Recent content by TwoHooter

I agree. Lying at anchor in a deserted cove or estuary is great, but sometimes it's nice to have your own floating apartment in the middle of a big city.

Thanks, last time we walked the river it was still there, beached on the Welsh side.

Thanks. I believe our boat will pass under Old Bridge at Low Water Neaps. I would like to anchor below the Castle for a day or two, then make a passage to Tintern. We draw 1.6m and our air draft is approximately 8.5m, we made some changes and I have to re-measure to get the exact dimension. No...

Thanks for replying. I'm referring to upstream of the Old Bridge. In the pool below the castle walls. Bei Facebook anmelden

I once saw a yacht moored in the Pool below Chepstow castle, just upstream of the Old Bridge, so I know it can be done! Is there anyone on here with knowledge of the Wye?

Our Bruce held rock solid at Dale during a VERY nasty spot of bother which blew up while we were walking around the peninsula. On the way back I thought I might find our boat had blown back onto the beach or the rocks but it never moved an inch. We got soaked on our return in the RIB.

Our 27 tonne motorboat (with a lot of windage) came to us with a 50kg genuine Bruce anchor and it's never let us down in a number of anchorages in the Bristol Channel including Tenby, Lundy, various other places. We also carry a Fortress as kedge/spare anchor. I agree with Lodestone, the...

I think it's a good idea to keep using an old thread when the subject remains the same because people use the forum to research things like this and it's easier if everything is kept in one place.

My maximum taxi speed was 4 mph because my tail skid had been replaced with a supermarket trolley wheel so I could land on hard surfaces. But of course I could have turned on to the grass. And he would probably have seen me. But it's a weird feeling hearing someone else cleared to land while you...

It isn't just shipping that has interesting radio exchanges. Aviation has its share. Plenty on Youtube. Here's my anecdote, from 1986, at a Spanish airport where I had landed one evening enroute Casablanca - Parham (in short hops). An inbound Swiss light aircraft had got lost in the twilight...

Sorry, but I'm not sure about that. Suppose I am indeed the faster vessel, and at this moment I am approaching the other vessel on my port side and I can see her green side light. Am I simply a vessel approaching from starboard, and therefore the stand-on vessel? I think it depends how the...

This reminds me of Rudyard Kipling's short story 'A Matter of Fact' : I ran to his side and saw the log-line, which till then had been drawn tense over the stern railing, slacken, loop, and come up off the port quarter' The story is based on what we would now call a Tsunami but the log line idea...

It depends what the reader thinks is meant by the word "approach". Like you I wondered if paragraph 2 is necessary but I left it in for clarity. But of course this is all a lot of nonsense really, nobody is ever going to ask any of us to re-write the COLREGS!

I said she is a GRP specialist. She did structural work on our ocean-going motor yacht and I was very pleased with the result. "Gelcoat" is just her nickname, that's all.

I was making a passage past (not through) a danger area and two Range Safety Boats (Smit/Boskalis) were chatting away, on channel 16, about all sorts of things, not related to navigation. They were obvioulsy very bored. The chat turned to what takeaway they were going to get that evening. I...