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Also I seem to remember a Polish ship that hit several yachts at Pin Mill & Woolverstone, then rammed the lock gates at Ipswich. Drink...

I was out in my son's rib on Brisbane River watching New Year fireworks. Police on PWCs were very busy breathalising the hundreds of...

Condolences to Pauline and the family. In the 1960s, when Ray was starting out as a designer, I worked for Pauline at the Cruising...

I was joining a yacht taking part in a race to be started by Prince Phillip. It started raining so I went inside the club which had...

That pretty well sums up my attitude. Listen to the VHF but don't speak. I assume the traffic centres have enough to deal with without...

I was watching the Lady Liselot video of the trip Blankenberg to Vlissingen. I note that he called Zeebrugge for permission to cross the...

Some fabulous toys there.. Boat porn! I didn't notice many lifejackets or harnesses.

Those stairs made me puff a bit but the view was great!

Probably OK they won't be under much stress. But imagine you are offshore with a rising breeze and the thought of those bolts pops onto...

Whoever is responsible has my respect and gratitude. It would be nice to know who to thank.

On our earlier trips we found that many pump out stations did not work. When we asked what the locals did, we got shrugs and "don't...

Photos taken of the Deben entrance at LW 0.5m Harwich on 15th February 2024. The buoys are in the 2023 positions and the Trinity House...

OK, I hope to see a bit more of her this summer. I think I agree with the Cirdan Trust philosophy as I understand it. "You have...

I have ATIS on my VHF but rarely needed to use the radio in Dutch waters. When I did use it I forgot to switch the ATIS on but nobody...

I believe Vreny was epoxy sheathed below the waterline some time in the 90s. Your experience reinforces my thinking that this is not a...