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The only way to avoid the inevitable bad luck that Neptune dishes out when you rename your boat is to invite at least twenty forumites to the renaming ceremony, where you will provide free rum until an Uber/water taxi is the only safe way for the forumites to return to their own boats.

My money is on @AndrewB's suggestion in #4

At approx 145° W, they're still 35° east of anything as confusing as crossing the dateline.

Good points, but he's on a monomaran, so sail changes would be into wind. See #3 ref timing your arrival.

Correct. In my experience, with a dirty hull, full revs are not achievable. A lot like an overloaded car.

Ah, could be! That makes sense, all in the interests of arriving while the sun is still shining, especially in that part of the world where the charts are known to have huge errors.

How clean is your hull and how clean is your prop?

I'm stalking a friend, via Iridium tracking, who is crossing the South Pacific at the moment. Any guesses what's happened that caused the two downwind zigzags, circled in this screenshot? My guess is the autopilot gave them a middle finger, but in my humble opinion, that wouldn't result in a...

Isn't there a VAT issue with taking your boat back to the UK after so many years away?

If you're coming to the Algarve, I'm currently anchored off Culatra.

I've never seen clouds with the pointy bits below them. Any ideas?

Yep, your reset guess is correct. In = on. Out = off Well, that's my guess

@ironmaiden where is the boat? I ask because I know of a surveyor that lives on the Algarve and he can do an in the water tonnage survey for Part 1 reg, so no need to haul out for the survey.

My wreck simply doesn't have the space or electrickery for every type of coffee machine or device.

Nah, I'll stick to the ground coffee and cheap Irish Whiskey, thank you. It's your round, btw, time to open your wallet to let the moths out.

There's another very annoying thing about dogs on boats. When someone/a fisherman/whatever goes by, the dog starts barking and within seconds, all the dogs on boats join in, with no idea why or what they're barking at. And that just ruins the peace and tranquility of a quiet anchorage.

Spot on. But, unlike a dog, you don't have to take it to the beech twice a day

An old photo, but I think the sun shines out of my cat's arse

I'm fine. It's the cooking fat that has turned a shade of green