Not a pipedream as we know it!

[MoodySabre]

Fabulous weekend at Walton with friends who have next berth to a certain person. Motoring back into Bradwell and espied a Centuar named Pipedream just off the baffle. Pottered over to say hello - getting some strange looks. Don't recognise girl at the helm /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif don't recognise man in the boat /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif it's not the same boat "looks a bit shiny white" "hasn't got windvane" /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif "someone's stolen his dodgers" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

TWO Centaur Pipedreams! One was enough /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Sixpence]

That's the problem with common names /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[ianc1200]

I got in front of it as I dropping sails to come into Bradwell this afternoon (I was making a bit of a mess up).

IanC

 

[shmoo]

-honest questions-
1) is "just off the baffle" just to one side of astern, like about the on the quarter?

2) do you know the origin of the phrase?

 

[beancounter]

A meeting of Moodies..

Good to meet you on Sunday Roger - hope you had a good trip back on Monday.
We followed your example, and had a pootle up Landamere Creek before a cracking sail back to Shotley.

Oh, and thanks for adding to my job list (Genoa cars?) /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[CPD]

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That's the problem with common names /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Common boats and common names. I guess to complete the picture I should rush out, buy myself a burberry baseball cap, drape myself in gold necklaces and call myself kev /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

Roger, was the centaur visiting Bradwell ? I know there are a few pipdreams based in Shotley, but hadnt heard ofone at Bradwell.

By the way, to complete a previous post, the generator was fixed ny Marlec for £40. It needed new brushes and an internal clean up etc and not works just fine now.

 

[Sixpence]

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Common boats and common names. I guess to complete the picture I should rush out, buy myself a burberry baseball cap, drape myself in gold necklaces and call myself kev /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

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Somehow I find it hard to imagine any East coaster being so chav /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Koeketiene]

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Common boats and common names. I guess to complete the picture I should rush out, buy myself a burberry baseball cap, drape myself in gold necklaces and call myself kev /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

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Somehow I find it hard to imagine any East coaster being so chav /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Isn't Bradwell in Essex? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Thought that was where chavs lived /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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[Sixpence]

You are of course correct but you'd be surprised how far the chav seems to have spread , there's a bloke round here in his late fifties that wears so much gold you'd think he was Stringfellows little brother , until he talks /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif sounds more like Worzel Gummidge /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif ah the joys of the countryside /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[MoodySabre]

The baffle is a structure in the river just off Bradwell power station.

Baffled if I know what it is for /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[MoodySabre]

He sailed straight by with his nose in the air /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[sailorman]

wot woz the "Mayday" near the baffle all about on sunday,
geezer went aground (amud actually /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif) n sent out a mayday /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I thought it was a water intake for the power station?

 

[moondancer]

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Thought that was where chavs lived /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Of course you are right. Essex does seem to have adopted Chavlike behaviour with enthusiasm.

The origins of the term are not from within Essex though. Urban myth has it that it was coined by pupils at Cheltenham Ladies college to describe the local inhabitants. Cheltenham Average was shortened to Chav.

So whilst you might see some Chav like people in Essex, you are unlikely to see any Chavs.

 

[CPD]

I too think the baffle is the intake and exhaust for cooling water at power station - seem to remember seeing something about turbulence on a sign on it. Re Robyn's note, I shall now send back thew burberry cap and sleep more peacefully /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

 

[Koeketiene]

Well I never...

Live & learn - every day.

 

[Habebty]

If you have ever seen "The Hunt For Red October" you will know that submarines "clear their baffles" which I guess is the turbulence behind them that the sonar can't penetrate , thus seeing if anyone is following them!

Just another useless piece of information!!

Yourboatpix getting good by the way!

 

[D3B]

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wot woz the "Mayday" near the baffle all about on sunday,
geezer went aground (amud actually /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif) n sent out a mayday /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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I heard that call after we had popped into Bradwell for fuel.
lady eventually called CG on 16 when they realised W. Mersea lifeboat was being launched saying that they were ok and were puzzled why LB was on its way.
CG reply was excelllent......"well you called in a Mayday"
seems they also didnt give location correctly either!

 

[shmoo]

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If you have ever seen "The Hunt For Red October" you will know that submarines "clear their baffles" which I guess is the turbulence behind them that the sonar can't penetrate , thus seeing if anyone is following them!


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yes, that's what I thought he meant. Its all clear now. Shame really. I was quite looking forward able to shout up from nav station "clear the baffles". Guess I still could, if we came down to the Blackwater...

Thanks for kind comments about yourboatpix...