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I think a ten week charter that time of year is going to be highly negotiable and you get all the other advantages of chartering. Plus you avoid the temptation to keep it long term. (I bought my little boat with 3 months left on its marina berth on the basis that I could scrap it or give it away...

Someone else has already pointed out that school hols start in midsummer in Scotland. So, yeah, you're spot on, or as near as makes no difference.

...and the coding specifically says "safe haven" which is more restrictive than just 20 miles off shore.

Dunno, but it makes SRM's post correct!

Maybe the Northern Isles aren't where I think they are or maybe the Summer holiday starts at a different time to us Sassenachs but I'm not totally convinced: Sunrise and sunset times in Lerwick (Shetland Islands) I agree that digging into the insurance situation is likely to pay dividends. I'm...

I wasn't exaggerating, I just said it in confusing way. Day one of the school summer hols you have ~15 hours of daylight. On the last day ~13 hours.

If this is just an insurance limitation (rather than coding) it should be easy to increase for the price a meal out.

You know what I mean! :mad: :ROFLMAO:

I hadn't spotted the 'mid-August' angle of this. My brain parsed "summer". Summer is over by August and the days are already getting short fast (you lose two hours of daylight per day over the school summer holidays). I was thinking this was a summer and autumn trip. In fact, it's really autumn...

Sounds like a great idea and a great trip and I really like the idea of a lengthy charter to do it! I presume the charter company/guy will be responsible for fixing any issues/worn out stuff during the trip, is he happy to perform that function from a fair distance away? The 20 miles seems...

Weird question. If it's a day where the weather is good enough that the boat can cope and you can carry enough petrol, then yeah, no problems. Will there often be days with weather settled enough that 70 miles in 15ft boat with an outboard makes sense? Perhaps not. Should probably consider a...

The towns are insanely busy but we were able to find a beautiful anchorage completely to ourselves literally every night year after year. Always stste school hols because wife was a teacher. Lunchtime most towns were very quiet as everyone was on their way to the next place. So as always, it's...

Well yeah, but why not just tell the shore contact? Why give the CG some details that they almost certainly will never need.

That was almost exactly the circumstances of the second time I filed a passage plan, except it was before mobile phones. Luckily there was no action taken whatsover, but if I'd been in trouble it wouldn't have been so lucky. People forget or are unable to report their arrival all the time so...

At the time I thought it would be helpful, but now yup, me neither. There really is no substitute for direct contact stating from the casualty stating that there is a genuine emergency. IME even someone on land credibly reporting you as overdue doesn't lead to an actual rescue. (Again lucky...

Nothing, IME. Which is just as well because I was fine in both cases. The CG, quite rightly, don't operate a free "check if you're overdue" service but IMHO they should probably be a bit clearer about that when they take a passage plan from people.

Anyone aware if there's a modern equivalent of a trailed log? I'd have thought all sorts of people would want STW without drilling a hole in the boat/kayak/dinghy/rib, and I'd imagine a towed or temporarily mounted ultrasonic transducer would be ideal but google suggests nothing.

Cheating because I don't use it but... Autohelm Personal Compass

That's me. I've got a bilge keeler in an area with no rocks so I'm not that anxious about dragging. I *am* anxious at that mind shattering alarm going off. ...but if it wasn't such a brutal alarm it wouldn't wake me. I use it when I feel like it which is about half of the time.

I use Anchor Pro on Android and it's superb. One of the few apps I've actually paid for. (Anchor Pro is the paid version of Anchor Lite, so the key functionality is the same and I only paid for the 'upgrade' out of gratitude.) Whether you actually need an anchor alarm is a different question...