Deliverance

[oldbilbo]

I have been asked to 'supervise' a boat delivery between a little-known South Devon boatyard with river frotage ( no, not that, 'frontage'.... ) and an even lesser-known North Devon watering stop/haven with no water in it except when it rains. This is pencilled-in for sometime in later August, when Simon Keeling's crew predict violent sunsets and a high pollen count for the West Country.

My question, apart from wondering what aberration of the hindbrain got me into this, is whether to recommend avoiding the BluddyBigHill at Kennford by going the long - but scenic - way round via Dawlish.... or risking life and limb and getting uz names in't local 'paper by riding the rails down the BluddyBigHill.... Now there's a brown-trousers moment in the making!!

Then there's Phase Two. I reckon the A396 ( the Valley of the Upper X ) up over Exmoor and then down Dunster Hill should provide a memorable afternoon's outing ( or obit! ) 'cos I've done the M5 a few times and, frankly, it's both boring and hoaching with fuzz. I can take my 5-string banjo, play bits of a few tunes, and duel a bit with the 'very special needs' types which infest ( no, 'invest'... ) those parts.

Oh, BTW, there's absolutely no question of sailing the blurry thing anywhere. Don't even think about it.... And do I take my shiny new RAC Recovery thingy along? That's give those supercilious wonks in the RAC tall tower at Almondsbury a few headaches....

Answers, quick, so I can prime the local journos and TV crews.

Yrs trly

 

[Madhatter]

I have been asked to 'supervise' a boat delivery between a little-known South Devon boatyard with river frotage ( no, not that, 'frontage'.... ) and an even lesser-known North Devon watering stop/haven with no water in it except when it rains. This is pencilled-in for sometime in later August, when Simon Keeling's crew predict violent sunsets and a high pollen count for the West Country.

My question, apart from wondering what aberration of the hindbrain got me into this, is whether to recommend avoiding the BluddyBigHill at Kennford by going the long - but scenic - way round via Dawlish.... or risking life and limb and getting uz names in't local 'paper by riding the rails down the BluddyBigHill.... Now there's a brown-trousers moment in the making!!

Then there's Phase Two. I reckon the A396 ( the Valley of the Upper X ) up over Exmoor and then down Dunster Hill should provide a memorable afternoon's outing ( or obit! ) 'cos I've done the M5 a few times and, frankly, it's both boring and hoaching with fuzz. I can take my 5-string banjo, play bits of a few tunes, and duel a bit with the 'very special needs' types which infest ( no, 'invest'... ) those parts.

Oh, BTW, there's absolutely no question of sailing the blurry thing anywhere. Don't even think about it.... And do I take my shiny new RAC Recovery thingy along? That's give those supercilious wonks in the RAC tall tower at Almondsbury a few headaches....

Answers, quick, so I can prime the local journos and TV crews.

Yrs trly

And don't fergeit yur passyport thingy and yur wellies (for the entertainment stop )

 

[Madhatter]

Anyway do you want to have loads of brown trouser moments doing the Exe valley road ?

 

[Croak]

Make sure your RAC thingy does trailers.

 

[savageseadog]

Ah! Devon! Don't forget your banjo

 

[oldbilbo]

Ah! Devon! Don't forget your banjo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8

 

[Madhatter]

Been having our afternoon nap have we ?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Charter a Chinook?

 

[AMCD300]

You could always sail there...heaven forbid.

 

[sideshowbob]

Excellent plan, see if you can make a little further westing and then come east to Porlock, now that would definitely be brown trouser time but at least you get to go slower than the up country folk and your rig may actually be wider than it appears..............................Banjo definitely!

 

[simon barefoot]

Do Lynton Hill, Countisbury and Porlock and I'll come to watch.
I was born in Lynmouth, maybe I'll do more than watch.....

 

[oldbilbo]

I've now sourced a red flag ( obscure: from one of my flying excursions ) and a whistle.... and so I'll be walking behind when it all goes downhill.

 

[Madhatter]

Humph !!

 

[oldbilbo]

Maybe we need an anchor that sets first time, every time.... in tarmac!!

Anyone done a flying moor on a 1:5....?

 

[Madhatter]

Maybe we need an anchor that sets first time, every time.... in tarmac!!

Anyone done a flying moor on a 1:5....?

We have "spells" don't we ? /***************

 

[oldbilbo]

I know where there's a brand-new virgin Bainbridge 'D' type of 35lb calibre. That should be big enuff for your boat AND trailer. And you'll go right past the door..... almost.

 

[Madhatter]

Well that went well didn't it

 

[oldbilbo]

Well that went well didn't it

Can't complain. Sunshine, seaside, silly buggerations....

Nearly bought a car on t'way home. Came close to an attack of alcoholic remorse. Just be grateful that it wasn't a Big Landy.

 

[Madhatter]

Well Friday is the new game plan, hope lands end is not too busy
( WHAT CARP SMILIES THESE ARE )

 

[oldbilbo]

Deliverance - The End Game

Woo-hoo! As I write/type/peck our dear friend and ever-entertaining Mad Hatter reports close to home with his new/old floaty thing, atop a truck. The payload is 7' wide at the bilge keels. The truckbed is 7' wide give or take a millimetre or two. The boat's AUW... don't ask. Not 'till he's unloaded it.....

Let's all join hands and feet, cross fingers and legs, and offer up supplications that he makes it the final mile.

One saga ends. Another begins....