ooer this is getting serious

Re: 30 weeks a year!

I am sure you have thought of this already, but finding a suitable parking space for one of these may not be easy - partic if you wish it to on/near the solent.

Please feel free to pm me with full details of the degree of creeping necessary to qualify for consideration for a ride one day /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Re: 30 weeks a year!

yeah, though in my retired condition, being on the solent for instant weekend sailing convenience is not essential - I was planning for it to be sometimes here and sometimes there rather than nail the thing in one place with annual berthy thing.
 
Re: 30 weeks a year!

Good plan......

Not wishing in any way to pour cold water on the idea, but even temp moorings may be hard to find. Forex, how many marinas could you just turn up at and they have room?

Looking forward to the pm.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Re: 30 weeks a year!

Pah!!!
You obviously think I'm a barbarian,but I've had these items on boats over the years;
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Done me proud!

Shore power.................work of the devil!!
 
Re: 30 weeks a year!

oh, a fair few i reckon. If you are ok to turn up at *any* marina in a crusing area rather than a chosen specific marina then it is generally ok, specially in winter.

Other option is to buy a marina i suppose, which the combined forum came close to doing a few yars ago - the most amazing bit of instant funding i have seen, with about £3million being agreed in two hours - but MDL had already bought the thing....
 
Sounds good. The nicer and easier it is to use ,the less dust will be gathering under the keels.
I idly wonder is it worth a trip to the factory and then a beer or two in the local bars with the guys who build em and rebuild em,this is house size dosh!
 
Hmm. Drawing on my extensive experience of cataramans - not set foot on one, ever; not even the Redjet from Cowes - I think I may be able to offer a useful step by step berthing suggestion.

1 make sure you have a large crew member. Someone of the sort of dimensions of Martin Johnson, or the late Shirley Crabtree would do, although the latter might be a bit immobile for what follows.

2 pausing at the waiting pontoon/fuel dock etc, allow "Martin Johnson" off and send him round to your designated finger pontoon. Tell him to stand right on the end to weigh it down.

3 sail round to the pontoon, the outward edge of which is now almost level with the water.

4 "MJ" now walks backwards as you sail up the pontoon, straddling it.

5 and that's it, pontoon springs up and you're parked for the night: no lines, no messing.
 
Cant believe I'm about to say this on a Catamaran thread...but...joking aside...I think the parking issue might actually be quite real.

How about a quick phone call to half a dozen marinas/harbour masters and ask? Of course saturday afternoon in August would be best (if looking for a reason not buy), but try now, few calls to see if they can fit you in as a visitor for a few weeks?

Will it go through a lock? Like Porto Solente or Thingy marina in Gurnsey?

Other wise, sure, they do have things going for them, lack of tiltyness for one, shoal draft another, power shower not a reason to buy a cat as can be fitted to any boat.

I find the aesthetics too bad...but I am stuck in a period of cloth caps rather than carbon fibre.
 
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