Babylon
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Any suggestions?
How to stop 'tearing up £50 notes standing in a cold shower'?
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Seajet
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Yes; get a boat that's fun, rather than anything to do with peer pressure or boat shows !
Such a boat o a half tide mooring eed not cost a fortune, and moorings like this can be hugely enjoyable; compared to expensive deep water moorigs which are often in the middle of nowhere requiring a tender like a young lifeboat, half tide spots are often close to shore and sheltered.
There's always wildlife or boat activity to watch, and unlike an eye-wateringly expensive marina berth, once you've got the mooring it's yours.
Such a boat o a half tide mooring eed not cost a fortune, and moorings like this can be hugely enjoyable; compared to expensive deep water moorigs which are often in the middle of nowhere requiring a tender like a young lifeboat, half tide spots are often close to shore and sheltered.
There's always wildlife or boat activity to watch, and unlike an eye-wateringly expensive marina berth, once you've got the mooring it's yours.
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onesea
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Any suggestions?
Take up racing hten you can have some one telling you, you are doing it wrong as well
FistralG
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Well said Seajet, about bang on the money methinks, a bit of mental time travel almost?
Some of us may be interested in this small article written by the folks at Classic Marine.........
http://www.classicmarine.co.uk/Articles/small.htm
tudorsailor
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Go to the Med so at least you'll be tearing up notes in a warm shower. In addition SWMBO will help you with the tearing up if the sun is shining and she can wear her swimsuit instead of wet weather gear in the shower
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PhillM
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chubby
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buy an older boat that is no bigger than you need for what you practically do, an older boat in the 30 ft range could be under 10K you could spend nearly 100K for a brand new fully specced boat. With an older boat the odd scuff or unsuccesful experiment is less critical
jonic
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maxi
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Gardening?
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BrianH
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It's a quotation everywhere attributed to Edward Heath in referring to ocean racing. But I heard it from Arthur Slater (with the S&S 'Prospect of Whitby') in Scarborough Yacht Club long before Ted moved from dinghies at Broadstairs and started ocean racing with Morningcloud in 1969.
And in those days it was £5 notes.
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Seems Slater was repeating an original quotation of Max Aitken, of Drumbeat fame, who coined it in the late 1950s. Ain't Google grand?
And in those days it was £5 notes.
Edit:
Seems Slater was repeating an original quotation of Max Aitken, of Drumbeat fame, who coined it in the late 1950s. Ain't Google grand?
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bendyone
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+1
Ru88ell
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Switch to trailer sailing.
Bav34
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Change them to £10 notes?
Captain Haddock
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Simple... Stop sailing and do something else.
I hate the "tearing up notes" remark, it's long past it's sell by date. Every interest costs money some more than others. Sailing per annum can be no more expensive that running a second car or a dog for that matter.
IMO it's as costly as you want to make it.
I hate the "tearing up notes" remark, it's long past it's sell by date. Every interest costs money some more than others. Sailing per annum can be no more expensive that running a second car or a dog for that matter.
IMO it's as costly as you want to make it.
Captain Haddock
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+2 Great article, so true.
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lustyd
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I suspect there are quite a few sailors who would disagree there. Restronguet Point in Cornwall for instance where people had owned their moorings for many years and the council suddenly decided they owned them all.
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Oh aye, they been thinking of trying that one around here, they are now having a re-think........
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