I have only recently found your channel and have found myself binge watching your videos. Fantastic content and information. As a novice sailor it gives me something to aspire to. Thank you for the time you have put in to help others.
Hi I've just discovered your channel. Back in '84 when i was 14 my parents sold everything and bought a 45' Inchcape converted fishing vessel. My parents and little sister slept in the aft cabin. I had the forward cabin. We set off from Hull marina summer '84 and c rossed the channel at Lowestoft arriving at Bouloigne then Le Havre to Paris...Fountainbleu...canals...aqueducts...rivers...the Sancerre vineyards..Lyons...Avignon....the Camargue...finally Sete. I remember the astounding beauty of the French countryside as we drifted further south. Being quite a hefty 45' fishing vessel we only just made it...running aground once. From Sete we headed West past the Pyranees to Valencia then crossed to Ibiza. Got caught in a massive storm, scooting down wave after wave, the bow ploughing under water then slowly juddering up to surface. Pots and saucers smashing in the galley. My poor dad at the wheel all night, got so tired he was hallucinating sea monsters in the night water. But he got us to the Balearics only off course a little..we arrived in Majorca instead of Ibiza. We stayed there a couple months then decided to winter inn Antibes South France, returned to Ibiza for summer '85 then Formentera through to summer '86. We sold the boat in Palma, Majorca that summer and returned to UK. I cried watching Rockall put put away with her new owners and will never forget the time. I am completely dissatisfied with my life in the UK some forty years later, unemployed, homeless, living in a shelter for homeless people. I have such a lot to sort out. I know it sounds terribly unrealistic but all i want is to be fifteen again living on a boat in the med. I can make a certain amount of money busking classical guitar through a battery amp (30 to 80+ pounds a day). A 3 year plan is buy some kind of sea worthy boat maybe a sail boat maybe cabin cruiser for around the 7,000 to 10,000 mark and have 10,000 put by to cover canal fees and med mooring costs for a couple years and hopefully busking will keep me going, or maybe live gigs in local bars. Being solo, and assume i still will be in a couple years, I guess it will have to be a small boat. It is daunting, but gives me something to work for. Watching your videos is helpful, you get a sub from me.
You've certainly had some sailing experience in your youth Phillip. Well done! It is possible to buy something like a Westerly Centaur for around 10,000 I think and at 25ft you can live aboard... The only problem is Brexit and the 90/180 day rule for British passport holders... Turkey and Tunisia have no such restrictions but I'm not sure how busking works in those countries... Anyway it sounds like a plan... Fair winds
Thank you for your reply. You have propelled me along a journey of Westerly boat research and along the way I've discovered a few others. The Centaur does look great as a first boat but i think I'd like to eventually get a Longbow or perhaps Alberg 30 as, after some research, I'm not sure bilge keels would be great for big open seas. I'm not altogether happy with the Longbows fragile looking fin keel. Prefer the solidity of full length keel e.g. The Alberg. But am getting ahead of myself and no doubt with your experience you may bust all of these myths. I am but a beginner learner, enamoured by much i see, filled with apprehension by everything else ...the Cheeki Fariki disaster putting me off everything but the mightiest keels in the business, and the thing to is obviously i must win the lottery and buy a brand new Kraken 50. Joking aside, thank you for your input, the Centaur looks lovely and you sir have been most encouraging. I am enjoying learning and finding that it comes naturally. I wish you fair winds and beautiful horizons.
Ps , those crazy guys on Bubbles are a kind of inspiration too. The story of Chris and his madcap crew, TH-cam documentary called Chasing Bubbles is well worth a watch for "just get on and do" type inspiration.
