Motor Boat & Yachting - January 2016 UK

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YOURMBY

Edited by Hugo Andreae

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Power to the people

If your readers are looking for a fun way to

make the most of their boating and meet

some new friends they may be interested in

joining the Pathfinder Powerboat Club.

The club, based on the South Coast and

affiliated to the RYA, has been running for

over 20 years, and its members own and crew

all types of powerboats, from fast ribs and

cuddy cabins to larger sportscruisers.

Membership is £40 a year, per boat, and is

open to experienced and novice boaters of all

ages including families. The purpose of the

club is to give members the chance

to safely expand their boating

knowledge while keeping the

emphasis on having fun.

Among other activities, the

club runs weekend trips to

local and no-so-local marinas.

If any readers would like to

know more about joining our

club, they can contact Paul

Solomons, our membership

secretary, at [email protected]

or visit http://www.pathfinderpowerboat.com to see

next year’s cruising intinerary. Abby Short

(Pathfinder Powerboat Club liaison officer)

Sounds like a great way to improve your boating

skills and meet a few like-minded boat owners

at the same time. Hugo

The shots the MBY team

would rather you didn’t see

BEHIND

THE

SCENES

Postcards from the med

Being an avid reader of David Crossland’s former

column about Mediterranean boating (Postcards

from the Med), I am mourning its loss and am

thinking of moving my boat from Tuscany to Corfu.

However I’m slightly put off by tales of strong

winds, tricky anchorages and other off-putting

facts like being unable to put loo paper in your

holding tanks. On the plus side I’ve heard that

Greece’s financial crisis has not overly affected

the Ionian. I’d welcome any advice from someone

with more experience of the area. Terry Crumpton

STAR

LETTER

WINS A BOTTLE OF

PUSSER’S RUM!

The official rum of the

Royal Navy Association

and the Royal Navy

Sailor’s Fund

Storm breaker: Hugo

prepares to battle 50-knot

winds in the Barracuda SV11

There’s little sign of any crisis in the Ionian.

Corfu’s Gouvia Marina offers excellent facilities,

year-round safe shelter and is strategically

located for much stunning cruising north to the

Adriatic and south to many stunning islands.

There are many safe anchorages in and around

Corfu (admittedly seriously deep so you have to

scout around for the best place to drop the

hook) with lesser wind strengths than the

Aegean and we’ve found nothing off-putting at

all about Corfu. As for toilet paper in the holding

tank, that’s not something we have ever been

told. The islands’ sewage network can’t handle

loo roll, mind, so don’t be putting it down there

on land! Laurie Cranfield, Our Boats

contributor, based at Lefkas Island

Corvette confusion

Interesting article comparing a selection of

trawler yachts in October’s MBY. Pleased to

see the Corvette had a justified mention and

in other parts of the magazine too.

The author summarised the Corvette well

but got somewhat mixed up when it came to

engines. Most of the later Corvettes had 315

Yanmars, so 300 a side was quite common,

not just on export models. Also, a Corvette

would never do over 30 knots with these

Hugo gets to grips with some

of the optional extras on

board MGB 81 at Portsmouth

Historic Dockyard

Roll up, roll up: marketing

manager Richard Shead fi ghts

off the crowds at the Fort

Lauderdale boat show

Double Dutch: Pippa checks

out all the new kit at the

METS show in Amsterdam

Members of the

Pathfi nder Powerboat

Club raft up

Covering the

joys of inland

waterways