Gentlemen, please set your video recorders!

[cameronke]

Looks like an interesting program, BBC2 Wed night

03/09/2003 22:00 Fast and Bonnie: William Fife and His Yachts
Duration: 30 mins

Documentary profiling boatbuilder William Fife III, whose yachts are a common sight on the shores of St Tropez and Monte Carlo, but are less well known in his home country of Scotland. The film reveals how this lack of recognition was rectified in the summer of 2003, when Fife yachts returned to the Clyde


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[davel]

Listing fo my area (South England) shows "The Thin Blue Line". I guess this could be a reference to the decoration on the topsides, but I doubt it !
Is this a regional programme?

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[Twister_Ken]

by the by

Anybody bump into a film last night about Albert Camus. Supposed to have been set in France in the 50's (vintage aeroplane, vintage cars, etc).. In the background of one scene there was something going on that could only have been the round-the-island-race, copmplete with kevlar sails!

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[qsiv]

Re: by the by

I knew there was something I wanted to watch last night - not always an easy read, but invarialy provoking.

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[Aja]

Cameron

This is the second time Fife yachts have returned to the Clyde in any numbers. There was a similar regatta six years ago.

Gatecrashed the party this year at Rhu marina. Hobnobbed with all the owners. Fab!

Donald

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[Ohdrat]

Think it's only for those who recieve BBC2 Scotland the Beeb in its patriarchal Aunty knows best wisdom obviously doesn't deem a program about a world class yacht building family and their globetrotting yachts not worthy of the viewers south of Hadrians wall

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[webcraft]

Satellite viewers can now get all regional BBC channels if they know the number to type into the RC

- Nick


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[Cornishman]

I shall be sorry to miss it. In the 1970s the Island Cruising Club in Salcombe had in their fleet a beautiful 55 foot bmd ketch called Irina VII. On a brass plate where the rudder stock came through the deck to join the tiller was the inscription 'Wm Fife 1937'.
She had been built as a sloop for the King of Norway and the ICC bought her after she had been cut down to ketch rig because you just couldn't get the crews to handle the big sails.
She was sold out of the ICC fleet and I last saw her in Torquay Marina about 1985.
Anybody know of her whereabouts now?

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[Jules]

Or west of the wall. Why is it that interesting programs as advertised in RT, say, when you settle down to watch them are replaced by some banal local sh.te which is written by morons to be watched by morons? (BBC NI)
Rant over.

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