BLUEMOMENT

As a long time YM reader I joined those forums expecting to read about yachts, cruising in particular. As a newbie to Scuttlebutt I had the temerity to post that maybe the other stuff should be kept to the lounge. I was duly shot down in flames of course. If I wanted to discuss global warming and po...

I don't usually reply to my own posts but I guess there's noone here so I'll say goodbye.

The weather in Portugal has been so different from that in the Med. It has been cold and dull over on the Spanish coast and they have had serious flood damage on the Costa Blanca recently. A while ago now I was going to help friends go over to Syracuse from Valetta on an Oceanic cat to qualify for a...

Just to say hello and introduce myself. Been sailing for 50 years, mostly in the Med. Recentlycome back to it but it is not quite what I remember. We always used to go astern onto a public quay and met some fascinating people on other boats alongside. Now we seem to be put in a marina berth among a ...