Kelpie
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Just to go a little further OT, what's the pulling power of one of them there Fergies?
Downsizing Crabber to a Shrimper!
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Seajet
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Sophie 19,
did they award you the Shrimper on buying the sweater, pipe and bar stool ?
If going for a tractor here's a suggestion, a crew member was National Champion for a few years...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=akaanteVCs4
did they award you the Shrimper on buying the sweater, pipe and bar stool ?
If going for a tractor here's a suggestion, a crew member was National Champion for a few years...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=akaanteVCs4
ianc1200
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I'm just about to do the most awful crime of selling my Anderson 22 to buy a Mk1 Crabber! Off to Holland on Friday to look at five - although they do seem even more expensive over there, typically 22000 to 24500 euros.
Seajet
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I was going to say " don't come back " but that's unlikely anyway in a Shrimper - Darwin has ways of sorting out Phillistines !!!
Have fun,
Andy
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ianc1200
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Andy, haven't got round to seriously thinking about selling Sea Moon yet, but will let you/the association know when I do.
NUTMEG
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If that's not a wind up...
I paid £10000 for mine, new(ish) sails and new(ish) 1GM10. No rot in deck but a bit on companion roof. They seem to love them across the water. Riddle Of The Sands syndrome I reckon!
MF135, brilliant tractor, did my apprenticeship working on those. 3 pot Perkins run like a sewing machine.
I paid £10000 for mine, new(ish) sails and new(ish) 1GM10. No rot in deck but a bit on companion roof. They seem to love them across the water. Riddle Of The Sands syndrome I reckon!
MF135, brilliant tractor, did my apprenticeship working on those. 3 pot Perkins run like a sewing machine.
Zagato
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MkI, II Crabbers are gorgeous boats, quite imposing
I took my tractor test in a MF & John Deere but apart from yard scraping in that same model we used David Browns. Great fun ploughing fields when you are 14, muck spreading was always fun. We used to throw any dead piglets in the back....they would come out with a hell of a thud...
I took my tractor test in a MF & John Deere but apart from yard scraping in that same model we used David Browns. Great fun ploughing fields when you are 14, muck spreading was always fun. We used to throw any dead piglets in the back....they would come out with a hell of a thud...
Zagato
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Ian, the Crabber Club is very useful for info/advice - they have just put up a manual for one in the library section. They might even know of one for sale - good luck with your hunt.
You can throw away the flares, tank-top and 3 hanging ducks now and grab an aran sweater and pipe
Zagato
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when to do, i can recommend one of these. I bought this on ebay and lernt to drive it in the ferry car park.
Great fun! :d Looks a nice one, there is one that bombs around Reigate town centre delivering or removing manure. I'd love to do the school run in one!
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prv
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So what goes on in the centre of Reigate that either requires, or produces, tractor-loads of manure?
Pete
BlackJack'sGaff
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Sophie,
it's the time machine to become instantly 1000 years old coupled with the arun sweater, pipe and account at a shoreside pub while filling in as an extra on films that makes owning a Shrimper expensive; as for the cost of sails, no-one has found out yet !
Eh?
£913.34p for a set of Shrimper sails.
Zagato
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Should of said bombs THROUGH Reigate... The old boy delivers it to the allotments etc
Zagato
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The SAAB may now not be coming up for sale so I may have the opportunity to keep my Crabber, have to say I have been really looking forward to sailing her next year and spending some 'me' time on the mooring.
It's usually the same with these rare classic cars, when the owner thinks about selling, they realise after all the interest that is shown and friends trying to talk them out of it they are making a mistake selling - same with a Crabber then -
It's usually the same with these rare classic cars, when the owner thinks about selling, they realise after all the interest that is shown and friends trying to talk them out of it they are making a mistake selling - same with a Crabber then -
Seajet
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Zagato,
do keep your Crabber at least enough to get to know her...
I'd think a lot of the fun with 'classic' cars is the renovation; the TV shows ' Chasing Classic Cars ' and ' Victory By Design ' make me drool, and I'm no petrol head !
However an Amphicar or in my experience 1965 Mini should soon sort any masochistic tendencies, meanwhile the boat has the ' 7 days a week ' row away factor.
do keep your Crabber at least enough to get to know her...
I'd think a lot of the fun with 'classic' cars is the renovation; the TV shows ' Chasing Classic Cars ' and ' Victory By Design ' make me drool, and I'm no petrol head !
However an Amphicar or in my experience 1965 Mini should soon sort any masochistic tendencies, meanwhile the boat has the ' 7 days a week ' row away factor.
Zagato
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I'd washed my hands of endless rusting metal, the chores of getting them through MOT's and the worry/work of keeping them nice BUT SAAB 96's are in my blood as Andersons are for you. Probably as our fathers had them and we grew up with them. My ole man always apologises for this, he says it's his fault, especially when I as a teenager, no bird would come anywhere near me in a quirky SAAB, they always preferred the spacious back seat of an Escort or Capri - good job my wife saw past the ugly little cars and appreciated the cosiness of a heated front seat as standard on my 1972 model, she never did like the back seat! 
Seajet
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I'd washed my hands of endless rusting metal, the chores of getting them through MOT's and the worry/work of keeping them nice BUT SAAB 96's are in my blood as Andersons are for you. Probably as our fathers had them and we grew up with them. My ole man always apologises for this, he says it's his fault, especially when I as a teenager, no bird would come anywhere near me in a quirky SAAB they always preferred the spacious back seat of an Escort or Capri - good job my wife saw past the ugly little cars and appreciated the cosiness of a heated front seat as standard on my 1972 model, she never did like the back seat!
My ex RAF boss Jim Moore had a 2 stroke SAAB, I think on Cyprus - mentioned something about a foot - button brake ?
Your Crabber is a peach of a boat for FUN in Solent / Channel sailing and I know she fulfilled a lifetime dream not long ago; Top Tip, boats reward faithfulness much better than any women I've met !!!
Zagato
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Can't think what that would be
Unless he meant the freewheel which is dis-engaged by a lever you can push with your foot to give normal engine breaking. The old motors used to have foot push button dip/main headlight switches e.g. Land Rovers. They were the first manufacturer to use dual circuit breaking, they still stopped like an oil tanker though
Seajet
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I'll phone Jim and ask him to refresh my rapidly dimming memory !
