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The area is a conservation zone but the chart is wrong because there re no anchoring restrictions. Can i anchor in an mcz? - 20 Jul 2023 - Yachting Monthly Magazine - Readly

I think that it is a mistake. It goes all the way to Yarmouth on Navionics. Even the anchorage outside Newtown is shown as no anchoring.

I might go back when the New Inn is open again.

No the channel islands are part of the "Common travel area" and no passport is required. I am old enough to remember flying from Hern Airport to Jersey for a holiday before I possessed a passport.

That's £62 a night for me which is better value than a buoy in the Beaulieu £51 and much better than St Helier £85.55. St Helier has to be the most over priced harbour in Brittany/CI's

Incidently you don't need a passport when going to the CI's and the electronic form tries to make you enter a passport number and without it does not work so this is an over reach it is a backdoor way of trying to force us to use passports internally within the British Isles.

I just use the paper forms and email them and call the yachtline when I arrive. I have a PDF on my lap top and I just fill it out it is so much simpler than trying to fight with useless technology.

I have never seen a video like this it is unbelievable. He has to stop because one day we are not going to hear anything from him. Watching this on a huge smart TV is too real!

Better to charge at 40a than 10a which is the sort of charge rate you can get when batteries reach 90%. If you upgrade your alternator or fit solar you are really cooking on gas.

Your 100aH AGM provide 50aH usable. A 100aH lithium will give 80aH usable. But that is only part of the story, the really big benefit is the efficiency of charging l. So using your engine fir a short time will result in the battery charging really fast whereas with AGM the charge rate drops so...

I don't understand Langston harbour. Why is it more expensive than Chichester and so regulated. You are not allowed to anchor without permission they say it is because of ship movements but I suspect it is so that you have to pay the extortionate fees. I have so far refused to visit the place on...

If you enter the EU from a non-Eu destination you have to clear in no matter what your passport is. My wife has an Irish passport and that was explained to us when I tried to check out of Roscoff and they would not check me out without my fife also being in attendance with her passport.

I paid over £50 for a buoy in the Beaulieu a week ago :( They are charging £3.50 /m scandalous.

Ok honestly apart from the obvious depth of keel problem. I can tell you that whilst marinas have fewer berths for large boats the demand is lower. the result is that we usually are able to get in when smaller boats are being turned away. There are exceptions, we have never been able to pick up...

I have 2 X MMPT controllers. One is connected to 3 X 60W panels in series and the other 2 X 100W in series. The 3 X 60W are mounted on the deck and the 2 X 100W on the sprayhood. They are no in optimal position because it is almost impossible to avoid some shading from the mast or boom. However...