Recent content by Nico

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I think Flaming was just pointing out that it is possible to have dispensation to sail in ISC even if you have an IRC certificate ("some suitable non-performance boats"). Eeyeore had an IRC cert in 2017 (quick Google - https://www.rsyc.org.uk/index.php/article/view/id/1476) so presumably was...

Agreed, but also the NOR says that if you have an IRC certificate you have to enter in IRC, you can't choose to suit yourself. Given the serious nature of both boat and skipper (Olympic medal) I'm pretty sure he'd have had a certificate all along, so no option.

Is there no end to your cruelty.

£19.50 from the RYA, or £13 odd from Blackwells. :-)

You can't have it both ways, they are either drones or workers. Drones don't work, as P G Wodehouse knew when he named Bertie Wooster's club "The Drones". The Simpsons have a lot to answer for.

I suspect that there is an element of risk avoidance, or just hassle avoidance, but space might be an issue. Land is so valuable that marinas are tempted to see if they can put housing on their site. Port Hamble used to have loads of free parking and the ramshackle but fun Square Rigger. Then...

The lady or the report?

Maybe the discrepancy was because you were in a slightly different position to the Bramble Bank post - not a long way away but maybe enough in a gusty offshore wind. I noticed the same thing the week before when we were experiencing over twenty knots but Bramblemet was showing 15-20 knots. Both...

I think that model was always the case some years back, probably left over from the paid crew mentality, but I've come across a few boats operating on the basis of putting in a few quid for fuel, which is fine by me.

Hamble in ???

Surely handicapping takes care of the variation from boat to boat. What you are talking about in other sports is more a sort of limited one-design. You also seem to be confusing the amount of money that is spent on a boat with the source of the money and the way it is used. JOG quite simply says...

20 NM out to sea from St Tropez would put you about 18 miles inland of Ste Maxime.

I wouldn't have thought L. saccharina was to blame, or even present on the sand in Studland Bay, other than as a detached frond. It grows on rock, or at least quite substantial stones. You can see it on any rocky shore at very low tides. Even if this were the mechanism and it were a question of...

TSS? You don't have to cross ordinary shipping lanes at right angles, but you will sail the long way round if doing a long crossing, as others have said.