No Regrets
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I would just like to wish all you lovely people a brilliant weekend, be safe and enjoy lots of happy hours!
Kind regards, John.
Kind regards, John.
Have a great boating weekend!
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Lazy Days
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Why thank you sir. We might just do that 
HONEYMOMMY
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The weekend is proving to be another wonderful experience. Learning more from our mistakes and support of others with way more experience.. Hoping everyone else is having a Great time too..
Hoping everyone else is having a Great time too.. 
bradtarga34
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Thank you! Had a fantastic dinner at the Bel in Cookham for 14 of us, and hazy recollections of getting back to boat after a 'roadie' or 3 on one of the boats with us... Great late lunch/ dinner at The Bounty today and how watching the Devizes boas go past, hats off to those guys, very tough trip
HONEYMOMMY
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Had a great time at Henley and sonning. Food at the bull was tasty made all the more enjoyable by the good company. Now moored at Marlowe for the night. Dinner at the George and dragon booked. Showers at the leisure center first of course....
£11 to moor for the night that includes use of the showers and a free swim is pretty good.
£11 to moor for the night that includes use of the showers and a free swim is pretty good.
TrueBlue
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Had a great time at Henley and sonning. Food at the bull was tasty made all the more enjoyable by the good company. Now moored at Marlowe for the night. Dinner at the George and dragon booked. Showers at the leisure center first of course....
£11 to moor for the night that includes use of the showers and a free swim is pretty good.
Waved at you as you were approaching Shiplake lock going up (I thought it was you - a figure who's upper body was covered all in white, as in a Hammer horror film) also saw a following herd opf Bray boats including NR. You all looked pretty cold as was I.
Sorry, forgot to put the forum burgee up as earlyer in the week it almost destroyed my burgee mast....
Brayman
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What was that strange flag at the rear?
apollo
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Masons?
TrueBlue
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You don't get away that easy with a straight answer. With my penchant for odd flags with a British connection, I found this one on MrFlag who was clearing out all its sewn flags.
Upper quadrant at the hoist is a Union flag.
The rest is alternating red white and blue stripes.
The only British part is the Union bit.
It's still current.
It's not a national flag.
Treat it as two flags joined together.
I think I've been asked a half a dozen locks and various shouted requests over the last week and I've posed the above questions before giving the game away.
While the audience is pondering, I'll go away and find out why...
Ramage
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Hawaiian flag. 
Brayman
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Hawaiian flag.
Or Lexington
TrueBlue
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Hawaiian flag.
Bother, made it to easy - you got it in one.
Didn't know about that one - but it's not current and the Union part is pre-1805.
A jolly good guess nonetheless.
Thanks to both of you.
I'll keep wearing it on occasion together with my naughty white.
No Regrets
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Good to hear you all seemed to have a good time!
We had a nice two-day run up to Sonning, the weather held out until Monday morning, which we had wind of, so only had a two hour run down from Cookham back to Bray.
Saw a hilarious couple in a little cruiser called 'Eileen Anne' which had rather hideously been converted to a liveaboard, with a shonky old Gas boiler mounted just inside the cabin door at a 75 degree angle, a household TV aerial of epic proportions atop the coachroof, and a huge angle-iron bracket holding a small industrial Generator over the stern.
It came off the moorings at Marlow almost on the plane, and when we got to the lock, hit the walkway so hard the front rode up two feet above the platform! The lock wasn't much better, with every wrong move performed in a painful three minute docking procedure.
The old boy was shouting abuse at poor old 'Carol' who apparently is deaf and blind, much to the bemusement of the rather shocked looking lock audience...
The lockie at Bray told us the next day that they came through and he shouted at her to 'mind the flag' as the line she was pulling was caught up with the ensign pole, to which she replied 'Don't call me a slag...' and apparently they went out of the lock still having a right old barney
Funniest thing we saw in years
However, I digress...
A lovely weekend with the Bray CC, enjoying social visits in at least four Boats of repute, and some cracking mooring spots to boot!
Fixed a nasty little water leak, rewired the TV to cut down the wiring a bit, so no real jobs left to do to the old girl for the time being. Still feeling pretty smug, as other members have sadly seen a few expensive repair bills lately, which I have avoided somehow...
Looking forward to the next trip!
Instead of taking NR to the Marathon in West India Dock, we're going to pop down to Tedders instead, and work our way back over three days from 19th-24th April, so we may see some of you either one way or the other!
We had a nice two-day run up to Sonning, the weather held out until Monday morning, which we had wind of, so only had a two hour run down from Cookham back to Bray.
Saw a hilarious couple in a little cruiser called 'Eileen Anne' which had rather hideously been converted to a liveaboard, with a shonky old Gas boiler mounted just inside the cabin door at a 75 degree angle, a household TV aerial of epic proportions atop the coachroof, and a huge angle-iron bracket holding a small industrial Generator over the stern.
It came off the moorings at Marlow almost on the plane, and when we got to the lock, hit the walkway so hard the front rode up two feet above the platform! The lock wasn't much better, with every wrong move performed in a painful three minute docking procedure.
The old boy was shouting abuse at poor old 'Carol' who apparently is deaf and blind, much to the bemusement of the rather shocked looking lock audience...
The lockie at Bray told us the next day that they came through and he shouted at her to 'mind the flag' as the line she was pulling was caught up with the ensign pole, to which she replied 'Don't call me a slag...' and apparently they went out of the lock still having a right old barney
Funniest thing we saw in years
However, I digress...
A lovely weekend with the Bray CC, enjoying social visits in at least four Boats of repute, and some cracking mooring spots to boot!
Fixed a nasty little water leak, rewired the TV to cut down the wiring a bit, so no real jobs left to do to the old girl for the time being. Still feeling pretty smug, as other members have sadly seen a few expensive repair bills lately, which I have avoided somehow...
Looking forward to the next trip!
Instead of taking NR to the Marathon in West India Dock, we're going to pop down to Tedders instead, and work our way back over three days from 19th-24th April, so we may see some of you either one way or the other!
Richard Shead
Slipped Anchor
As luck would have it I am out the country ( and Tedd) at the end of April...
plumbob
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Spotted you on the way up and back, glad to see a friendly wave and a Broom proceeding at a very sedate pace as you headed for Hurley. Hear you were donig the Mill thing, was it any good?? Spent most of the weekend tidying and doing a bit of cleaning as we have both been very ill with the norovirus of late , so not much energy for boating.
Have a good week all.
Have a good week all.
thejonesey
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Who was that?
We had a lovely weekend in Maidenhead with kids, three dogs and the mother in law. A lovely gent motored past, recognised the boat and shouted across "you've changed the name!" The problem is I don't know who he/you are!! Anyone willing to come clean please? Driving a Broom as I recall.
Cheers
We had a lovely weekend in Maidenhead with kids, three dogs and the mother in law. A lovely gent motored past, recognised the boat and shouted across "you've changed the name!" The problem is I don't know who he/you are!! Anyone willing to come clean please? Driving a Broom as I recall.
Cheers
Ramage
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No Regrets has a Broom 30.....
HONEYMOMMY
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I don't think we saw you?? I definately wasn't wearing white, but may have resembled a hammer house of horror character due to the cold.
Hope you had a great weekend.
thames cruiser
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bradtarga34
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Saw Eileen Anne going through either Boveney or Bray, never seen such a painful approach into a lock, or so much clutter on the boat, couldn't actually see through the front windows downstairs there was so much stuff, let alone what was on the dash... Typical the sun is shining this morning, but at least the rain wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be on the way home yesterday, helped by a couple of bottles of bubbles with a stop off at Gavi's place!