Its in The Times.......

[Doolittle]

I towed Xanthia back from Chertsey lock Tuesday evening and missed out on my pint, but earned two bottles of wine and a box of quality Street!

Often quite discerning owners. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[No Regrets]

I gather it's a bad thing to reverse swiftly in a slipper launch then? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[byron]

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try it, they ain't keen on going astern too quickly because the river goes up the exhaust pipe.

 

[ADLS]

Oh give me a Dunkirk Little Ship any day. I was a gnat's whisker from buying one until reality kicked in.

Sadly reality didn't kick in quick enough for me!!!!!
My liver and wallet has suffered ever since.

As for NBs and there names I took a little more interest in them this summer on the Thames and saw a few differing stern designs, though of course the overall design is limited to the job they were first designed for.
Bit like an excavator JCBs, Masseys, John Deere, etc., all look the same.

As for there names, like all boats some very witty some pathetic, but hey.

Saw lots of Lazy Days some with differing spelling, but mine was named back in 1930 so I won't be changing it.

What we should be doing is getting newspaper reporters a doctors appointment, as over the years of dealing with them I think there all partly deaf and just plain stupid.

 

[byron]

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Bit like an excavator JCBs, Masseys, John Deere, etc., all look the same.



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How dare you put the name John Deere alongside those of lesser machines "NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEERE" /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif