Recent content by Solent Cruiser

How about the view that the goods are for a Yacht in Transit. That is, one from the country of registration and ownership, it being in the EU under TA (18 months in any one unbroken period). The registration/ownership and place she is being kept, and for how long, does matter, therefore . If you...

GHAs reply is excellent and its content helpful to all. Further to it, I would implore far more people in the cruising community to do their bit a lot more frequently than they presently do, and contribute to crowd source apps like NFL and Navily, and even on the slow- to-evolve Navionics...

Get use to no one knowing anything or doing anything in Gibraltar! Laziness and not being customer/user focussed is the cultural norm....there are exceptions of course. I've spent a year there. Unless you work and pay the relevant taxes in Gib, or don't work and are very wealthy, or on a UK...

I'd strongly suggest avoiding the idea or any wording or chat about 'liveaboard'. This applies to every aspect of you new marine based life. If you are UK resident, and have a UK address - which is used on your policy - are registered with a UK GP etc, then the amount you use your boat (for...

Just to be clear in the debate, as someone with no axe to grind either way, it's not just a question of price; it is also a consideration that they ( the lower priced items) work ie do the same thing as the more expensive units.So, if a cheap life jacket does the same thing as the mega...

Hi. This thread is a bit like the topic of anchor preference, if you understand my meaning! Isn't it fun!? My intention was and is just to aid the the OP and, more often than not, the many more 'interested others' in some of the realities often not sufficiently forthcoming. To answer your...

Ignoring the discussion about the problems with various new(ish) designs and builders, sailing performance etc etc, my input (as a cruising catamaran liveaboard, in Europe) would be: (1) There's been a huge influx of short in the sailing-tooth, starry-eyed, very wealthy newbies, who all buy 40ft...

It's not what you want to hear, but my advice is don't buy a boat and seek to sail long term in the overcrowded-with monied-types, short-of marina-berths, expensive, migrant-troubled-Med, if you are a British passport holder. Stay in the UK and get Brexit reversed! Sorry.

A year ago, in Premier Marina Gosport, there was a blue BMW parked for two years belonging to a resident boat owner. It had a flat tyre, no MOT, nor insurance. The Premier people knew this and didn't act so we're not bothered. Try Gosport?

Totally agree . Many of us would like to join the CA as it is a useful organisation. The Captains mate was a great - if somewhat late/slow in arriving - App. However, it is hard not to agree with the view that the annual the cost - for what is provided - is excessively high. The CA, in my...

I can't speak to visas from Greece, but our last one (from France) was incorporated into the passport as a complex printed page, not a separate thing that gets stamped.

Interesting, as one who lives abroad on a yacht. Note, however, as far as I understand, Schengen Countries are 'free' to put in place their own visa arrangements if they so wish, as Portugal is doing so with their digital nomad visa for third country nationals It doesn't require other members...

Free Mobile was the best value ( data Vs cost v performance...v.good). 20 euros month, over a 100 gig . It's a one or two month agreement, which you can extend monthly. Go to shop. They do it in minutes. Then control online. If you don't extend, it just terminates the SIM. Good 5g too.

There are not long term berths available in Gib without random good fortune, or via a waiting list.

Very true. Our family name has an apostrophe, which causes all sorts of corruptions (from multiple //// insertions and or characters like &). It is pathetc that lazy data entry and or coding fails in software are allowed to continue.