BLUEMOMENT

Plan A is to do what needs doing then get to Tayvallich for the crew to come up for Easter. Plan B is to use the crew to do the delivery trip at Easter. Possibly through the canal if it looks poor for novice crew round the Mull. Will be about with crew more May Day Bank Holiday week and Late May ban...

Au contraire I'm apparently in good standing on TOP but Mountain's Lounge access seems to have been suspended though. He's posted a few times on SB but hadn't been heard from for 3 days. I only suggested a politics forum because others seemed so inclined - 'twasn't me who mentioned it first. Please...

We are heading back to Victorian working conditions. Eventually workers will feel so pissed off that Unions will get more members and the balance will swing back a bit, but only enough to avoid a proper revolution. What is really needed is a revolution. Full on "come the glorious day you will b...

So you have a boat in the North now Simon? I knew that you were in the market but didn't recollect that you had bitten the bullet and bought.

I'm Bob. I'm not banned.*

Mind you, Bob is a common name, it could be another one.

* yet

Because Amazon don't pay tax and we have to. Because Amazon pay minimum wage and rely on tax payers to top it up to a liveable wage but don't pay tax. And they are a excrement employer basically slave drivers. Because they are all bar a monopoly and I hate a monopoly, free market economy my fornicat...

wully wrote:I don't buy from Amazon as they are a bunch of Cnuts.

I don't either. If I could only get something through Amazon I would do without it.

It would really piss me off if buying books through WHS come from Amazon.

Craobh used to be a secluded anchorage in a pristine bay, now it's a marina and you can't anchor. That's a retrograde step.

Essential services in an anchorage are 0, that's why you go anchor there.

Essential services in a marina vary, many of the ones you list are at best handy to have.

I never gave it a second thought with the Centaur (3' draught) but I'll have to pay more attention in Seminole (5' 4" draught). We usually got there towards high tide, having caught the flood up the Sound of Mull. Or left through there at about high tide, to catch the ebb down the Sound of Mull.

Happy new boat.

Don't worry about getting a berth in Tarbert, they will have anyone, I know this

Mum is downsising and today I was sent home with a lightly used Freiberger Drum sextant. It looks like the first one in this article: https://sextantbook.com/category/freiberger-sextants/ It is in a wooden box with a manual an some sighting notes. I have had a look through it but have never taken a ...

I'll raise a glass to that, slainte.

Happy new year folks.

The canal times are published online but vary according to season, it depends when you are transiting. In high season it's something like 09:00 to 17:00 but they shorten the hours and stop Sundays first then the whole weekend. From Tarbert if you leave @ 07:00 you may get in when they open, it's abu...

The plans I saw looked promising.

The bod showing me the plans seemed to think it would happen soon.