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Thanks for the response and the good info. I eventually did find a good boat and a competant skipper willing to take me from Falmouth to the Scilly Isles and back in early Nov but unfortunately du to a change in circumstances I have had to postpone the trip for a year.

For anyone interested I found the chap via the Royal Cornwall yacht club web site
http://www.royalcornwallyachtclub.org/html/club_facilities.html

and the link to the 40''ft Salar Buccaneer in question is
http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/buccaneer-charlie/

The skipper Neil Hopkins is a class act.