Recent content by RobbieW

Someone with a professional qualification, like commercialy endorsed Yachtmaster, and some liability insurance

Shipping to the SoF would also avoid Orca Alley!

To do that trip in minimum time you wont be doing a lot of sailing. Working out the fuelling stops is the challenge, especially on the leg from Gib to Sicily. Launching in the SoF is what Jeanneau (used to) do with boats destined for the Eastern Med.

For preference, I'd go to Kinsale if the wind is good. Cork is mostly the Royal Cork at Crosshaven or a lon g river trip to Cork City. Last there in summer 23

From experience, more true in the UK than other European countries

Yes they do, call them and ask. What you should have done is paid the £30/year to stay on the waiting list after giving up the mooring.

Stone Pier fuel station sank and wasnt replaced. That was between 2008 and 2011, so at least 15 years ago

For interest, I came across this recent thread on Cruisers Forum earlier... AI Powered Weather Forecasting - good news - Cruisers & Sailing Forums

Muddy

aka Morgans Cloud. John is a bit marmite but I've been reading his stuff for a few years now. He writes from experience and can be opinionated

I ditched SolentMet and now have a link to Ian Millard's Windycator.... Windycator v2 - Live weather reports from coastal stations and offshore buoys which should open with the Solent centered

You'd need a fair size stern to put that on 🙂

Lets check the basic with OCPN. Have you added the cm93 charts to the set OCPN can use ? You should see an options screen that looks something like this with your chart locations listed. Also, the file needs to unzipped so that you get a top level of folders with 8 digit numbers, each of which...

Sadly, TQA is no longer with us... TQA R.I.P

It really doesn't have the function of OCPN