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I have been reading the November issue of Yachting Monthly and in particular an article in the "Expert on Board" series titled "Entering Unfamiliar Harbours". Two comments in that article: "approaching a harbour on charter in a boat you're less familiar with" and "yachts where the anchor gear...

We recently chartered a Beneteau Oceanis 41.1 in Greece for a fortnight. We were not surprised that its detailed design was for marina hopping in benign weather (which we sometimes got!). But were caught out be a detailed feature of the cabin. The furniture fronts left a few cm gap to the...

I just heard mention of an item with that tag line in the trailer for BBC News South tonight at 1830.

I don't think there has been a mention on here of the Greek ferry fire near Corfu last Friday: www.bbc.co.uk/news/ (I just learned of it via Channel 4 News.)

Following the TV programme on the Ever Given in the Suez canal, here's an upcoming radio series about shipping in the Middle East. A quote from www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013r0s "Over the next decade, the scandal swirling around the ship [Brillante Virtuoso] would come to involve lies on an...

I don't think anyone has posted a reference to the article in the current Yachting Monthly that promotes this volunteering campaign. See facebook.com/group

After that TV documentary series on the Concordia disaster, this single (+ repeats) is on the Ever Given getting stuck in the Suez Canal. On BBC 2 at 21:00 on Tuesday 18th, then again 23:15 Thursday.

This topic is not special to marine applications, but my question arises from an article in Yachting Monthly ("January 2022" page 79). There it states that multi-strand (electrical) cables increase the available cross-sectional area (CSA) for a given cable diameter. This seems to me to be...

The subject of the 1st of a 2 part series that is tonight at 21:00 -22:00 on Channel 5. Part 2 is tomorrow night. Probably mostly about the passengers rather than about the boat handling...

Someone must have the inside information on the brief mention in the BBC news a few minutes ago...

There's an article about keeping diesel clean and legal. It suggests in passing that a dilution ratio of at least 75 to one is needed in adding white diesel to red before it becomes legal in Europe outside the UK. But then goes on to recommend topping up a 50L tank from holding only 5L to full a...

That recent BBC Radio 4 programme (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090vtzt) has prompted me to get her book-of-the-voayage (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maiden-Tracy-Edwards/dp/0671710273/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504464696&sr=1-2&keywords=maiden+tracy+edwards) down from my shelf and read it...

The YM issue of "June 2016" had an article on the Scottish Islands Peak Race (page 36 ff). I read it more by way of getting my full value from my subscription than any interest in the race. But I was intrigued by the mention of the problem of chafe for the runners. Apparently a yacht skipper...

YM's cover managed to get a flash on screen in tonight's first episode of this comedy/crime-drama. Showing was the cover and the "Confessional" page. But the only yacht that had a showing was a bit down-market... Mike.

In the "April" YM there is an article anticipating the greatest tides for 18 years due to an alignment of Sun, Moon and Earth called a syzygy. Apparently the National press has also published such predictions too. Reading this article I thought that if the alignment was so good, why were there...

Are other subscribers seeing message time stamps relative to daylight saving time, rather than GMT, this morning? Mike.

Saturday, 20 April 2013 10:00 until 16:00 Pirates Cave Chandlery 14, Enterprise Close, ME2 4LX Rochester, Medway Mike (No association, or even "liked"; merely see on Facebook)

Last week we chartered from Ultra-sailing (www.ultra-sailing.hr) in Dubrovnik via Yacht-base (www.yacht-base.com). The yacht came with two winch handles, as is normal, but both were missing the catch that would retain them in the winch when in use. This is a common vulnerability. During the...