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Anyone remember Howards Way on telly on a sunday night sometime round about 1985-6?

That whizzy mobo on the end credits is for sale!

http://london.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=117516

In those days that very mobo (sealine - dont know what model it was) was THE coolest boat in the world! Mum and dad liked seeing the yachts on there, and watching people having affairs and bankrupting each other, but when I was 12 that was all boring, I wanted the whole thing to just be about that one mobo :)

This is really sad, but if it wasn't for that cheesy program and that mobo tearing in front of the rag and stick boat at the end, I wouldn't have my expensive money draining frustrating pile of s**t now! :D (she's so worth it though :)) The end credits to the program was my favourite bit, and I knew I had to have one one of them boats one day..

Better shut up now before I embarrass myself any more..
 
Closing credits here you go. Also featuring Barracuda of Tarrant before she had a run-in with the Varvassi :)

I wonder if I should tell Jack Rolfe that whoever "nicked his bloody boat" has left her next to one of the pontoons on the Beaulieu River? :D
 
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That certainly bought back some memories!

I think that might be a Sealine 255 - bring back Howard's Way I say!
 
jhr said:
Closing credits here you go. Also featuring Barracuda of Tarrant before she had a run-in with the Varvassi :)

I wonder if I should tell Jack Rolfe that whoever "nicked his bloody boat" has left her next to one of the pontoons on the Beaulieu River? :D
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And the point of using the West Bramble cardinal as a turning mark was...?
 
Yup, blimmin raggies, think they own the sea.

Ackshully, I don't think they were real raggies cos a bit later on, when the mobo is cavorting round them they aren't standing a shoutin' and a poutin' bout the wash. :D
 
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Yup, blimmin raggies, think they own the sea.

Ackshully, I don't think they were real raggies cos a bit later on, when the mobo is cavorting round them they aren't standing a shoutin' and a poutin' bout the wash. :D
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:D They did things differently in the Eighties.

To revert to Jack Rolfe, the Orkadian that they used for Howard's Way really is now kept on the Beaulieu River, near my mooring. If you ask the owner whether it's the boat that appeared in the series, he'll say "Yes - mind you, I'm too young to remember it"! :D
 
Well there is one called "Sea Gypsy" in Val Wyatt on the Thames.

Its pretty much in "project" state! I can see two large red "Volvo Penta" engines being worked on at present and the interior is pretty much stripped of soft furnishings. The colour and the "Sea Gypsy" wording look to be the same as in the clsong credit

Martin
 
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