Toph forum posts in last 60 days

woko said..


I'm not suggesting full blown cat 1 or a RYA certification, at least a general boating license would introduce elements of safety at sea, colregs & passage planning. It might avoid a situation like the tragedy in Ballina

I agree with woke, there needs to be something more.

Anyone who spends too much time on any of the other social platforms would have to have noticed the hugely varied answers and opinion to posts and questions such as 'what does this mean' or 'who gives way'. I know some of those posts are designed to create an argument (more than discussion) and a lot of commenters are just keyboard warriors who've never progressed from playing with plastic toys in the bath tub, but there are a lot of real sailors amongst them too.

Here in WA and it's probably the same in all Aust states, you can go and get your skippers ticket on the river in a little aluminium dingy and then go skipper your 50' Riviera straight away. Its scary.

Sorry I didn’t elaborate on my comments before re mobile optimization, but yes I felt the fonts were far too large. It was similar to my partner’s normal phone settings where I can read her messages from the other side of the room 😜
In my opinion at least, it’s much easier on the eyes now 🤙

Hi Jules,


There were actually 3 memorable times where I had a few issues setting the anchor, but one of those times I was anchoring on top of a large piece of discarded canvass (maybe even a sail) so I don't count that - we ended up pulling the canvas up with the anchor. The second time was anchoring in Pioneer Bay on Orpheus Island. That was over rocky ruble. My wife had asked to always be anchored before last light. As we were an hour out from that I already had a back up plan to run over to Lucinda and anchor there. I don't really count that one either as we had made two attempts to anchor and bolted before finding suitable ground.

The only time in 6 months I was really worried (and I mean really worried - as in the anchor alarm went off multiple times during the night and I was considering upping anchor and moving on was in Cape Voltaire in the Kimberly's. The depth went from 30 metres to 4 metres in a boat length and was large rounded rock bottom. I just couldn't get the Rocna to take and when I did it got stuck in an area I was not happy with, so you can imagine my surprise when the anchor alarm kept going off during the night...