Also watched the doc on that lovely guy with the Albin Vega who had an incredible daring voyage pushing himself and his little boat to the absolute limit
I have watched 3 of your videos in a row today, and have looked up a boat I want to partner with 2 other buddies in Turkey. I’m a Tampa Bay Area sailor myself, and have always wanted to go to the Mediterranean. Thank you for this outstanding work you are doing Michael!,
Hope you find the book helpful as well Dave. Türkiye is a great place to sail from although not as much wind as Tampa Bay I suspect.. Sounds like a good project - reverse of my Europe - Caribbean sailing
Michael You have helped me so much with your free info and I am very very grateful …so with that, please always know that I am here for you no matter what (if feasible and I can help) I want you to know that I’m here mate, whenever, drop of an hat ..that’s me ..very kind regards Sime!
Hi Michael, we thoroughly enjoy all of your videos. You are a very gifted communicator! An idea for you: put all the locations you discuss into the video description, that way if I search for Corfu for example your video will come up. Secondly, and more importantly, you could use TH-cam's time stamps feature to segment the video into subjects (such as Corfu), then viewers can skip straight to the bit they came to learn about. I think you have a fantastic catalogue of information and we are soaking it all up! Please don't stop! 😊
Hi there, thank you for your brilliant text... The concept that I should put the locations I discuss into the video description is really interesting - I had no idea that the search element worked like that ... Also the segment time stamps sounds really interesting and I will look at that... Very grateful and flattered by the feedback Michael
Thanks again Michael for this informative series about the Med HArbours!! It is great you share all your experiences with us - first book ordered. Cheers and fair winds, Rudi
Dear Michael, these videos are very interesting and I saw them all. One marina I believe you should also list is Marina di Ragusa, in the south of Sicily. It is a modern, well run marina, with excellent shelter from any wind and sea state, good services, a very good and professional yard where you can have any sort of technical servise, and last but not least, very reasonable costs. There is a fairly large group of liveabord, many of them British. I am spending the winter here and I am very pleased with this choice
Maurizio thank you for the comments about Marina di Ragusa - I did think about including it and I was probably wrong not to in retrospect - It is excellent as you say and I am glad you are having a good winter there... Lovely marina and I think I visited Augusta from there???
Thanks Michael. Heads up from someone who has been there and done that is 10x better than a pilot book. My only suggestion is that Corfu is not a great place (in my view) in winter. Gouvia can be bitterly cold when the wind blows down from the Albanian mountains. Flights are also becoming very scarce in winter. But, all in all, a great guide.
Alenka you are of course correct about Corfu - I spent some weeks in the harbour there in summer but never winter and I imagine it is v cold... I included it as I think a lot of Brits find it a very 'romantic' destination so I wanted to give a mention but maybe I should have talked more about lousy winter weather! Thank you for watching
It's a correction - I got some Tunisia information wrong and felt I should correct it as so many folks seem interested in the country as a possible destination!
👍Thank you Michael for all your fantastic work in compiling and sharing your detailed knowledge of the Mediterranean marinas. I have a few questions regarding Catamarans: Q: Assuming your reference to "a 12m boat" refers to a monohull, what in your opinion changes in regard to these marinas when your vessel is a 12m sailing cat - or using more present-day sizes of say a 44 foot (13.5m) cat? What doe one need to know in this regard? - Are there only certain marinas which permit cats due to size limitations? - Are there preferred areas of the med for keeping such vessels... or is it simply a case of paying the going 'cost-per-metre'? - Perhaps you plan one more video on this?? Thanks again. Be well.
Peter hi, The bad news is almost all marinas charge Catamarans at 150% of a similar length mono hull berthing fee. Others do a calculation of LOA x beam... Other than very small places Cats are as welcome as Mono hulls and just have to much more -
There is a new Marina in Tunisia, Gammarth Marina big very modern and very well located just 3 miles from Sidi Bousaid and 8 miles from the airport and Bizert Marina is officially open and cpible of hosting more than 900 boats even super yachts +100m are sitting there during winter and doing their basic maintenance.
