One thing that is nice about being in France is that, unlike in the UK, you don't have to listen to the local yachts radioing the coastguard on Ch 16 with...
Welcome back RB, hope you got some good sailing done. I have some info for owners of Icom M71 (and maybe other sets) I've just got my set back from the radio...
Just being pedantic - but Arz is in dialect of Bro Gwened (the G being pronounce Dj)- vannetais - and so the z would be pronounced h. However, I agree with...
... Quite the reverse; the worst examples of abuse of Ch. 16 that I have ever heard occurred while passing the mouth of the Gironde, on passage back from...
Again I am sure you are right, but another guy I met in Port Louis, whose parents turned out to own the adjacent Ile d'Ilur, did seem to pronounce it "ar-z"....
Great sailing thanks, spending nights at Loch Tudy, les iles des Glenans, Quimper, Benodet, Port Manec'h, Ile de Groix, Hennebont and Port Louis. And that was...
Oh go on, tell us! I have heard much bad French RT chatter, particularly in summer in the Bay of Quiberon, when it is non stop. But they do not seem to have ...
Glad you discovered my old stamping ground. There are some fantastic places to explore. When I taught sailing we found that 3days in the Glénans was a...
The z in Breton is equivalent to the dd in Welsh. Pronounced Z in the north west (Leon), it disappears in the Cornouaille and Tregor areas. In vannetais it...
I did a trip that way once. Loch Tudy rings a feint bell. Definately called in at Brest, Pont Aven, Belle Isle, Les Sables and La Rochelle. Then up the Gironde...
I am not being coy about Ch 0. At the moment my set does not receive it and I thought that Big Brother did not allow an ordinary set be adapted to receive it....
Yes, I was in the Glenans for 2 nights. Lovely summery weather, but very peaceful as virtually everything (other than one bar) had closed for the winter, even...
I would have loved to do both, but by that time the settled anticyclone had broken down and the weather become very unsettled. There was not a day without a...
... Well, for what it is worth, back in the seventies there was a lot of flack in the UK yachting press directed at the claimed antisocial behaviour of...
I always take my dobie into the shower or wash basins on my yacht travels never had any complaints,Don't want to look like a minging scouser (sorry!)I did see...
... "the North East, that well known den of vice and stottie cakes" You forget generosity Roger. After all, who else would've given the departing Chief Exec of...
Way back when, at the start of this thread, Roger asked about the American cousins. I suppose that the use/abuse of VHF may very well be a function of where ...
Slider video I just put up a new video-- the first part of my solo cruise in late September. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmQJOqJwhvY There's some footage of...
... Liked it much better when the rock music stopped and we got your live commentary Ray. Is it possible to replace the music at the beginning with voice info:...
Attaching the VHF to one's person has to make sense, especially if singlehanding with no other boats as I tend to do. I put mine + GPS + mobile (in waterproof...
'Scuse my French, but how the **** do you know all that? ... the north west (Leon), it disappears in the Cornouaille and Tregor areas. In vannetais it becomes...
Hi guys, I have not contributed for a while, but still lurk (manaiacle laughter in the background) and read the postings. The kids are about grownup, the house...
Thanks, Ed-- good advice. The music is what's playing on the boat's stereo system-- really just a Walkman with a couple of powered speakers. The batteries...
The ruthless revolutionary purging of aristos from the officer hierarchy in the French navy also caused havoc and crippled their efficiency as a sailing /...
... Did not a lot of Aristos return to France under Napoleon for La Gloire and why would the missing heads have been better sailors than the long- term Bosun's...
... there was a common, or broadly similar, nautical vocabulary in the Germanic and Scandinavian seafaring communities of the Baltic and North Sea, including...
One of Nelson's ships was actually originally French - the Foudroyant - and he always said it was one of his best. ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
