zambant
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Hoping to visit thre this weknd.
Are the pontoons full of boats or are they rlatively empty please?
Thx
John
Are the pontoons full of boats or are they rlatively empty please?
Thx
John
Newport Harbour IoW
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VicS
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orangemikey
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Newport
Usually plenty of space there especially this time of year. I take it that you know all of the pontoons dry out at low tide.
Usually plenty of space there especially this time of year. I take it that you know all of the pontoons dry out at low tide.
l'escargot
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There seems to be more local boats wintering there in the water this year but you will still probably get on. I'll have a look and take a picture for you tomorrow.
Boathook
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On Tuesday evening most / all of the pontoon was taken up. I had a walk up there whilst staying on business.
Ex-SolentBoy
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Yes, this month we harvest the final berries, cut wood for the coming dark times and skin rabbits to make hats.
Next month is the annual witches festival when warts are mandatory.
Seajet
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So, it's the same, 12 months of the year round then...
Ex-SolentBoy
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Not exactly, in March we burn all bilge keel boats and throw dead seagulls at anyone who cooks food in a tin on a gas hob.
Dylan failed to record this event as he departed from Bembridge later in the year.
Twister_Ken
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Do you still have to put fourpence in the phone box, and push button A when your auntie answers?
VicS
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It's beginning to sound as though the IOW is a bad place to visit.
I was hoping to visit Bembridge on the spring bank holiday/ jubilee long week end.
Definitely cancel that idea now.
All sounds very backward ... probably find dinosaurs there.
I was hoping to visit Bembridge on the spring bank holiday/ jubilee long week end.
Definitely cancel that idea now.
All sounds very backward ... probably find dinosaurs there.
Twister_Ken
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It's alright, just as long as you remember to set your watch back 30 years.
VicS
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Still the case is it?
I can remember on one of my early visits the reaction when I tried to pay for something with a credit card.
The reaction was,
"Credit card ??? This is the Isle of Wight".
Greenheart
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VicS's QUOTE: I can remember on one of my early visits the reaction when I tried to pay for something with a credit card...
Just how early was your visit, Vic?
Is it really that bad, gentlemen? Or is it just an easy target? I cycled down, Cowes to Shanklin, in October. Aside from the woeful vehicle ferry fare, (if the car fare had been affordable, we'd have driven and camped) it seemed at least as 21st century as nearby mainland seaside towns. Very quiet, but it was October. And I like quiet.
Oh well...I suppose if it's widely scorned, it'll remain a cheap place to stay
...although I can't forgive that £60 ferry fare. 
Just how early was your visit, Vic?
Is it really that bad, gentlemen? Or is it just an easy target? I cycled down, Cowes to Shanklin, in October. Aside from the woeful vehicle ferry fare, (if the car fare had been affordable, we'd have driven and camped) it seemed at least as 21st century as nearby mainland seaside towns. Very quiet, but it was October. And I like quiet.
Oh well...I suppose if it's widely scorned, it'll remain a cheap place to stay
...although I can't forgive that £60 ferry fare.
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zambant
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VicS
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1980 ish
1978 was the first time I sailed to the IOW but the above experience was a year or so later.
Seajet
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A few years ago I took a non-sailing chum for a weekend in East Cowes; I'd told him that IOW people say " Over in England " but he plainly didn't believe me; possibly because I'd told him he needed a passport and presented him with a 10 x 8" copy of his mugshot for the 'Euro Passport'.
When we went alongside the Cowes fuel barge he got chatting with the proprietor; " Over there in England "...
Then again I remember talking to a local lad in St Peter Port, who 'wouldn't go to England, too many murders there'.
When we went alongside the Cowes fuel barge he got chatting with the proprietor; " Over there in England "...
Then again I remember talking to a local lad in St Peter Port, who 'wouldn't go to England, too many murders there'.
Greenheart
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What did the same chap think of murder rates in neighbouring Jersey? I expect he thought everyone there drives a classic red convertible... 
Seajet
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As this was quite a while ago, I seem to remember 'Bergerac' came into the discussion; John Nettles must be some sort of jinx, everywhere he lives the murder rate makes the Wild West seem like a Desert Island.
Greenheart
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It is odd, how very popular detective stories are, especially those set in earlier decades of the twentieth century. If the Isle of Wight was really stuck in the 1950s, one would expect it to be thronging with nostalgia-junkies. They tend to like it less when they experience it!
Seajet
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All it would take is the odd steam train on the Island and for Waverly to visit; you may be onto something...