Hi Micheal, I really enjoyed your walk through of Med winter marinas and am particularly impressed by your Tunisia observations. I have an Excess 11 Cat that is in charter service in Olbia and I will take full ownership in 4 years. My initial thoughts where to sail her to Turkey as I have 3 months from handover to avoid EU vat but I think Tunisia could be an option as at the same time I plan to depart the UK and move to the UAE. Really appreciate your observations. Cheers, Tim
Tim hi, Turkey has become very expensive in the last couple of years. Tunisia is a good place with excellent facilities and less than half the price... I would be perfectly happy to leave my boat there
Great suggestion HH! The problem is that with some 250 pages on various subjects it is pretty big and a 'modernisation' would be vastly time consuming but I think www.gentlesailing.com/ is pretty OK despite it's ancient system - FrontPage!
Hi Michael, I have been planning a trip to Oz from the uk in my Nicholson 32, initially I wanted to go via the Panama Canal but now I’m leaning towards the Suez. Have you ever been that way ? If so what were your thought s? Regards Dan
Dan hi, I have a feeling that to head for Oz via Suez is probably the easiest route - Good is that the Red Sea will be down wind bad risk of pirates in the Gulf of Aden.. then good sailing via Sri Lanca and Asia towards Darwin etc.. No really long ocean passages... against one Asian town looks and feels very like another... On the other hand as a lifetime experience I found the South Pacific the best.. Still beautiful islands and culture all the way - truly magical - down side Atlantic crossing then minimum of 3 weeks passage from Galapagos to Marquesas - I had nice crew and enjoyed it but it's a long way single handed ... As a delivery Suez route is probably best but....
@@SailingGently that’s kind of you to answer Michael, so quickly too ! Thank you very much . I’m going to keep her in Turkey from May after your review .
I just muddled up the Arab names in my head but as so many folks seem interested in Tunisia - and I think rightly so - I felt I should re-edit to make things correct - the comments feedback is really useful!
Never actually visited Andrew - apparently you need to notify them off shore and they send a 'gun boat' to escort you in - I should imagine it's pretty good - I learned to dive in their Red Sea resort.. Nice people
Are there any free and fully wind-protected anchorages in Southern France, Liguria or Balearic where one could leave the boat unattended during the winter?
These 3 are some of the most expensive and heavily boat populated areas in the Med. Big gales in winter... A marina which has cheap winter rates nearby is Almirimar - Spain
if the current conflict were to become a full blown WW3, can you speculate how that might affect the situation for the people living on the seas? thanks (I mean when at sea, not problems coming into port of opposing nations)
I think it depends on the flag of the vessel and the nationality of the passports. If you enter a country that is at war with yours you will be arrested. Yacht impounded and have a generally nasty time I suspect!
if someone had a large cat and wanted to remain in international waters at all times, how realistic is it to have a tender to take you to shore from that distance? how large should it be? thanks!
I can see the concept but international waters extend 12 miles from shore. Almost certainly too deep to anchor. So a 'capable' watchkeeper would need to always be on board... 12 miles in a fast rib is probably an hour and when you get into port you then have to show your passports to immigration and get them stamped - It is not the boat which is the problem it is the person(s) passports!
@@SuperJV4x It is perfectly possible and legal - the basic requirement is a secure locked locker in the boat to keep the weapons. Each time you arrive in a foreign port you must inform the authorities that you have weapons on board and 'generally' they will come to the boat and ask to see them - then with you get a taxi which you pay for to the nearest police lockup with the weapons and ammo and lock them away giving you a receipt. When you want to leave port you have to inform the authorities and go with a taxi to the lockup and collect your weapons - you will be accompanied to the boat by at least one official who will stand on the Quay side until you actually depart having returned the weapons to the locked onboard locker. Once you are clear (12 miles) of the countries territorial waters you are 'free' to open the locker. The other problem is the pirates will probably out gun you and have faster boats - so good luck unless you are ex Special Forces!
Sam Hi, I've been to Cyprus a couple of times but never in a boat - the southern part is in the EU and the northern part is a department of Turkey - It is certainly a place to consider and I've got details in it in Ep 6 I think
Paul hi, it's Monastir in Tunisia. I put it in the wrong position and to make matters worse I originally said it was the closest port to Sicily - which it's not so I corrected all that but it took a day for perhaps 2 minutes max in the video. If someone made plans to sail to Tunisia based on my mis-information I would have felt awful!
