Recent content by JamesFrance

I have only just seen your reply Steve, Fairbright had previous names I think Fairwinds and Seabright. After Dunkirk I believe she was anchored in the Thames with a Barage Balloon above her, she appeared min Lloyd's register but I no longer have my old copy of that.

In 1969 I bought Fairbright an old boat lying in Malta. She started as a fishing boat in 1920, went to Dunkirk and was converted to a motor sailer by David Hillyard. I sold her 2 years later from Mylor where we ended our cruise. I believe she left to cross the Atlantic but never heard of...

You could have a problem at the last alock to exit at Port La Nouvelle.

I posted another topic before reading this one, but will leave it there as the title explains the canal is closed. Many of the road bridges in the area are also shut so getting around is difficult.

Following last week's floods there is severe damage to the Canal. I have only just had the internet restored after the water came up to our front gate but fortunately soon went down again when our footbridge was swept away. Here is a translation of part of the VNF pdf report on the closure...

This is certainly wrong, a French policeman issued my wife with a 90€ fine for using a UK license when resident for over 6 months but I was able to have it cancelled. https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1758

Everything you need to know about CRT visitor licensing is here https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/boating/licensing-your-boat/choosing-and-buying-your-licence/short-term-visitor-licences You would also need a Thames license...

Tranona and Sensible if the icc can only be obtained following examination in navigation and rules of the road I will happily agree that I am out of date and you have specialist knowledge of this subject.

Sorry to be outed as ignorant by someone in a yellow submarine calling himself sensible, I don' t think there is any point in continuing this discussion so I am out of it. The same RYA supporters have been repeating the same stuff on this forum for years and clearly other opinions are not welcome.

I just think that an ICC, which requires no knowledge of navigation or even rules for preventing collisions at sea, but is simply proof of being taught basic boat handling, could be considered to be proof of competence. It's laughable bureaucratic nonsense.

Not somewhere I've been but no doubt there are a few jobsworths everywhere so I have probably been lucky, the ones I came across were usually more interested in coming on board for a drink. A Douanes patrol boat in the Glenans in 1970 even tried to get me to part with a bottle of scotch.

In 50 years of cruising in the Med I have never had any problem with officials. It seems ridiculous that some useless public servants should have decided that an expensive piece of paper benefiting the RYA money making project should be a requirement for cruising in foreign parts, particularly...

It probably depends on whether some local officialdom can overrule international law which is for the home country's regulations to apply when going foreign, until this is tested in law we will never know.

Plenty of folk have reported being asked for an ICC and produced one, but I am still waiting to hear from anyone without one who has been refused entry or prosecuted by another country.

As a British holder of Form S1 and French resident there was a time when I was issued with a French EHIC, but the system was changed a few years ago and now I have a UK issued one instead.