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Tri again
Fantastic PBO
Marina Guide
■ I must commend PBO on
the publication earlier this year
(PBO Summer 2017) of your
guide to the marinas around
our coast.
On a trip from the North Sea
round to Milford Haven this
year, the information proved
invaluable, not only with
regard to access
arrangements, depths etc but
also in terms of costs.
Being able to quickly check
the facts and refer to the
contact details was a godsend,
saving us both time and money
in what was a diffi cult trip with
ever changing weather patterns
that shot holes in our original
passage plan.
Best marina on our trip:
Eastbourne, clean, well laid
out, friendly and helpful staff.
Most expensive: Falmouth.
£35 for a brief overnight stay
with no staff apparently
available to provide gate
codes to facilities.
Most confusing (but
ultimately very helpful):
Portland which was poorly lit
for yachts entering and trying
to fi nd an allocated berth.
Jeremy Percy
By email
Wrongfooted
by Octopus
■ PBO is a brilliant
magazine... always a treat
to receive.
And it was a delight to read
the October 2017 issue where,
in a letter, Geoff Humphrey
says he was ‘pleased to see
Octopus again’.
But the picture of the lovely
ketch next to the article isn’t
Octopus as Geoff will know –
here’s a picture of the old girl
that should have been
featured instead.
Geoff will be pleased to hear
that we had a wonderful cruise
in her up the West Coast of
Scotland to Fort William, Mull,
Skye to Lewis then Cape
Wrath to explore Orkney
before heading back south
to Inverness.
Plastic Boats? Bah... 10 tons
of mahogany, oak and brass
is by far the best!
Oliver Chapple
By email
Percy
■ Percy is
our six-year-
old Border
Terrorist, rat
catcher elect
(he hasn’t
caught any
yet!). He’s pictured on board
our boat Dark Ivy at
Darthaven Marina.
Anthony PurnellACROSS
7 Twin-headsail rig (6)
8 Haul boat down for
cleaning (6)
9 Wire-like ridge on plane
blade after sharpening (4)
10 Ketch or schooner (5,3)
11 Boat pox (7)
13 Phonetic I (5)
15 Wood joint at 45 degrees (5)
16 Unpleasant motion at
anchor (7)
18 Mast passes through these
at the deck (8)
19 Current (4)
21 Fixed navigation mark (6)
22 Sideways movement (6)DOWN
1 Phonetic Z (4)
2 Boom on the port side
of the vessel (9,4)
3 Loose-footed storm sail (7)
4 Propel dinghy with one oar
over the transom (5)
5 Navigation instrument (6,7)
6 Longitude line (8)
12 Amount of canvas (4,4)
14 RIB helm box (7)
17 European Inland Waterways
certifi cate (5)
20 Anchor failing to hold (4)■ I own the Trimaran
Shangaan designed and built
by Andrew Simpson and his
friends and referred to in his
article ‘The View Astern’ (PBO
September 2017).
She’s coming up to being a
classic boat but many have
commented how she was a
design before her time –usually
just after we beat them in a
race!. She now sports
asymmetric dagger boards in
the fl oats which give her
awesome upwind
performance. She glides
effortlessly through the water in
light airs and is as responsive
as a racing dinghy.
Few believe she’s actually a
wooden boat that has taken
care of me through many
stormy seas. I have loved this
boat and we’ve shared some
fabulous adventures together.
Normally seen moored or
sailing on the River Medway
she is, though, a younger
man’s boat so if any PBO
readers would like to take care
of her for the next 50 years then
she still has much fun to give.
Bryan Wright
by email