Sad to see the end of this series - it was great and really useful for anyone planning a trip around the med!
Glad you enjoyed it Tom.. Thank you for watching
@@SailingGently very impressed with your ability to narrate it all with few breaks, well done and thank you again!
I have only recently found your channel and have found myself binge watching your videos. Fantastic content and information. As a novice sailor it gives me something to aspire to. Thank you for the time you have put in to help others.
Glad you like them Matthew and pleased you find them encouraging... Enjoy your sailing... Thank you for watching
Totally agree :-)
Truly a gifted storyteller and narrator.
Thank you Outer Banks - I enjoy making the videos - (the corrections are a pain! - must be more careful!)
Hi I've just discovered your channel. Back in '84 when i was 14 my parents sold everything and bought a 45' Inchcape converted fishing vessel. My parents and little sister slept in the aft cabin. I had the forward cabin. We set off from Hull marina summer '84 and c rossed the channel at Lowestoft arriving at Bouloigne then Le Havre to Paris...Fountainbleu...canals...aqueducts...rivers...the Sancerre vineyards..Lyons...Avignon....the Camargue...finally Sete. I remember the astounding beauty of the French countryside as we drifted further south. Being quite a hefty 45' fishing vessel we only just made it...running aground once. From Sete we headed West past the Pyranees to Valencia then crossed to Ibiza. Got caught in a massive storm, scooting down wave after wave, the bow ploughing under water then slowly juddering up to surface. Pots and saucers smashing in the galley. My poor dad at the wheel all night, got so tired he was hallucinating sea monsters in the night water. But he got us to the Balearics only off course a little..we arrived in Majorca instead of Ibiza. We stayed there a couple months then decided to winter inn Antibes South France, returned to Ibiza for summer '85 then Formentera through to summer '86. We sold the boat in Palma, Majorca that summer and returned to UK. I cried watching Rockall put put away with her new owners and will never forget the time.
I am completely dissatisfied with my life in the UK some forty years later, unemployed, homeless, living in a shelter for homeless people. I have such a lot to sort out. I know it sounds terribly unrealistic but all i want is to be fifteen again living on a boat in the med. I can make a certain amount of money busking classical guitar through a battery amp (30 to 80+ pounds a day). A 3 year plan is buy some kind of sea worthy boat maybe a sail boat maybe cabin cruiser for around the 7,000 to 10,000 mark and have 10,000 put by to cover canal fees and med mooring costs for a couple years and hopefully busking will keep me going, or maybe live gigs in local bars. Being solo, and assume i still will be in a couple years, I guess it will have to be a small boat. It is daunting, but gives me something to work for. Watching your videos is helpful, you get a sub from me.
You've certainly had some sailing experience in your youth Phillip. Well done!
It is possible to buy something like a Westerly Centaur for around 10,000 I think and at 25ft you can live aboard... The only problem is Brexit and the 90/180 day rule for British passport holders... Turkey and Tunisia have no such restrictions but I'm not sure how busking works in those countries...
Anyway it sounds like a plan...
Fair winds
Thank you for your reply. You have propelled me along a journey of Westerly boat research and along the way I've discovered a few others. The Centaur does look great as a first boat but i think I'd like to eventually get a Longbow or perhaps Alberg 30 as, after some research, I'm not sure bilge keels would be great for big open seas. I'm not altogether happy with the Longbows fragile looking fin keel. Prefer the solidity of full length keel e.g. The Alberg. But am getting ahead of myself and no doubt with your experience you may bust all of these myths. I am but a beginner learner, enamoured by much i see, filled with apprehension by everything else ...the Cheeki Fariki disaster putting me off everything but the mightiest keels in the business, and the thing to is obviously i must win the lottery and buy a brand new Kraken 50. Joking aside, thank you for your input, the Centaur looks lovely and you sir have been most encouraging. I am enjoying learning and finding that it comes naturally.
