Guapa
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When using the buoy to keep off the wall do you need to get a line through the ring on the buoy as you pass it?
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How is this done?
When with crew - one holds buoy in place using a boat hook - other slips line through the eye.
In view of single/short-handed sailing I've gotten me this ( http://www.compass24.com/watersports/abnetshop.pl?ARTNR=117510 ).
Tried it 3 weeks ago - works a charm.
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How do you get ashore (presumably over the bow) Is it better to come in stern to?
Bow to - use anchor as step.
Stern to is possible too - if you don't mind the world and his wife looking down straight into your cockpit.
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Morgana
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Yes... come alongside the buoy and pass a line through it... (they have a ring on top of around 3" diameter), and then motor gently into the pontoon, either bow or stern too as required...
The buoys are a good long way from the pontoon (60'?), so its a lot easier than it sounds.....
My technique when going bows too was to put the bouy alongside just behind the bow, reach down and feed a line through (the buoys are conical and the eye on top is a good 18" to 2' above the waterline), take the slack out of the line and then use this (under the control of a crew member) to control progress in.... the line below the buoys are weighted, so they fall straight down and therefore no fouling risk....
This year, I intend to try stern in, so I'll follow the process in reverse, and hope that my steerage remains good enough! and that a gap exists, and i've not got to force my way in, otherwise it'll be bows too!
i'd never done it before when I first visted Oostende 3 years ago, and found it really quite easy.... (thats guaranteed a complete mess of its this year then  )
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Sixpence
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thats guaranteed a complete mess of its this year then
Total certainty with me aboard 
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Jomo
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Top notch update, thanks very much.
I look forward to providing good entertainment for the Oostende voor anker crowds near enough to watch my mooring techniques!
Re red diesel - I haven't refueled since top up at wintering, bar a couple of litres from reserve jerrycan, so no receipts. I presume if its in my fuel tank & I leave my reserve can behind that'll be ok.
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eastcoastbernie
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I'm in the same boat - pardon the pun - I haven't refueled since winter top up either.
I was planning to get fuel in cans so I had a receipt. So I guess it's get fuel before leaving, top up somewhere in the N. Sea. Take a view on what to do about anything left in the cans. If the forum forecasters are correct, we'll be motoring there anyhow so I'll use up most of my tank just getting there, meaning I'll need to take about 15 litres in reserve cans for the trip home.
If they charge me duty on 15 litres, then so be it. If they march me off to the cashpoint to pay a huge fine, that's another matter. But would they really due that? 15 litres of red diesel would hardly make me an arch criminal would it?
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Stork_III
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I took white diesel in my cans last year to Holland, red in tank. Customs seems to accept it when we were boarded in Flushing.
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Jomo
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Not a bad plan! I think I'll do that
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eastcoastbernie
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A cunning plan Pete. Might be the best option.
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Guapa
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Cunning, very cunning... with one 'fatal' flaw.
UK white diesel £1.25 - BE white diesel €1.40
€1.40 = £1.12
So, why would you want to take expensive UK white diesel in cans to somewhere where white diesel is cheaper? 
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Jomo
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Local knowledge is a wonderful thing 
Another change in plan then!
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