Having a boat you can trail means having the best of all worlds. If you are happy to spend the time and effort putting it in the water and retrieving it again afterwards, you can have the freedom to go boating wherever you choose. It’s critical you know what you are doing though and that…
Category Archives: Safety
Top tip to protect your boat from theft with M-Track
Have you ever thought how strange it is to park your boat out in the open (on a mooring or on a pontoon) with just a rope tying it to the bouy or dock? An expensive and precious item that may cost anywhere from £10,000 to £200,000 is left outside with the best anti-theft properties…
XCWeather, WindMapper and BoatU.S. Navigator
We’ve added a few new tools to Harbour Exchange. These services are embedded into the Harbour Exchange Portal so that sailors can find the best of the web to do with sailing, weather, navigation, tides and other services, really, really easily. We’ve just added: XC Weather for UK weather forecasts and winds WindMapper for US…
How to be Safe at Sea – IT’S WET
Every year in the UK more than 8,000 rescues are made by the RNLI, with more than 50% of these being responses to leisure sailors like us. While many of these are real accidents that no-one could have forseen, a great proportion are rescues or incidents that could have been avoided by better preparation before…
