All our yesterdays

Seajet said:
As far as I'm concerned those things should be reserved for wartime then fired at the enemy; if they're really unlucky they might eat them, a nastier end than treading on a mine or an explosive shell.
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No place on a boat for Fray Bentos pies. Not when you have Grants tinned Haggis.

Donald
 
Washing up in a galvanised bucket on my Dad’s boat and him saying “tinkle tinkle little spoon,knife and fork will follow soon” every time I chucked the water over the side
 
My first outing was with my father from Gravesend in 1950. We sailed his prototype Fleetwind around the estuary for an afternoon, I was 3 or 4.
My first boat was a 6ft pram with a gaff rig, sail made from parachute fabric and was called Piglet. I had asked father about having my own boat, so he roughed out a design on the back of an envelope (literally) and said 'Here, make it' I was eleven. We raced extensivly in the early 60s, so got very wet, very often. No VHF or electronics, of course. But a sort of DF radio for the cross Channel trip.

Loved Peyton's cartoons, he knew exactly what was like.

Still making the odd boat, got a mini cruiser in the lean too. Ply again and a cat yawl.
 
What didI see in yachting all those years ago,sitting under dripping trees waiting for the rain to stop eating a picnic or stranded in the rain on the Dart with father frantically patching a hole or other countless times wet and cold wearing uncomfortable kapok life jackets up to our shins in mud helping to get the boat on a trailer.....I am the only one of my fathers issue who continued the challenge.....
 
Wansworth said:
What didI see in yachting all those years ago,sitting under dripping trees waiting for the rain to stop eating a picnic or stranded in the rain on the Dart with father frantically patching a hole or other countless times wet and cold wearing uncomfortable kapok life jackets up to our shins in mud helping to get the boat on a trailer.....I am the only one of my fathers issue who continued the challenge.....
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Although not exposed to all the joys of your youth, my four siblings and I were brought up with seaside and Broads holidays almost every year, and yet I am the only one to have continued with any boating association. I took a sister out a few years ago and it was clear that although she enjoyed the short trip, it was clear that she wasn't at home on the boat.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
Crikey, you must be old - I WAS one of the children outside the pub (Britvic pineapple juice for us!), and I am a pensioner!The pub was the one at South Ferriby...

But I do recall that my dad's first boat didn't even have a depth-sounder, and the engine was a Thorneycroft Handy Billy. The second had a Seafarer depth sounder!
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You were posh, it was fizzy lemonade for us!
 
50+ years I thnk the thing I miss most is having the stamina to stand a lumpy 30 hour passage in a (very) small boat. That and the thrill of confirming the land appearing ahead really is where you wanted to be!. GPS takes al the guess work out (thank goodness!).
 
oldharry said:
. That and the thrill of confirming the land appearing ahead really is where you wanted to be!. GPS takes al the guess work out (thank goodness!).
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I learned nav from a book at school and I think my finest hour was 5 days out of sight of land in the Med , with only a Walker log, compass and a school atlas, to see the bit I was aiming at appear out of the morning mist, dead ahead. Summer of '69. We had a pilot pal radio, but no info telling us were the stations were. I set one of the crew to try a fix ( we were a bit bored in light winds) and he put us inland. If this sounds like poor preparation, I arrived to find the boat had no charts or nav books of any sort, as it had been sunk and all were lost. No chance of getting any fresh stuff, as the back of beyond.
 
DownWest said:
The wife bought one back from the market as it looked interesting. Being a 'mercan, she was not aware of the wars started over this tinned product. We ate it and it was quite good. I bet Robert Redford would have given his eye teeth for one in Lost.
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Not when he no doubt had a top chef and fillet steak / lobster surf n turf brought to his Winnebago by something like Thunderbird Two after a gruelling few minutes filming :)
 
fisherman said:
Our kids fed a FB pie to our Labrador. Two hours later he threw it up, practically intact, amongst the diners on the terrace at the Ferryboat inn, Helford.
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Obviously your Lab has no taste or discrimnation...Did the Diners rush up with spoons to save it? I do get a nice image of your Lab chucking a round pie up 'intact', bit like chucking a frisbi :o
 
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