Recent content by boyblue

I have only sailed south to north from Harwich to Hartlepool. Most important to get the tides right, The tide gate at North Foreland especially. As Tomahawk mentions, there are very few ports on this stretch, Gt. Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Southwold and Harwich the only safe havens. With 4...

The only time I had a problem with my RL70c was soon after the boat was launched, the screen froze during a choppy channel crossing. One of the many plugs in the back had fallen out, quickly rectified as it was a plug I could see from the side inspection cover. The next and last time was...

A bit of an eye full :)

Sailing from Brixham to A'Coruna in April 2008 with two crew. We had made really good time averaging 8 knots. On the last afternoon and about 12 hours from A'Coruna a dark black line appeared on the horizon. We rolled away the genoa and reefed the main, the sea was building long before the wind...

Your existing card will be honoured and then can be renewed on expiry with a similar card.

Slightly off topic, can you apply oil over varnish ?

Life is too short to read those sort of documents, better to wait a day or two and read the important points in your daily rag, whether Daily Mirror or Times, the truth will out.

1964 Q flag into Calais, boarded by customs with a check on booze and cigys. passport check. Sailed away from Calais 1 week later no checking to get out. Then into Dover with Q flag, boarded by customs checking booze and cigys, passport check. Seemed simple then, bound to be more to it in 2021.

If you look on the Dutch Barge Ass. forum, there are many blogs of folk living in the EU on their barges, narrow boats, dutch steel motor cruisers and replica dutch barges, most with single screw. With a twin screw boat in narrow French canals, moving to the side to let a laden barge pass, the...