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What rig do they have?

Just wondering, how when starting from Penzance, you sailed around Lands End, into a full easterly gale?:confused:

So he claimed.

Better to use Hurst light & stay in correct sector.

Difficult to see from Hurst.

If it was such "a sodding big ship", its the sudden absence of "backlights" that should be looked out for, its nav lights are insignificant in comparison.

Gipsy Moth IV, was a dog according to Chichester, not sure the rig was at fault though.

I well remember an emminent surgeon saying that piddle was inert, he'd taken a shower that morning so his bits were cleaner than any handbasin + he was taught not to pee on his hands. So does it actually cause harm?

What do you line it up with?

Those weren't used as navigation aids. You can see Fawley from Hurst & take a bearing, not sure you could see Poole PS from Old Harry.

A few years ago, I was skippering a survey vessel in the Baltic, sailing across the busy traffic seperation zone between Denmark & Germany, the main shipping lane in the Baltic & vessels were calling up a ship, seen on radar & AIS sailing against the traffic in the wrong lane. "You are in the...

Bit late for the portfolio's of rhe South Coast I had, now all sold.

Why did I say that, when I mean't Mayflower? :o

What are the details, boat, from where to, anything else relevant?

Childrens department?