Coelan... again...

Re: Deviation

Mirelle, Seath Instruments may work wonders with all magnetic deviations, but I can assure you that even if they can cure Crystal's, they cannot resolve the deviations of her master, /<rystal.

This may be the biggest waggle in the wake yet.

Francis Fletcher.

PS Are you on a tea break?
 
Re: Ahem!

I must confess I did something similar when at school, although my teenage flirtation with high explosives was conducted on a disused airfield, and involved the less dangerous but far less stable combination of Potassium Permanganate and high-octane petroleum.

I don't know what aggrevated arson is, it's just a lovely alliteration (as is that)!

You are welcome to tease me unendingly about the tale (which I do not regret recounting, as it never fails to raise a hell of a laugh) if I am allowed to call you by your real full name every now and then.

I have now added the "non-boaty" icon to this thread as we are now a good few miles due South of the original topic!!
 
Sorry, just noticed this...

I should point out I'm working a full week of nights, hence my late posts recently, and my slight lack of conciousness during the day... and hence, I'm a little confused about what you said about the mooring technique...

If you're referring to the comment I made on Scuttlebutt, it was not me or my vessel in the situation described. My mooring technique is fairly sorted now, at least with predictable winds - my point was that even if it takes me two hours to get onto a buoy (and it has before now, with a F7 against the full Thames ebb), I'll just go round and keep trying rather than to leap desperately over the cockpit coaming.

Reading that sentence back, in light of recent revelations, I suspect I'm even less of a threat!!

/<
 
Re: Sorry, just noticed this...

I've also put a "non-boaty" icon on this, as of course I mistakenly spelt "boys" as "buoys".

Francis Fletcher

You'd better tell the story, or live with your new reputation!
 
Re: Ahem!

Be my guest, dear boy. I'm not proud!

/<

PS: How come you're still flagged as a New User with 30-odd posts to your name? You should be a regular by now... unless you've been blackballed... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Right /<rystal, since you won\'t pay me

/<rystal, he of the jutting jaw, broad shoulders, large biceps and crew cut, was in his final year at school. He doesn’t look at all like that, which is actually how the story came about.

The sixth form beauty had decided that her A level Art project should be a nude painting of herself. As she had paid him little or no attention up to that point, /<rystal was deeply flattered, and not a little optimistic, when she asked him if he would take some photographs of her in the nude from which she could make the painting.

/<rystal was keen to know why she was taking an interest in him now, and so asked why she had selected him to take the photos.

“I couldn’t possibly let anyone straight take them” was the reply!

Francis Fletcher

PS Who in their right minds would tell their sailing mates a story like that!
 
Re: Right /<rystal, since you won\'t pay me

Oi!! What's "which is how the story came about" supposed to mean?!

Just because I sometimes choose to sail with my hair tied into a ponytail with a black hair ribbon, there's no need to suggest anything untoward. It's more of a Jack Aubrey thing...

Having said that, certain OGA members have been known to refer to me as a Nancy Boy, but that's an altogether different matter... I think...

/<
 
Re: Right /<rystal, since you won\'t pay me

Glad I hung around all through this intriguing thread to get to the climax of the many twists and turns it has taken /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

John
 
Re: Right /<rystal, since you won\'t pay me

The climax eh Ships cat? So you think its all over?

That makes you an optimist or a pessimist.

We could go for broke and try to get the highest number of viewings by virtue of running the thread on for ever, changing direction from time to time as seems to have happened.

It would be hard to exceed the number of viewings achieved by "Sex" over on Scuttlebutt, but that's hardly surprising.

What is surprising however is how /<rystal revived that particular thread when it was long buried. The only possible explanation was suggested by Colin S - that he had searched on the particular word. You can just imagine the scene - he's lonely, he's had enough of reading about varnish and the like on this forum, it's gone midnight (per the posting time), he's got his hair tied in a pony tail with a black ribbon, in what he fondly imagines is the style of Jack Aubrey .... need I go on?

Well, he did say I was welcome to tease him unendingly, but I think he meant in the pubs of Woodbridge, where I could also buy hime a beer by way of apology.

Really I'm just jealous of his boat.
 
Re: Right /<rystal, since you won\'t pay me

I happily amend my comment to read ...to get to the climax of the many twists and turns it has taken <font color="red">so far</font>.

- and will anxiously watch this space for more exciting adventures following on from standing in the chains swinging the lead, nude photographs, etc.

John
 
To tell you the truth...

...I came across (not literally) the "Sex" thread by clicking on the "Who's Online" link... unsurprisingly, there were a fair few reading it in 'Flat mode'... which seems to me to be a contradiction in terms...
 
Re: More Deviation

Yes, of course.

And I'm sure you read Playboy for the boat articles.

Speaking of which, with all the fantastic pictures of classic boats that have appeared in CB over the years, its interesting that they choose to advertise subscriptions using a picture of the back view of a young lady in tight yellow trousers and a bikinky top. She is standing on a bowsprit, but I saw the picture many times before I noticed that.
 
Re: More Deviation

I reckon the USofA should award H. Hefner the Congressional Medal of Whatever for singlehandingly defeating Communism.

Just think about it - every single Communist or Third World diplomat or business representative despatched abroad, from 1955 to now, must have bought at least one copy. In between ogling improbably endowed blonde ladies, they certainly read the adverts, for goods not made in their nations or available to their citizens, and then they probably read the articles...
 
