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    Fog - Latest Update

    Thanks very much, Simon, this is much appreciated................... now I really have something to worry about!!!!!!!!!!! Only kidding - thanks for the effort. <hr width=100% size=1>
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    Hold the back page!

    Can't believe my luck, just got another one from 'the Chief Accountant of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)headquarters in Lagos Nigeria. who reliably got mycontact from Nigeria Chamber of Commerce' Sent complaining message to Voila.fr, his service provider, see if they...
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    Cheoy Lee opinions please

    We have a Cheoy Lee Clipper 42 which we are delighted with. See the Cheoy Lee website (which is excellent) and post the question there, I did that when we first saw ours and I had a response from the only other Cheoy Lee in UK within 2 hours inviting us to go and see it and chat to the owners...
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    Hold the back page!

    We have been told to forward the mail to the service provider they are using (I got one from a Yahoo account last week and sent it to Abuse@Yahoo - see their web site) and they claim to kill the accounts. No for long I suspect, but may save some poor nitwit getting stung. <hr width=100% size=1>
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    Forget eating in Dover

    Really good (and child very friendly) Italian - think called Topo Gigio's. Excellent food and great value. Highly recomend it. <hr width=100% size=1>
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    Where to winter in SW Spain or Algarve

    Could you give us a flavour of the sailing, ports and anchorages - and weather - of the area you have just come from - we are thinking of re-locating boat and another Scuttlerbutter has recomended Ayamonte and area, would like to know what you thought of west coast. We are 47 foot and I think...
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    Child safety?

    Just about to get my kids out to the Middle East for half term, it's got to be more predictable than Neverland. The man is barking!
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    Another of My 'Awfully Good Ideas'!!!

    Another of My \'Awfully Good Ideas\'!!! HWMBGL (He Who Must Be Given Lists) is shuddering in the woodshed because I have had another one of my 'Awfully Good Ideas' - and am off on a mission! Having planned for many years to move back to Scotland, buy a cottage on the west coast and sail into...
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    Can You 'Mend' a Propeller

    Re: Can You \'Mend\' a Propeller Can't trace them trhough directory enquiries - any more info?
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    Can You 'Mend' a Propeller

    Can You \'Mend\' a Propeller When we are motoring we have a very unpleasant and un-nerving noise, it sounds like 'large rocks being rolled about in a wooden tub'. We are pretty certain it is not the engine as we have replaced it with a new one and the noise continues, we are sure it is not the...
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    Cruising in Northern Francewith Kids 26 July to 16 August

    We will be heading down the French coast towards Cherbourg with 3 kids (boy 10, girls 13 and 16). Cant promise to meet up but if we do come across you would be grateful to get the younger ones together. We aim to leave East Coast UK on 5th August for two - three weeks. Boat name Dreamers of the Day.
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    Tall Ships

    My daughter returned last night from 12 days on the Tall Ships - Malta to Malaga. She is a really bad traveller; threw up watching 'Perfect Storm' and is sick in the bath! No proprietory medicine has ever worked for her so we approached our GP and asked if there was anything available on...
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    12V TV/VCR Combis

    I Finally gave in this weekend and agreed we can have TV/video on the boat. Is this combi a good option, if so how much and where are you?
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    FINALLY!YEEEHAAA

    HELP!!! Kim!!!!
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    FINALLY!YEEEHAAA

    It's a funny old life................. when I was young, free and single I would have given my pension to find a rich, footloose chap with a big boat free to cruise off into the sunset with......................... and now I'm not I've stumbled into a BB of them. Problem is, got so tired of...
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