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Looking for advice on appropriate gratuity for skipper of 4-person, one week, cat charter. TIA.

Looking for a quick idiot guide to reaching the Ship Inn at Noss Mayo by sea. Tidal window, where to moor etc. Done it once with a friend but now want to do it in my RIB out of Salcombe. TIA.

@ JFM. Just correcting myself - I see that WP is conventionally a long term asset by definition. I should know better than to question your posts.

Would "M class yachts in build" really be classified as "long term assets"? Surely the equivalent of WIP so current assets?

So buying not VAT paid saves 4% on VAT paid price (at 20% VAT rate) cos you buy a £100k boat for £80k and then pay £16k VAT. What's not to like? ;-)

Staying near Salcombe with some friends who are possibly interested in taking a one day skippered charter of a motor cruiser. Party of 8 possibly more. Tues or weds this week. Any ideas/suggestions of what may be available, presumably out of Dartmouth or Torquay?

There are very few certainties here. Tranona understands how VAT law works and is correct in his advice on principles of VAT law so far as it goes. But no-one can make definitively complete and correct statements on incomplete fact patterns. And even if the facts are complete, national tax...

From memory Mr Skinner said he came from Imperial Wharf?

I was wondering if you would weigh in jfm. As expected, your analysis is completely rational and supported by explanation of your conclusion. Best regards to you.

Oh my. That makes things tricky. By the way, I suppose you have seen that the YouTube views are now >95,000. Looks like you're going viral.

Well, I would like to nominate Skinner56 for newcomer of the year award. I totally admire his integrity in 'fessing up' to the mistake. Well done Skinner56 and I hope you hang around these boards because I, for one, will always remember and appreciate your honesty.

I'll defer to your experience of the handling characteristics of the type. Mike. I completely agree with your assessment that it's risky either way and, as I said in post #22, I hope that I would have decided to moor up and wait for the level to drop off a bit. Interesting to see Richard...

Except the rudder's not much help going astern, so backing out smartish in a straight line is not assured. I can't say I've tried it and you're right that the heavy SD 42'er I was used to may be different to a 67' planing hull, but if you there is a (say) 4kt current and you can drive into at...

Good on you for that and really sincere good wishes.

Yes the gearboxes are handed. Usually inward turning (I think) but can be outward.