Has this summer changed your mind?

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About moving your boat to the Med?

I have to say mine has been out there for over five years but if I could count on weather like this I would love to keep my boat back here in the UK as I really miss being able to just pop to the boat any time I want and pottering about doing little job etc, on her!
 
I am still thinking about going med bound in a couple of years when last child has left school, I do think though with the year we have had so far and also last year it may make me look a little harder at moving to the med as I feel these last two years have been good and I have spent plenty of time on my boat and also gone out a lot too
 
Having just moved our boat this year I would say that being in South of France is the best decision we have made since buying our boat n
 
Its not just the about the air temperature and sun, its also the fact that the sea temperature in the med is between 24 and 27 deg celcius for 2/3months so swimming is a pleasure.

No uk boating for me.
 
I'm not so sure that we've banished the rubbish summers. We're off end of this week for 10 days and judging by the forecast that I've seen it's rain, rain and more rain. Not being able to get away during the lovely weather we've recently had looks like being very unlucky.
I hope I'm not right and the weather spoils another West Country tour like it did a couple of years ago.
If anyone can come up with a better forecast I'd be very happy.
 
Our boat has been in the med for the last year, just about to pay mooring fees for next year, yes we have had some good weather, but how often, plus its not just the sunshine, Its the sea, the whole way of life, I'm lucky enough to be 20 mins from the airport and with cheap flights can spend long week-ends on the boat. so for me the boat stays in the med.
 
It should have done.

Warm and sunny, water temperature now 18 deg. C, little wind and calm seas. Ideal and plenty of time to use the boat ( unlike last year)

However I changed my supposedly unreliable, unsafe 2004 petrol engined boat for a newer diesel one. Les that 1 hours use this season.
 
Yes, this has been the best boating season by far for us, apart from our last two week break on the boat, we managed 5 weekends from the previous 6 on the boat which is a record for us so happy days. The weather has been pretty good here but I know for sure than even if the boat was in the Med, I would only have managed a couple of visits. We are in a world class marina here in Portavadie, beautiful scenery, superb restaurants, if you want to cook yourself catch your own or buy a bag of massive langoustine for a tenner. Great bays and beaches within a stone's throw, what's not to like...
 
Bojangles said:
Yes, this has been the best boating season by far for us, apart from our last two week break on the boat, we managed 5 weekends from the previous 6 on the boat which is a record for us so happy days. The weather has been pretty good here but I know for sure than even if the boat was in the Med, I would only have managed a couple of visits. We are in a world class marina here in Portavadie, beautiful scenery, superb restaurants, if you want to cook yourself catch your own or buy a bag of massive langoustine for a tenner. Great bays and beaches within a stone's throw, what's not to like...
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Dont tell them Davie or they will all be up !

We too have had the best season ever with 3 weeks away up the west coast as far as Inverness and back ending with the Commonwealth Flottila and have been away every weekend for the last 8. Even a short trip to Port Bannatyne this weekend and a Muster in Tarbert next weekend , it has been fantastic.

Would not even consider moving it abroad at the moment. Not saying that it could happen in the future.
 
Medskipper said:
About moving your boat to the Med?
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Nope. We moved to the Med 11 yrs ago and one half good English summer would not make me move back to the UK although 10 consecutive ones might make me change my mind. It is certainly true that the Med weather this year has also been correspondingly poor but on the other hand I hear that the normal UK weather service is about to resume in August just in time for my summer boating hols in the Med. There's nothing I like more when I'm lounging on my flybridge in the beating Med sun than to hear about an endless procession of lows trooping across the UK:p
 
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Nope. We moved to the Med 11 yrs ago and one half good English summer would not make me move back to the UK although 10 consecutive ones might make me change my mind. It is certainly true that the Med weather this year has also been correspondingly poor but on the other hand I hear that the normal UK weather service is about to resume in August just in time for my summer boating hols in the Med. There's nothing I like more when I'm lounging on my flybridge in the beating Med sun than to hear about an endless procession of lows trooping across the UK:p
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Yes but are you still working and out on it every weekend ???
 
SEARANGER ANCASTER said:
Yes but are you still working and out on it every weekend ???
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Nope I'm still working and not out on it every weekend which is indeed one of the drawbacks of Med boating. On the other hand, I might want to go boating every weekend but sure as hell, my family wouldn't so actually, Med boating makes some sense for me from that point of view. It's about quality, not quantity. I may be on my boat in the Med less than when I boated in the UK but at least I know that for what little time I have, the weather will very likely be good unlike the UK where any good weather becomes the subject for a forum thread! FWIW, I generally manage about 40-45 days on board per year which is about half of what we were doing in the UK
 
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Nope I'm still working and not out on it every weekend which is indeed one of the drawbacks of Med boating. On the other hand, I might want to go boating every weekend but sure as hell, my family wouldn't so actually, Med boating makes some sense for me from that point of view. It's about quality, not quantity. I may be on my boat in the Med less than when I boated in the UK but at least I know that for what little time I have, the weather will very likely be good unlike the UK where any good weather becomes the subject for a forum thread! FWIW, I generally manage about 40-45 days on board per year which is about half of what we were doing in the UK
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Fair comment
 
The issue with UK weather has never been the amount of sunshine; it is the unpredictability. South coast UK gets a decent amount of sunshine if you add up all the sunny days at the end of the year, but the problem is you do not know WHICH days are going to be sunny. You make arrangements with friends, or for time off work, or whatever and then find it is raining. Sure, you might also find it is sunny but that will be pure luck. See for example this thread today http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?404130-flippin-typical

With Med boating, you know with enough certainty that it will be sunny. Next weekend I have 7 guests on the boat who booked the time in their diaries and bought flights about 3 months ago. You cannot do that if your chances of crummy weather are say 50%. But equally you cannot gather together that many friends (or clients, customers, collegues, whatever) at short notice when you see a sunny UK forecast for the coming weekend, because people's summer diaries fill up. So it is all about predictability.

There is also the issue of sea temperature and swimming of course

Hence, I haven't changed my mind!
 
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