Med and back how many

Only been there just over a year but loving it so far. Quick flights. Good food. kids can spend all day in the sea -miss Scotland a bit but get more use out of boat in SoF.
 
"I've found the Spanish to be a very warm race who welcome English speaking people into their circle without hesitation; contrast that to the French who are Xenophobes, and after mixing with them for very long period I can safely say they consider themselves closest to the Germans (!)in temperament and humor, and there is a national hatred of English and Americans."

I have never come across this where we are in Beaulieu. The French are wonderful and very helpful. Very inviting and want to help you. We love it.
 
When I first moved the boat to the Med, the thing that I found most difficult at first and nearly drove me back to the UK was the fact that I couldn't just go to my boat on a whim if I had a spare afternoon or if the weather looked favourable. Basically I found myself using the boat much less than I had been used to in the UK. It did take me a few years to get used to being on the boat less often albeit for longer periods. The fact is though that there are far fewer boating days in the Med which are lost to weather and eventually I realised that I had far more enjoyable boating days in the Med than I had experienced in the UK even though I was on the boat less often. Now I would certainly not go back to the UK at least not in the near future
 
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When I first moved the boat to the Med, the thing that I found most difficult at first and nearly drove me back to the UK was the fact that I couldn't just go to my boat on a whim if I had a spare afternoon or if the weather looked favourable. Basically I found myself using the boat much less than I had been used to in the UK. It did take me a few years to get used to being on the boat less often albeit for longer periods. The fact is though that there are far fewer boating days in the Med which are lost to weather and eventually I realised that I had far more enjoyable boating days in the Med than I had experienced in the UK even though I was on the boat less often. Now I would certainly not go back to the UK at least not in the near future
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Mike, as you occasionally :D do, I think you've hit the nail squarely on the head. The Med has so much going for it as we all know and the key is time management. Keeping a boat 1,000+ miles from home is not going to work if one's pleasure is a snatched half hour on a Tuesday evening fixing a wurbled grommet, or even if it's a day out and then home. But if it's possible to arrange one's life to spend a couple of weeks (or more) at a time onboard then why not do it in the Med unless you don't like beautiful places with warm seas, blue skies, no tides...

For similar reasons of spending extended periods of time in one place, my next adventure into boating looks like it will be on the Pacific northwest coast with a little dayboat parked outside the house. Boat might even have a sail on it. I have the land-side sorted out. Just need to find a boat. Might be bumping into poster, 'uricane jack...
 
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Mike, as you occasionally :D do, I think you've hit the nail squarely on the head. The Med has so much going for it as we all know and the key is time management. Keeping a boat 1,000+ miles from home is not going to work if one's pleasure is a snatched half hour on a Tuesday evening fixing a wurbled grommet, or even if it's a day out and then home. But if it's possible to arrange one's life to spend a couple of weeks (or more) at a time onboard then why not do it in the Med unless you don't like beautiful places with warm seas, blue skies, no tides...

For similar reasons of spending extended periods of time in one place, my next adventure into boating looks like it will be on the Pacific northwest coast with a little dayboat parked outside the house. Boat might even have a sail on it. I have the land-side sorted out. Just need to find a boat. Might be bumping into poster, 'uricane jack...
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If it's a dayboat, then you're going to need one of these to tow it:

http://www.ford.com/trucks/f150raptor/

Go on, you know it makes sense! Sort of... :D
 
mcanderson said:
"I've found the Spanish to be a very warm race who welcome English speaking people into their circle without hesitation; contrast that to the French who are Xenophobes, and after mixing with them for very long period I can safely say they consider themselves closest to the Germans (!)in temperament and humor, and there is a national hatred of English and Americans."

I have never come across this where we are in Beaulieu. The French are wonderful and very helpful. Very inviting and want to help you. We love it.
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We're more in the back country 30 mins west of Cannes, so maybe the locals are a bit different and aren't shy about expressing their feelings about the ' Roast Beefs' . lol. :)
 
I see pictures of the Med boating way of life and I think wow I'd like a slice of that. No doubt about it. What I really dont buy is the lack of use due to Brit weather argument. I'd be very interested to compare days aboard because I'm pretty convinced when I tote mine up I get a very respectable number and my fuel bills validate it and that's even with having had a heart attack this year and not been allowed out for 6 weeks in June / July. Even in this last 14 day trip, sure I had to rearrange my trip schedule and destination but go back and look at the weather forecasts or pics. Bad days were spent steaming, good days in sunshine on the beach / toys. We worked around the weather and still had a fantastic holiday and with swimming! Yes it's not the Med, no argument, the Med looks a whole lot nicer but really, the UK is not that bad a venue and has a lot to offer the recreational boater. At least... in my little slice of it. West Scotland Ireland and the Irish Sea all the way down to the Bristol channel within realistically easy reach. What's not to like?
 
When I took my boat there through the French canals we met a lot of folks on their way back home after a spell in the med. about 5 years seemed the average. We thought they had lost the plot.
5 years later we also had done everything we wanted to do - it actually got a bit "another day - another bay". We didn't return however - we sold the boat out there eventually.
Would NEVER have missed a day of it though!
 
I sailed to Malta over 2006/7, got seriously ill 2007/8, got married, survived, decided I couldn't afford the boat in the Med, sailed it back 2009, got a part time job to keep Wolf from door, sold boat 2010, bought a narrowboat 2011, moored 10 minute drive from home :)
 
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