I wish you fair winds and beautiful horizons.
Ps , those crazy guys on Bubbles are a kind of inspiration too. The story of Chris and his madcap crew, TH-cam documentary called Chasing Bubbles is well worth a watch for "just get on and do" type inspiration.
Also watched the doc on that lovely guy with the Albin Vega who had an incredible daring voyage pushing himself and his little boat to the absolute limit
@@philipfisher5168 Thanks Phillip, I will go and have a look at Bubbles
Thanks Michael 🙏
Glad it was interesting Steve - thank you for watching
I have watched 3 of your videos in a row today, and have looked up a boat I want to partner with 2 other buddies in Turkey.
I’m a Tampa Bay Area sailor myself, and have always wanted to go to the Mediterranean.
Thank you for this outstanding work you are doing Michael!,
Hope you find the book helpful as well Dave. Türkiye is a great place to sail from although not as much wind as Tampa Bay I suspect.. Sounds like a good project - reverse of my Europe - Caribbean sailing
Great job Michael. Appreciate all you do.
Thanks for watching Gerhard
Michael
You have helped me so much with your free info and I am very very grateful …so with that, please always know that I am here for you no matter what (if feasible and I can help) I want you to know that I’m here mate, whenever, drop of an hat ..that’s me ..very kind regards Sime!
Thank you Sime,
So pleased to know the videos are helping - make it worth making them!
Cheers Michael, I loved this whole series and feel slightly disappointed that it's finished.
Thank you Ratus - glad you liked them
Thanks for the series Michael - your knowledge is unmatched
Glad you like them Johan - thank you for bothering to view them
Great eye opener for a young family sailing for the Med :-)
I had 4 years in the Med then sailed round the world and ended up in the Med again!
Hi Michael, we thoroughly enjoy all of your videos. You are a very gifted communicator! An idea for you: put all the locations you discuss into the video description, that way if I search for Corfu for example your video will come up. Secondly, and more importantly, you could use TH-cam's time stamps feature to segment the video into subjects (such as Corfu), then viewers can skip straight to the bit they came to learn about. I think you have a fantastic catalogue of information and we are soaking it all up! Please don't stop! 😊
Hi there,
thank you for your brilliant text... The concept that I should put the locations I discuss into the video description is really interesting - I had no idea that the search element worked like that ... Also the segment time stamps sounds really interesting and I will look at that...
Very grateful and flattered by the feedback
Michael
Thanks again Michael for this informative series about the Med HArbours!! It is great you share all your experiences with us - first book ordered. Cheers and fair winds, Rudi
Very pleased to hear you liked the video Rudi and I really hope you enjoy the book
Dear Michael, these videos are very interesting and I saw them all. One marina I believe you should also list is Marina di Ragusa, in the south of Sicily. It is a modern, well run marina, with excellent shelter from any wind and sea state, good services, a very good and professional yard where you can have any sort of technical servise, and last but not least, very reasonable costs. There is a fairly large group of liveabord, many of them British. I am spending the winter here and I am very pleased with this choice
Maurizio thank you for the comments about Marina di Ragusa - I did think about including it and I was probably wrong not to in retrospect - It is excellent as you say and I am glad you are having a good winter there... Lovely marina and I think I visited Augusta from there???
Fascinating, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it K Say
Thanks Michael. Heads up from someone who has been there and done that is 10x better than a pilot book. My only suggestion is that Corfu is not a great place (in my view) in winter. Gouvia can be bitterly cold when the wind blows down from the Albanian mountains. Flights are also becoming very scarce in winter. But, all in all, a great guide.
Alenka you are of course correct about Corfu - I spent some weeks in the harbour there in summer but never winter and I imagine it is v cold... I included it as I think a lot of Brits find it a very 'romantic' destination so I wanted to give a mention but maybe I should have talked more about lousy winter weather! Thank you for watching
Thanks for all the info! 🙏🏻
Thank you for watching Chris - Glad it was useful
Woohoo next part already thanks Michael
It's a correction - I got some Tunisia information wrong and felt I should correct it as so many folks seem interested in the country as a possible destination!
