Recent content by Paddy Fields

Privilege allow 60 days too. Too much of a squeeze for us. CCC - IIRC, you get a discount if you are a member.

For people who still have a house (in the UK), and leave it empty for prolonged periods of time, what home insurance do you use? Camping & Caravan club do home insurance that covers trips of 180 days. Any other options?

I’m not totally clued up on East Asian passports…. In general, british passport holders can go and live in the EU, provided we are willing to pay our taxes there. So if that is true of her passport, then yes it makes sense to ask on here

Surely it depends on what passport she holds? You need to be asking in a form full of non-Europeans.

I have enough of a clue to ask a few schools about this now. Yes they handling is different, but you still pick up a buoy heading into current/ wind under power. Doing it under sail is yacht master syllabus, I believe. MOB is under power, with methods to get the sails under control (furled...

That makes sense, especially the diagram. I enjoy learning from a knowledgeable instructor, so doing the entire course won't be a problem for me. Where do you learn stuff like crabbing sideways (or what ever it is called) with twin motors? Helmsman or DS? That stuff is new to me. Must be...

RYA web site specifies 2 days of practical motor boat experience before doing the day skipper, which sounds pretty minimal. I guess there is not so much rope work you need to get the hang of on a motor boat.

Clearly a lot of similarities, but not so sure they are the same on paper, nor in practice. Besides, my day skipper ticket says "sailing" on it quite clearly. My corresponding ICC has no restrictions for sailing boats, but restricts me to 10m motor boats.

Hi I usually sail one of those boats with a mast and sail, so am a bit clueless about motor boating. A friend of mine wants to get a day skipper ticket on a motor cruiser. Assuming RYA course, can you jump straight into the day skipper course, or is there an equivalent of competent crew for...

Sold already, with a backup contract signed too! it was only on the market for a few days! And I thought I was moving quickly lol

No reply from Frank yet. Its a 45’ sailing boat, about 3 years old.

Hi all looking for a surveyor in Antigua to look at a boat, and assist in helping me avoid the pitfalls of buying a boat in the Caribbean. Given current travel restrictions, the plan is to get them to have the initial once-over. Whilest in normal times , surveyors would be quite happy to visit...

Could you post up a link to those Facebook (ugh!!) groups you mention please? Bank account - France must have something like Monzo that is easy to sign up to? Or is the problem you have to be a resident to be able to sign up, but to be a resident you need a bank account - that would be a...

I didn't look at all the price brackets, but in the segment I was interested in, there didn't seem to be any double listings. Once you narrow things down, there are not a ridiculous number of properties. Maybe its also holiday homes/rentals that people also would sell if the price is right...

Sounds lovely! Definitely deserves investigation :) We stayed in palmos and pallafugell, and were blown away by the variety of those places. As you know, the housing market in the UK has gone crazy - probably the double wammy of Brexit plus the pandemic. Do you have a sense of what the housing...