Can't find CB anywhere...

[Kristal]

Can\'t find CB anywhere...

I've already moaned in another thread, but - what on earth is going on? I can't find a copy of CB anywhere at all, short of driving almost 100 miles to Woodbridge and visiting Classic Marine.

It must be in the shops by now - I'd be tempted to take out a subscription, except that I always hear of people seeing copies in the shops a while before their copy drops onto the mat. The one month I really want to get hold of one, I just can't.

Has anyone else found this, or is it only my part of the world?

/<

 

[Mirelle]

ni moi non plus

Have been told, by subscriber, that one's apple is in the list, but I cannot find a copy in Woodbridge either!

 

[Skipjack]

Re: ni moi non plus

Mirelle, I doth my cap to the twelve places you improved on my own.

I reckon to hear the subscription hit the doormat a full week before I see the shop-bought equivalent, Kristal, so I'd go for the postal version, mate.

 

[FWB]

Re: ni moi non plus

I think the reason you cant buy it is because it's not out yet !!

On bookstands from 20th.

Good reason to subscibe---always comes early.

 

[Peterduck]

Re: Can\'t find CB anywhere...

I don't know what you guys are grumbling about; I'm waiting for my newsagent to ring me to tell me that the December issue has just arrived. An overseas subscription is strictly for the seriously wealthy.
Peter.

 

[ianwright]

Re: ni moi non plus

You own, it seems, the 130th best boat,,,,,,,,, oddly enough Patience doesn't make the list. I shall ride on the back of Vertue XXXV, which does. (sniff)

IanW /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Kristal]

Cruised Along To The CA

Yes, I finally confronted Mrs Smith (WH was out playing golf with someone called Auden) and she told me that it's out today, the 20th.

However, there was one option that only came to me as I was popping into the CA for a pint - the CA library always has all the boating mags. And I discovered three of my favourites: Mirelle and Crystal both hanging around just above 100 (130 and 109 respectively) and Nancy Blackett predictably coming in at somewhere around 70.

Now I just need to buy my own copy...

/<

PS: Andrew, tis a lovely picture of Mirelle they've got...

 

[Mirelle]

5% of the list are based on the river Deben!

Got my copy!

Amazing that one little estuary with a bar at the mouth should be home to 5% of the 200 boats featured (none of the large ones would get into the river, anyway!)

 

[Mirelle]

You are at the helm in the photo!

Sorry Patience got left out. her owner may have been too honest to go in for "canvassing"!

Alex's Firefly gets in at no 77!

 

[ianwright]

Well, blow me down!!

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Sorry Patience got left out. her owner may have been too honest to go in for "canvassing"!

Alex's Firefly gets in at no 77!

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You think people did acually canvas? That explains Vashti,,,,,,,,

IanW /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Mirelle]

Re: Well, blow me down!!

Mirelle would like it to be known that she is secretly pleased that she beat "Tar Baby". She is surprised she was beaten by "White Moth", which when owned by her keeper's sister was referred to as "a Twister put through a mangle". /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Mirelle]

But...

197 "Wind Song" - photo is of wrong boat

188 "Good Intent" was sold by Pat Conly to Frank Knights for a fiver on condition he rebuilt her; Frank did so and sold her to Don Windley; she is now in the expert hands of Hys Olink. Incidentally, now Pat is no longer with us it can be revealed that she was the original of the "blue pilot cutter" in John Lewis's "A Taste for Sailing"

176 "Snippet" - the comment is rather unfair to the previous owner, she was not "languishing in Walton Backwaters".

 

[Kristal]

Re: Well, blow me down!!

Crystal has been significantly less magnanimous, making it quite clear than she does NOT approve of being beaten by Zoe of the Norfolk Broads Yacht Company. Zoe being my first wooden-boat-love, it's hardly surprising, but I don't think there was any need for such vehemence...

She's also giving me the distinct impression she might have an issue with Miss Blackett at their next meeting...

/<

 

[ianwright]

Re: Well, blow me down!!

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she might have an issue with Miss Blackett at their next meeting...

/<

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Patience (who does not go in for cheap tabloid publicity) wishes it to be known that history proves One Eyed Nancy is no competition for a Gaff Rigged Vertue.

IanW

 

[Kristal]

And...

Zoe, at 75, has been misrepresented in the photograph, which in fact depicts "America", one of Zoe's sisters at the Norfolk Broads Yacht Company in Horning.

Zoe is in fact significantly prettier than America, a good few metres shorter, and much much older. If she were the size of America, I might not have lost so many arguments with motor cruisers over the years.

/<

 

[Kristal]

A few more thoughts...

I think Patience should also get a mention for being one of the only truly funny puns in the history of boat names...

How does Mirelle know Tar Baby, I should like to ask her owner, and also ask of Ian where comest the name "One Eyed Nancy".

/<

 

[ianwright]

Re: A few more thoughts...

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where comest the name "One Eyed Nancy".

/<

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Next time you see her check out the starboard bow and then the port. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

IanW

 

[Kristal]

Re: A few more thoughts...

Aha! Of course... the boglight... I shall remember that! Ta very much.

/<

 

[grumpydog]

Re: Can\'t find CB anywhere

Subscribers get the mag before it comes out in the shop - they also get it 20% cheaper. An overseas subscription (not Europe or US) is £82.50 a year at the moment. So not necessarily for the super rich, but admittedly a little more - the added cost is, of course, associated with the mailing of the mag and is outside our control. Hope this clears things up!