Enjoyed both versions.😉
Thank you Norman - so much interest in Tunisia I felt obliged to correct my mistake in both the video and the book - took all day!
@@SailingGently That’s diligence and responsibility. What’s not to like. The person who never made a mistake never made anything.😉
Fantastic
Thanks Rory - glad you enjoyed it
👍Thank you Michael for all your fantastic work in compiling and sharing your detailed knowledge of the Mediterranean marinas. I have a few questions regarding Catamarans:
Q: Assuming your reference to "a 12m boat" refers to a monohull, what in your opinion changes in regard to these marinas when your vessel is a 12m sailing cat - or using more present-day sizes of say a 44 foot (13.5m) cat? What doe one need to know in this regard?
- Are there only certain marinas which permit cats due to size limitations?
- Are there preferred areas of the med for keeping such vessels... or is it simply a case of paying the going 'cost-per-metre'?
- Perhaps you plan one more video on this??
Thanks again. Be well.
Peter hi,
The bad news is almost all marinas charge Catamarans at 150% of a similar length mono hull berthing fee. Others do a calculation of LOA x beam... Other than very small places Cats are as welcome as Mono hulls and just have to much more -
There is a new Marina in Tunisia, Gammarth Marina big very modern and very well located just 3 miles from Sidi Bousaid and 8 miles from the airport and Bizert Marina is officially open and cpible of hosting more than 900 boats even super yachts +100m are sitting there during winter and doing their basic maintenance.
Jaradala thank you for the update.. Been a while and I am delighted Tunisia is getting back on it's feet - lovely country and very boat friendly
Hi Micheal,
I really enjoyed your walk through of Med winter marinas and am particularly impressed by your Tunisia observations.
I have an Excess 11 Cat that is in charter service in Olbia and I will take full ownership in 4 years.
My initial thoughts where to sail her to Turkey as I have 3 months from handover to avoid EU vat but I think Tunisia could be an option as at the same time I plan to depart the UK and move to the UAE.
Really appreciate your observations.
Cheers,
Tim
Tim hi, Turkey has become very expensive in the last couple of years. Tunisia is a good place with excellent facilities and less than half the price... I would be perfectly happy to leave my boat there
sounds all good .have to give a try ' definately
I enjoyed the Mediterranean. Sp much to see
Thanks, great content as always. I looked at your website some great resources - I'd urge you to hand it over to someone to modernise it.
Great suggestion HH! The problem is that with some 250 pages on various subjects it is pretty big and a 'modernisation' would be vastly time consuming but I think www.gentlesailing.com/ is pretty OK despite it's ancient system - FrontPage!
Hi Michael, I have been planning a trip to Oz from the uk in my Nicholson 32, initially I wanted to go via the Panama Canal but now I’m leaning towards the Suez. Have you ever been that way ? If so what were your thought s? Regards Dan
Dan hi,
I have a feeling that to head for Oz via Suez is probably the easiest route - Good is that the Red Sea will be down wind bad risk of pirates in the Gulf of Aden.. then good sailing via Sri Lanca and Asia towards Darwin etc.. No really long ocean passages... against one Asian town looks and feels very like another...
On the other hand as a lifetime experience I found the South Pacific the best.. Still beautiful islands and culture all the way - truly magical - down side Atlantic crossing then minimum of 3 weeks passage from Galapagos to Marquesas - I had nice crew and enjoyed it but it's a long way single handed ... As a delivery Suez route is probably best but....
@@SailingGently that’s kind of you to answer Michael, so quickly too ! Thank you very much . I’m going to keep her in Turkey from May after your review .
@@darwindarwin141 Sounds good - perfect jumping off place for Suez... I find plans make themselves in the end...
@@SailingGently 👍
You can tell I've no idea where Monistir is. Ta for the update.
I just muddled up the Arab names in my head but as so many folks seem interested in Tunisia - and I think rightly so - I felt I should re-edit to make things correct - the comments feedback is really useful!
