Recent content by vertford

We live in north west London and kept a small 23ft on a buoy at Fambridge Yacht Haven on the River Crouch for 4 years. An an hour and 15mins mostly door to door. Fambridge is fair way up the river from Burnham, so depends on what you are looking for sailing wise. Had a pleasant 4 years pootling...

Thanks for all the replies. Tip is a no go. Watching out for next marina day that may have the disposal option. Fragmentation risk is noted.

I have moved my expired flares since selling the boat from the loft to the garden shed. They are still in good condition but all this heat recently made me think of them "cooking off". I keep them out of direct sunlight. Would an old military ammo box be a suitable container to...

Thanks Capn. Windy would be good.

Hi everyone, The wife and I are looking for a week or so somewhere close for a bit of milebuilding/pay as you sail in Jan. Thoughts are Canaries/Gib as don't want to spend hours on a plane. We are thinking of milebuilding rather than a course. Any thoughts/recommendations/cautionary tales...

Many thanks everyone for the advice, links and tips. As much as we love Flemings/ Nordhavens, I think we will be restricted budget wise to the less world girdling vessels!

I can navigate under the bridges and to cheaper freedom beyond. Another plus I realised at Dusseldorf For two I would find 40' just fine, but strongly recommend an aft cabin with an island bed. Noted. We are tired of squeezing into aft quarterberths/cabins I am obviously biased to a...

Thanks Wlighter. The Dutch do seem to produce a huge range of craft. Point noted about semi displacement vs planning.

Thanks Vandy. We are about 5 years away from motor/yacht purchase, so the leisure/liveaboard balance will kick in then. I suspect fuel costs will one of the major tipping points.

As Head of Our Future Plans, SWMBO has asked me to look at our prospects for retiring early on a 40ft motor boat vs a 40ft yacht. I can work my way around the 40ft WAFI options, but am stumped on the MOBY option. We went to Dusseldof this year and crawled all over an Elling, Linsen and Broom for...

Following TKen's post about the Autumn lectures I attended 4. I forgot to pre book the one about Heavy Weather and the NW Passage and they were full. The 4 I went to were well organised and interesting. Bar seemed to do a roaring business. We sold the boat in May so probably not worth me...

Not sure if these will come out. We don't do cold anymore. Sardinia last year

Afraid I can only offer this as I went for 2 weeks on a kayaking holiday in early May. We are based out of Santa Maria Navarrese on a daily basis and the marina looked decent and met some Ukranians who were exploring the coast up Cala Gonone. Our flat was in Arbatax which had a big marina port...

Seal the hole as best you can by whatever means you can. Pump and pump some more.Lighten her as much as you can if you haven't already. Maybe something under the hull close to the damaged area so she doesn't bash the repair open again? Maybe a combination of pushing her off with all the muscle...

Thanks for all the advice.