Griff on the East Coast - BBC1

Fire99 said:
I am!!! I am!! :D


My hunting ground... Good to see it on TV :)
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Yes, a lovely look at working with a Thames barge, loaded so high with hay that they were sailing just with the windage of the load initially. Excellent prog.

G R-J is another person with the enthusiasm & interest to have added value to the dreadful Jubilee Pageant of non-Celebrities, err, I mean boats. What a missed opportunity for the Beeb that was. :mad:
 
Searush said:
G R-J is another person with the enthusiasm & interest to have added value to the dreadful Jubilee Pageant of non-Celebrities, err, I mean boats. What a missed opportunity for the Beeb that was. :mad:
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You know what, I never thought of it. Yep Griff loves the water and though (like me) he's a bit of a grumpy bugger, he is passionately enthusiastic about the water, particularly the East Coast which he seems to be a real knowledge on.

Griff can also be very funny so yep i'm with you.. Beeb made a huge blooper with their stuffy, badly researched coverage.
 
I loved the way thay had to have men standing on the hay talking to the hemsman via radio. What did they do in the past, just shout I suppose?

Yes indeed GRJ could have made the Thames Pageant very much more interesting.

I guess the stuffy old BBC didn't want such an occasion to be considered remotely humerous though?

Until I saw this program, and having never visited Essex, I didn't realise just how unbelievably flat the area is. Could not be more of a contrast to where I now live.
 
Fire99 said:
Yep Griff loves the water and though (like me) he's a bit of a grumpy bugger, he is passionately enthusiastic about the water, particularly the East Coast which he seems to be a real knowledge on.
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GRJ grew up sailing out of West Mersea. I had the pleasure of hosting him some years ago when he came to talk to RNSA at the WMYC - he made some comment about having only been in the YC as a lad to use the toilets as his Dad wouldnt pay to be a member.
 
Griff did make an appearance during the BBC 'coverage', he, Sandy Toksvig and another celeb who I can't recall were filmed in the cabin of a boat commenting about nothing much, I'd pretty much lost the will to live by that point.
 
If the straw got swamped I wonder if there'd have been a major turtle-turning risk. They'd have had to jettison it sharpish, ballast or not.
 
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