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Like many, our Club has a programme of mid-week talks during the winter as a way of keeping people involved and topping up the bar takings. These are on a varied range of subjects, not all to everybody's tastes.

Fairy Tales of the New Forest was popular with some not others, last week was a lady who went to Patagonia with John Blashford Snell in search of the wreck of HMS Wager.

Tomorrow night, some old codger from a neighbouring club is coming to talk about taking his Rival38 up to Norway and back. He will probably spend more time talking about fish.

I can't decide if it will be worth attending or not.

(Actually, as he will have his adorable SWMBO with him, I will make the effort to go)
 
Went to a Clyde Cruising Club winter lecture last week given by David Spy - and excellent it proved too.

Its a good way of having a chat with fellow members over (in our case) a coffee and biscuit. No licence....

Next lecture on 19th March details CCC What's New

Donald
 
would jist love to be there but grandparent duties etc but I jist know that the highlight of the evening will be bubbles (Mrs E) describing the exciting and hitherto unknown technique by the skipper of coming alongside norwegian harbours called "ferry mooring". restrain the auld trout whilst bubbles describes how she holds on to 10 tonnes of boat being whacked into the pier and of the foredeck crew dumped unceremoniously onto the deck as the auld tub comes to a sudden stop. the medical diagnosis of this erratic behaviour by the skipper are believed to be from continuous consumption of cod ... !!!

ooohh .. and you could ask "who caught the biggest cod?" ...
 
Best Winter Talk of the Year

Look here, you mutinous scum, I turn my back to do some work, unlike others I could mention and you start all this malicious gossip.

For those that don't understand all the crap above, they are alluding to the fact that I'll be giving a talk to the LTSC (Lymington Town Sailing Club aka Lifes Too Short to Cruise) regarding tales of derring do in the Arctic aka our 2 years bumbling about in Norway. If you are in around Lym tomorrow night the talk starts at 19:45 and will contain photos of our latest GrandPa and his missus, not to mention the odd fish or two.........

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Re: Best Winter Talk of the Year

All this talk of the LTSC winter talks! I can feel more reminiscing coming on! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I remember.... must have been the 1970's or early 80's very latest sitting through a few of those at LTSC, but the most memorable must have been the ones (every year) by an old chap who must be long gone by now to that great cruising paradise in the sky.... I can't remember his name, but his boat is unforgettable! The boat was a pale blue monster called 'Orca' and looked like a long dead whale which had filled with gasses and now floated high above the surface of the briney! All of his slide consisted of, "now this one is of me on the foredeck off the coast of Madagascar... no, no, it's got to be Cherbourg.... no, no, it could be the Isle of Wight!".... "well, anyway.... this one is of me stood near the mast off the coast of ...... etc etc etc..."
Cosidering the old chap nearly always sailed alone and all his pictures looked almost identical, always with very similar indistinct distant blobs of land in the distance, we never could figure out how he ever go pictures, though if I remember right, he had an old dog on board with him which could have been smarter than we thought!
We only ever went for the immense entertainment value we got out of 'helping' him with inane suggestions of where it could be! He was always so serious about it all, but what a hoot!
Do any of the old LTSC lags remember the name of the lovely old salt or remember his blue monster, Orca?
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Re: Best Winter Talk of the Year

Before any of the scurvy scum above reply, it wasn't me! Although spookily enough I used to own a boat called Little Orca which was coloured blue.....
 
Well, it must have gone down well 'cos they gave me 4 glasses of wine or that could have been to make me fall asleep and stop talking....

Seriously, thanks to those that came along, the event raised £120 for Botton Village (see my tag line below for details).

Chris
 
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