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Forum: Our Community

19-04-2024, 07:59

Replies: 41

Charged after visiting a boat for sale! Has anyone ever had this happen?

Views: 7,720

Posted By Roux

Re: Charged after visiting a boat for sale! Has anyone ever had this happen?

Send them an equal invoice for your time and costs due to false advertising.

Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape

06-04-2024, 13:26

Replies: 24

Customs check in denied entry to St Lucia

Views: 3,407

Posted By Roux

Re: Customs check in denied entry to St Lucia

Ssint Vincent and Grenada do not check expiry dates.

Forum: Anchoring & Mooring

12-02-2024, 13:03

Replies: 166

All modern anchors with loop, based on the Bugel are the same in performance

Views: 14,483

Posted By Roux

Re: All modern anchors with loop, based on the Bugel are the same in performance

You are wrong. Mine is better and bigger than yours! ;-)

Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean

03-02-2024, 13:17

Replies: 30

Cruising Customs Paperwork

Views: 2,978

Posted By Roux

Re: Cruising Customs Paperwork

I am currently sailing the Caribbean. All I have ever been asked for is boat registration, previous location clearance papers and crew list. You submit this information electronically via...

Forum: Anchoring & Mooring

19-01-2024, 08:36

Replies: 80

NO to Strobe anchor lights (please!)

Views: 8,304

Posted By Roux

Re: NO to Strobe anchor lights (please!)

And nobody dare to say that it is mainly the French boats using flashing anchor lights?

Forum: Anchoring & Mooring

19-01-2024, 08:29

Replies: 80

NO to Strobe anchor lights (please!)

Views: 8,304

Posted By Roux

Re: NO to Strobe anchor lights (please!)

Not true. International distress signal is a flashing white light. Which a strobe light is. Talk to the French sailors. Only people using it in the Caribbean.

Forum: Meets & Greets

24-07-2023, 06:39

Replies: 22

Yanmar 3ym30

Views: 2,461

Posted By Roux

Re: Yanmar 3ym30

You do know that when you pull the dipstick the first time it will not show oil and you have to insert and pull it again? Maybe you overfilled the oil?

Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean

26-05-2023, 21:00

Replies: 33

Anyone been to Tobago Cays RECENTLY

Views: 4,970

Posted By Roux

Re: Anyone been to Tobago Cays RECENTLY

This is bull5h1t to say the least.
Nowhere is a lobster meal 75 US.
There is no such thing as a "white tax". If you believe in doomsite (sic)
You will believe in anything.
You can negotiate a...

Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean

25-05-2023, 14:36

Replies: 33

Anyone been to Tobago Cays RECENTLY

Views: 4,970

Posted By Roux

Re: Anyone been to Tobago Cays RECENTLY

A few more things to take note of in Tobago Cays.
The meals are not the dine and wine type. Everything is brought to the island from Union in the mornings and back to Union at midnight. The...

Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean

25-05-2023, 09:06

Replies: 33

Anyone been to Tobago Cays RECENTLY

Views: 4,970

Posted By Roux

Re: Anyone been to Tobago Cays RECENTLY

I visit Tobago Cays once a week with guests.
The costs of 25usd for the boat and 6 usd per person is more than affordable.
The reserve is beautiful. The turtles trained to entertain guests.
Have...

Forum: Multihull Sailboats

03-04-2023, 08:06

Replies: 35

Small Catamaran with a Family of Three? Pros/Cons?

Views: 5,570

Posted By Roux

Re: Small Catamaran with a Family of Three? Pros/Cons?

Take the family on a week stay in the bathroom of your house. If all survive you will be ok at sea...

Forum: The Sailor's Confessional

10-02-2023, 07:14

Replies: 328

Hitting an anchored boat in a sparsely populated anchorage while under sail

Views: 32,873

Posted By Roux

Re: Hitting an anchored boat in a sparsely populated anchorage while under sail

A Strobe light is not an anchor light. It is a light used to annoy everybody around you.

Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean

26-09-2022, 09:45

Replies: 118

Do coast guard / customs use sniffer dogs when searching yachts?

Views: 14,678

Posted By Roux

Re: Do coast guard / customs use sniffer dogs when searching yachts?

I had been on Saint Helena island on the hard living on the yacht waiting for the then RMS to take us back to Cape Town. The security guard was from the UK, a retired soldier. He had a beautiful...

Forum: Lithium Power Systems

08-08-2022, 09:17

Replies: 114

On my fourth Alternator?

Views: 11,462

Posted By Roux

Re: On my fourth Alternator?

The "dead short" is actually the batteries absorbing to much current for the alternator controller. Use a normal lead acid battery on the engine for starting. Connect to the house lithium batteries...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

27-08-2021, 11:41

Replies: 57

A room (or boat) with a view

Views: 8,121

Posted By Roux

Re: A room (or boat) with a view

VanDerStadt Endurance.

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