Anyone see my boat today

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Hi All

Just wondered if anyone saw my boat today on her travels from the Thames down to Weymouth she is a Sealine S42 she went M4 to A34 then M3 M27 through Ringwood etc etc into Weymouth she left at 10.30 am and arrived at 2.30pm

Cheers Shawn
 
lanerboy said:
Hi All

Just wondered if anyone saw my boat today on her travels from the Thames down to Weymouth she is a Sealine S42 she went M4 to A34 then M3 M27 through Ringwood etc etc into Weymouth she left at 10.30 am and arrived at 2.30pm

Cheers Shawn
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Not unless it was on the Jubilee Line today Shawn, sorry :D

Hope it all went well for you. I can still recall the trepidation we had when Rafiki left the RK Boat Yard, then crabbed down the A27 as the trailer steering had locked, then the clearance to the railway bridge!
 
Rumours had it if a large diesel spill in Portland marina this morning , suspected tank split from road transport misshap , apparently the driver swerved to miss a pigeon hitting his windscreen somewhere in the new forest .
 
A number of years ago, I saw a friends 40' Sealine on a low-loader travelling up the M40. It was for sale with a broker. I phoned my mate and congratulated him on the sale......he knew nothing about it! Alarm bells rang and he contacted the broker, who confirmed it had been sold, and the cheque would be in the post soon. He jumped in his car, shot off to the broker, and demanded immediate electronic transfer of the balance. It appears the broker was hoping to keep the money in his account for a few days - as it happened, they went bust very soon after.
 
nicho said:
A number of years ago, I saw a friends 40' Sealine on a low-loader travelling up the M40. It was for sale with a broker. I phoned my mate and congratulated him on the sale......he knew nothing about it! Alarm bells rang and he contacted the broker, who confirmed it had been sold, and the cheque would be in the post soon. He jumped in his car, shot off to the broker, and demanded immediate electronic transfer of the balance. It appears the broker was hoping to keep the money in his account for a few days - as it happened, they went bust very soon after.
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Brilliant!
 
Montemar said:
Brilliant!
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Scary though! Another few days of ignorance and I guess he would have lost a tidy six figure sum. The same broker sold our S37 around the same time, though a few weeks earlier. I went in to collect the cheque and paid it into the bank. The bank called to say "there's a problem with the cheque" Blood ran cold - seems they had put next years date on the cheque! They promised to "pop another cheque in the post". No way Jose, says I, I'm in the bank now, and I'm staying here until money electronically transferred - four hours later funds were cleared! B'stards went bust as mentioned above shortly afterwards.
 
nicho said:
A number of years ago, I saw a friends 40' Sealine on a low-loader travelling up the M40. It was for sale with a broker. I phoned my mate and congratulated him on the sale......he knew nothing about it! Alarm bells rang and he contacted the broker, who confirmed it had been sold, and the cheque would be in the post soon. He jumped in his car, shot off to the broker, and demanded immediate electronic transfer of the balance. It appears the broker was hoping to keep the money in his account for a few days - as it happened, they went bust very soon after.
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All water under the bridge now but - if your friend was not aware that his boat had been sold I wonder whether title had passed to the purchaser in which case the purchaser would have lost his money and your friend would still have owned his boat.

Anyway glad it all worked out OK for him.
 
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