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PS lads I haven’t seen Karisma since October… if anyone could tell me how horribly green she is, I’ll be up at the end of the month with...

Keep telling them that!

Nah! Huge tides and over falls, oil refineries and big rocks. Desolate, nowhere to go, no pubs. It's a terrible place - you don't want...

That’s more or less enough though, for family summer holidays. If I was more local I would get into the racing scene because that would...

A pie and pint last night in the Griffin, overnighting on the pontoon after a day of Skomer, Puffins and Dolphins. It’s a brilliant...

There you have it. Solent pond versus Skomer South Haven. I love Skomer and the puffins though have f ed up Jack Sound by getting clock...

The further you go up the BC the less you want to be there, bigger tides, less to look at, water like drinking chocolate. We had...

I haven’t even got as far (west) as Fishguard yet! And that’s with a reasonably quick 30 footer. Kids, wife, holiday time are a drag...

I am, and BitBaltic is a bit further down the same pontoon at Milford Marina…

I thought that I was the only silly Bugga to be based at Milford. Any other forumites (except Huw) based on the Haven?

Agree with this as a general strategy. A liferaft is there for reasons in ocean sailing (all reasons), stress of weather in offshore...

For me it would depend on whether I was doing offshore or ocean sailing. You would be unlucky not to be picked up within a day in home...

The only thing better than an anchor thread is an anchor thread that begins with an entirely open-ended question🍿