fab forum weekend in the solent

[tcm]

Re: Fate of the malt?

ooh, I'm afraid that boat-visiting rules stipulate that the (remains of) offerings stay on the boat, and will compliment his hoarde of Tixylix and CapriSun. Actually, I imagine that jimi has already mixed up a cocktail of bubbly champagne and more heavy duty malt to flush the sewer pipes.

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[Peppermint]

Re: Sad

to have missed it. I had to "suffer" in Monaco and the Cote de Azur.

Good to know the forecast was spot on.

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re:Thanks all involved

jimi for his boat
tcm for his cooking and fun brilliant helming
parahandy for his excellent humour
observer for his excellent company, until we finished the curry
stingo for his photos
twisterken for his instruction on marriages

It was great of you all to make such an effort. Lucy thanks you too. As I tried to point out she really needed to concentrate on the final preparations and not having me under her feet probably helped enormously. The doctor says the bruising willnot be visible on the wedding photos.

Cannot top tcm's account other that to make a few points of my own.

It seems derigeur in the solent to slag everything about sunsail except their cruising chutes, which of course you buy.


jimi cannot tell the difference between Laguvalin and Laphroiag or indeed Laguvalin and Lager.

Matt is an excellent cook in any seawayand an excellent helm. It was also most entertaining to see him stood on the foredeck of Glen Rosa berating passing stinkies for departing too quickly and creating wash.

Stingo knows an awful lot about boats but bugger all about boxing. He walked straight into a shot.When asked how many different boats he had sailed he said thousands. Up popped jimi immediatley with 'well what in hell made you buy that peice of sh*t you've got' Classic scots assasin

Stringo has a tendency to lead with his chin, but also has the good humour to take the knocks in the spirit they were intended.

Parahandy and stingo were like an old seafaring couple after only a day together on the boat. It was touching they way they kept holding each other up in the dinghy.

twisterken has some great wedding stories and actually does love Bavarias with a passion it is just hidden very very deep.

Observer is far too honest. Refusing to take credit for singlehanded getting to yarmouth and on the piles. It was nice to see him and jimi start sparring again until observer succumbed to sleep.

There cannot be many people whose first passage down the needles channel is at 12 knots SOG. We made Studland to Hythe via needles in around four hours. It felt 'slow' going up southampton at nothing less than six knots.

I had a meticulous route from the fairway bouy ( whose idea was it to strand the poor cow out at sea? ) that took us through the channell past Past Hurst Castle and down past the cardinal outside Yarmouth. From then on it consisted of bugger it stay in the middle of the solent. Cos i planned to do the rest as we sauntered across the bay.

It is not often you see a motorboater looking worrried that he is not going to clear your bow as you he crosses in front of you.

Great sailing. I need to brush up on my down wind work. managing to cause near broach the minute i touched the helm.

Thanks all who came especially jimi for organising it and allowing me to slip off early and get home at a decent time.

finally i have learned one lesson from this trip and it is great news for this forum. The key to communication in a relationship is SAILING. She may ignore you at home, pass the hours in mossy silence.
Piss off with the boys on a boat for the weekend and she'll be on the phone wanting to talk every five minutes. Communication restored, marriage saved. Apparently you can get a second hand bavaria for less than a cheap divorce.

seems a bargain to me.

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[david_e]

Re:Thanks all involved

Excellent post, not sure which depreciation index is steeper - the one for the marriage or the one for the Bavaria?

Good luck next week-end, David.

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[sailbadthesinner]

stingo
these are brilliant
cheers mate

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[graham]

So you didnt enjoy yourselves then?

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re:think tank drunk tank

thanks for the good wishes
we did have along discussion about bavs and your name was mentioned as a forumbav owner
unfortunately the whole conversation was whisky fuelled and at about 3 am so i cannot remember what we concluded. I do rememebr we put most of the boat industry and world of boatingto rights. Jimi and parahandy and observer also touched on world issues, of all whose conclusions seemed sound.

Unfortunately having no secretary all this vital work was lost.

I would be happy to take part in a think tank.All you need is some hidden cameras and group of us fed, beered and then left to tuck into various whiskies and rums and some meths for jimi cos he can't tell what lighter fuel from good whgisky
hey presto
the greatest theorisers and thinking minds liberated.
The industry must ;atch onto this soon.

You could see how hard we were all thinking. Parahandy was still holding his head at midday the next day

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[Rabbie]

Lovely yarn. Looks like your trip was 'chust sublime'.
Rab.

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[david_e]

Re:think tank drunk tank

You must still be drunk. Bav owner me - no way Jose! Benny yes, Jenny maybe, but Bav - no Sirree)

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re:think tank drunk tank

oooooooooops yes mean't jeremy f


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[Observer]

Great to meet everybody again and Jim/Parahandy for first time.

Reading the reports, sounds like you all had a great weekend after I left, specially the sail back on Sunday, and gave Sailbad a good send-off on behalf of forumites and mostly survived TCM's cooking.

Thanks to all for your company.





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[Twister_Ken]

More evidence 1

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.writeforweb.com/Resources/jimi.jpeg>Jimi surveys that wreckage that, three hours before, had been his pride and joy.</A>



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[Twister_Ken]

Re: More evidence 2

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.writeforweb.com/Resources/para.jpeg>Practising sensory deprivation (and aided by Stingo), Parahandy attempts to distinguish horse piss from finest malt.</A>

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[tcm]

Re: haha!

Great pix!

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[Cornishman]

Headline to MCA Press Release dated 8/6/03 :

Solent Coast Guard Respond to 31 Incidents in 1 Day

Sounds like you did have a good time, then.

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[tcm]

Well, we did actually hear quite a lot of vhf activity including a seeelonce mayday. BUT not involved, honest guv.

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