'Friends' - can someone explain it to me

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What is this 'friend' thing about on the forum? I thought we were all 'friends' but do I get Nectar points if I collect a lot or is there some special benefit like your fiends come and help you scrub your bottom?

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I wondered about that.

I had no friends at all which is hardly surprising but then sixpence became my friend

I noticed that other people have lots of friends

However I don't know what tangible benefit being a friend brings unless it is to sponge money and beer off each other...
 
Kioni said:
I wondered about that.

I had no friends at all which is hardly surprising but then sixpence became my friend

I noticed that other people have lots of friends

However I don't know what tangible benefit being a friend brings unless it is to sponge money and beer off each other...
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Sixpence is everbody's friend, the Tart.
 
I thought it was so you could find them to send a PM. I've got lots:p but never use their details. Don't get it either.

Not surprised you have no friends sailing about with old sails and a broken leech line:D
 
No, he was busy on Sailing Today work for the publishing deadline, SWMBO issued certain directions for immediate compliance, son and daughter-in-law came down and the day generally went to rachet. He was free Monday and we had a good day - across to Bradwell for the season refill - 64 litres for the whole season - before a nice sail up to Heybridge for the winter mud-berth. Very pleasant - Moody Sabre showing off on a great beam reach in the Ware while we were pottering along at that stage with a foul bottom, the filthy and patched 1964 mainsail (sets great though) and a gennie that was shaking like a .... a .. well a shaking thing due to a bust leech line. Shame I didn't have the camera with me for Moody Sabre. One day I'll remember everything.

Good thing about Colin being on board is he ties some really excellent knots - some you haven't seen before.
 
Just showing off: its in 'Irving', the fore runner of East Coast Rivers called Rivers and creeks of the Thames Estuary, originally published in 1927. I have a (lovely) copy of the second edition from 1933. To be precise it calls the 'Ware' "the narrow chanel betwen Osea Island and Ramsey". Thirslet Spit has a beacon on it not a buoy, the Tollesbury Pier has an anchorage off it, Stone is Ramsey Wick, the Barnacle is a bank with 2ft over it in the middle of the Ware and Sabre's mooring place has sheep on it! The book has some fascinating half tide routes which I have only just started working through.

"When the steep, tree covered, western edge of Mersea Island bears NW1/4N (N47degrees W), two isolated, conspicuous, pear shaped trees standing up against th skyline on the distant Wigboro' Hills will be seen to be in line with the western edge of the island. These marks in one ahead lead straight through the swatch-way into the Blackwater in 6ft LWS; the lead should be kept going along the route and will afford ample indication when the deep-water channel of the river is reached."

Perhap this should be a new version of whereisit?

Got a chartlet in another book that says there are four and a half fathoms in the South West Sunk swatchway!
 
FullCircle said:
Sixpence is everbody's friend, the Tart.
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I resemble that remark :D

I confess to having a very bad memory so use the feature as a sort of online contacts thing like we used to have in a diary, before filofax that is :rolleyes:
Not being proud I'll add anyone that asks, and will ask anyone to add me if I feel like it :p
 
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