Getting Older

[claymore]

My dinghy lives in davits
I launch and recover it and when getting in and out I perform a layback of which Chris Bonnington would be proud.
The day will come when I can't do this - either my upper body strength will reduce or my ability to get my leg level with my head will diminish - or both.
I know I can fit steps or a boarding ladder or a whole linked row of fendersteps - a kind of multiple Fiona device but its the losing of physical ability which worries me

 

[ParaHandy]

a recent book review quoted "People die these days as much from boredom and irrelevance as from disease...we must put aside the temerity of the young and accept the risk that it is a bit more dangerous to be an Ancient Mariner than a young and nimble one... Once we glance about us...our own handicap of too many decades turns into something akin to pride that we had made it at all... So, sans eyes, sans teeth, sans strength of limb...we have an obligation to our great age to keep putting our ancient asses into the wet and cold and endless tumult of the sea.”

Not entirely relevant, I appreciate, as you still have your own teeth, I think ...

However, The Sailor's Snug Harbour is somewhere for "old and worn out seamen" which, in the last resort, you could look forward to and here is a picture of an inmate

 

[claymore]

Well - thank you for that - I shall treasure the sentiment, the memory and the teeth.

 

[jimi]

May I recommend three things?

 

[claymore]

Pray continue

 

[jimi]

1) Lose some weight.

 

[claymore]

Cheeky wee twart
and 2?

 

[jimi]

2) Buy whitish flannels and a whitey V necked tanktop.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Dare I start the electric winch debate?

 

[jimi]

keep that until the eberspacher works ;-)

 

[ChrisE]

and don't tell me, you've forgotten the 3rd. You old gits are talking yerselves into early bathchairs. Para, I'm with you, bring on the bubble machine.

 

[claymore]

Whits isn't really my colour as I tend to dribble a bit and stain things, but I'll try
What about 3?

 

[claymore]

Well - your secret's out matey - going for the younger woman

 

[claymore]

Wouldn't be without it - that and 20mm chain and a 40KG Bruce.
Anchoring with impunity - thats the game

 

[jimi]

Garstang Bowling Club

 

[Sans Bateau]

May I join the conversation?

With my 88 year old mother in hospital, as fit as a fiddle, but with advancing dementure, I fear my (inherited?) problem will not be how to get the dinghy in and out of the water, it will be trying to remember where I left it!

 

[ShipsWoofy]

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[claymore]

Old mens bowls?

 

[peterb]

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Old mens bowls?

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Sure you're not missing an "e"?

 

[claymore]

Bowlse - what on earth are they?