BLUEMOMENT

One social media user warned: “Small ones for now, until a massive one hits one day.”

Isn't it interesting that journalists seem to think "a social media user" is more authoritative than "a man I met in the pub".

You have jumped the gun - solstice this year is Friday 22nd December 0327UTC.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

Nick wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:22 pm A correspondent tells me that Dunstaffnage has a new manager.

I believe his name is Jack Waldie, that he used to work for SAMS and drives/drove the hoist at Dunstaffnage.

Ah, that might explain why my boat has been parked on the hard the opposite way round to every other year.

Perhaps someone should suggest to them that giving wind speeds in kph (on their weather link) might not be the best choice.

PDB!?

Protein Data Bank?
ParaDichloroBenzene?
Potato Dextrose Broth?
Problem DataBase?
Pre-Departure Briefing?

Pretty Damned Bamboozled.

Aja
That would be 'tie' as in tigh na bruaich.

Or as in Tyndrum (Taigh an Droma). But what about Taynuilt (Taigh an Uillt)?

I have heard cruising the Med described as "motoring between gales".

... 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.)

An update on the Epsilon. I had a phone call from the retailer today to say that he had met with someone from Lewmar. He was told that a container of anchors had arrived from China (where they were manufactured) after a lengthy delay, but on arrival the galvanising was found to be unsatisfactory. Le...