Bigplumbs
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Heck that is a flight every 1.75 days through the year straight divide with no time out for holidays.... That is a lot of air time...… Are you a pilot
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Heck that is a flight every 1.75 days through the year straight divide with no time out for holidays.... That is a lot of air time...… Are you a pilot
jimmy_the_builder
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Yep, over the years I can only remember a couple of bad delays; remember that crazy delay a few years ago when Nice was closed and we got diverted to Marseilles? Last night was 2.5 hours in the end; but we did at least get there. Torrential rain in Antibes this morning! I should take the hint...
jfm
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Haha. I was going to say than numerically bad flight delays are much rarer that Uk motorway summer jams or Uk bad weather spoiling a boat eeekend but you report rain! Actually Antibes is wall to wall sunshine this coming week and has been for ages. Your rain is v temporary. My 209 above was a typo-on iPhone- now corrected.
Lloydroberts
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adey
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Got delayed by 5hrs once and because I’d bought 3 tickets I got EasyJet to pay the 750euros compo straight to the yacht company that I use. Paid for new flybridge seats. Lovely Jubbly 
I quite often do short, last minute trips to Alicante. It’s only 15mins from the airport to the boat.
I quite often do short, last minute trips to Alicante. It’s only 15mins from the airport to the boat.
Time Out
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My last three (BA) LHR / LGW / NCE flights have gone wrong or been cancelled. A run of bad luck vs anything else.
Let's see what happens on Wednesday!
Let's see what happens on Wednesday!
mcanderson
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Fingers crossed. Personally I have had much better luck with LGW than LHR. Mind you the the old 767 flight on a Friday night down from LHR to NCE use to be a bit of a party bus. I'm pretty sure it ran out of Champagne once!
Bigplumbs
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Thank you for clearing that up........9 makes a whole world of difference.:encouragement:
Me thinks that was another Typo on his android this time. I suspect he means 20
Time Out
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Indeed, I tried LGW just before Christmas ( I live 15 mins from LHR) it was going swimmingly well until someone put a drone up.... !
markc
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Agreed, I'm the 8.30am BA from LHR
jimmy_the_builder
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Far be it for me to speak for jfm - but as it happens I do know the answer to this because we were talking about it in the bar at Heathrow when we all went to Dusseldorf in January. The number is definitely 200, not 20.
jfm
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Yup 200 not 20, and I'm not a pilot of anything other than a wheelie case Only point I'm trying to make is that people tend to think/remember/mention bad plane trips, when statistically they are rare and hardly anyone remembers or mentions a flight that went ok. I think that if you had say 3 (or 30 - it doesn't matter) boat years/seasons in Med vs UK south coast, you would have more trips spoiled by uk bad summer weather and road traffic than you would by Med flight delays of >1 hour. Plus the near certain predictibility of Med sunshine and 100% predictibility of warm water actually means you can diarise trips for friends and family rather than "let's pencil it in and check the weekend weather the preceding Thursday" which leads to the party often not happening.
Only point I'm trying to make is that people tend to think/remember/mention bad plane trips, when statistically they are rare and hardly anyone remembers or mentions a flight that went ok. I think that if you had say 3 (or 30 - it doesn't matter) boat years/seasons in Med vs UK south coast, you would have more trips spoiled by uk bad summer weather and road traffic than you would by Med flight delays of >1 hour. Plus the near certain predictibility of Med sunshine and 100% predictibility of warm water actually means you can diarise trips for friends and family rather than "let's pencil it in and check the weekend weather the preceding Thursday" which leads to the party often not happening.
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BruceK
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Yup 200 not 20, and I'm not a pilot of anything other than a wheelie case
Wow! That's an impressive amount. However, if truth be told we, as in myself and family, have never let the weather put us off. We go out regardless and enjoy it just as much. I suppose a lot has to do with expectation. You expect good weather and warm water and so are disappointed when that is not the case. We tend to not plan anything other than we will be departing on this tide and returning on that. Where we actually end up depends very much on what direction the wind is blowing and where we can find sheltered waters. Anglesey is great for that, there is always shelter somewhere.
Time Out
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See you on it, if you see a guy wheeling small North Face black overnight bag and a long blue raincoat, do say hi!
LBRodders
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Is the weather that bad in the UK? Plus I wouldn't enjoy 30'c+ heat in a boat
I know the traffic can be a bit dodgy, but I assume any trip to the airport in most cases usual road, so I think that can be discounted.
I know the traffic can be a bit dodgy, but I assume any trip to the airport in most cases usual road, so I think that can be discounted.
