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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Lot #2 is actually a Toy racing dinghy, designed by Tony Allen of Holt Allen (Tony’s Own Yacht). We used to have a fleet of them (numbers in the teens) racing. I know of 1 still in regular use. TOY - sailboatdata