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HoratioHB

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So heres the question, I am lying around my thringebucket anchor (the best in the world without doubt) but digging vast holes in the sea grass, trying to fold my prop and flying my cornish ensign on my port spreader, worrying about the amps from my solar panels, really worried about by carbon footprint. Does this make me a troll??????
 
You failed to mention the masthead strobe, which I am sure you have on at this very moment. Then there is the whole matter of if you are give way or stand on with respect to other anchored vessels when you swing....
 
Nah ! A true blue troll would have a 36v lorry battery problem, want to clean teak decks using hydrochloric acid and a fire jet, be missing a wifi connection more than 5 miles offshore, want to run 2 different chartplotting systems on a PDA using Linux, ask about using two gennakers for tradewind cruising, and have a mysterious leak of at least a cupful of fresh water in the engine room bilge.
 
Could be one from Wales though, with all nav and decklights on, arguing that the RN hasn't a clue what it's talking about. Now that would be a Troll and a half.
 
... wondering how to connect your GPS to your DSC, your aerial to your AIS, your AIS to your GPS, your thigh bone to your knee bone... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Oh... and thanks for all the fish! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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36v lorry battery problem


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If you think lorries have 36v electrics I don't know what you've got for brains. I have personally been run over by hundreds of lorries and I can tell you none of them had 36v electrics. So there.

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Is your Cornish ensign a red, blue or even
(perish the thought) a white one? The rules are very simple:
Anybody can fly a red one, provided they were born within the sound of baking pasties.
To fly a blue one you need to have served as a deck-hand on a midget submarine on anti-frog fishermen patrol off Megavissey.
The white is reserved for those who have rendered services to the Duchess of Cornwall OR actually sunk a froggie-fisher off Megavissey
I'm really surprised that you're using the Thringebucket anchor, given that the GrabbaBottom Mk4A has been proven in tests organised by anchoring monthly to be vastly superior in almost all circumstances. Is it (your Thringebucket) galvanised or stainless? The stainless version is much cheaper in Spain where all the fishermen use them, but the trouble is they give off CO2 which gives the mussels hangovers. The galvanised version is good for at least three years or anchoring twice (whichever is sooner) then it self-destructs rather violently. I know this for a fact because I was personally talking to somebody on the other side of the anchorage who'd read a post on an internet forum from somebody who'd once met a chap who knew somebody who'd spoken to somebody who'd read about the Thringebucket anchor in a magazine interview with the maker of the Grabbabottom Mk 4A, who was obviously totally unbiased.
 
Troutbridge - haven't you got anything better to do than make silly replies to 'serious' threads on this forum - oh hang on a minute you haven't have you!!!
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You failed to mention the masthead strobe, which I am sure you have on at this very moment.

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You're accusing him of driving the Cowes chain ferry?
 
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Only if you're Norwegian!

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Lot of svart-alfar on this thread tonite then, even if Norwegian mobos come in threes on the Swedish West coast, according to our friend whose family owns a island up there.

Many of them fly red, white and black ensigns, and as for mobos flying the "Bones" in the Solent, the summary execution sentence still applies in Internal Law and the Col Regs- I shall be installing a`really strong set of halliards to the spreaders for Cowes week

(says he trollishly stirring class prejudice,m envy and rancour up like mad, whilst waiting for his free Linux Nav program to download via his mobile phone onto his onboard computer network.).

The Cops n Chavs in cars n boats(Suzyrisywosey's son in law again?) progs don't start til 21.00.
However my fully fashioned Troll suit is breathable, with LJ, truss and harness integral. It's made a New Man of me /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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Troutbridge - haven't you got anything better to do than make silly replies to 'serious' threads on this forum

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Hang on, with a name like Troutbridge, why would you expect a SERIOUS remark? Or did you never listen to the 'Navy Lark? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif


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