10,000 Celebration e-party and virtual cruise on MirabellaV

[tcm]

In celebration of wasting hours/months of time on this forum and reaching 10,000 posts, I am pleased to welcome everyone aboard Mirabella V which i have virtually chartered/hijacked as it trundles southwards thru biscay. Nice innit? Ok, so the ensign's missing, but I got a nice cheap deal from JoeV. We all have to be v jolly and amusing on this thread in order to work our passage - no nastiness allowed, except from jimi of couse as it wd be a bit alarming if he suddenly blurted out something pleasant, wouldn't it now?

First move for anyone joining is to bagsy a decent berth. No, that's not a decent berth tome, that's the tv sofa in the crew room...

Second job is to give me a hand getting all the toys out of the dinghy garage and string them all along in a long line. Yeah, a very long LONG line strecthing from Sable d'Ollone southwards 150 miles towards spanish N coast, neccessitating a massive detour for the (current) first and second placed saily boats and a surprise last-minute win for Mike Golding hehe.

ok, so the weather *might* seem a bit iffy - but see that big black cloud over there? Well, it's actually a record-breaking round-the-world yachtswoman in a trimaran...

Anyone else fancy joining me for this trip?

 

[StellaGirl]

Would love to come...who is manning the bar and what are the welcome aboard drinks?
Where we going? Bagsy an early watch so that I can watch the sunrise...

 

[tome]

Oooh, count me in. Sapphire cabin will do me - my colours, you know and I've already used the toilet so know it suits.

I could bring my experience towing seismic streamers to assist with the long tow and even make it steerable so we can intercept anyone gaining on MG.

Plus, I've sussed the password for the angle of heel over-ride so we just have to make sure Johnno isn't looking.

Shall I bring sandwiches?

 

[jimi]

Och I'l come along, I've got a bike now so I can single hand her whilst you party. Just helm a bit, sling in a tack release the windward winch and cycle off to do the leeward one. Drop the anchor, cycle bach bung a bit of reverse on to help dig it in. Drop the sales and switch off the engine .. nae bother at a'. Cycle off to start the engine and repeat backwards. Cannie see what all the fuss is about it really just logistics and a wee bike sorts all that out. So just remember that whilst ye were all slaggin me aff I wiz thinking aheid wi' ra loaf.

In times of need
Just use yer heid
and acquire a tricycle
not a bicycle
cos they're a lot harder to fall aff when peed

 

[Stingo]

Does your cycle have polyurothane wheels so that you don't leave nasty skid marks on the deck?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Bagsy the coffin like quarter berth...... you know... the one under the chart table......

 

[powerskipper]

Re: 10,000 Celebration e-party and virtual cruise on Mirabella

I,m in , I will giggle with true wonder at all these toys and man the bar or hand out drinks, Was once a bar maid you know . So have had some experience in this, but please don't ask for a "long slow screw against the back Wall as I have forgotten how to do.....op /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif.... make it.........mix it.........Just don' ask for one ......OK.

 

[Evadne]

I've just had the Kawasaki MOT'd, so Jimi can borrow that if TCM decides he wants to do a bit of short tacking. Might be best to fit a set of white tyres in case he starts doing donuts around the sheet winches.

 

[Twister_Ken]

[ QUOTE ]

and acquire a tricycle
not a bicycle
cos they're a lot harder to fall aff when peed

[/ QUOTE ]

There speaks a man who has never ridden a trike at speed. They're hilarious when cornering, and a damn sight easier to fall off than a regular bike.

 

[Evadne]

Looks nice in here, except that the galley bears more than a passing resemblance to a half-finished B&Q kitchen.....

 

[Twister_Ken]

Upfrit

Baggsy the master bedroom - you know, the one upstairs with the telly at the foot of the bed that lifts hydraulically. Only thing is, I thought the Leitz Trinovid bins were a trifle Bill Oddy/RSPB, and would like you to replace them with something a bit more nautical like Lucky Jack Aubrey's telescope.

There will, of course, be room for my servant Killick, my chef Marco Pierre and my personal assistant, Ms Kidman.

 

[Becky]

Re: 10,000 Celebration e-party and virtual cruise on Mirabella

Julie!!! What booze have you been at? Practising making and tasting the drinks already?

I want to come too! I would like a nice cabin with a luxury bathroom. So with that to retreat to, I would be prepared to do almost anything boaty. I would happily man (woman) the galley. Loved the sight of all that equipment. I could make your Fray Bentos pies taste like real food /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Could make big fry-ups for breakfast, hot burghers and sausage rolls for lunch, and dinners to drool for (was going to say die for, but not in this company).

 

[Cutter]

This is how a bar should look. And you get a dolly bird too.

 

[Stingo]

Now we can see the dolly bird

A bar should also have pumps for the beer. Can't see any.

 

[jimi]

Re: Now I can see the dolly bird

More like a 3 star hotel reception than a bar .. where's the pool tabledarts board, karaoke machine etc?

 

[Stingo]

Re: Now I can see the dolly bird

Yeh. There should also be a crowd of dolly birds in extra short skirts, wearing extra large hoop earrings, clutching alco-pops saying "awwight inear, innit"

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Re: Now I can see the dolly bird

TCM...... I believe we may need to tack in the next 50 miles or so..... hadn't we better start getting the boat ready for it?.... or maybe we should just get Jimi to do it all.......?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Re: Now I can see the dolly bird

We don't tack this boat, we just order up a wind shift.

 

[claymore]

When you lot have quite finished

This blasted High Pressure is killing our boatspeed - Gawd help any trimarans trying to sail quickly around here - and we could just do with a bit of concentration
the blasted deck is covered in tyre marks and discarded trikes - COME ON team - hands of c**ks and onto socks

 

[Twister_Ken]

Call yourselves shipmates?

Come on, own up, who's nicked the Perfect Storm DVD? I was really looking forward to seeing it on a 105" plasma screen complete with Sensurround sound, and Ms Kidman by my side.