1,000 post threads

[Stingo]

Re: More recent

Chichester decided not to compete with the pack in 1968. He would be up against men sailing larger boats, and the outcome must have been clear to him: he would be the game old campaigner who would manage a respectable placing halfway through the fleet. He quietly set off to do something else.

Sailing alone around the world was nothing new. The Nova Scotian-born American Joshua Slocum, a sailing ship master beached in his middle years by the steam age, was the first to do it in 1895-8. He sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts, west-about around the globe, against ferocious prevailing winds through the Strait of Magellan, north of Cape Horn

 

[jimi]

Re: Try this one

Easy!

 

[jhr]

Re: Try this one

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[fireball]

Re: Try this one

I see standards are slipping - everyone off for a midday siesta?

 

[webcraft]

Yes, thanks . . . thought I had replied, but something must have happened.

Have replied again - did you get it?

- Nick

 

[Stingo]

Keith

I don't think your software can count properly. For instance, the number of pages is incorrect when there is one reply on a new page. Further to that, the new reply can only becomes visible when a further reply is made.

 

[Colin_S]

Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

Like anyone's going to read your post in the middle of this lot huh????????





Altogether now.........


The big ship sailed on the alley, alley-oh
The alley, alley-ohThe alley, alley-oh
The big ship sailed on the alley, alley-oh
On the last day of September

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

Gosh,

Yet another day off out and about, and the number gradually creeps up.....

As an aside, just happened to see an ILB launch today off the beach, just yards from where we were sitting... or rather not launch..... it wouldn't start on the trailer.... so to my 7yr old son's delight, they launched the hovercraft instead... eyes on stalks as it floated past just 20 feet from where we were sitting....

All to rescue an inflatable boat....

 

[fireball]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

Can we make 700 before midnight - thats the question......

 

[CliveG]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

No we can't

 

[fireball]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

I didn't say which midnight /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[jimi]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

There I was sailing along happily on port tack when a racing boat aaproached on starboard tack on my quater shouting for me to give way a a) he was racing and b) he was on starboard. I did't like his tone so ignored him completely .. was I right to do so?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

Was he wearing a baseball cap with 'skipper' written on it?

 

[StugeronSteve]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

Without an audio stream of the incident it is impossible for me to make a meaningful assessment. However, as in most things, I trust your judgment implicitly and cannot imagine that you were in the wrong.

 

[jimi]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

no it had Tossa de la mer inscribed on it though!

 

[Stingo]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

pihsrenwo taob fo snoitalubirt dna slairt eht fo yrots gnipoleved eht sti ... golb ym daer ton yhw .... ?derob

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

hsibbur etelpmoc

 

[fireball]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

.tnemetats ruoy no etarobale esaelP ?taht yas uoy dluow htrae no yhw dna

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

on

 

[fireball]

Re: Is it worth posting anything sensible on a 1,000 post thread?

.neht ko