Attention SoF boaters - new speed limit around Cap d'Antibes

wakeup said:
We are driving down on Thursday for two weeks. Could be the first forum meet in an Aire!
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We're leaving on Thurs too and making a trip of it. We'll be in Reims on Thursday night and Aix les Bains on Friday night if anybody is close by and fancy dinner
 
MapisM said:
Never mind the carbon, it's the Aquarama style mahogany dashboard that is to die for! :cool:
Did you get the coupe or cabrio?
Regardless, now that you already have the road tender, I'm looking fwd to some pics of the boat to go with it! :encouragement:
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There's a mahogany dashboard one in SCM. I'm trying to persuade SWMBO to get one but she's insisting on another Mini :(.
 
petem said:
There's a mahogany dashboard one in SCM. I'm trying to persuade SWMBO to get one but she's insisting on another Mini :(.
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Pete it wouldnt suit you. I see you as an Aston man:D
 
petem said:
There's a mahogany dashboard one in SCM. I'm trying to persuade SWMBO to get one but she's insisting on another Mini :(.
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You mean the BMW Mini, I suppose? Pah, yet another soulless vehicle.
I would rather understand if she were aiming at the original one... :D
 
petem said:
There's a mahogany dashboard one in SCM. I'm trying to persuade SWMBO to get one but she's insisting on another Mini :(.
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I know a slight fred drift re cars BUT we looked long and hard at both Mini and Fiat 500 and settled on the 500. The Riva edition is great, the Riva RIVALE edition is off the scale...which is why i bought one.
 
I guess news is filtering out, though I only learned from this thread and a JtB email.

Porto, scuse my curiosity, but what is the function of the little strut stuck to your middle pane of glass? It looks like a bottle screw, so you can adjust it. Does that window open?
 
jfm said:
I guess news is filtering out, though I only learned from this thread and a JtB email.

Porto, scuse my curiosity, but what is the function of the little strut stuck to your middle pane of glass? It looks like a bottle screw, so you can adjust it. Does that window open?
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Yes the pane opens to let air through if you want more breeze .
Some have fitted a electro hydraulic lift .
That’s just a bottle screw , a bit retro by today’s standards but that’s part of the appeal .
 
Bringing this back to life.

On the Navionics app you are told when you are in the speed limited area, but not where it is. Here is a screen shot of us on our way to the Lerins
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None of it makes any sense to me .
Billionaires Bay is marked with the red dot for those unfamiliar with the area .

The green line is approx 1200 m out the zone .This represents the approx boundary I thought .

The bold red shows where the all the heavy and fast and both run , SY ,s large Pershing/ Mangustas / Leopards etc + much more ,
Also fast small stuff like me too
If it wake mitigation ,that’s not worked as those guys never ran inside the green line anyhow ?
The only thing I can think of is fishing clubs maybe ,but moving me from 800 m to over 1200 m at cruise speed is not gonna stop wake getting them .As I would move S anyhow if I saw them .
Maybe inconsiderate ones just skimmed by at full chat ? Dunno ?
 
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I have been through the speed limit area a few times in the last few days and haven’t noticed any enforcement boats at all. Maybe they are only going to enforce it in high season? Having said that it does seem to be general knowledge now with boats wishing to maintain planing speed giving the Cap a wide berth and those going close slowing down. As I said before I think its quite a sensible move but a couple of buoys indicating the area affected would not go amiss
 
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I have been through the speed limit area a few times in the last few days and haven’t noticed any enforcement boats at all. Maybe they are only going to enforce it in high season? Having said that it does seem to be general knowledge now with boats wishing to maintain planing speed giving the Cap a wide berth and those going close slowing down. As I said before I think its quite a sensible move but a couple of buoys indicating the area affected would not go amiss
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I don't disagree with you about the need for physical markers - but the area covered by the restriction is surprisingly large, defined by six points, and the water is up to 200m deep for some of those points. Presumably you'd need a fairly hefty buoy to support a chain that long, which in turn becomes a hazard in its own right, given the volume of traffic that passes through the zone.
 
Sat overnight on anchor Sunday and no matter how far out some of those bigguns are you still get thrown about. Wash does not seem to dissipate very quickly at all. Prefer Place Joseph area if not a northerly, it seems to be much calmer.
 
Navionics on my phone and also on the boat ( remote update last week) don't show a speed limit - just a seaplane landing area.

I am sure if will turn into a nice cash cow if they dont put it on the charts!
 
johng39 said:
Sat overnight on anchor Sunday and no matter how far out some of those bigguns are you still get thrown about. Wash does not seem to dissipate very quickly at all. Prefer Place Joseph area if not a northerly, it seems to be much calmer.
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That’s is sooo obvious;) You only went there to persuade T to allow you to buy a gyro didn’t you?
 
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