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Until June, we were living in the marina on our motor boat (for the last year and a half), yes it’s a bit noisy when a BA or Easy plane is taking off but that’s only 4 or 5 times a day plus the occasional airforce, so noise is not a serious issue. As the marina is so close to the runway, it’s a...

Gibraltar is not in schengan, I repeat not in schenga. it is negotiating to join, has been ever since Brexit, but has not and hopefully will never join. (i suspect the negotiations on the Gib side are more to do with dragging it out as long as possible, as the Spanish would throw a hissy fit...

hi Lightwave Yes we’re keeping an eye on that possible weather window. We’re not quite at Benodet, but 35 mile before there in Lorient, sitting at Port KERNIVAL opposite the submarine pens.

Defiantly, the Aquastar was a solid boat with personality. We wanted to upgrade from the Aquastar 33 to a Aquastar 38, We had our eye on two while we were selling but both were gone once we had sold ours (amazingly got 50% more than we paid for it and that’s after almost 10 year living on it...

Thank you everyone for the replies. We can hold out for another week, in the hope the weather May calm down, before making a final decision. Leaving the boat in a marina and heading home a couple of days before our 90 days is up, so we have a couple of days to hopefully come back over and grab...

Hi Trident thank you for the advise. It’s good to hear from someone we overwintered with in Cartagena. Hope you are well. Looks like my avatar which was of our old boat (the Aquastar 33 MoonSpirit) was confusing things, we sold her 2 years ago. only 33 feet but a very solid seaworthy based on...

Bringing our boat back up from Gibraltar to Channel Islands, 90 days looked plenty when we departed Gib but the weather has been unusually changeable throughout the journey, we have now completed 80% of the trip. Unfortunately the current unexpected long lasting summer storms has held us up just...

Motor boat (42 foot) we are planning to depart Gibraltar on or about 1st May. (First weather window) Having spent the last year being live aboard in and around the Gib area, We are intending to take most of summer (use most of, if not all the full 90 days Schengen allows us to be in EU waters)...

Buy the cheapest smallest property with a post code anywhere in the country. A run down flat, garage, garden shed etc. (less than £10k) disconnect all utilities, (electric, gas, water etc) so there is no ongoing costs. As well as a letter box, Fit a very large cat flap or similar to be used as...

Was not a fast ferry, More like cargo boat going South at 17 knots & Fishing boat going north at 8 knots

if the CA after several years of attacks have not yet come up with even preliminary results then something is wrong., why the delay?

Are there any speed of boat statistics? Is there a speed profile for the attacks? 4 knots 5 knots 6 knots 7 knots 8 knots 9 knots 10 knots What is the fastest speed a boat has been going that was attacked. ?

Like almost all marinas in the Med, you will be told there is big waiting lists, if you phone up wanting a long term berth almost all will say no we have big waiting list, maybe Gibs are bigger, maybe not? Like you I was told there was huge waiting lists. I bought my current boat at one marina...

Gibraltar should be top of your list. There are some decent beaches on the East side of Gib. We are there now, Gib is no where near as British as it was when we were last here 7 years ago. More to the pity, Now days many local restaurants display menus only in Spanish, can’t even be bothered...

Some of the biggest, biting mosquitoes we've ever see