Entering and leaving countries by private yacht is interesting. In fact we Europeans are not allowed to enter the USA as a normal tourist, and had to get visas to fly in. When arriving by boat, the boat’s home country flag must be flown at the stern of the boat, the new country flag flown high up in the rigging, and the yellow ‘Q’ flag for quarantine flown below it… Read More
There was a definite air of something around the marina on Friday. It was hard to identify, but could probably be diagnosed as the jitters. We’d all spent the morning listening to a presentation by a swimmer for the US Coastguard on disasters at sea, complete with statistics, much from his personal experience of rescuing distressed yachtsmen. His underlying message was that mostly it could have been prevented before the.. Read More