Crap cars NB sort of

Similarity between old cars and manky old boats

Slow
Rusty/osmotic
Heavy
Both driven by Richard Wilson/George (of George & Mildred) types


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It seems folks are too polite...

....to name the obvious equivalents, some from the same design era too.

No I won't be drawn. I have been biting my tongue raw all day over those confounded PWC thing as it is.

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You missed Hindustan Ambassador (20th Century Austin Cambridge).

They used to change the seats at the docks (originals were horse hair) and change the water in the engine (God knows why - typhoid or something).

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Now lookie here, there's no need to get personal but as you've started. I'd rather be heavy, slow, osmotic and Richard Wilson than pooped, stopped in a moderate f8 chop, styleless and Mr Bean.

And I drive a Skoda and am proud of it.

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Nicholson 26
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Listen ye smellie auld bugger .. I'll be in harbour long before the F8 gets there while your still swilling about boasting how classically yer MAB wave pierces at an amazingly gracefull 4 knots of forward motion and 6 knots of leeway!

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What harbour? Oh, I forgot you're not allowed out after dark into the proper seas are you? One day your daddy will buy you a proper boat.

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Listen us lot .. the fasties make passage plans that can be enumerated on the average frigging annual calendar .. not a 10 yr planner ..

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Since when have MABs with 'competitive' names 'pierced waves'? Belted the b@st@rds with an uppercut maybe, pierced implies some kind of upwind design feature!

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As I said, no ambition. When you're skying around trying to take your flying yoghourt pots across the average ditch in a gale force 2, we're quietly going about our world girdling business in style.

Now look Robin, I had some respect for you but you are trying my patience when side with a self confessed Fray Bentos eater.

And look at my overhangs, of course they split waves. Rather that than as your chiselly fronted, flat bottoms slamming into a ripple.

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Aherm .. I have a recent recollection of a MAB owner being too scared to go to Gherbourg in a brisk F5 in case the B&Q cabinets fell off the walls!

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Wonder who said this


"Rival Sprirt may yet be a late entry, we however are keeping our powder dry until the forecast is a bit clearer. Unlike some others the idea of an 11 hour beat in either direction no longer holds any joys. The old girl is a bit of a handful in any more than F4 and I'm a bit worried about the internal carpentry."


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