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Richard Shead

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Thank you for the several glasses of pink (before lunch) as well as protection from the rain and thunder..I did wonder why Jimmy had a fleece on so early on but he clearly knows better than I...

I will PM you all to say thank you proper.

Good luck to the dive crew as well.

Cheers
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
Hi Richard

Great to see you and B today, another day in the SoF sacrified on the altar of rosé! :D

Cheers
Jimmy
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Oh dear...rosé and sunshine is the sort of combination that leads to siestas and a whole latin lifestyle.

It's a small step from there to Carnival and eventually cinq à sept...
 
rafiki_ said:
Jimmy, I've yet to find a decent rose.
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Take a trip to Jas D 'escalons, the other side of Le Muy. (15 mins north of frejus)
Domain d'escalons half way up the valley on the right is very good.
Fantastic organic wines, can highly recommend the fizzy white and rose. The best provencal wines bar none.....
If you take the Calas road north out of Le Muy there is a very good truckers stop restraunt about 2 miles up the road just off the big roundabout with the stainless steel sculpture...choose the plat du jour. ( you will have to share a communal table with the locals) cheap and original country food 8/10. ( yes really!)
 
Sorry to miss you Richard. I was out at sea in the storm, south of the Cap D'Antibes on my way back from watching one of the warm up Classic races (we motored alongside Shamrock V for a while - fabulous stuff). I had 44-point-something knots of true wind on the gauge - a Force 9. It was quite something
 
rustybarge said:
Take a trip to Jas D 'escalons, the other side of Le Muy. (15 mins north of frejus)
Domain d'escalons half way up the valley on the right is very good.
Fantastic organic wines, can highly recommend the fizzy white and rose. The best provencal wines bar none.....
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Oy, don't tell JtB that. That's right by our house. Once he finds his way I'll never get him out again, not without having my arm twisted to spend yet more time on a boat, drink rosé, sleep in the sun... :D
 
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jfm said:
Sorry to miss you Richard. I was out at sea in the storm, south of the Cap D'Antibes on my way back from watching one of the warm up Classic races (we motored alongside Shamrock V for a while - fabulous stuff). I had 44-point-something knots of true wind on the gauge - a Force 9. It was quite something
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How did the stabs perform: not shaken, not stirred, I'm guessing. Or was it more "Do I look like I give a damn how you make the drink" at that point
 
benjenbav said:
How did the stabs perform: not shaken, not stirred, I'm guessing. Or was it more "Do I look like I give a damn how you make the drink" at that point
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It was quite funny actually. I had 8 guests on board - a bunch of cousins and partners, 3 guys and 5 girls. Three of us were driving, at about 12 knots, keeping a good lookout because the golf ball sized rain was making the radar almost useless. We stopped to check a 30 foot sailboat was ok, because we were worried about him. Stabilisers were on of course. The girls were in the saloon watching TV, drinking coffee, chatting, and then one of them came forward to the lower helm, completely oblivious to the significance of a Force 9 and various ch16 calls/discussions about assistance, and asked me which cupboard the Scrabble set was in. The stabilisers sure do transform things for the guests
 
jfm said:
It was quite funny actually. I had 8 guests on board - a bunch of cousins and partners, 3 guys and 5 girls. Three of us were driving, at about 12 knots, keeping a good lookout because the golf ball sized rain was making the radar almost useless. We stopped to check a 30 foot sailboat was ok, because we were worried about him. Stabilisers were on of course. The girls were in the saloon watching TV, drinking coffee, chatting, and then one of them came forward to the lower helm, completely oblivious to the significance of a Force 9 and various ch16 calls/discussions about assistance, and asked me which cupboard the Scrabble set was in. The stabilisers sure do transform things for the guests
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Wow. Sounds like a great investment. I think my answer would have been: I'm sure a "Q" just flew past my head but the rest of the tiles are somewhere between the bottom of the cupboard and the bilges. :D
 
benjenbav said:
Oy, don't tell JtB that. That's right by our house. Once he finds his way I'll never get him out again, not without having my arm twisted to spend yet more time on a boat, drink rosé, sleep in the sun... :D
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Pretty part of the country from Jas d'escalons north through the valley and up the road towards Callas.

Then A short diversion west to Draguinan when you hit the main road is well worth doing, it's proper french big town with absolutely no tourists........very very cheap! Quite Good restaurant about a half mile down the main street on the right (opposite the Budget car rental) in an old town house, you can eat in the garden.

You may be wondering why i keep on mentioning restaurants, it's because France isn't Italy.

Ps: the Draguinan Fayence road is one of the best twisty drivers roads in the south of France.........bliss on a bike or car!
It's a continuous length of differing corners, some fast some slow, all connected up with some fab straights.....highly recommended.:)
 
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Thanks, AM. I'm curious about what it's like in Tasmania - one of the many places I don't know enough about. Have read plenty of scary stuff about the Bass Strait but it can't all be like that or I guess no-one would bother with boats?
 
benjenbav said:
Thanks, AM. I'm curious about what it's like in Tasmania - one of the many places I don't know enough about. Have read plenty of scary stuff about the Bass Strait but it can't all be like that or I guess no-one would bother with boats?
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We get beaten up in Bass Strait in exactly the same way as you guys do in the channel in wind against tide, although English Channel tides have almost twice the variable range.

Perhaps every country thinks their own notorious waterways are the world's most dangerous :)

The most volatile section seems to be where Bass Strait meets the Tasman Sea on the North-Eastern corner (converging currents) which brings a lot of grief to Sydney to Hobart yacht race participants, particularly in the 1998 event.

Generally though we enjoy fabulous, peaceful anchorages in the many pristine bays, natural harbours and estuaries, although our weather is cooler than our other mainland Oz states (40 degrees south) we don't fry during excessively hot summers.

Let me know when you are heading down this way, should be on everybody's bucket list :)
 
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