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- Sat Oct 18, 2025 12:11 am
- Forum: Around the Scottish Coast
- Topic: Tiny harbour by Port Appin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 94
Re: Tiny harbour by Port Appin
I don't know if it applies in this instance, but in the heyday of Victorian sporting estates the owner and guests would sometimes arrive in the owner's personal steam yacht, and appropriate infrastructure had to be built to accommodate this.
- Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:57 pm
- Forum: Around the Scottish Coast
- Topic: Oban Terror as They Brace for The Big One
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5755
Re: Oban Terror as They Brace for The Big One
Isn't it interesting that journalists seem to think "a social media user" is more authoritative than "a man I met in the pub".One social media user warned: “Small ones for now, until a massive one hits one day.”
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 11:53 pm
- Forum: Shooting the breeze
- Topic: The Sun Has Got His Hat On, Hip, Hip, Hip, Hooray
- Replies: 5
- Views: 34466
Re: The Sun Has Got His Hat On, Hip, Hip, Hip, Hooray
You have jumped the gun - solstice this year is Friday 22nd December 0327UTC.
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 12:22 am
- Forum: Around the Scottish Coast
- Topic: Oban tides this weekend
- Replies: 8
- Views: 34338
Re: Oban tides this weekend
Looking at the Tobermory tide gauge on NTSLF the timings for Saturday and Sunday proved pretty accurate but the heights got progressively higher than predicted, presumably due to meteorological effects.
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 11:39 pm
- Forum: Around the Scottish Coast
- Topic: Oban tides this weekend
- Replies: 8
- Views: 34338
Re: Oban tides this weekend
Reed's has HW Oban on Saturday at 10.48 UT, Sunday 14.01 and Monday 15.05 Admiralty Easytide has Saturday at 11.48 BST, Sunday 15.01 and Monday 16.05 WX Tide (using their own calculations) gives Saturday 11.32, Sunday 13.22 and Monday 15.21, all BST The National Tidal and Sea Level Facility don't do...
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 1:35 am
- Forum: Around the Scottish Coast
- Topic: Boing! Another Grounding By A Fishing Boat
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16793
Re: Boing! Another Grounding By A Fishing Boat
Not a fishing boat but a fish-carrier (for fish farms). The nature of their work does require them to operate in quite shallow water sometimes.
- Tue May 09, 2023 10:10 pm
- Forum: Shooting the breeze
- Topic: Diesel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11140
Re: Diesel
Yes there are a lot of apparently paradoxical road diesel price differentials around at the moment with independent outlets in the middle of nowhere being cheaper than urban supermarkets. You can always check up on one of the online comparison sites.
- Fri Apr 15, 2022 12:19 am
- Forum: Shooting the breeze
- Topic: Proof That Jet Skiers Have No Brains
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3313
Re: Proof That Jet Skiers Have No Brains
This incident proves nothing of the kind - you are wildly over-interpreting the data. A logician would point out that the most you could conclude was that on at least one occasion at least one jet-skier behaved in a way which a reasonable person might interpret as displaying stupidity.
- Fri Mar 18, 2022 12:30 am
- Forum: Shooting the breeze
- Topic: TOP
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5591
Re: TOP
It’s a boring sanitised place run by wee free type kill joy wonks. Best avoided. There was a thread running on Scuttlebutt, from which I learned the following: The ships are under the Cypriot flag. P&O deflagged from UK in response to Brexit impact on tonnage tax laws. P&O seafarers are emp...
- Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:19 am
- Forum: Passages and Places
- Topic: New broom at Dunstaffnage
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11807
Re: New broom at Dunstaffnage
Ah, that might explain why my boat has been parked on the hard the opposite way round to every other year.
- Sat Nov 27, 2021 12:27 am
- Forum: Passages and Places
- Topic: Kerrera Marina (again)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8666
Re: Kerrera Marina (again)
Perhaps someone should suggest to them that giving wind speeds in kph (on their weather link) might not be the best choice.
- Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:26 am
- Forum: Shooting the breeze
- Topic: AIS
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7884
Re: AIS
PDB!?
Protein Data Bank?
ParaDichloroBenzene?
Potato Dextrose Broth?
Problem DataBase?
Pre-Departure Briefing?
Pretty Damned Bamboozled.
Protein Data Bank?
ParaDichloroBenzene?
Potato Dextrose Broth?
Problem DataBase?
Pre-Departure Briefing?
Pretty Damned Bamboozled.
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 11:38 pm
- Forum: Shooting the breeze
- Topic: I've noticed
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13943
Re: I've noticed
Or as in Tyndrum (Taigh an Droma). But what about Taynuilt (Taigh an Uillt)?Aja
That would be 'tie' as in tigh na bruaich.
- Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:39 pm
- Forum: Shooting the breeze
- Topic: Nae wind. Again
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6672
Re: Nae wind. Again
I have heard cruising the Med described as "motoring between gales".
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:25 am
- Forum: Gear and Gadgets
- Topic: Delivery Times for New Equipment Getting Very Long
- Replies: 12
- Views: 38549
Re: Delivery Times for New Equipment Getting Very Long
... unfortunately the Knox will not fit on my bow roller, I tried a template in 2018. (As you can see, I haven't exactly been rushing to replace my 40 year-old CQR.)