For no particular reason except

[doug748]

to brighten a cold and frosty day.

Nicholson 43 for sale:






For 55 grand you get a boat and a work of art in the bargain.

Feel free to post up any pictures of your own, to cheer us up.

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[lustyd]

Swim platform is a bit high for my liking

 

[RivalRedwing]

Near Ipswich?

 

[Poignard]

Here she is and she might be avaiable within a year of two for considerably less than £55,000

Alas, she does not have a swim platform.

 

[LittleSister]

Here she is and she might be avaiable within a year of two for considerably less than £55,000

Alas, she does not have a swim platform.


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Does the blue sky come as part of the package?

 

[Fr J Hackett]

You would have thought if he was going to take a picture he would have flaked the main a little better.

 

[Poignard]

You would have thought if he was going to take a picture he would have flaked the main a little better.

I will have the crew flogged!

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I will have the crew flogged!

I wasn't going to say anything about the towel but...........

 

[Poignard]

I wasn't going to say anything about the towel but...........

Towel? That's a dodger!

 

[LittleSister]

Oops! Wrong thread.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Towel? That's a dodger!

You need one on the starboard quarter then.

 

[Poignard]

You need one on the starboard quarter then.

I can't afford such fripperies. We just move it from one side to the other, as required.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

A long time ago, in a land far away, I used to repair and service fruit machines and juke boxes. (I'd almost forgotten it.)

Those electro-mechanical fruit machines had the odds built in, and are a physical manifestation of how (commercial) gambling in general works.

The machines were designed to pay out often, but only a percentage of the money put in (averaged over a period). They varied slightly, but all worked around a fairly standard percentage that I've now forgotten. They were also designed to make a lot of noise when paying out.

They work on the basis that the chances are, you will put more money in than you get out. You can occasionally end up with more than you put in. When they do, though, most people will then think that either they or the machine are on a winning streak, or at least now have more money to spare than they did, and put more money in, until they, too will have approached or passed the average, and put more money in than they got out.

The machines collected enough money to pay for the manufacture of the machine (not cheap), a rent to the pub or club hosting them, a decent profit for the firm who owned them, and my wages.

I guess for the punters they provided a bit of entertainment, or at least boredom relief, along with the hope of 'winning'.

Yes they are like the lottery pure chance, gambling has an element of skill for some though.

 

[LittleSister]

Poignard's clearly a gambler, too, daring to cast off with just CQR between him and potential disaster!

 

[Poignard]

Poignard's clearly a gambler, too, daring to cast off with just CQR between him and potential disaster!

Reminds me, only a couple of days ago one of this forum's anchor mullahs was berating me for, supposedly, disparaging the CQR and there is proof that I have one.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

To compete with Poignards excellent phot and very good looking vessel :



Which also had an infamous CQR and despite years of trying never became a shipwreck through failure to hold.

 

[Poignard]

To compete with Poignards excellent phot and very good looking vessel :



Which also had an infamous CQR and despite years of trying never became a shipwreck through failure to hold.

A shapely vessel.

 

[Supertramp]

Painting of a She 36 I sailed on in the Solent in the 1980's. We used to charter during the winter months when a weekend sail to Lulworth or Studland was a regular expedition including ice on the decks. My favourite of all the boats we sailed.

 

[veshengro]

Love at first sight and I bought her that day, and started work on her the next.

Two months later down amongst the big boys at Falmouth waiting for Biscay to behave, before going South.

 

[Daydream believer]

Love at first sight and I bought her that day, and started work on her the next.

Two months later down amongst the big boys at Falmouth waiting for Biscay to behave, before going South.
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Crikey. That is big. How did you manage to build 14 decks up in that short time?