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I do wonder why some people bother to go sailing at all if everything is soo difficult. :rolleyes:

It could be that a 31 foot yacht is limited by coding?

When I had a small charter business in Portsmouth we had no problem with extended charters or insurance. Mebbe times have changed.....

Why would it take so long to do around 1400 miles non stop? Just to be sure I used the mileage facility on vessel finder. Why are people worried about sailing in the dark, especially 2 up. Night exits and entries into ports is a fab way to gain experience and confidence. I also wonder why...

Agree. During our 23 almost years of living aboard our yacht, we generally found that with a shared interest in yachts n boats, our like minded neighbours were mostly great. I suppose things have changed in the UK now with liveaboards. 25 years ago we and others were welcome in Haslar Marina.

We sold our liveaboard yacht a few years ago after 22 fab years. Sad, but getting paid cash, no survey and the yacht sailing away the next day took the sting out of it. Selling our school yacht after nearly 8 years was OK, I took the new owner out a couple of times and then he shifted marinas...

I don't know how deep the layer is. But it's that top couple of metres that is of interest to us.

Surface water flow is generally accepted as the top layer that vessels operate in. There are various components to this and around the UK, the major cause is of course, tide. Tide streams are given as surface water flow. JG suggestio. Is that wind adds or subtracts to this with a vector...

It's not the boat, it's the surface water movement.

An excellent reminder to UK sailors how lucky they are to have a fairy godmother. (y) (y)

Good advert for keeping a boat in the Med.......

I belive they are quite a sizeable company and run trips from the Med to the Canairies and the Cape Verdes. I have see them around in the Canaries quite a bit.

Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar

So it's bit less than 1500nm then?

You spotted my mistake! Have a virtual whiskey.

If you want to do it on a crewed yacht, a friend of ours is a part time skipper for an East Coast sailing school that does it as a charity event every year. They use the Crinan so not 'over the top'. He is on his 4th lap and heading for Inverness as I write and he is booked for another one in...

I've been to a few French marinas where the showers are 'mixed'. I really don't think that they should be encouraging blokes to spend 3 hours wasting water.

You have contradicted yourself. You own the shovel.....

On that, I agree. Buy cheapo boat and that's the blast. Keep It Simple Stupid as they say.

Apologies, I got no idea where you are going with this. I feel its far removed from what the op wants.