lenseman
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Tidewaiter2
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The Mollusc of your choice
There are commercial quantity oysters in the Emsworth Channel too, but bring own Immodium
All the Oyster yachts are at HISC, Chi Marina, and Northney, of course, Darhling.
There are no oysters in Gosport anymore, too murky!
There are commercial quantity oysters in the Emsworth Channel too, but bring own Immodium
All the Oyster yachts are at HISC, Chi Marina, and Northney, of course, Darhling.
Tidewaiter2
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Go West young man, but take your full tool kit and spares!
Thats it, sometimes you don't have much left on board to express genuine Thanks with.
Mind you our homemade jams, marmalades, and chutneys are prized and trade at a premium in the village 'informal economy'/ 'favours' market.
Scilly seems to be a 'bad luck' port this year, we got a lump of rope/wire round prop off Wolf, bent one blade and stripped the bearings off the cutter clearing it. Hell of a racket, and what wind there was, on nose, and evening wearing on. Fresh trizers moment!
No sooner got out on a mooring again, but got hit by a French charter yacht who trashed our pulpit and fwd nav lights. Another pair of trizers needed- I was in the bow at the moment of impact
HM and Rat Island Sailboat Co both very helpful in getting it sorted to start trek home.
Treated the fellow home port berthholder who leaned over the Old Quay railing, then took over our prop repairs to a meal and beers in the Mermaid, reluctantly accepted, ditto a shore holidaying Cardiff sailor, who helped out with the smithying, with a bottle of red- his wife was very tolerant!
i just run up and down the ladder with the tools etc.
I think all real cruisers think 'there but for the Grace of the Gods', and try to help whoever has a problem- it goes around and comes around.
Our season is now a bit truncated this year- awaiting estimates from the various yards.
Thats it, sometimes you don't have much left on board to express genuine Thanks with.
Mind you our homemade jams, marmalades, and chutneys are prized and trade at a premium in the village 'informal economy'/ 'favours' market.
Scilly seems to be a 'bad luck' port this year, we got a lump of rope/wire round prop off Wolf, bent one blade and stripped the bearings off the cutter clearing it. Hell of a racket, and what wind there was, on nose, and evening wearing on. Fresh trizers moment!
No sooner got out on a mooring again, but got hit by a French charter yacht who trashed our pulpit and fwd nav lights. Another pair of trizers needed- I was in the bow at the moment of impact
HM and Rat Island Sailboat Co both very helpful in getting it sorted to start trek home.
Treated the fellow home port berthholder who leaned over the Old Quay railing, then took over our prop repairs to a meal and beers in the Mermaid, reluctantly accepted, ditto a shore holidaying Cardiff sailor, who helped out with the smithying, with a bottle of red- his wife was very tolerant!
i just run up and down the ladder with the tools etc.
I think all real cruisers think 'there but for the Grace of the Gods', and try to help whoever has a problem- it goes around and comes around.
Our season is now a bit truncated this year- awaiting estimates from the various yards.
Chrissie
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There are no oysters in Gosport anymore, too murky!
Ah David, You know which Oyster I mean, the murky one, so has it moved? or gone off on travels, the one I mean had my dinghy on it, as yet unpaid for,
Tidewaiter2
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Have you noticed that the more money many people have, the less they want to pay what's rightly due here and now for goods and services..... that's how they or their ancestors got it, of course, but they cannot understand/acquire the concept's of 'noblesse oblige', or what quite small sums owed can mean to real people's finances.
Let alone mix in community life- except trying (and failing usually) to freeload at every village or club event- eg only use the village pub Xmas Morn, yet expect free drinks, Talk about how 'charmingly rural' the village is, then complain about cockerels, horse **** on the roads(buy a shovel like the rest of us- free manure!), the Village Fair procession blocking the roads, and never buy anything local(applies to marine chandleries too, where they try on the kit then buy on line).
PITA's the majority of them parvenu's n haut bourgoise.
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Chrusty 1
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Yes I have!
Some of them seem to think they are on a par with royalty. "never carry cash dear boy". Few things really piss me off, but incomers that complain about church bells, cockerels, manure on the road and so forth, really do rile me up. as for the rest of your post, I don't speak froggy, so I can't comment!
Tidewaiter2
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Stay awake at the back there!!!
Try 'Stuck up, egocentric, metrosexual clean 4X4 driving wannabes' in Angle-ish?
the Norman French call them; "Parisians"
Oh, and Babelfish works quite well
Yes I have!
Try 'Stuck up, egocentric, metrosexual clean 4X4 driving wannabes' in Angle-ish?
the Norman French call them; "Parisians"
Oh, and Babelfish works quite well
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Chrusty 1
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Try 'Stuck up, egocentric, metrosexual clean 4X4 driving wannabes' in Angle-ish?
the Norman French call them; "Parisians"
Oh, and Babelfish works quite well
I can run with that!
I can't be assed to look for translations, so if you want me to understand what you post, please do so in English, or Devonian, if you can manage it?
Seajet
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If I found a boat floating adrift with no crew, I'd like to think I'd be onto the CG / harbour staff pronto, as said crew might be treading water with a poor future in store ?!
Do agree about rich gits having short arms and deep pockets though, when I worked as an emergency plumber little old ladies in tiny houses tried to force large tips on me, while people with a big house and a collection of Ferrari's quibbled over every penny !
Do agree about rich gits having short arms and deep pockets though, when I worked as an emergency plumber little old ladies in tiny houses tried to force large tips on me, while people with a big house and a collection of Ferrari's quibbled over every penny !
longjohnsilver
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OK again agree, but in this case the engine was tilted up, not down, and the painter was in the dinghy, not trailing in the water. Pretty good indication it just floated off a beach with the tide. This has now been confirmed by the owner who left a note when he collected the RIB.
Scillypete
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It had 'Troon' in fairly big letters under the name on the back and was flying an RAF ensign when I saw it anchored at Watermill cove the day he lost said dinghy
Seajet
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Longjohnsilver,
understood.
I mentioned it as a couple of friends a while ago saved 2 lives.
Returning to Langstone Harbour ( which is quite barren compared to the Solent fleshpots ) they happened to notice an empty speedboat on the mud then a chap waving in the dusk, the 2 blokes had been pitched out of their speedboat when hitting a wave - there is a high speed waterski lane - then the boat circled and hit one, the prop taking big chunks out of him before piling up on North Binnes ( low level mud ) Island.
The chap was bleeding to death, and his chum beginning to get hypothermia, with no flares, torch or radio, when Dennis & Mark happened to spot them, obviously it was still touch and go for the injured one for a while but he did recover fully intact.
longjohnsilver
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Yes, seems they're en route to the Med.
Croak
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Ahh, you said they just left wine and jam, now it's a note. Was it a 5 pound note, a 10 pound note or a 20 pound note?
