Motor Boat & Yachting

NEW HOUSE, NEW BOAT

When I moved into a new house in 2020, I was pleased to have drying moorings on two sides. I bought my Nimbus back from France in the same year. While I sorted out the house, I kept my Nimbus, Let’s Go, in a nearby dry stack. I also got a small boat to use around Chichester harbour.

But in the summer of 2022, while I was storm-bound in St Peter Port in Guernsey, en route to Brittany, I had a lightbulb moment. The mooring on the side of the house had two posts 3m from

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