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Just watched the TV program on the Boat Show, boring or what? Wye pick that twerp from "Top gear" ? must have been produced by Miranda and Toby.

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just thought it should be renamed the "nigel mansell london international boat show"
is he a shareholder in sunseeker / itv or what!!.
hope i dont get the Mr K.S.
but thats how i see it sod political correctness,

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Couldn't agree more, damn all for the raggies and not a lot better for those stinkies unable to raise £1M.

It used to be said that the average age that ITV aimed at was 13. Either kids aint so smart or they've lowered their sights.

Only bright spot on TV was a brief bit on Beeb 2 about the best distance covered in one day on the Atlantic race, by (I think) Alex Thomson. Enjoyed Pete Goss's comment that "he was going incredibly fast - when he's got a bit more experience he'll probably go a bit slower!"

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Yes can't agree more. That twat from top gear who knows nothing about boats trying to look excited about everything he looked at for all of 5 seconds. the only thing he was really interested in was the V8 engines in those stupid boats tearing round puddles in a muddy field! The article about Nigel Mansel getting his new toy was interesting and a great free advert for Sunseeker but the program was supposed to be about the Boat show not what 99.9% of the population can't afford. And final moan- why do they always have to play some ridiculous music over the top of the commentary every time they show a boat on the water? Didn't the BBC used to do it better?
Is it just me?

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Just watched it as well. I've no idea how I've managed to spend the last 30 years in sail and power craft on less than £1M. What am I doing wrong?

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I thought it underlined one point. Apart from kids in Oppies or Mirrors, boat owners are all worth mega millions. So mooring charges and marina fees can be jacked up accordingly, might as well go for a 10 times increase this year, 50 times next year and so on.

There is clearly no interest these days in 20 or 30 foot sail boats and none it seems at the show.

Seriously did you expect a TV programme to be any different? I don't why I watched it, it was exactly as I expected it to be. I don't believe that's how it should be of course. It would be nice to have a programme that truly reflected the majority interests.

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Absolutely splendid programme

She Who Must be Obeyed was watching it like a hawk for interior layour details; since, thankfully, they hardly showed any, she may be persuaded to carry on putting up with what we have. I have been fending off remarks about galleys and showers for some years now.

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Re: Absolutely splendid programme

Yacht decor:-
Judging by the Swans and Oysters: Cream leather-look settees are in, plenty of wood visible and a TV+DVD in every bedroom.

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I think you'll find he emigrated from the IOM. He certainly bought a house in Jersey (in something of a hurry) a few years back.

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Couldn’t agree more. If it was supposed to be an advert to attract you to the boat show then it failed. I would have liked to have seen more on the boats that Joe public could afford.
Has anyone been to the boat show yet?
Is it as pointless as the this programme made it appear?

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I was really disappointed with the content of this production to the point where I might complain. They had over an hour of airtime to produce a good balanced programme about the boat show and instead they filled the programme up with motor boats and their owners (mansel) and other useless stuff not relevant to the boat show. The bit they could have really done well was spoilt by getting a boring footballer to talk about it in such a vague way that it was almost meaningless.
I think it was a waste of TV space and they should not of even bothered.

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>>> they filled the programme up with motor boats and their owners (mansel) and other useless stuff not relevant to the boat show. The bit they could have really done well was spoilt by getting a boring footballer...

But that's where all TV is heading at the moment. The great viewing public is presumed to have the attention span of a gnat for anything that doesn't involve a "celebrity".
At least Mansell (ex-F1 World Champ) has a real claim to fame. If they'd done the show on the cheap the celebrity would have been "Easy Jet baggage handler Fred" or "that girl who sang YMCA on Pop Idol".

Interestingly one of the team on the Ellen MacArthur Trust stand told me that Ellen reckons that she will have ceased to be famous in two years.


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>>> Has anyone been to the boat show yet? Is it as pointless as the this programme made it appear?

I had a great time, showing a friend new to sailing around. The exhibition centre is excellent. Even on a Sunday it didn't feel crowded. You could get a decent cup of coffee and somewhere to sit. You could even breathe on the Guinness stand. The layout seems far better themed than I remember at Earls Court. Sail and power are really two adjacent boat shows. Without a programme you could find your area of interest. Earls Court always seemed to start like that then a Whitbread Race entry or a square-rigger charity would be crammed behind the canal boats and outboards.

There were a lot more small businesses than I remembered - 1 yacht/ 1 instructor sailing schools for example [my area of interest]. Yacht clubs, class associations and Yottie Totty were given corners of stands by commercial exhibitors. There was a good sprinkling of the dinghies I sailed as a kid (Wayfarer, Gull, Mirror) and affordable starter dinghies - Optimist, Comet, Topper...

The average yacht displayed is getting bigger - 30-something feet is now small; 40-foot is "entry-level"! I refer the honourable gentleman to numerous threads on this subject.

As top Olympic sailing nation 2000, funded by Joe Public's lottery money, and reigning world champions in three Olympic classes I feel there should have been a prominent display of our medal-winning boats with links to the Mirrors and Optimists in which our champs started to sail. Feel the post-Rugby World Cup vibe, guys! Shouting about hard-earned success is not a Thought Crime.

Don't miss the guided tours of Kingfisher (£5 for five minutes, but it's for charity!) and the Prince William.

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Ellen is becomming more famous as she is now being impersonated on the BBc's Dead Ringers and I think you know you have done it when you are featured on a programme like that. My other little hunch is that Ellen will be back in the lime light with the new tri and I hope its for breaking a record but my hunch tells me the new boat will meet an untimely end in the Southern Ocean :(

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Ellen is becoming more famous as she is now being impersonated on the BBc's Dead Ringers and I think you know you have done it when you are featured on a programme like that. My other little hunch is that Ellen will be back in the lime light with the new tri and I hope its for breaking a record but my hunch tells me the new boat will meet an untimely end in the Southern Ocean :(

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I agree with you, as did the volunteer on Ellen's stand. I believe the utterly crazy post-Vendee/ couldn't walk down a street without signing an autograph phase in the UK is over but she'll remain famous.

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