The last word

Mirelle

I don't think there's any intelligent comment to be made regarding your latest post - I've been trying to think of something for two days now, and have given up. (It's possible that's a reflection on me rather than your post.)

As everyone else has gone quiet too, it is with some sadness that I therefore conclude you had the honour of (probably) drawing this thread to a close, (apart from this transparent attempt to have the last word).
 
Re: The last word

Hee hee!

Reverting to an early topic in this thread, I am pleased to report that in addition to the OGA "Gaffers Log", today's post included my SUBSCRIPTION COPY of April's Classic Boat. Thank you dogs.

Presumably /<rystal, your quest is just beginning, and you will, in a week or so when copies are available to non-subscribers, commence scouring the newstands of the capital.

Went to a very interesting talk at Woodbridge Cruising Club on Saturday night on sailing to St Petersburg. Lovely photos of St Petersburg itself, but no suggestion as to how we can get there in our fortnight's summer holiday, except to use Ryanair.

It was totally non-classic boaty - the craft in question was a Hunter Pilot 27, which I believe offers both indoor and outdoor sailing. Then again, so does East Coast OGA President Brian Hammett's (Francis Jones designed) "Avola" - in fact you have to steer Avola from indoors as there is no outside helm position at all. Been to a talk by him on a closely related subject, when he led the CA's Millennium Cruise to St Petersburg, researching the book "Racundra's Third Cruise" en route, which he edited. He inscribed my copy "First Copy of First Edition", so when I'm long gone it may be worth a few bob.

I'm always telling stories against /<rystal - well, the one story, but I'm always telling it. Perhaps I should tell one against myself. After a pleasant lunch in the Anchor at Woodbridge (pint of Greene King IPA and a sausage & onion baguette - delicious) with said Brian Hammett, we wandered across the road into ECSCD, a well stocked sailing bookshop. Racundra's third cruise featured prominently in the window, so I took great pleasure in introducing Brian as its author. "How do you do Mr Ransome" was the response!

Last year I went to a talk by Griff Rhys Jones on his trip to the Baltic, "with Bob", in the lovely Phillip Rhodes designed "Undina". The talk was at the Royal Hospital School overlooking the Stour - haven't laughed so much in a single evening whilst sober ever. I voted for "Undina" in CB's top 200, and more recently wrote a letter suggesting the book should be included in CB's Classic Bookshelf, along with one or two of my other favourites. That's not quite true - I sent Contributing Editor an email at home with no intention of being published, but he's fairly unscrupulous in his material gathering! Anything you say may be taken down and used in evidence .......

Also in the magazine (for /<rystal's benefit) are corrections for the couple of errors in the photos of top 200. Unfortunately they showed the wrong Windsong - the right one (Maurice Griffiths first design) is a very attractive and beautifully maintained boat which has a mooring at Methersgate on the other side of the channel from Mirelle. There really are a lot of lovely boats on the Deben. The Windsong they showed in error is the only surviving Hillyard that was at Dunkirk. Obviously other Hillyards have been to Dunkirk before and since and survived, but I'm talking about the famous evacuation in this instance. Details are on the ADLS site, which is always nice to look through. She was owned by the former owner of Francis Fletcher, a founder of the Hillyard Owners Association, and was built in 1931, the same year that Hillyards also built the Nancy Blackett.

Am still down as a "New User" in these forums, as discussed in a current thread over on ITV (Scuttlebutt). Is it a punishment for never sticking to the subject in hand?

The film "Sailor of the King" is now showing on Channel 4, so I'd better log off and concentrate on my work!? The joys of self-employment.
 
Re: The last word

Said Contrib Ed is indeed fairly unscrupulous (among other things) about where he sources material from, and has been known to scour the Forum for material to pop into Boatmans Notes - and that includes parts of THIS THREAD. (Relax, Kristal. Not those parts.) He has had some success in turning compulsive posters into honest (and PAID) contributors. If you, dear reader, would like to follow suit and have a supply of useful hints, tips and the like, drop him a PM
 
Re: The last word

Contributing Ed.

Perhaps unscrupulous is the wrong word - professional and energetic in trawling all sources for good material perhaps?

A very good point though - I'm a still only a "new user" but I even I can see there's a lot of knowledge floating around in the forum, (unlike over on "ITV", where only a proportion is wisdom). Nice to get it to a wider audience than just us sad people who lead a virtual life in front of a PC.

A very enjoyable issue of CB I thought, though I've obviously been working hard all day, so haven't digested it fully.

Lots of nice sailing boats, particularly Tom Tit - nice to see Jean-Louis Grenier's Drascombe in the Balearics (big soft spot for Drascombes) - nice too to see a lovely motor boat once owned by one of clients ("Rummy III"). He moved on to Sunseekers, also in the Balearics (no comments please, he's a current client, and a nice bloke). Potential mega embaressment for me though at the last Earls Court boat show, when we wheeled up to the rear VIP entrance which I had been hitherto unaware of. A valet parked the Merc S class (his, not mine!) whilst we walked straight in through an entrance directly on to the Sunseeker stand. Thanks heavens no one I know saw me. I did get some odd looks from the salemen though when I returned at the end of the day weighed down with lots of classic boat items, including lots of nice brown rope from the nice people at English Braids.
 
Re: Cabin Floor Varnish

Try ordinary varnish. Put on a thin last coat. Let it tack a little then sprinkle coarse sugar over it. Let it dry then wash off with warm water. Don't do it with a thick layer of runny varnish cos the sugar will dissolve and it will never go off -been there!

Do a test piece and see what you think.
 
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