Recent content by mike_bryon

October is now officially a summer month at Brighton Marina and monthly paying customers like me are charged the summer rate for the month. What a rip off.

i dont know about your island be here in st vincent the police do a good job of recovering boat stuff. they usually know who to go after and often get the stuff back. if it happened here i would go to the police and rely on them to recover the items. best of luck

Thanks for the advice I guess that is what I shall do. Any other accounts of first-hand experience welcomed.

It seems the national yachtline can only be called from within the UK and my emails bounce back from public.enquires@homeoffice.qsi.gov.uk. Eventually got a number for immigration 00448706067766 but they close 4.45pm UK time. I want to notify immigration before I arrive and then contact them...

the number does not work!

Thanks. It seems a bit old fashioned that I have to telephone. Calls cost a $1 a minute from out here and we all know how long a conversation with a UK Civil Servant can take!

To what email address can I notify UK immigration of my arrival with a couple of non EU crew?

I do NOT consider SSB essential for either contemplating nor, more to the point, going ocean sailing. I have owned two sets. One I bought when I was relatively inexperienced; the latest boat came with a set. I hardly used either on a good many ocean passages and time in anchorages. I didn’t...

Here are a few more details The plan is that we will spend a couple of days in Martinique and then sail North through the Leeward islands visiting for example the Dominica and Guadalupe before arriving at Antigua. In total we can spend two weeks visiting Caribbean islands. We will use that...

Can any please tell me the current entry fees charged by these countries/islands. Advice on the not-to- miss places and best place to clear into Dominica and Guadeloupe also welcome. Thanks Looking for crew for the trip back leave from Martinique 4th May arrive UK 20th June. PM for further...

Sail Ocean 60 schooner through the Caribbean before crossing to the Azores and UK. Board in Martinique, May 4th, arrive South coast UK June 20th 2012. For details PM or email mikedarkhorse@hotmail.com

“During the course of his adventures Toad alternates between deep remorse for his arrogance and having relapses of it. An example of his arrogance is seen in his self-centered ditty, Toad's Last Little Song, a song he performs to an enthusiastic audience which exists, of course, only in his...

A group of American dentist’s come once a year to St Vincent and provide free dentistry they have to have security guards to hold back the press of people wanting the service. Every 6 months the SDA church provides a visiting dentist for its congregation. In Venice we found dentistry good but...

I have seen very little crime out here so please don’t be discouraged. I can’t say if the French are any worse than anyone else. I am just reporting what happened to me.

Caught a group of French sailors taking my anchor – its big and they were struggling which is the only reason I heard them. I swing to my own mooring but always have an anchor out as a back-up. One guy was in the water I guess he swam down to it. I rowed across and took it from them they had...