Correct attire for boating on The Thames

[Harry Hogwash]

Correct attire.
Annabels of Mayfair 36 page rule book.
NO ripped clothing.No dirty shoes.No Dungarees.
Makes sense really they ought not to have to say it but some don't get it.
No using mobile after 6pm
Well guess that precludes half teenage population of Abindon then.
My advice.
Gilt embroidered captains peaked hat surmounted by a giltanchor
white blazer,
navy blue boat plimsolls)brand new)
White cotton chinos.
ie no rubbish.
You are then fit to dine on sauted lobster when you pull into Abingdon.
My dear boy we have standards on board here.
Do you want me to summon the twins to eject you forcibly?
No pleasant experience rest assured.
Anyone remember the case in the Daily Telegraph of 'The Spanking Colonel'(early 1970s)
who placed a personal ad for nubile young ladies to crew his cabin cruiser
with one proviso.
You guessed it.
But whisky afterwards on the delicate area.
Was mainstream news in the Telegraph for days.
Cant find a trace now,
Caused a sensation at the time and probably would a bigger one nowadays!
If this gets pulled it just proves my point but very pert!

 

[No Regrets]

I have to ask. What drugs exactly are you taking?

 

[AuntyRinum]

"Cant (sic) find a trace now"? Are you just saying that to add colour to your stream of consciousness ramblings?
There is plenty of information available about the Spanking Colonel, for example:
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/23/...ked-girls-amuses-public-perfectly-normal.html

 

[Harry Hogwash]

Aunty Rinum
You found it!
I am impressed!
You are brilliant I have to hand it to you,I thought that thing had gone the way of the dark ages.
Well bless me, November 23rd 1974 that was it!
So it was in other newspapers as well.
Incredible.
I take off my hat to you!Its nearly been expunged from living memory and Im sure if it was vaguely somewhere in the depths
of my mind it would have been long forgotten.
I never knew the culprit was a Mayor in London but that figures as some rather risqué balls were held for some time
in the vicinity with various Councils blessings.
I first came across the story in my earthly fathers'Daily Telegraph lying on the coffee table.
I was young at the time early teens.
The DT seemed to have a pletherora of stories with a similar theme for its readers around that time.
It caused quite a stir as it was a bizarre story linked to Boats (an Abingdon speciality)
and Corporal Punishment still a regular occurrence at the local Public School.
It struck one as very strange that what was a 'normal'thing should become the subject of titillating fayre
and a major court case in this way and involve a young woman of 19!
Very incongruous.
Of course around that time the image of cabin cruising also bore a certain image of seaside postcards,
Carry on Cruising and bikinied young ladies sunning themselves up on deck so I guess the whole
thing wasn't beyond the feats of imagination