Oostende voor Anker 2015: Ships registrations are open

[sailorman]

Hmm, not seeing too many 27' early 70's bermudan sloops

OTOH, we have been muttering about a first ever excursion to foreign parts and it does look like fun - what's the score with visiting by boat but not as an actual entrant?

Just pitch-up moor in the Montgomery Dock - RNSYC

Its already in the FMYC events calender http://www.fmyc.org.uk

 

[Bru]

Just pitch-up moor in the Montgomery Dock - RNSYC

Its already in the FMYC events calender http://www.fmyc.org.uk

Okayyyyyy, that sounds way too easy!

No danger of it being full? No advance booking needed?

 

[sailorman]

Okayyyyyy, that sounds way too easy!

No danger of it being full? No advance booking needed?

never full, there is "always" room for 1 more & no booking. we would expect tp go over on the thursday

 

[Bru]

never full, there is "always" room for 1 more & no booking. we would expect tp go over on the thursday

I shall start planning forthwith

Step 1. Obtain passports!

Yep, I know we're weird but neither Jane nor I has ever had a passport. Jane did go to Paris with her family as a child but beyond that, and discounting business trips to Eire, neither of us has ever been abroad!

 

[sailorman]

I shall start planning forthwith

Step 1. Obtain passports!

Yep, I know we're weird but neither Jane nor I has ever had a passport. Jane did go to Paris with her family as a child but beyond that, and discounting business trips to Eire, neither of us has ever been abroad!

well what a way to arrive in a distant land & you will never forget it.
They do have shops in which one can obtain food stuffs & liquid refreshments :encouragement:

 

[Bru]

well what a way to arrive in a distant land & you will never forget it.
They do have shops in which one can obtain food stuffs & liquid refreshments :encouragement:

Is it true that to be understood you have to talk very slowly and in a loud and condescending manner????

 

[sailorman]

Is it true that to be understood you have to talk very slowly and in a loud and condescending manner????

YES

ps- contrary to popular belief , their water is drinkable too ( unlike London water :disgust::disgust

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

YES

ps- contrary to popular belief , their water is drinkable too ( unlike London water :disgust::disgust

But their beer is feckin' awful.......

 

[Koeketiene]

Is it true that to be understood you have to talk very slowly and in a loud and condescending manner????

Don't forget to take mirrors and beads to trade with the natives.

 

[Bru]

Don't forget to take mirrors and beads to trade with the natives.

Thanks, useful advice

 

[sailorman]

Don't forget to take mirrors and beads to trade with the natives.

They also gratefully accept small cans of diesel in their favorite colour, red :encouragement:

 

[Bru]

They also gratefully accept small cans of diesel in their favorite colour, red :encouragement:

Ha! You can't get me with that one, Erbas is fed on a strict diet of BP's finest from the forecourt - dispensed into 2x10l approved fuel containers of course :encouragement: