Recent content by PhilipF

They do this with Maps.Me Not only is it well updated (do it yourself should you not agree) but it has the massive advantage of not requiring an internet connection to use. The maps being downloaded to your app from ones own network. One of my most recent use of it was in Norway. I'm never...

Interesting that this tread is still running:encouragement: We've only had a boat - 8.8 metre Nimbus for around nine years, never had one before, thus no 'experience' what soever. We based it for six years in CQ Poole. Within the first year of ownership we'd crossed Lyme Bay to Brixham. Have...

Really interesting this: Thought I should join RYA when I got myself a boat, some years back. All the copies sent me this year where left in their wrapper. But I did see through to the outside cover of the most recent they posted. While contents where based on water borne activities of some...

I've already posted that Towergate took over the insurance broker I was using in Sherborne Dorset. I also said that this office has now been closed down. Strikes me as pretty odd to purchase a business that was being run as an insurance broker, by an excellent and hardworking team of people, the...

I most certainly would do so.

Before we ever had a boat. When the weather was wet, overcast, windy and miserable, I would say "who would want a boat this weather". Then when I got to the age of seventy I thought "if I don't get a boat now, I'll never get one". So, we bought one:encouragement: I now say "it was the second...

Yes, we have property insured with them, this runs out next month. Very certainly they will not get any more business from us:disgust: We used to place some of our insurane through a broker in Sherborne Dorset. Must have been a year or so back, this firm was taken over by Towergate, now bear in...

Yes, I'd agree with that. Our Nimbus was done around four years ago. Had it out of the water this year, overall condition so good, will not bother to take it out again, for another three years. But, I always disconnect mains power when I am not on the boat, hence I submit the reason for low...

Yes, I thumping agree with you. It was almost two years from when our boat was last lifted, til it came out a couple of months ago. From what I found of anode wear, I reckon I need not lift again for close to three years. Really important in my opinion is to take power off when not on the boat...

Reckon I'd add the Tamar to that list. We've been up as far as Calstock - suppose could have got further, but did not have the courage!!

Steve, if you could manage a day to go round to Dartmouth, do call in for a short stay in Dart Marina on the port side just past the upper ferry - the cable one. I walked into their office the other day when I happened to be in the town and inquired how much a short stay in our boat would cost...

We've always crossed straight over, certainly not worth turning inland as far as West Bay. Suggest once you are based here in Torbay, you could explore the coastline up to Lyme Regis - really nice from there westwards. If you did think of doing this might be worth berthing for a while at West Bay.

We've always crossed straight over, certainly not worth turning inland as far as West Bay. Suggest once you are based here in Torbay, you could explore the coastline up to Lyme Regis - really nice from there westwards. If you did think of doing this might be worth berthing for a while at West Bay.

I am not and never have been a member of a yacht club. However I rather suspect that the 'mutterings' referred too would be from members who pay a - often quit substantial - annual subscription, suppose they don't think some should get in without becoming a member like themselves.

If tides and conditions are right its 3.5 hours at low 20's so no real drama. It will take us 5 ish hours to get to the Hamble but tbf that is 100nm We've crossed Lyme Bay several times between Poole and Brixham in our Nimbus - at only ten knots - takes us a good six hours:eek: The fuel used...