Posh sailing club for Dylan

wonderful place - best loos of the trip so far

it is the most wonderful place

the facilities are amazing

the company is great too

they have got me pickled three times already

so many helpful blokes around and some top notch engineers because of the proximity to the aircraft factory at Brough

they do all their own launching and recovery using their own tractor and cradle

handling boats up to 30 foot

but there are bigger ones there

walk on tidal pontoons

all the wives call me pet

jill says the ladies loos have flowers in them and hand wash

there are always people around to offer advice and alcohol

the humber is also a fantastic river system

challenging and beautiful

Jill and I have just spent three days on the boat and we had a lovely low tide sail on Monday, went cycling around Beverly on Tuesday and then spent another day on the river yesterday

saw a flock of well over 200 Avocets

why so many of the members have fin keel boats in a place designed for bilge keelers I have no idea

but the keels sink down into the soft deep mud when the boats are parked at brough

some people have big boats and generally sail them to foreign parts

one has just come back from the Baltic and another from the North Voast of Scotland, Holland is a popular destination for these blokes

there is no waiting list but you have to do 20 hours a year working for the club

they have yet to decide how much to charge me but I see no reason why the Humber should not entertain me for a the coming winter and well i nto the spring

Dylan
 
Gosh. That wooden hut near the mast racks is old (if it's the original).
I spent a couple of weeks in there sanding a mast when I was ....erm.......younger. Must have been 45 years ago and it wasn't new then.

Beverley (Beaver Lake)

Did you bike out to the River Hull on the east of the town? There is a small canal (Beverley Beck) and moorings on the river and further along the Weel Road at Hull Bridge, Ticton.

You can, of course, voyage up there from Hull.

Beverley Beck at the lock into the River Hull

BeverleyBeck.jpg
 
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I wish there were more places like that, and less bloody marinas. Superb Dylan!:cool:
 
dylanwinter said:
it is the most wonderful place

the facilities are amazing

the company is great too

they have got me pickled three times already

so many helpful blokes around and some top notch engineers because of the proximity to the aircraft factory at Brough

they do all their own launching and recovery using their own tractor and cradle

handling boats up to 30 foot

but there are bigger ones there

walk on tidal pontoons

all the wives call me pet

jill says the ladies loos have flowers in them and hand wash

there are always people around to offer advice and alcohol

the humber is also a fantastic river system

challenging and beautiful

Jill and I have just spent three days on the boat and we had a lovely low tide sail on Monday, went cycling around Beverly on Tuesday and then spent another day on the river yesterday

saw a flock of well over 200 Avocets

why so many of the members have fin keel boats in a place designed for bilge keelers I have no idea

but the keels sink down into the soft deep mud when the boats are parked at brough

some people have big boats and generally sail them to foreign parts

one has just come back from the Baltic and another from the North Voast of Scotland, Holland is a popular destination for these blokes

there is no waiting list but you have to do 20 hours a year working for the club

they have yet to decide how much to charge me but I see no reason why the Humber should not entertain me for a the coming winter and well i nto the spring

Dylan
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Congratulations.

The most grammatical errors, lack of punctuation and abuse of the tab key ever seen on YBW.

You should become a journalist.
 
not at home to Mr Picky

Ex-SolentBoy said:
Congratulations.

The most grammatical errors, lack of punctuation and abuse of the tab key ever seen on YBW.

You should become a journalist.
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deepest apologies for upsetting your world

please feel free to ignore all future threads

as my mother used to say....

we are not at home to Mr Picky

please feel at liberty to correct any copy or posts on YBW and turn it into chaucerian english or into the style of Pope, Dickens or even Hughes


of course, I am sure you know that punctuation was invented for the days when people wrote on vellum or expensive paper and made sure that the words ran nearly all the way to the edge

it was a way of getting lots of words onto documents and books without salughtering too many calves

now that paper if cheap and digital real estate is free then it is perfectly possible to use space instead of punctuation as an aid to clarity

as a hack I am expected to write in a large number of different styles

try recording the radio or TV news script and you will soon see that the sentence structure is entirely different from that used for newspapers or letters to Uncle David thanking him for the 5 shilling postal order he sent you for your birthday.

That again is different from the styles used in the New Yorker or the Sun


I used to know a bloke (now long retired) who used to print out and correct emails before putting them in the internal post and sending them back to the people who clicked the send button

He had a number of other lost causes he chose to advocate

he was against the removal of dog licenses, he was dead against pubs being open on sundays and also thought that automatic cars should be banned

Dylan
 
I am just puzzled.

We all learnt to write properly at school and that included things like capital letters, full stops and so on.

Clearly you have made an effort to stop using them. It's not about being picky, it's about wondering why you take this unique approach. All the other journalists on here don't do it.
 
I think Dylan's posts are the most readable on the forums

It's the way they are written

As well as the content;)

Much easier to read

and digest

hopefully his style will catch on
 
Dylan,

Relax (not that I can imagine you getting uptight), I was browsing and its late in Oz and I thought I'd be, slightly adventurous, and read the post. It was lovely. Stick with it, the prose - refreshing. On the down side, not sufficiently alluring to drag me back - but maybe many would say that is a good thing - so you got the balance, just right!
 
Lakesailor said:
Gosh. That wooden hut near the mast racks is old (if it's the original).
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Its not the original one. Current one was new approx 10 yrs ago when all the flood defense work was done by the EA.

The old one was shall we say a little rotten and was the original club house way back when.

Trev
 
Neeves said:
Dylan,

Relax (not that I can imagine you getting uptight), I was browsing and its late in Oz and I thought I'd be, slightly adventurous, and read the post. It was lovely. Stick with it, the prose - refreshing. On the down side, not sufficiently alluring to drag me back - but maybe many would say that is a good thing - so you got the balance, just right!
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Didi,

Sorry, I would not argue but:

Do I need to re-write it?
 
Ex-SolentBoy said:
I am just puzzled.

We all learnt to write properly at school and that included things like capital letters, full stops and so on.

Clearly you have made an effort to stop using them. It's not about being picky, it's about wondering why you take this unique approach. All the other journalists on here don't do it.
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I have some sympathy with your point of view, but only in as much as I prefer to read stuff that is properly capitalised, punctuated, and grammatically correct. It's a lot easier to read for one thing. However, I have decided that until the time comes that I am perfect in that regard myself, I will refrain from criticising the way that people write on here, and just enjoy (or not) the content. Unless it's a real howler, then I may be tempted to take the piss, but not criticise.

One of my current pet hates, is how Google de-capitalise anything I write in the search box, it's as if the have a vendetta against the use of capital letters! What's all that about?
 
Maybe he could write for The Grauniad?!

When I wrote my Art History degree thesis we lost 10% of the final mark if we had significant bad spelling and grammar.... My grammar was better then!
 
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