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    Flares - do we need them?

    a fellow forumite had life threatening accident whilst demonstrating flares. they can be dangerous. the faulty in date flare nearly killed him. only ever have in date ones i have used white flares to let a big ship we are there. i am in favour of them. take your old flares to the local rnli...
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    Is it just me or is the America's Cup just stupid?

    Re: Is it just me or is the America\'s Cup just stupid? i think last time i checked the teams won in order of budget other than 5th came fourth and 4th fifth. other than that it was pretty much we had a competition to see who was richest whilst some yachts were on thewater meanwhile on the...
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    splut splut... Is she really not seaworthy?

    Re: Of course she\'s not correct did rti with rjk at helm oh am slipping into tla
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    Mismatched Sail Colours?

    i would get a tiller extension and bring the weight forard a bit dragging the stern will be costing a bit but i love the salt and pepper look of the skipper's hair the red sail i love
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    Steve White: I tip my hat to you sir!

    another chay recruit and those [--word removed--] get paid so much for kicki......... please convey my respect
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    Drascombe Longboat?

    i think the long boat is a superb boat the only ''alternative'' i can offer is the falmouth bass boat but that is only in consideration
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    Etquette

    it is precisely the inverse of going on a mobo so you offer scruttocks old badger breath ale (you would have have brought champagne but it would be showy to the adjacent swining mooring types) you look longingly at long keeled boats if they have an AWB and say helpful things like ''i cannot...
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    Drinking and boating

    walnut jackhammer wait till theystart taxing sail area
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    How did stingo get his name?

    Re:some say................. he is the seagoing version of the stig some say .................. discuss
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    Mercury Meeting - May 2009

    put us down i will have the left bunk or the flybridge or the oh [--word removed--] no stick us down as maybe mrs s is kicking off about childcare apparetnly the childcare arrangements have changed from last time now the child is outside of her and has been joined by another women eh?
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    Mercury Meeting - May 2009

    may the what?
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    Rope coiling article in YM

    if you know so much why buy the magazine? oh you don't know how to get into the lesser known parts of brittany, oh shame on you? the same applies. YM HAS to be there for newbies. be it coil a rope or enter le havre. just because an article is not aimed at you does not make it any less valid
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    Youngsters are at it agin

    i wish the lad well can do nothing else for any sailor setting out on any journey i just hope he is following his own dream and its not his father vicariuosly fulfilling his own on a trip to lanzarote with a certain forumite i re-read ellen's first book and decided all single solos are...
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    YM content - nothing ever changes

    I had intended on making a spirited defence of your comments based on pure emotion of a a publication that has kept me same through long winter nights and all too short boatless summers i have found that, a publication that once led to cherished back issues to the point of madness years ago...
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    Volvo Ocean Race

    no offfence dan but i grew up reading the adventures of the whitbread raace adc accutrac debenhams amd alll that the last vor i followed they were pure racing machines going at full pelt around the globe skippered navigated and crewed by the finest in their field some boats and crew paid the...
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