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This is a general problem which I have faced for decades. My priority would be to stop water getting between your lovely new epoxy and the metal - possibly with some underwater primer. See if you can persuade the yard team to lift you last thing one day and put you in the day after to gain...

Did anyone see it? The items featuring a motor cruiser driven onto rocks at high speed and a rescue in a cave were amazing!

Also Holyhead. The yacht club has great moorings

Should also have mentioned Lundy. You can anchor near the SE corner. It needs to be extremely settled to use Jennys cove on WSide. Lundy nicely breaks Padstow to Dale trip

To do the trip in daylight you have about 18 h a day in summer. You could use the tides and rest when it’s adverse. I would consider Falmouth Padstow Ilfracombe Skomer or Dale Fishguard Aberystwyth Abersoch Caenarfon Beaumaris IOM Bangor N I If it’s strong W forecast to arrive then go...

My berth is in a very similar position to yours. I find the best way is to come into my berth from the “dead end “ and use the inertia of the boat to take her up to the pontoon as I turn in. I normally turn round 180 degrees further in but sometimes reverse well down between the pontoons. To...

Perhaps the wire is out of spec. Most scrap yards have a hand held xrf spectrometer which tells you the spec of a metal instantly. I would take a corroded wire to one and see if they will tell you what spec the wire is. Try and get them to test a magnetic section. If they say it’s out of...

Sorry can’t help. I was at the canal today and remembered someone asking so I posted what I did know

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/285281489 Works great for me

Not many days when I don’t use sun block. As I am usually on the N Sea with lots of layers and a Lowe Alpine cap on I only need to put it on my face and back of my hands. This means that the sun block lasts for ages What I didn’t understand until recently is that sun cream doesn’t last for...

Get them re soled at a local cobbler. I had mine done no problem.

Have you tried a different pedestal?

As a Royal Marine you are Marine life and uninsured

Marine life is a big exclusion. “ it wasn’t the rocks that damaged your boat it was the barnacles “

Passageweather.com is really good for wave details and is currently free

I think you will have to live with the spots or get new curtains. The moral of the story- seal her up and use a dehumidifier !

I got locked in the head when the door handle fell off and I pushed the bar through when trying to remount it. The crew let me out but the week before I had been single handing and I could have been trapped below. Never close head door on your own!

Somewhere there will be an enormous registration document with all sorts of information like distance to first bulkhead, height of engine room etc. Perhaps ask vendor or see if the registry can give you a copy!

I had my Westerly at Uphill. I would have thought that you would be better off at a marina such as Portishead or Penarth. The Bristol Channel is great and if you use the tides you can get a really long way in 8h