jamesjermain
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How did the West Country meet go? I was thinking about you as I slaved over a hot laptop (or was it slavered over a hot lapdancer)
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Cargreen meet.
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david
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Everyone but myself and swmbo had cried off James, I'm glad I still went though, I found the Crooked Spaniard excellent, swmbo had a crab meal and I had a tuna mayo sandwich which was about double the size I expected, needless to say we will be going again during xmas week and I intend to visit on my boat during the summer. How well is the channel bouyed as you near the visitors moorings?
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StugeronSteve
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Always wondered why you seem to grab the nearest seat to the mast support pole in all the boat test pics!
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yoda
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The channel is reasonably marked but a good chart and some care is required. Go up on a rising tide the first time. Once you know it you hardly need a chart.
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jamesjermain
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The channel is reasonably straightforward. The least depth we have found is 6ft at low water springs, but it does go lower.
From Saltash follow the line of the barges to port and green light floats to starboard.
At the end of the barge trots are two small, unlit green bouys. leave these about 20m to starboard. Immediately after the second head directly for the headland on the west side of the river (just west of North(M) from memory). This is where the shallowest water is but the bottom is reasonably flat and soft (mud and shells). Hug the red-topped pile just off the point then run up river inside the eastern-most line of buoys until you are at around mooring buoy number 43 when you can cut in towards the Crooked Spanniard moorings. There is water at all states of the tide on the buoys.
Glad you had a good time and enjoyed the CS
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From Saltash follow the line of the barges to port and green light floats to starboard.
At the end of the barge trots are two small, unlit green bouys. leave these about 20m to starboard. Immediately after the second head directly for the headland on the west side of the river (just west of North(M) from memory). This is where the shallowest water is but the bottom is reasonably flat and soft (mud and shells). Hug the red-topped pile just off the point then run up river inside the eastern-most line of buoys until you are at around mooring buoy number 43 when you can cut in towards the Crooked Spanniard moorings. There is water at all states of the tide on the buoys.
Glad you had a good time and enjoyed the CS
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jamesjermain
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Am I missing a subtle jest here or is this a simple request for inforfmation?
I sit on the far side of the table because 1) I am further away from the camera and obscure lest of the boat 2) I don't look so large, 3) The picture is easier to focus with a smaller depth of field if I sit there.
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I sit on the far side of the table because 1) I am further away from the camera and obscure lest of the boat 2) I don't look so large, 3) The picture is easier to focus with a smaller depth of field if I sit there.
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jimi
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I think what the rude one aka SturgeonFace was implying was that an aged one such as yourself needed some sort of polished metal pole support for your aged frame .. give him a good slapping JJ!
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To see oursels as ithers see us!
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To see oursels as ithers see us!
Sybarite
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I just had a connected thought.
Why is it, when you watch a football match on the telly, that the cameras
as are always at this side of the pitch?
John
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Why is it, when you watch a football match on the telly, that the cameras
as are always at this side of the pitch?
John
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AndrewB
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I visited the Crooked Spaniard last month for the first time in many years. I'm not sure if my memory is failing, but it seemed much larger - a bit of a drafty barn in fact - compared with the snug I remembered from around 1960 when I lived across the Tamar. On one occasion I illicitly rowed over, much further than it looked with the growing ebb. By the time I arrived, exhausted and soaking wet, the tide was down and I got coated in mud struggling ashore. The landlady (I think) cleaned me up a bit and called my parents ... it was a major grounding.
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ParaHandy
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look youse parrot dropping sparrow-fart, youse hiv nae need o' being sae rude tae ma pal JJ - espeshially as he's jist aboot tae get tae ra letter T wi ra boats he's scribbling aboot ... he's done yon plastic buckets, noo's ra time fer us yins ...
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StugeronSteve
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Sorry just thought that the attraction to bright shiny poles might have something to do with the hot lap dancer fixation.
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StugeronSteve
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Look here you parrot dropping sparrow fart etc, etc, I've never been rude to anyone ever see. After all it's not as if I've ever extracted the fluids about your extra sensory skippering abilities is it? Just cause you've bent yer stanchion there's no need to take it out on me.
Anyway I'd rather have a face that cures nausea than.....
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Anyway I'd rather have a face that cures nausea than.....
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jamesjermain
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Ah! What an innocent I am! nm
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