JumbleDuck
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I got bitten to shreds while reassembling my roller furler in the yard on Saturday evening. Youch.I got my first midgeing this morning.
I got bitten to shreds while reassembling my roller furler in the yard on Saturday evening. Youch.I got my first midgeing this morning.
... where have those boats filling up the west country come from? This isn't an attempt to be contentious - I'm just curios. Is the Solent quieter than usual, for example?...
Plenty of room at Plockton when I was there a few days ago.I can't say whether the solent is quieter this year, but Falmouth is rammed! These last 4 or 5 days there's been a rally from the RYS, so rather gleaming and expensive boats with absurdly large ensigns definitely awol from the Solent.
Me, I'm about to set off to infest Plockton...
Me, I'm about to set off to infest Plockton...
I can't say whether the solent is quieter this year, but Falmouth is rammed! These last 4 or 5 days there's been a rally from the RYS, so rather gleaming and expensive boats with absurdly large ensigns definitely awol from the Solent.
Me, I'm about to set off to infest Plockton...
You'll be leaving summer behind if you do that. Cold, wet, windy, just 'orrible. I'd stay in Foulmouth.
Only one? Woose...We had one to share between 4 of us
I took the family gold panning on the Helmsdale and the midge was so bad we all ended up running back to the car, the kids still shudder when gold panning is mentioned
There was a whole flotilla of the white ensign brigade that passed through the Crinan Canal a week or two back. Very shiny and yes big FO ensigns just incase any of us plebs were watching.I passed Ardfern Marina on Friday and there was a large “gleaming and expensive” yacht with a ridiculously large white ensign flying and people fussing about. Perhaps they have migrated up here.
... There was a whole flotilla of the white ensign brigade that passed through the Crinan Canal a week or two back. ...
Surprised that any RYS bateau would fit in the Crinan, was it their tenders perchance?Only one? Woose...
There was a whole flotilla of the white ensign brigade that passed through the Crinan Canal a week or two back. Very shiny and yes big FO ensigns just incase any of us plebs were watching.
Tied up unused in marinas or on moorings. Chichester Harbour has over 10k boats registered in the harbour. On a busy weekend at E Head it can feel as though they are all there. But look at the marinas or main moorings, they still are full of deserted boats. CHB for example can hav a lock queue of several hours. Walk round the marina and its hard to see where they will all fit in to the rows of boats that never went out. It would be interesting to know how long it would take to get all the boats out?I get the impression that the pressure is coming from new resident boats (maybe just fr this year, of course) rather than visitors, yet.
In that case, where have those boats filling up the west country come from? This isn't an attempt to be contentious - I'm just curios. Is the Solent quieter than usual, for example?
They'd still be resident apart from teh cruis, wouldn't they?
But where have these boats been while largely unused? Perhaps lots of boats are in the water which were effectively abandoned ashore.
I guess this may depend where you are seeing the boats. But on the North West of Scotland it certainly seems to be visitor boats, not new residents, that are the vast majority.I get the impression that the pressure is coming from new resident boats (maybe just fr this year, of course) rather than visitors, yet.
That was in response to my comment that many boats up here are perhaps ”boats who would usually cruise from the UK to the Baltic, Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland etc - but cannot this year”.They'd still be resident apart from teh cruis, wouldn't they?
I guess this may depend where you are seeing the boats. But on the North West of Scotland it certainly seems to be visitor boats, not new residents, that are the vast majority.
That was in response to my comment that many boats up here are perhaps ”boats who would usually cruise from the UK to the Baltic, Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland etc - but cannot this year”.
Sorry, don’t understand your comment.
Surprised that any RYS bateau would fit in the Crinan, was it their tenders perchance?
There were five boats anchored in the inner anchorage on Wednesday night and I usually have it to myself. Three of them had the dreaded tripping lines so I had to anchor outside the moorings. All but one of the visitor moorings was taken also.Plenty of room at Plockton when I was there a few days ago.