Recent content by ELLIS100

Currently heading down to Cape Town myself, on tow with a semi sub oil rig, and it's blowing an absolute hooley! 40 knot winds at the moment and we are barely making two knots into it :( I'm hoping the wind drops as the port won't let us dock in any sort of blow, but have a look out for the...

I was seriously considering buying a boat this year and Barclays were going to be my first choice for the finance, any other recommendations now they have gone?

I think he meant, there's nothing like live music!

Thanks for all the help, I'll be getting myself a B1 visa I think.

I have been looking at getting a berth on a boat coming back from mainland USA to UK as unpaid delivery crew. Does anyone know if I can use the visa waiver program or do I need to get the visa normally for airline/ships crews? According to the website for the London Embassy I would be fine...

I'm sorry but did you miss this? You say you motored around the Solent and it worked fine, hot water, but stopped back in the marina, no hot water. This explains why.

Thank you to the OP for this link, I've got a couple of bids in, I can just see me taking Swallow along the fens on a hot summer day. Then again, I could also see that Viking long boat doing the same thing. Wonder how we'd get on if we sacked Peterborough cathedral! AHOY!!

I see people saying that AFFF is a good boat extinguisher medium, but all the fire fighting courses I have attended have told me that it's not the foam that does the business but a chemical reaction at the barrier of the fuel and the oxygen. Therefore spraying foam on anything other than a...

OK I need to point out to people that this thing is massive! It's 50 foot long, you will need a specialist boat moving company with a low loader and a crane capable of a 15 ton lift as a bare minimum to move it. It's going to cost you the best part of a grand just to get it shifted, please...

[ QUOTE ] so is it totaly free or what ? [/ QUOTE ] Aye totally free, cost you the crane and low loader hire.

No really, I bought a BR Spey 50' Ketch as a project and it unfortunately went the way of most projects and I ran out of time/money. So now I need to get this out of the farmers yard who has so graciously let me keep it there for 8 years. So, first person serious enough to turn up with a low...

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[ QUOTE ] That's filled me with enthusiasm. [/ QUOTE ] Oh come on, beer, pirates and men dressed as women? What's not to like?

Head to any city in the world that attracts male ex-pats with time/money on their hands & no partners nearby [i.e. anywhere with oil / construction etc] and you will find any number of women desperate to get out of the poverty grind and any number of men willing to help them. It's a very true...

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