Dear Deirdre

[BlueSkyNick]

Easter is just about here and the boat is ready for the season. Well just about anyway - whenever I say its finished, there is always one more thing to be done.

I have been really macho and rolled around on the cold yard scalpings to antifoul the bottom, and put myself into all sorts of contorted positions to service the engine, among other things.

The vittals are sitting in the kitchen waiting to go for a great weekend sailing and socialising in Weymuff with Scuttlebutt friends. But there is one delicate matter I would like to ask you in strictest confidence. Is it OK to wear lip balm?

I have used it many times in the past, particularly in the Med and Caribbean, because if I forget the resulting blisters make me look like a duck-billed platypus. In the UK the sun isn't quite so strong but my lips still get dry and sore from the wind and salt. I don't want my new friends to think that I am, well ... you know ... a bit soft or that I like looking for golden rivets in the bilges.

Which risk should I take? Suffer the elements or protect my body and hope they don't find out?

Thanks in advance for your kind advice

signed: Tender Lips of Hampshire.

(PS I expect a lot of my friends use lip balm too, but wouldn't admit it)

<hr width=100% size=1>I'm average size, Its just that everybody else is short.

 

[tome]

Nick

You should know by now that anything goes around here, and yes you will get some stick over this especially if the scrutineers discover lip balm on the golden rivet.

Just be careful when eating crisps. Have a great trip!

Tom

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[Talbot]

Go for it, much better than puckering up /forums/images/icons/smile.gif If it is alright for cricket players to wear white lipstick, then a lipbalm should be no problem. Just make sure you have your fingernails buffed up at the same time /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[jimi]

Ya big poof .. real men use deep heat for protection!

<hr width=100% size=1>I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha

 

[FullCircle]

If you find jimis' selection of Deep Heat just a little Marine Commando macho, back off a notch and use grease from the stuffing box or tallow from the rigging.
If you are spotted with any lurid colours or spangly looking 'balm', you will be caught and made to wear yachting apparel suitable for auditioning with the Village People.......

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[Steve Clayton]

Nick,

you've opened yourself up for this one!

Wait til I tell Liz and we see you in Cherbourg!!

Guess this might get pulled but hey; life's too short!

To browse through the latest Virgin Cosmetics catalogue, and to order your
cosmetics direct from my web-site, click on the link below.
http://www.myvirgincosmetics.co.uk/lizzieclayton

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[Twister_Ken]

Non quiche-eating lipbalm

Beef Dripping
Bacon Fat
I Can't Believe It Snot Margarine (hey, if it's good enough for Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris...)
Duckhams 20/50 or Castrol GTX


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[BlueSkyNick]

I've no intention of opening myself up for anyone, thank you !

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[mickshep]

Was going to suggest stern gland grease, but thought better off not going there, (bet we get pulled now)

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[robp]

Just add three black stripes on each cheak and make a handbrake turn into your berth. No one will dare say a word.

Have a good time you lot!

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[powerskipper]

An advantage to being female we get to call it lipstick and have a choise of colourse!!/forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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Julie

 

[jimi]

Would'nt imagine it woould partic bother BickNick unless of course it clashed with his blusher and eye shadow. Last time I saw him he was enhancing his breasts with an injection of sikaflex 292. Hythe is a hotspot of DIY cosmetic surgery you know, TK gave himself a nose job there, Nicho liposuction and Nick2 was administering his own colonic irrigation treatment with a pressure washer last ssaturday. I sort of steer clear of those weirdos myself ...

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[Rowana]

<<I sort of steer clear of those weirdos myself ... >>

Bit difficult in your rudderless circumstances, I would have thought ?? No ??

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