Bouba
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Reasons for choosing the Med. During our afternoon dog walk, my weather eye told me that tomorrow could be quite boaty :encouragement:
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jfm
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Imho it isn't the quantity of good vs bad weather that matters, it's the predictibility. I started boating in lymington and there are statistically 100 or something sunny days, but the trouble was that they were never on any of my weekends. For the Med I can predict now with enough certainty that all, say, July weekends will be sunny.
30degrees heat works if you're jumping into the sea every half hour - I agree that it wouldn't work in cold brown coloured sea.
I almost always train to London's airports but don't know about other regulars.
oldgit
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Doubt you are going to convince anybody to change their point of view on the good/bad points of UK vs MED.
Best course of action is to get a "mate" who keeps his boat in the "other" location.
"We" have decided to divide the expences by agreement , I pay when in UK, ie. pie and a pint and he pays when in Cala D Or .ie decent steak and acceptable bottle of wine and something to finish.
Whats not to like. ?
Best course of action is to get a "mate" who keeps his boat in the "other" location.
"We" have decided to divide the expences by agreement , I pay when in UK, ie. pie and a pint and he pays when in Cala D Or .ie decent steak and acceptable bottle of wine and something to finish.
Whats not to like. ?
Portofino
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Since we’ve been shacked up in CH and have a small dog we tend to drive over the St Bernard tunnel in winter and pass in summer .
For monthly checks it’s about CH F 40 for a 40 min fgt from GVA to NCE , can’t complain a franc / min
Drive to the airport an easy 1-1/2 hrs or train .Last train home with the mountain railway connection departs GVA around 18.30 .So on a late flight out of NCE I drive .I have day tripped it but normally rtn on the 6.30 am back to GVA the next day .
Either works for maintenance trips .
We we were at La Napoule and Antibes For a couple of nights this past W/E just cleaning the boat and running up all systems in the sunny 18 degrees .The road journey is a 6/7 hrs but pleasant with normally a stop over for lunch in a Mondovì .
Advantage of a drive ( as well as the dog ) is you can take anything in the car , and bring back + no timetable you invent your own .Like I bought some discounted AF in Evian last week .
The only proviso in the winter is timing the tunnel weather wise , when the access roads are doable.Its got webcams at each end .Which we did this W/E roads all clear each way and it started snowing 1/2 hr after arriving home and garaging the car .
So today was fantastic fresh 1 ft deep unmolested powder for snowboarding :encouragement:
The Bentley has 4 WD and winter tyres + chains but i prefer normal tarmac .
In the season May to Oct we are on the boat every month , the longest spell was a 4 week stint in August .
Another advantage of not flying ( if you can ) and being not too tied to work hrs is there no travel arrangements/ agenda , you can access the weather etc and just bug out when you like or over stay - which ever .
For monthly checks it’s about CH F 40 for a 40 min fgt from GVA to NCE , can’t complain a franc / min
Drive to the airport an easy 1-1/2 hrs or train .Last train home with the mountain railway connection departs GVA around 18.30 .So on a late flight out of NCE I drive .I have day tripped it but normally rtn on the 6.30 am back to GVA the next day .
Either works for maintenance trips .
We we were at La Napoule and Antibes For a couple of nights this past W/E just cleaning the boat and running up all systems in the sunny 18 degrees .The road journey is a 6/7 hrs but pleasant with normally a stop over for lunch in a Mondovì .
Advantage of a drive ( as well as the dog ) is you can take anything in the car , and bring back + no timetable you invent your own .Like I bought some discounted AF in Evian last week .
The only proviso in the winter is timing the tunnel weather wise , when the access roads are doable.Its got webcams at each end .Which we did this W/E roads all clear each way and it started snowing 1/2 hr after arriving home and garaging the car .
So today was fantastic fresh 1 ft deep unmolested powder for snowboarding :encouragement:
The Bentley has 4 WD and winter tyres + chains but i prefer normal tarmac .
In the season May to Oct we are on the boat every month , the longest spell was a 4 week stint in August .
Another advantage of not flying ( if you can ) and being not too tied to work hrs is there no travel arrangements/ agenda , you can access the weather etc and just bug out when you like or over stay - which ever .
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I'm not going to argue with you but that official stats say that around 25% of BA flights are officially late (ie + 15mins) and thats with airlines exaggerating flight times so as to avoid just that and Easyjet are even worse. Maybe I'm just unlucky but our last 3 trips to Nice have involved a flight with more than 1hr delay including only a few days ago when we sat on the tarmac at Nice for 1hr 40mins. Having said that we tend to fly in the evenings when delays are at their worst
