armchairsailor
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I have to say that I thought his boat seemed well sorted - hope he makes it.
£900 Prelude to Marseilles
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dylanwinter
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I hope that the French authorities are kind to him
does he need qualifications and bits of paper to show them?
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does he need qualifications and bits of paper to show them?
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CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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I would like to be there when the French ask him for the paperwork; although he appears to have already adopted the "Mediterranean" attitude and he will get away with it. Any boat is a good boat if you enjoy sailing it, therefore Prelude is King for him. The older man will eventually get back home, but most likely he will end up staying down there for long long time. Good for him; we only live once; we come with nothing and we go with nothing.
dylanwinter
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the older bloke is a canal boater
he was just along for the journey as far as Boston
he will then be on his own again
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SolentBoat
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What a fantastic job that must be.
Once as a precocious schoolboy, I landed a "job" with the local BBC radio station - it was the 1980s, computers were "the thing" but noone over the age of 13 knew anything about such things. So I had a spot talking and interviewing about computers of the day. Later, I also got to do some agricultural shows and that sort of thing. Really loved doing it. But for reasons I now forget (not getting paid may have had something to do with it (although I did outrageously blag free stuff on the basis of "representing the BBC)), I buggered off to university and forgot all about it.
A pity really, as in retrospect, I think I'd mastered what I called being an "intelligent idiot" and asking questions that anyone who knew the topic wouldn't have bothered asking.