a book.
My restorations of old equipment have yielded many unexpected design features, in some cases no doubt the result of a long evolutionary process. I believe it will be beneficial to preserve and share these details along with all of the plans, sketches, engineering drawings and advice I have on making new machinery.
The book would include plans for making winches from scratch, and also operating instructions and anchor handling advice.
As for anchoring techniques, I hope to obtain accounts of difficult anchoring experiences from friends who have sailed far and wide, but also from people I don’t know, who would be interested in contributing to the book, and have a story to tell which may be of benefit, for example what went wrong and then how it could have been prevented.
I think this will take a year or two, but as I move towards retirement, it will be a fitting project to mark my departure, and I’m keen to get started.
I have attached a couple of images I think may be of interest, some of which would probably feature in the book.
Please let me know if you have an anchoring story you would like to tell!
