gjgm
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Quite a few insurance policies I have looked at have specific exclusions about boating solo,so I suggest you check. Not necessarily a problem, unless you did not tell them and disaster happens
Single handed or not?
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Alpha22
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Insurance all OK as long as not at night. Opps... did 4:30am constitute night??? It was getting light....
CX54WEK
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Glad to here you made it and had an enjoyable trip.
paul salliss
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No reason why not as long as you take sensible precautions. Obvious ones are check the weather forecast and only go in settled conditions, wear a life jacket, have a shore contact who knows you passage plan and timings, avoid any 'over the side operations... i.e. probably avoid the anchoring and going ashore in the tender. These are some of the factors advised by the MCA for single handed ops on coded boats to mitigate risk.....common sense really.
Lots of sailors go to sea single handed so no reason not to in a mobo. The bottom line is your level of competence/confidence and only you can answer that but it sounds as though it is well within your capabilities
Totally agree with Greg,
this year for the first time I have ventured out a few times on my own and once you relax into it you will love it, I only do it mid week as it's quieter and far easier, on a busy hot Sunday it would be a different beast perhaps
ricky_s
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I'm doing quite a bit of this myself now, I go down to the boat in Gosport on Thursday and go out on my own, and then possibly again Friday before SWMBO comes down on the train to meet for dinner on Friday evening in Portsmouth.
