Recent content by SteveT

I had a small (20ft) boat shipped to Spain by a well known shipper who advertise regulary in the mags and claim to be med specialists. I gave them the dimensions of the boat from the manufacturers brochure. Boat got to Spain but was first of all lost for 3 days then appeared but was damaged...

An unusual christmas and new year this year. I am flat on my back just having had a bed bath from three rather gorgeous nurses, and three questions came into my head. Two of which are printable here. First can these forums be picked in a mobile/palm/xda format. Second is the picture used jn...

Re: Serious - RYA but what do you want I do think we are very much second class citizens. The training courses were the main added value they brought, but now competition is coming in that area. So now other than the volvo discount (is this still in place?) i cannot see any value they bring to...

I went to Lombard and was refused because the amount i wanted to borrow (15k) was to be used as the deposit and the boat would not be delivered until June they said they could not lend it becuse if I was to default between now and then they would have nothing to claim back against.Anyway i then...

In terms of the boat, i've had a small Regal for 3 years (18LSR) and it has behaved imppecably. The gel coat still looks like new and the only thing to have gone wrong was the walk through windscreen was becoming tight to close and a couple of press studs lost oh and a spark plug went. The...

Well after your last post i'm glad to say a Cranchi lets hope the manufacturers polish them as well as the public!!

Funnily enough i have just purchased (i hope) a 24ft boat in Menorca. The process appears to be very simple I found new boat prices to be slightly cheaper than the UK and when then taking into account shipping out costs 1.5% saving on VAT the savings add up. Second hand boats seem to be more...

Pauline, I have gone on three cruises accompanied each time by my wife and two teenage daughters. They were with Princess lines and Royal Caribean, so the snob bit , these are not Thompson type cruises. So based upon my experience cruising is fantastic, the meal sessions can be on a table of...

Re: internet USE THE BANKS If you have a bank account in one of the countries your reffering to or if you can get into a local bank office then they often have free CD's for online access, which although designed to get you to access their services on line do use a local ISP so once your on...

Funny my wife thought the same, scarily accurate that is, not that i have got a webcam in your bathroom.

HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A WOMAN 1. Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks. 2. Walk to bathroom wearing long dressing gown. If you see your husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas. 3. Look at your womanly physique in...

All this talk about the weather here in the UK and the large amount of sites giving forecast details is terrific BUT does anyone know where i can get weather forecasts for Menorca coastal waters in English. Every day they post them in the port office but its a) In Spanish b) IN FRENCH ...

I,ve noticed that a lot of winking goes on in this forum. Some wink before they write others finish off with a wink. Interestingly nobody seems to wink mid article. So is winking becoming fashionable again, is there some etiquette for winking on line , do regulars writers wink more than casual...

I understand what both replies are stating but my point is.... If we had a quality grading A-F with A being lower rating than F then it would make like for like comparisons a lot easier. I do not know what measures should be used this would be down to experts but as an example from a non expert...

I have seen a lot of discussion around what boat is good or bad quality , of course a lot of it is subjective. So as there is a thing called RCD which categorises boats could this be viewed as an objective view of quality. For example a category C could mean it can take up to a force 4 because...