EA vs CaRT.

No Regrets said:
So do you:

1/Object to people using twin engined boats, that can travel the entire length of the Thames, regardless of tides, because the sole reason I bought our latest boat was to travel beyond Teddington without having the dogs on board for 12 hours at a time?

2/ Have an issue with well kept vessels? Perhaps you need to have a chat with all those nasty people in their shiny Wooden boats, immaculate Barges and beautifully polished Narrow boats while you're at it!?

3/ Reject the approved UK ensign? Should we all fly Skull and Crossbones, or perhaps you're a 'george cross' kinda guy?

4/ Think people without much hair should suffer sunburn, because you don't like hats?

Do you see how ridiculous you appear to be making such astonishingly churlish statements?

You in fact, appear to be 'acting superior to others' by your judgemental attitude. I see why you like crusty so much.... :ambivalence:
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I answered your question.

When I regularly used the Thames-up to the mid '80's-we had a modest 18 foot plywood 2 berth cabin cruiser. We had a fabulous time weekending in her and visiting nice places.

As a child I spent a lot of time around fishing boats and South Coast harbours and got to mess around in boats a fair bit. Got my own-well, shared with a similarly minded neighbour-in 1972. After that apprenticeship dealing with fast running tides, recalcitrant old outboards and heavy clinker oar powered crab boats the Thames was to be honest, a bit of a doddle.

To see guys with boats far more suitable for the wide open spaces of the ocean, wearing blazers, yachting caps with scrambled egg all over them and flying blue ensigns when the nearest they got to the ocean was Walton on Thames or Hampton did make me chuckle. We managed with our little boat, just one step up from camping on water without all the hoop de do of some others.

If your boat suits your requirements, fine-enjoy.

If you need to fly an ensign on enclosed inland waterways, fine-enjoy.

If you need to wear yachting caps with scrambled egg and a smart blazer, thats fine too.

But dont be surprised when others look at you with a smile-and perhaps use the term Weekend Admiral................................

By the way, I suspect my vessel is as well kept as any on the Thames, and is as well equiped. Last year First Mate and I did more than 1700NM visiting Cherbourg, Plymouth, Newlyn, The Scillies, Cork and round to Dingle and then back home.

I have a Warrant to fly a Blue, and I do.

But I would not on the Thames, or any other inland waterway.

It is not a requirement and besides it seems to me to be a little bit precious................................

IMHO, of course, and with tongue firmly in cheek. If you cant laugh at yourself sometimes you lose touch with reallity.
 
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rotrax said:
To see guys with boats far more suitable for the wide open spaces of the ocean, wearing blazers, yachting caps with scrambled egg all over them and flying blue ensigns when the nearest they got to the ocean was Walton on Thames or Hampton did make me chuckle. We managed with our little boat, just one step up from camping on water without all the hoop de do of some others.
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Blimey you do have some prejudices too dont you? Have you considered a career with EA, I think you would fit in?
Proud to say i have a seagoing boat, but no blazer, no cap and no scrambled egg (whatever that is) and no blue ensign. Have been to Holland 4 times, Bruges twice, i think that is past Hampton Court?
Also spent first 24years of my life boating on Canals with my parents.

If you ever met No Regrets, you would realise how majorly wrong your assumptions are.
 
Except you appear to be laughing at others. :nonchalance:

£54 to fly a Blue duster, just pop in to the CI. I can understand why you're too embarrassed to bring yours out of it's locker what with your disdain for so many other boaters and what they wear.

Didn't actually ask for the life story, not sure why you did that :nonchalance:
 
No Regrets said:
Except you appear to be laughing at others. :nonchalance:

£54 to fly a Blue duster, just pop in to the CI. I can understand why you're too embarrassed to bring yours out of it's locker what with your disdain for so many other boaters and what they wear.

Didn't actually ask for the life story, not sure why you did that :nonchalance:
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I never laugh directly at those I described, who do exist.

I have a quiet private chuckle.

I fly my Blue, and the correct Burgee in the right place when I am sailing on the sea, or entering Harbours situated in tidal rivers.

