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Very useful, thanks Mark! I think it would suit us for getting out to the local pontoons and short trips ashore when we’re anchored. Now that we don’t have a sugar scoop transom for boarding it will be a lot easier to get on and off the dinghy safely than the 2.3 Honda oil-dripping lump.

It’s not as mountainous as I recall it being in the late 2000s, when it seemed to tower above us when entering at half flood.

Telling the difference between an algal bloom and sewage – Creating a better place

There is also a non-drying stretch between Honey Island and Horsey Mere. Part of it is quite deep, it shallows as it approaches the Mere.

Landermere Creek. We’ve anchored where the red arrow is a number of times and stayed afloat (~1m draft). Any further up and you’ll take the ground. It’s a beautiful spot.

Was that on the RNSYC pontoons?

Thanks for all the help folks. It doesn’t float, so not polypropylene - which is good news. The burn/melt test in the video makes it seem more like polyester but I’m not sure. I can’t find any polyester that colour for sale, but it does look exactly like this: I’ll get splicing.

I've got a 40+m of unused 3-strand 18mm diameter rope which I'd like to cut into a few smaller lengths and splice loops in the ends to use as mooring lines. Question is how to identify what it actually is? It's a sort of cream off-white colour, man-made (melts), softish and quite...

Titchmarsh storage and cradle prices are here: Storage Ashore - Titchmarsh Marina

We went to Oostende the summer before last and asked the lock keeper where Customs was - “there are no Customs here, enjoy your stay”. Short walk to check in, took the Q flag down the next day.

That would be an interesting read. Available for £85 online!

How was the performance at say 250-300W - would you be happy using it at that level?

East Coast Pilot, available from various book stores, covers Ramsgate to Yarmouth. There is a new edition due in May. Updates and lots of other useful info available at East Coast Pilot | ECP.

With 1.6m draft, how soon after a forecast 0.5m LW (Harwich) tide would it be sensible to leave Titchmarsh (heading for Pye End)?

See the post immediately before yours.