boats on TV

[tcm]

To most non boatys, boats are about as interesting and irrelevant as an old chest of drawers. So...

This week, the Boaty Roadshow comes to the south coast. Now, this is a very interesting boat is it yours? ooh yes we love and clean it and have very happy trips all over. How excellent and can i shyly ask how much you paid for it? um, well, erm £40 grand.

FORTY GRAND? But there is evidence of damage here and here and here and the rigging is knackered so it might fethch £18k at auction. Next!

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[wakeup]

Squaddie in the atic

I found this dusty old Squadron 58 in my grandad's atic, can you tell me what it was used for???

<hr width=100% size=1>.....can't be arsed.....

 

[Guest]

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: ah yes

an old squadron?
well they were used by men as penis extensions many moons ago
they are practically worthless now
in fact i will take off your hands for fifty grand and i'll be doin meself

<hr width=100% size=1><font color=red>if guinness is good for you. i must be very very good</font color=red>

 

[zefender]

Alternatively..... well look at that, don't see many of these old crocks anymore. There was a small clique of people who insisted on making, buying and maintaining these mid-20th century designs right into the beginning of the new century or so. It was difficult for most observers of the time to see why, but we believe it was all part of the masochism movement - that desire to be deeply uncomfortable, to sail through the seas at a snail's pace, wet through and to rest at night in an austere dark cave. But they were resourceful people - they had to be.

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[jimi]

"Well well well ... what have we here. An example of a large pond yacht ...beautiful but impractical, very few of them survived ...The name ah yes a Twinset no no a Twissle ... no no TwinTub ..no ah yes I've got it now ... its a Twister! In fact rumour has it that a particularly robust example made it as far as Bembridge from the mainland one fine day, but generally the were more appropriate to larger ponds like the serpentine or occasionally even larger like St MAry's .. or in especially clement cont conditions the very large pond of Frensham.

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[Twister_Ken]

That's right, Twisters, suitable for crossing very large ponds.

<hr width=100% size=1><A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.writeforweb.com/twister1>Let's Twist Again</A>

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re: i have a

hawaiian shirt and a pair of white slip on shoes just like those worn by Ken Masters on Howard's Way
are they worth 'owt????

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[zefender]

Re: i have a

Only worth something if you have a Barracuda to match - need the full set really I'm afraid. Spring 25 might be OK though. Maybe memory a bit off on this one.

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[longjohnsadler]

Re: i have a

Well, excuse me but our Ken was exclusively a mobo man hence the gear, always the same 2 sheets of paper on his desk, permanently out to lunch except when trying to get his short-skirted secretary to file things very high up or very low down. (No, not the same Ken).
Whereas the Barracuda was a rather fine large purpose-built Sadler (sorry Mr. Howard), albeit with a rather unwileldy lifting keel that...
Anyway I never watched it. Well the wife used to watch it some times. Dammit how do you erase these posts?

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