I am certainly not embarassed to wear it.

All I said was that I would not bother on an enclosed inland waterway in the UK. I have on Dutch waterways.

As is my right.

The life story as you call it was just to let you know where I am coming from.

It was obviously of no interest to you, which is fine by me.

My distain is for a very few boaters who seem puffed up by their vessel or position in the Thames boating scene.

The guy on my friends fuel berth and who locked down Abingdon lock with us was Commadore of a well known Thames club.

He was patronising and obnoxious.

Most Thames boaters are a delight. He was not.

Are you suggesting characters like him did not, or do not exist?
 
Of course they do, but fortunately in extremely small numbers.

All kinds of characters appear on the Thames, some good some bad, but most of the club boaters are pleasant helpful folk in my experience.
 
Parabordi said:
And for others here, crusty has sent me personal messages stating my name, where i live, where i work and boatname. Not cordial.
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Another correction - I did send you private messages alluding to your location. You overlooked to mention why I did that - you were harassing other forumites when they refused to reveal my identity.
 
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No Regrets said:
The sinister private messages sent from the total anonymity of your hiding place were sent to another forumite who left the forum. You know who it was.

As for being 'cordial' perhaps you might want to look at your original post which was a clear insult, and then Google 'hypocrite' which you may want to include in your profile. I have been dealing with people like you for many many years of various fora, and you're not even very good at it. :nonchalance:
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Yet another correction - the other forumite did not leave, he started using his other account and continues to do so, even on this thread.
 
No Regrets said:
Of course they do, but fortunately in extremely small numbers.

All kinds of characters appear on the Thames, some good some bad, but most of the club boaters are pleasant helpful folk in my experience.
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I'll agree with you there, very few are rank hypocrites. However, some of us have long memories so anyone posting from the moral high ground must expect to be shot at if their history suggests they are not as white as they paint themselves. Just saying :encouragement:
 
Parabordi said:
Blimey you do have some prejudices too dont you? Have you considered a career with EA, I think you would fit in?
Proud to say i have a seagoing boat, but no blazer, no cap and no scrambled egg (whatever that is) and no blue ensign. Have been to Holland 4 times, Bruges twice, i think that is past Hampton Court?
Also spent first 24years of my life boating on Canals with my parents.

If you ever met No Regrets, you would realise how majorly wrong your assumptions are.
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You are obviously one of the delightful Thames boaters, and one who gets around a bit. First class.

I made a statement, No Regrets replied. I have no idea why you or he should think I meant him.

Old Crusty's term " Velvet coated Commadore of BCC " meant nothing to me.

An anecdote from a long time ago. Fishing for mullet and bass in Poole Harbour years ago, the engine of the disreputable boat my pal had borrowed went onto one cylinder. There was no toolkit. We saw a posh yacht alongside a working gravel wharf. We just made it. I scrounged a plug spanner cleaned the fouled plug and got the donk going again when a scruffy guy turned up-elbows out of his jersey, scuffed knees to his trousers.

He said " Hallo-are you Bob Mays motorbike mate? "

I replied in the affirmative.

We were near neighbours in Oxfordshire. He was Ron Amey, just back from winning the Admirals Cup for the second time. Also a great seaman, motorcyclist and the multi-millionaire owner of the Amey Roadstone civil engineering company.

He is my sort of boater. I suppose I suffer from inverse snobbery...............................
 
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Does everyone else think its a bit creepy for a forumite to protect his anon to the death but find out my home, my job, my boat.
Harrass? No just saddened that a good friend of 20years would rather defend your anon than reveal who you are especially when everyone can see the way you behave and the bile that comes out your mouth.
Tony, miss you mate. Was he worth it?
 
People who do online stalking usually have something a bit unsavoury to hide, hence his lust for anonymity.

He most likely has a huge inferiority complex, which he tempers by 'getting one over' on others by placing himself in a hiding hole, and then sniping at others who are less secretive, without worrying about losing face, because after all, he's faceless.

A very common forum thing, there are always a few however pleasant the rest of the fomites generally are.
 
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