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It’s lively, useful and occasionally just a bit saucy. They’re the ybw forums – the biggest in Europe- and we are keen to encourage our users’ urge to communicate.

With that in mind, each month the most outstanding and entertaining entry – as judged by ybw’s forum moderators - will win a Ray106e state-of-the-art hand-held VHF. For October, the winner was Graham Wignall’s ‘Was this legal?.’ It read…

‘Ran in to a friend at the weekend, who tells me he overnighted in Keyhaven on his own anchor. Next morning, he was boarded without warning by a man from the council, demanding a fiver. Told him to sod off, man from council said he'd better leave Keyhaven, and departed.

Friend went ashore in another friend's tender, and then spotted a police cutter circling his yacht from the top of Hurst castle. Cutter boarded his yacht and removed his tender, then handed it over to the man from the council.

Phone call to the police caused some consternation, followed by suggestion (after some while) that if he went to the man from the council and paid up, he could have his tender back. Friend suggested that as the police were accessories to the theft of his tender, maybe it should be returned to his yacht, and he'd pay the money.

Is this stuff allowed to happen?’

The whole thread can be seen at…
http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/new/forums/showthreaded.pl?Board=ym&Number=162321

Graham, we’ll contact you soon. In the meantime, keep posting!
 
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Got one already, so plan to offer to poor bugger whose tender got hijacked. If he has no use, will auction for charity (RNLI?) Offers?
 

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Can we not just have coloured name thingys like yours instead. And some stars round for each good post.
Failing that a new boat would help!!
Anyway it should be us doing the voting.
Its us that do all the bloody work on here.

Haydn
 
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Yes he got his tender back, in exchange for a fiver. But apparently it was like one of the Cold War handovers at Checkpoint Charlie!

No conclusion on the legality or otherwise.

Does anyone know the RRP? Should we auction it? If so, how?
 

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How about via for sale forum. Interested parties can post bids, highest bid by date nominated by Graham gets it. Does it matter what RRP is? If it goes higher than RRP, so much to the good of RNLI, or who ever. Suppose if it goes above £200, could be problem with T & C's, maybe IPC will look the other way on this occasion.
 
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just thinking about a sensible reserve, really. Say only two people bid, and top bid is a tenner... Seems daft if I could flog it at a boat jumble for much more.
 
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Re: guidance for GW. Auctioneer

Back in the olden days, computer markets were attended every week by everyone in the village, and old pa GW would have run the bidding! Start just under a reserve (say 100 quid) and the auctioneer can decide to say or not say when the thing is for sale

Oh, innmorinymorinymorefordyfordyfivefiftyfiftyinymoreinnymoreightyinnymore!

and so on...
 

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Re: Let\'s get this auction on the road

The retail price (from MES, they're competitive) is £335.95. So in view of the good cause let's get started. I'll bid £150.
 

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Oh, and I thoght I'd get it for a tenner! Only joking in case you think I'm a tight ar...., person.

In order to dispell such a myth I'll up jfm's bid to £175. That's if bidding has started.
 

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Re: bid

Graham, has bidding started? New thread praps? We need guidance from auctioneer, what increments....£10? £185 then
 
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Re: £185 so far

hennymorhenymorehennymorehenymore etc

(i have got 2 already so not me)
 
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Re: I bid £200

wouldn't he prefer one of your legs as a stocking filler?
 
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