Recent content by sierraone44

I've found the PM button Bill...

I'm bound for Portugal this summer,it will be my 5th crossing of Biscay in just over 11 years. always singlehanded in my 32 foot boat. My opinion for what it's worth is, once you are clear of the Channel approaches and the busy shipping lanes the weather is the main problem you may have to...

1978 Nicholson 32Mk X1- singlehanded-no home ashore-9 years in December. Portugal -Med(4 yrs)-Canaries-Caribbean-Now wintering in UK.

Just re-read your comment about getting round Cape St Vincent in one go from the East. I'm sure you know already but there is a great anchorage in the small bay just to the East of the Cape light. So if you do come along that coast and need a rest before rounding the Cape and running into the...

Just a personal view from visits in 2006. Give Vilamoura a miss,it's noisy,crowded and relatively expensive, in season anyway. Run on to Portimao where you can lay in the sheltered anchorage in the harbour or go into the marina. If you want to, recce's by train to Lagos are dead easy from Portimao.

Count me in on that.

Reference your post about Barbados. Tell me, what's the score with the local authorities demanding a " clearance " from ports in the Canaries? I'm bound West in January and enquiries here in the Canaries seem to suggest the Spanish authorities will not issue such a document. Other cruising folk...

Re: Wasn\'t like this in my day! Jedda or Kingston they're still gonna get 'fleeced' !!! Bet prices ashore shoot up 200% as soon as she gets alongside

A company called SIRS at Meopham in Kent,refurbished my old Sestrel steering compass for me. New card and dome. Tel:01474 816320. Worth a 'phone call.

Re: Wasn\'t like this in my day! I'll have a guess...Harrisons of Liverpool? Alright ... Smiths of Cardiff? o.k give up.. who owns that block of flats?

Cheered me up that name has. Across the pontoon from me is 'Loadsa Money' (with a jetski on the stern platform) Still, each to his own.

VLTC Leave a slick like that and the Froggies would bomb you I reckon.

Nope, never did fancy that Isle of Grain to the Gulf run, she looks like a bum feeder to me anyway.

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End of the month I'm off to where the Trade Winds blow, somewhere in a warm blue sea I will drop a flower over the side for her.