A very understanding partner
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anoccasionalyachtsman
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I love the fact that he's a surveyor.
michael_w
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It's a reasonably common occurance in the fine art and furniture transport world. People are forever ordering custom made sofas that won't fit into their homes without removing door frames etc.
cpedw
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Right said Fred ...
dom
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Nice woodwork to be fair 
newtothis
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A friend of mine is an installation manager at a gallery that does a lot of installations. Some of the horror stories from artists who lack basic a understanding of geometry are quite amusing.
vyv_cox
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During the time we lived in Aberdeen my childrens' musical skills improved enormously, so we sold the small electronic organ that we took there with us and brought back a far better one. It would not fit inside the house, so they practised in the garage for a while until I had a patio door installed in the lounge.
mjcoon
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Does the phrase: "so I motioned it out of Paignton harbour" imply a looseness of bowels?
Stemar
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rocket propulsion?
Mudisox
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Back in the 50s , my father built a little pram dinghy for my use in the sitting room and it exited Ok from the single door out to the garden, without any problem.
A few years later we built a cadet [CK 4500] , and had to not only remove the door but also both weathering strips on each side and delay fitting the lifting handles of the boat. Boat went well, and my parent's marriage remained intact!!
A few years later we built a cadet [CK 4500] , and had to not only remove the door but also both weathering strips on each side and delay fitting the lifting handles of the boat. Boat went well, and my parent's marriage remained intact!!
Graham376
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Tell me about it! Had a retail furniture business and our terms and conditions were to deliver to the address, how they got the sofa in was their problem. Always amused me when they thought it our fault that things would fit through the door and they had to have a window removed.
Frogmogman
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Back when I was a student in the early 80s, my neighbour in Southampton, a butcher in Burgess road, built a home made yacht behind his shop. I'm sure Bajansailor will remember it.
When the day came to take the boat off to be launched, he discovered that although one end of the gap between the buildings was wide enough (the end he had measured, obviously), the other end was not.....
He ended up having to hire a massive crane to lift it over the building.
When the day came to take the boat off to be launched, he discovered that although one end of the gap between the buildings was wide enough (the end he had measured, obviously), the other end was not.....
He ended up having to hire a massive crane to lift it over the building.
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Bit late now but the hydroplane racers know how to overcome that problem.
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Did you flood the sitting room, or did you fit castors to the dinghy?
Bajansailor
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I remember her very well. Pale blue, built of plywood I think, some windows in the topsides and a small doghouse.
Not too sure what design she was - he might have designed her himself.
The quality of workmanship seemed to us at the time to be pretty good.
I later saw her moored in Kemps Marina on the River Itchen.
Mudisox
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Turned both on their side similar to the one in the photo. My elder brother moaned about having to look after one end for the first but I was man enough to safely steer the cadet, out of the house and also on the water.
Sealong
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"Went like a bird" he says. I guess the sails must have been flapping in the Force 5 to 6 breeze then.
