A plea from me!!!!

[Alistairr]

The browe is swetty, the hands are shaking, I get goose pimples at the thought of it.
Yes, i am still waiting for our Boating season to start!!!! I have been away from it for far too long that i fear i am now developing withdrawal symptoms /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

My Plea from me to you, my extended family out there is as follows;

Please please please, if you go out boating this weekend, can you please take a camera with you and take some pics of anything Boaty or Water related, And then post them on here for me to drool over on Monday. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Also writers like hlb and others if you have any tales to tell from the weekend please write them up for us all to read.
Haydn you are the best!!!

Ok, sorry for being sad, but i'm missing my boat, and thought you lot could cheer me up!!!

Cheers and safe boating everyone.

Alistair.

 

[hlb]

Why should I have any sympathy with you. My boats been mobile all winter and done a good few hundred miles. No wonder I've got stories and you not. Get yer finger out!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[itsonlymoney]

Yeah and that goes for me too, apart from the "few hundred miles" bit. Did do a few hundred yards however when I went to pump out my heads in november. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Ian

 

[PhilF]

me too, moved moorings, great value this boating lark, where's my bike ?

 

[hlb]

Was forgetting about the fifty miles or so on the barge. Cant understand windermere. Loads of boats but no one goes anywhere. Where as, we think nothing of bobbing 40 miles down to falmouth or Dartmouth every time we go to the boat. Alot further if time allows.

 

[powerskipper]

just for you

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

intresting little boats , where playing around lymington entrance today, seem to sail well.

sorry not very clear but where taken on full zoom ,
we all have to practise.

here is the chopper , he was a big [oops not nice], and treated us to some aerial gymnastic as he left , this guy.

think its the new colours, different hull, not blue!!!!!!

then we met this guy being towed or tugged by a yellow and black tug,
so clever to get matching boats /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[D3B]

Alistairr

see my post "here she is"
you think you got it bad.......
and its not me at the helm

Good luck with the "new arrival"
its a long time since mine arrived but hell its great

Doug

 

[itsonlymoney]

Thats cos there's nowere to go. Could post a story about our 40min cruise up to Ambleside but I doubt it would compare with a TCM Biscay type crossing.
The point about Winderemere that your missing is, untill recently it was a water sports area with the odd blast up or down the lake to find a suitable anchorage to raft up with friends for a spot of swimming, sunbathing, beers and a jolly good time. In short it is a social scene. Unfortunatly some of us have not the time nor money for extended offshore cruises and the ability to nip to the boat for an afternoons tinkering about, or one or maybe two nights onboard every weekend is ideal for our current lifestyle. Not to mension the fact that Winderemere (in the sun) is one of the most beautifull places on earth. Many times we have been anchored on a summers afternoon and said "we could be anywere in the world" or "this is as nice as beeing on the med"
Ian

 

[MedDreamer]

Its that convenience we miss most about Windermere Ian. It was great after a crappy day in the office to think that if we wanted we were only two and a half hours from the boat and no organisation required to get there.

BYW the latest on our shall we stay or shall we go saga is that SWMBO is scouring the med brokers lists for a Sealine S34 or a Cranchi Zaffiro 34!!! - I just do as I'm told

Martyn

 

[itsonlymoney]

Make your bloody mind up Martyn /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Ian

 

[MedDreamer]

I WILL make my mind up as soon as SWMBO tells me what my decision is /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[itsonlymoney]

I know that feeling well.
I am the master in my house, and I have my partners permission to say so /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Ian

 

[Alistairr]

Re: just for you

Thankyou Jul's i can always rely on you. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Alistairr]

Re: just for you

Ok, so who's been out this weekend????
(Probably not many, i think you're all still over in that Lounge getting p###ed!!! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif)

Ok, if you've been out, lets see the pics!!.
I haven't left the office all weekend /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif.

 

[BrendanS]

Re: just for you

In the house! So in the lounge, winding up Pauline

 

[duncan]

well they have broken the launching trailer so I can't get back on my mooring so you aren't doing any worse than me Alistair...........
hope this makes you feel better - it's not doing anything for me though!!!!!!!!!!

 

[amf]

Re: just for you

QM2 on a calm Solent (Saturday evening).

 

[whisper]

Re: just for you

Saturday - weather lovely, if a bit cold. Near neighbour of mine, on the quay wall, has got himself a new engine for his Ryds walkaround that used to belong to the co-owner of my current boat. Are you keeping up so far ? Well anyway he's just changed from a Suzuki 70 (4 stroke) to a new fangled Evinrude 90 (2 stroke) - not sure why as most of his boating is of a pottering around the estuary type.
As it was only fitted on Friday he wasn't quite fully confident with it yet as it sounds rather lumpy in comparison with his old engine when cold.
So, being the nice person that I am I offered to act as escort to him if he wanted to give it a whirl out at sea. He said "thank you kind sir" or somat similar and went into town for lunch - I had arranged to meet him down in Salcombe if he was going for the trial.

I went to aforesaid place with the intention of anchoring opposite the town and getting the Water Taxi to give me a lift across to Whitestrand pontoon. Had a mooch round to find a good spot to anchor but sea-bed shelves quite steeply and I was being blown into very shallow water so I chickened out. Instead went across to the town side of the estuary and picked up the nearest visitors buoy to the landing pontoons.

