To replace Bristol with a shore based dormitory would be to lose something very special. An old retired warship gives something unique. My TS was not Bristol, nor indeed Kent, her predecessor, but HMS Ulster, a wartime emergency destroyer, later rebuilt as a Type 15 AS Frigate. We ate ashore, always making the short trip at the run, returning to make our way out to the ship via the pontoon bridge, these pontoons chained together, rising and falling with the waves, no handrails and so slippery. Each morning awoken by a CPO wearing carpet slippers, a manic grin on his face and waving a gas rattle. We loved it ! So, keep Bristol in place ! Worth every penny