@@SailingGently Easy to do. Glad you fixed it, many wouldn't
@@kevgermany I would hate to let people get it wrong and find out it was my fault Kev
@@SailingGently I know. Just a big vote of appreciation and recognition.
Hi Michael , I’ve throughly enjoyed this series. Just a small correction, I think you misspoke at 50secs and meant to say Messina straits.
Thanks for that Ed - you are of course correct - I hope others work it out...
Great videos thank you.
Any info on Israel as i have family there and wondered about a visit in 2023/ 24?
Andy
Never actually visited Andrew - apparently you need to notify them off shore and they send a 'gun boat' to escort you in - I should imagine it's pretty good - I learned to dive in their Red Sea resort.. Nice people
@@SailingGently thank you for your reply. And please keep the videos coming, I really enjoy them and appreciate the information and advice.
Are there any free and fully wind-protected anchorages in Southern France, Liguria or Balearic where one could leave the boat unattended during the winter?
These 3 are some of the most expensive and heavily boat populated areas in the Med. Big gales in winter... A marina which has cheap winter rates nearby is Almirimar - Spain
if the current conflict were to become a full blown WW3, can you speculate how that might affect the situation for the people living on the seas? thanks (I mean when at sea, not problems coming into port of opposing nations)
I think it depends on the flag of the vessel and the nationality of the passports. If you enter a country that is at war with yours you will be arrested. Yacht impounded and have a generally nasty time I suspect!
have a laugh if you want but the picture at 22.50 i get a feeling i have seen all in the picture before somewhere in a town xalled nuneaton midlands.
Not sure if that's good or bad but thanks for watching the video
Thank Michael I watched all the series on med and all your precious work on the Atlantic crossing and Grenada.thank you again from NW10 london
Assif I am so pleased you found the interesting ands useful - Fair winds@@assifkhan3803
if someone had a large cat and wanted to remain in international waters at all times, how realistic is it to have a tender to take you to shore from that distance? how large should it be? thanks!
I can see the concept but international waters extend 12 miles from shore. Almost certainly too deep to anchor. So a 'capable' watchkeeper would need to always be on board... 12 miles in a fast rib is probably an hour and when you get into port you then have to show your passports to immigration and get them stamped - It is not the boat which is the problem it is the person(s) passports!
@@SailingGently thanks. I was thinking of how to keep weapons on board for pirates with no legal problems.
@@SuperJV4x It is perfectly possible and legal - the basic requirement is a secure locked locker in the boat to keep the weapons.
Each time you arrive in a foreign port you must inform the authorities that you have weapons on board and 'generally' they will come to the boat and ask to see them - then with you get a taxi which you pay for to the nearest police lockup with the weapons and ammo and lock them away giving you a receipt.
When you want to leave port you have to inform the authorities and go with a taxi to the lockup and collect your weapons - you will be accompanied to the boat by at least one official who will stand on the Quay side until you actually depart having returned the weapons to the locked onboard locker.
Once you are clear (12 miles) of the countries territorial waters you are 'free' to open the locker.
The other problem is the pirates will probably out gun you and have faster boats - so good luck unless you are ex Special Forces!
@@SailingGently I would keep drones on board to do recon. thanks for all your info!
How about Cyprus? You been there
Sam Hi, I've been to Cyprus a couple of times but never in a boat - the southern part is in the EU and the northern part is a department of Turkey - It is certainly a place to consider and I've got details in it in Ep 6 I think
Why is there. V2 what is the difference?
Paul hi, it's Monastir in Tunisia. I put it in the wrong position and to make matters worse I originally said it was the closest port to Sicily - which it's not so I corrected all that but it took a day for perhaps 2 minutes max in the video. If someone made plans to sail to Tunisia based on my mis-information I would have felt awful!
my wish
Dreams can come true...
You got to be a money bag to boat down there, Marines remind me of a truck stops in places i been shit holes over priced and a money grab.
Your right Ray... Some Med marinas are awful and expensive others good value