Now this is a heinous crime as residents are not allowed to use such items as visitors buoys. I therefore was prepared for the worst when the H.M's launch approached from my starb'd quarter and giving me the beady eye, hoping to get some cash off me as I must have been a newly arrived visitor. When he came around my stern I expected him to give me the red card - my resident's harbour permit is on the port quarter. Not a bit off it Yes you'll be fine there as things are quiet today.
On asking above very hospitable harbour employee about the Water Taxi he said it wasn't working - bloody good job I hadn't anchored earlier as I'd never have managed to row across the harbour into the wind. It was a doddle from the buoy( I have a 15 month old little Honda outboard back at base that I've never used yet).
So went and had a chat with the people doing a demo weekend on Zodiacs, bought yet another chart, had a cup of coffee and a bit of cake at "The Wardroom" and rowed/ sprinted back to the mooring wind assisted.
Oppo appears in the distance and off we go, over the Bar and zoom along to Prawle Pt. Raft up for a natter and take a few piccies - I've just got my 1st digital camera so am learning how to use it. Sun is out so up onto the Upper Helm and blast back to the Bar and up the estuary back home.
Lift leg and tabs and have a cup of T , do a bit of sanding down of the wooden guard rails and prepare to leave the boat. It is now just 30 mins. before LW and my spot dries about 2.4m. Aaaaagh, look over stern and leg is still down (b^*^*^*s)!!!!. I'm sure it registered up, on the indicator, earlier. Move some heavy items smartishly up to the front, nip into the wheelhouse and turn electrics back on. Press the leg control button - won't go up. - will go bleedin down though /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif. Forage about in the engine compartment and take off the female electrical connection blocks on the top of the pump, spray with WD40, refit and yippee, up she came. Boat was still just afloat at LW - predicted tide was 3.4m.
Just another boring day on the S.Devon Coast.

I had some fun on a Dartmouth trip today but that's another story. No, don't worry I won't post it.

Wonder what's going on in the Lounge /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[whisper]

Re: just for you

Saturday - weather lovely, if a bit cold. Near neighbour of mine, on the quay wall, has got himself a new engine for his Ryds walkaround that used to belong to the co-owner of my current boat. Are you keeping up so far ? Well anyway he's just changed from a Suzuki 70 (4 stroke) to a new fangled Evinrude 90 (2 stroke) - not sure why as most of his boating is of a pottering around the estuary type.
As it was only fitted on Friday he wasn't quite fully confident with it yet as it sounds rather lumpy in comparison with his old engine when cold.
So, being the nice person that I am I offered to act as escort to him if he wanted to give it a whirl out at sea. He said "thank you kind sir" or somat similar and went into town for lunch - I had arranged to meet him down in Salcombe if he was going for the trial.

I went to aforesaid place with the intention of anchoring opposite the town and getting the Water Taxi to give me a lift across to Whitestrand pontoon. Had a mooch round to find a good spot to anchor but sea-bed shelves quite steeply and I was being blown into very shallow water so I chickened out. Instead went across to the town side of the estuary and picked up the nearest visitors buoy to the landing pontoons.

Now this is a heinous crime as residents are not allowed to use those items called visitors buoys. I therefore was prepared for the worst when the H.M's launch approached from my starb'd quarter. The helmsman was giving me the beady eye, hoping to get some cash off me as I must have been a newly arrived visitor. When he came around my stern I expected him to give me the red card - my resident's harbour permit is on the port quarter. Not a bit off it Yes you'll be fine there as things are quiet today.
On asking above very hospitable harbour employee about the Water Taxi he said it wasn't working - bloody good job I hadn't anchored earlier as I'd never have managed to row across the harbour into the wind. It was a doddle from the buoy( I have a 15 month old little Honda outboard back at base that I've never used yet).
So went and had a chat with the people doing a demo weekend on Zodiacs, bought yet another chart, had a cup of coffee and a bit of cake at "The Wardroom" and rowed/ sprinted back to the mooring, wind assisted.
"Oppo" appears in the distance and off we go, over the Bar and zoom along to Prawle Pt. Raft up for a natter and take a few piccies - I've just got my 1st digital camera so am learning how to use it. Sun is out so up onto the Upper Helm and blast back to the Bar and up the estuary back home.
Lift leg and tabs and have a cup of T , do a bit of sanding down of the wooden guard rails and prepare to leave the boat. It is now just 30 mins. before LW and my spot dries about 2.4m. Aaaaagh, look over stern and leg is still down (b^*^*^*s)!!!!. I'm sure it registered up, on the indicator, earlier. Move some heavy items smartishly up to the front, nip into the wheelhouse and turn electrics back on. Press the leg control button - won't go up. - will go bleedin down though /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif. Forage about in the engine compartment and take off the female electrical connection blocks on the top of the pump, spray with WD40, refit and yippee, up she came. Boat was still just afloat at LW - predicted tide was 3.4m.
Just another boring day on the S.Devon Coast.

I had some fun on a Dartmouth trip today but that's another story. No, don't worry I won't post it.

Wonder what's going on in the Lounge /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[BrendanS]

Re: just for you

V good! but once would have done! <ggg>

The guys in the harbour master boats can be wonderful, there's just the one miserable git that most of them dislike anyway - but don't tell him I said so.