3 forum boats went walkies today......

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Glayva fell over in Rochford, Artemis fell over in Fambridge and Erbas went for a snooze in the ooze on the Fanmbridge mud.

Not sure of the condition of Glayva, but Artemis sounds like it might be none or minor damage, hopefully Erbas will just need a wash and some new strops.
 
Sorry to hear that news

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The boat we had in 87 went walkies complete with her mooring sinker. she came to a halt against the salting edge & stayed there for 2 weeks until the nxt spring tide. Fortunately no damage despite traveling diagonally across the river Deben through the moorings. Ours was not in these photos, she was below the Church sitting upright.I lie she is in the 3rd shot to the right of PZ wheel house.
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Anybody know anything about if Pioneer (Macwester 22) might be temporarily on the launch and berth pontoons or back on her fingerette. Also anything about my friend's boat Freebee (Westerly Fulmar)?

Any info gratefully received. Trying to get to fambridge on Weds/Thurs depending on weather and QE11 bridge.
 
Very sorry to hear that some have suffered. Parts of the Essex and Suffolk coasts really did seem to cop it whereas over here in NE Kent, on a weather shore, not too much has occurred so far as I've heard. I certainly boggled at the extraordinary photos on here of Mersea and the Orwell.
It's easy to get cynical (as I am prone to do ) about the excesses of the press but when your nearest and dearest are affected (including boats and houses) then it really strikes home.
 
Pioneer,

Both Freebee & Pioneer are fine still attached to pontoon no damage. On Pioneer a loose cloth attached to halyard has blown apart, a life buoy is hanging, but still attached.

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It has tickled my curiosity bone to find that the original of this post has been tweeted by La Paz Marine (whoever he/she/they may be) albeit with a broken bit.ly link

Apparently, my blog post ended up on Twitter too (I can't find that and I'm not signing up to Twitter to search further for it)

Not that it bothers me particularly (you can't put the genie back in the bottle and if you don't want it on the internet don't post it there!) it's just interesting to find, and worth being aware, that stuff posted here and on blogs etc. can reach a much wider audience than you might have anticipated!
 
Cantata said:
Very sorry to hear that some have suffered. Parts of the Essex and Suffolk coasts really did seem to cop it whereas over here in NE Kent, on a weather shore, not too much has occurred so far as I've heard. I certainly boggled at the extraordinary photos on here of Mersea and the Orwell.
It's easy to get cynical (as I am prone to do ) about the excesses of the press but when your nearest and dearest are affected (including boats and houses) then it really strikes home.
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On the Medway a boat sunk at her mooring near the entrance to Chatham marina, I don't know any other details. Boats near me suffered some minor damage as did mine.
 
Erbas said:
It has tickled my curiosity bone to find that the original of this post has been tweeted by La Paz Marine (whoever he/she/they may be) albeit with a broken bit.ly link

Apparently, my blog post ended up on Twitter too (I can't find that and I'm not signing up to Twitter to search further for it)

Not that it bothers me particularly (you can't put the genie back in the bottle and if you don't want it on the internet don't post it there!) it's just interesting to find, and worth being aware, that stuff posted here and on blogs etc. can reach a much wider audience than you might have anticipated!
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Slight fred drift, but you can view Twitter without signing up to it, and search it using Google. It looks like Le Paz just scan various forums and paste results into tweets. It's up to them, but it makes for a very dull twitter feed.

Here's them https://twitter.com/marine_supply - Nothing malicious.
 
Supine Being said:
Slight fred drift, but you can view Twitter without signing up to it, and search it using Google. .
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Can't imagine why I'd want to! I waste enough of my time on here and Farcebook as it is!

Supine Being said:
It looks like Le Paz just scan various forums and paste results into tweets. It's up to them, but it makes for a very dull twitter feed.

Here's them https://twitter.com/marine_supply - Nothing malicious.
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Now I have time to dig a bit deeper, it seems that they use Google Feedproxy to repost random items from various YBW forums as a Twitter feed which seems a rather odd thing to do given that they appear to be a US based operation (although to what extent it's an active business is another matter) so what exactly they hope to gain by reposting (badly) posts from a UK / Europe centric forum beats me

I wasn't suggesting there's anything malicious about it, it just made I curious!
 
Just back from Fambridge and all's well with Pioneer. The chaffed remnant referred to by Moonshine appears to be a bit of a genoa that was damaged and there are lots of other strands of it all over my rigging! Apparently I was directly in the flight path of the airborne genoa or at least parts of it. Hope it's not too badly damaged and is repairable.
 
Does anyone know / or does anyone have a tele number I can use to make sure someone is doing something to look after Glayva in John's absence?

Thanks
 
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