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    Save Weir Wood Sailing Club

    Supported, but disappointed with the RYA,
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    One-off passage insurance for crew

    I recommend Topsail Insurance - used for just such a trip
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    Sapphire flogging sails, Chi Marina!

    Just reported to Premier Chichester that Torridon on pontoon N has its cockpit cover blown in the water. Cockpit sole is floating!
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    Expensive day out

    So if the speed limit is through the water, entering Chichester harbour (speed limit for power driven vessels, 8 knots) on the ebb tide you could potentially be limited to 2 knots SOG yet can do 14 knots SOG entering with the flood tide?. I appreciate the "only extreme cases are prosecuted"...
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    Expensive day out

    I'm surprised at that. How exactly do they measure speed through the water?
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    Can anyone please tell me the author/title ........

    You might also be interested in this film on YouTube about Peter Hamilton:
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    Garmin InReach mini and mini 2

    I bought a Garmin Inreach Mini back in November. I used it to cross the Atlantic earlier this year (it worked really well for me), but now I had planned to sell it! What is it worth when there is a new version?
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    What car is your boat?

    Fast and fun, but a bit of a squeeze, a Lotus Elan would probably be the automotive equivalent of my Corsair trimaran, though that was built in Vietnam not the UK
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    Alcohol Cooker

    They are now made/sold by Dometic and are still available - so far as I am aware.
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    ePropulsion Spirit 1 EVO hydrogenerator in YM

    Could work well with a trimaran....
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    Ryde

    Thanks for the photograph. Quite a sandbank on what I presume is East of the entrance? The FB Ryde harbour users page is useful too. Sounds like the visitors' toilets have been vandalised.
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    Ryde

    Does anyone have a photograph taken this year of Ryde approach at low water? I am thinking of visiting later next week and it would be useful to see where the channel runs.
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    Tacking under sail out of Chichester

    I often sail both in and out of Chichester harbour and I have never thought that doing so might be deemed "disrespectful". "Narrow Channel" must be around a couple of hundred metres minimum width, depending on the tide. Just how much room do the motoring vessels want? If you are afraid of...
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    Transit along the South Coast: Brighton or Newhaven

    I wouldn't be put off Eastbourne marina because of the lock. As I recall, it has floating pontoons in the lock, so no problem for single handers.
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    Knee Replacement & Sailing

    But everyone has that right under the NHS - you can research it and choose the surgeon you want to do the operation.
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