93nm today and I'm cream crackered!

[Thepipdoc]

Dartmouth to St. Hellier - last minute decision, well actually a noon decision today and we arrived at St. Hellier at 16.40 hrs.
The trip was perfect and the boat behaved impeccably but I have to say I feel knackered!

 

[hlb]

Yes it's bloody hard work, I thought most folk had given up on trips like we used to do in the olden days.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Yes it's bloody hard work, I thought most folk had given up on trips like we used to do in the olden days.

Yup, you need a very large mortgage to afford the fuel for a trip like that these days and you'll kill several planets doing it of course

 

[lisilou]

Dartmouth to St. Hellier - last minute decision, well actually a noon decision today and we arrived at St. Hellier at 16.40 hrs.
The trip was perfect and the boat behaved impeccably but I have to say I feel knackered!

Where's the vid?? I could quite happily sit back with a cuppa and watch that.
L

 

[hlb]

Where's the vid?? I could quite happily sit back with a cuppa and watch that.
L

I have loads of vid's, but most of them are on vid and need converting, but even if I did that, I've found that even though I get rid of the music, there is no music and no vid. It's some how imbedded inside.

There is a forum, about folk that used to do the Middle East by land, in a truck.

Perhaps we need a new one, of folk that used to colmb the seas, and think nothing of it.

It was mainly health reasons that stopped me.

But I cant see that I would be happy pouring a thousand quid into the tanks, every other day.

Meekatharra may have gone, but I still have Mucky Farter and by magic, she uses no fuel at all.

 

[JSYmartini]

Get yourself a fill up at the fuel berth in Elizabeth marina (access half tide up), currently 78.5ppl

 

[deuc02]

So what made you so tired during those 4 hours between turning the autopilot on and off ???

 

[longjohnsilver]

Glad it went well, enjoy your time there, saw you leave yesterday after we bumped into each other. If you want even cheaper diesel try St Sampsons on Guernsey.

 

[Searush]

So what made you so tired during those 4 hours between turning the autopilot on and off ???

Hanging on for dear life?


Having done a few long journeys in open cars, the noise & wind buffeting can be tiring, and then there is the concentration on driving. It doesn't all go away even with auto-pilot & a covered helm.

 

[Thepipdoc]

Glad it went well, enjoy your time there, saw you leave yesterday after we bumped into each other. If you want even cheaper diesel try St Sampsons on Guernsey.

Yes John - Fuel at St. Sampsons is currently £0.68 a litre. When we saw you yesterday we'd just decided to go to the CI's instead of Plymouth or beyond simply because the fuel price here makes the trip just that little bit more affordable.
When we leave here we'll brim the tanks at Guernsey before heading back to Dartmouth.

Where's the vid?? I could quite happily sit back with a cuppa and watch that.
L

Nah, sorry no vid!

So what made you so tired during those 4 hours between turning the autopilot on and off ???

Hey it’s hard work pressing a button and then watching all is well!

We deliberately came to Jersey and not Guernsey because even though the harbour authorities don’t allow dogs into the visitors marina ( we have our Collie with us), they will provide a berth for us in Elizabeth Marina - the residents marina, and whilst I know that we could have gone on to a holding pontoon in the outer harbour at St. Peter Port, it doesn’t have electricity.This would have meant running a genny on a regular basis to keep the batteries topped up and for essential 240v items, like hair straighteners, hair dryer, coffee machine etc!
When we arrived at St. Hellier our Collie was sitting on the upper helm seat looking like he was in charge when a couple of chaps in the harbour control RIB came alongside and asked what we wanted!
“ A weeks berthing would be nice “ said I.
“Not with a dog “, said the he.
I then explained that we had made a phone call prior to departure from mainland UK, asking if we would be given a berth, and that the person I spoke to said they would be able to accommodate us in the residents marina.
“ Ah” said the one of the guys in the RIB. He then made a call to someone and when he’d completed the conversation, he agreed we could go to Elizabeth Marina.
“Be careful though because there will be at least a 4 knot current running in the marina”! said my new bezzee mate!
He wasn’t wrong!
To further compound the problems I was experiencing with the tidal movements once inside the marina, to say that berths in Elizabeth Marina are badly signposted is an understatement. It wasn’t possible to read the numbers on each individual berth, until we had entered the empty berth!
It seemed to us there was no logic in the way the berths were numbered.
So here I was, trying to hold my position in a fast running current, in the tightest marina in the world looking for a berth number that didn’t exist!
After several calls to my new bezzee mate we agreed that the berth he had directed us to, wouldn’t take a boat of our size anyway! He then told me to go to E1.
At last I could apply some sort of logic - E1 had to be at the end of the pontoon, and guess what? It was!

 

[PCUK]

We often did a 100 miles a day at ten knots. Never felt knackered or even slightly tired. Quite relaxed in fact!

 

[gravygraham]

The trip was perfect and the boat behaved impeccably but I have to say I feel knackered!

Yes it's bloody hard work, I thought most folk had given up on trips like we used to do in the olden days.

You guys are making me worried. We're getting plopped in the water at Hamble this Friday morning and are planning on making Ramsgate by tea-time - about 125 miles. Should I book a Dr's appointment now?

 

[Divemaster1]

You guys are making me worried. We're getting plopped in the water at Hamble this Friday morning and are planning on making Ramsgate by tea-time - about 125 miles. Should I book a Dr's appointment now?

With good weather, and all going well, that should not be a problem.... we did Chichester to Lowestoft (via Ramsgate for Lunch) in one day at an average 17.5 knots. Nice journey .... but fuel was a bit more affordable then....

Great to hear that the boats are being used though !!! They need to stretch their legs every now & then....