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I’d suggest May/June before the islands get really busy as they tend to during school and/or French holidays. There are a couple of...

If 2025 is anything like the last few years not August.

Thread resurrection! Four years later, the new Vibram soles are still as good as the day they were fitted. Very happy Hector indeed.

I put the report up so that everyone can understand the current situation and to stop the continuous bullshit flying around this forum...

Italian waters may have their own rules, and may mean any water police / CG come asking questions if you are not - but certainly U.K...

Cue jokes about French flags being plain white........

Paint one on a piece of sheet metal then sandwich in-between two sheets of perspex. You did ask. You can as Mr Pepys did for the RN...

Just had an email from the CA and I hope they won't mind me reproducing it here for the benefit of all mariners - Checking Into UK...

I am sorry, but you appear to have no idea what you are talking about. Thousands of yachts, both resident and on passage, are affected...

I appreciate their holding is poor but we carry a folding grapnel in the dinghy. We often use it to hold the dinghy off a jetty (med...

100% for me. Lighter & quieter. We have had several two strokes of various HP ratings up to 9.8 and they have all purred compared to...

Yup, affirms my opinion that I do not ever want to own a boat with a skinny keel like that. You can argue that it was the boatyard's...

Everything you say is making the North Sea in December in a forty year old 26-footer with no heating seem more and more appealing. Thank...

Thanks, I think you might have just pushed me into joining the CA, it would now make sense. Thank you!

Yes, I was diving with SCUBA in the mid 70's. No fancy instrumentation and buoyancy was controlled by the residual air kept in our...