Recent content by oldmanofthehills

Worth ever penny for this aging viking. Even living in cities i hate being more that 1 mile from river or lake Of course i get seasick, of course the boat we can afford is more cramped or more slow than we want but still So we have dried out in green bay in scilly and i am tired as spent 4...

Hi Marsali, we now understand the question. on a low speed boat you are trying to manage the impossible on the english side. In the old days people just hung around and anchored in whatever pill or sheltered bay they could get to and it hasnt really changed. There are no viable lowtide harbours...

Ramseybis judged relatively easy to do (just dont run into the bitches) but hard to avoid as bishops and numerous dangerous rocks outside ramsey. The wild goose race outside skomer rather fierce so one need the same timing as jack sound - less tense making but potentially more unpleasant and I...

The 20nm stuffs you in the irish sea or west wales route and even makes padstow to milforld convoluted. Good luck with seeing if that can be amended. However a trip as far as Padstow covers some of the best sailing south of the scottish western isles - so do what you can in such manner as...

To start with one can anchor of stepper point or pentire point of padstow and big trawlers and dredgers get just oatside padstow and the doom bar is merely a brown bar or dark bar not a deadly one in normal weather. In a slow yacht in mostly familiar waters we did plymouth to the inner...

I have main auto pump on permanent on aux battery plus a sendary auto pump half way up the pump well on its own battery. Need 3 way charging from alternater via diode or just a manual switch if emergency battery flat. You would be amazed how many boats sink on moorings. Mine did due to chain...

Hence hydrogen peroxide - such as used to make blond hair. Not very stable so if diluted with enough see water probably not that much of an issue If that is there is any real problem to be solved

Well done managing Jack Sound, i have bungled it due to utc bst confusion - wetware failure not the tables. So going the otherway i set of 1.5 hours before slack and came through at 15kts on idle and created giant splash 3m tall arriving at lower end i think tide times are tight for manageing...

If you have only given yourself 10 minutes margin you will be stuffed in bristol avon or bristol channel. Slack can be a mere 20 minutes. As matt says, get to locks when harbour master requires it, which will be before HT

There is also a muddy brook that enter the sea near the marina. The mud is england slowly washing away, though some sand redeposited further along the coast to block the gates of rye

There is reportedly one normalish bulb in some the fire brigade house in Livermore, Calfornia that has been there for 100 or more years. I expect they dont dare turn it on for more normal use, but its an example given when describing the bathtub curve of failure rates

Likewise the Severn Estuary and Eastern Bristol Channel, and Bristol Avon where folks have drowned in the mud. Keeps hull weed growth down on tidal moorings but sadly doesnt trouble barnacles. Gets on all the warps too

As I have mentioned before on forums, my mother and friend sailed out of Folkstone for a day trip but took refuge in Calais without passports etc when southerly storm blew up as they were closish to French coat. This was 1974 before wether forecasting quite as good or maybe friend did notpay...

I was drafting a passage plan on the new system and it would not accept one entry however hard I tried or rearranged. As it was sunday so no chance of contacting home office form designer, I rang up the plymouth border agency who told me to just ring and give details if the problem persists...

I have a PLB and supposedly water proof phone - not that I quite trust its proofing - and as often rowing to boat on big fast estuary usually have handheld with me in dinghy. Several club members have needed to be rescued after oars breaking, outboards failing plus misjudging the current