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peterb
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Re: Pensioners
Yachtmaster Instructors have to revalidate every 5 years, however old they are.
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Yachtmaster Instructors have to revalidate every 5 years, however old they are.
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tome
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Life\'s Electric
Ian is a very grown-up 60 and special rules apply.
This is my personal pension plan. I'm going to buy a boat for a little more than I can afford, using a mothballed electricity generating station (which my fund happens to own) as collaterel. I know that they shouldn't have sold me the generator in the first place and will come to rue the day and want to buy it back off me sometime before 2010.
Meantime, discussions progress on lease of site site for out-of-town mega-markets with NCP gagging for peripheral acreage. What NCP don't know is that I've also surveyed the site and discovered it's ideal for a wind-farm.
I'm putting a single wind generator on site (banished from the boat as it almost altered my gender whilst peeing off stern on a black night mid channel) for feasibility studies. Bear with me if this is getting lengthy.
I can use my Ampair 30 to prove the site potential and apply for planning permission for a wind farm (I'm going to call it 'Parliament Wind' ). The interested parties will then argue the case using the new judiciary to 'nudge-it-along-Tony's-way'. Trouble is, new jude hasn't been briefed and anyway is sponsored by Sainsbury's (Bringing you Justice and Fair Prices) who are one of the major bidders.
Result is that Sainsbury's acquire the site and become the new government. I get to retrieve my Ampair, and a wadge more than the site was ever worth in the first place. HMG Sainsbury's agree to keep me in groceries for life as I take to the sea, and on complaining about her inadequate carrying capacity HMG bung me the dosh for a larger vessel with a minor lordship chucked in to keep me stum.
Anyone else got a simple plan?
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Ian is a very grown-up 60 and special rules apply.
This is my personal pension plan. I'm going to buy a boat for a little more than I can afford, using a mothballed electricity generating station (which my fund happens to own) as collaterel. I know that they shouldn't have sold me the generator in the first place and will come to rue the day and want to buy it back off me sometime before 2010.
Meantime, discussions progress on lease of site site for out-of-town mega-markets with NCP gagging for peripheral acreage. What NCP don't know is that I've also surveyed the site and discovered it's ideal for a wind-farm.
I'm putting a single wind generator on site (banished from the boat as it almost altered my gender whilst peeing off stern on a black night mid channel) for feasibility studies. Bear with me if this is getting lengthy.
I can use my Ampair 30 to prove the site potential and apply for planning permission for a wind farm (I'm going to call it 'Parliament Wind' ). The interested parties will then argue the case using the new judiciary to 'nudge-it-along-Tony's-way'. Trouble is, new jude hasn't been briefed and anyway is sponsored by Sainsbury's (Bringing you Justice and Fair Prices) who are one of the major bidders.
Result is that Sainsbury's acquire the site and become the new government. I get to retrieve my Ampair, and a wadge more than the site was ever worth in the first place. HMG Sainsbury's agree to keep me in groceries for life as I take to the sea, and on complaining about her inadequate carrying capacity HMG bung me the dosh for a larger vessel with a minor lordship chucked in to keep me stum.
Anyone else got a simple plan?
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Twister_Ken
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Re: Life\'s Electric
Tom,
I know it was getting late when you wrote that, and you'd had a whole evening to reduce the blood level in your alcohol stream, but don't you think it might be advisable to take a little more water with it?
Apropos the docusoap, how much would Tome Enterprises charge to re-turf my garden with photovoltaic cells, and strap a windygenny to the chimney? I quite fancy flogging some sparks to those guys with two telephones, especially at £6000 per megawatt hour.
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Tom,
I know it was getting late when you wrote that, and you'd had a whole evening to reduce the blood level in your alcohol stream, but don't you think it might be advisable to take a little more water with it?
Apropos the docusoap, how much would Tome Enterprises charge to re-turf my garden with photovoltaic cells, and strap a windygenny to the chimney? I quite fancy flogging some sparks to those guys with two telephones, especially at £6000 per megawatt hour.
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charles_reed
Active member
Rivetting read
.. what are you on about - where the probabilities - if it can't be measured it don't exist.
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.. what are you on about - where the probabilities - if it can't be measured it don't exist.
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ParaHandy
Active member
All smoke and mirrors ..
Plan B
The RN were, and still are, short of conventionally powered submarines. Indeed in 2001 they had to hire one (from the Norwegians if I remember correctly). My pension plan is to meet this demand with emphasis on being able to use the vessel for training which will be the deciding USP given that sending squaddies out to the Isle of Skye in the Navy’s latest nuclear boat can have such expensive consequences.
So, purchase of the vessel (ex-Russian navy, of course) is proceeding and the prospectus is being prepared. The sub is solidly made and will bounce of any rocks which the RN may deliberately, or not, chose to drive into. The Trabant engine is not in particularly good condition so it’s replacement with a wood burning stove is planned. The fuel source will be unwanted copies of the 1995 Pensions Act and, particularly, the 1997 Minimum Funding Regulations. This was only a 360 page document but, happily, the 2004 Pensions Bill is at least 480 pages and likely to be a great deal more once the sections in italics have been fleshed out. The Scheme proponents are certain that this Bill will be as equally redundant and useless as its predecessor and, therefore, likely to be an assured fuel source long into the future and that will be a very long time before supplies of the 1995 Act run out.
The choice of crew has received a great deal of attention. Such sophisticated propulsion requires highly skilled management and we have engaged the Board of Actuaries to provide personnel. The response has been overwhelming. Their particular skill in long term planning will prove highly effective in ensuring fuel economy and can help the RN personnel in determining the Black-Stochastic probability of the vessel running aground.
The single defect in the entire package that the vessel will not be able to submerge as a normal submarine might, otherwise the stove will be snuffed out, is not viewed as any impediment to the Scheme’s ultimate success. After all, previous efforts didn’t work so why should this one?
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Plan B
The RN were, and still are, short of conventionally powered submarines. Indeed in 2001 they had to hire one (from the Norwegians if I remember correctly). My pension plan is to meet this demand with emphasis on being able to use the vessel for training which will be the deciding USP given that sending squaddies out to the Isle of Skye in the Navy’s latest nuclear boat can have such expensive consequences.
So, purchase of the vessel (ex-Russian navy, of course) is proceeding and the prospectus is being prepared. The sub is solidly made and will bounce of any rocks which the RN may deliberately, or not, chose to drive into. The Trabant engine is not in particularly good condition so it’s replacement with a wood burning stove is planned. The fuel source will be unwanted copies of the 1995 Pensions Act and, particularly, the 1997 Minimum Funding Regulations. This was only a 360 page document but, happily, the 2004 Pensions Bill is at least 480 pages and likely to be a great deal more once the sections in italics have been fleshed out. The Scheme proponents are certain that this Bill will be as equally redundant and useless as its predecessor and, therefore, likely to be an assured fuel source long into the future and that will be a very long time before supplies of the 1995 Act run out.
The choice of crew has received a great deal of attention. Such sophisticated propulsion requires highly skilled management and we have engaged the Board of Actuaries to provide personnel. The response has been overwhelming. Their particular skill in long term planning will prove highly effective in ensuring fuel economy and can help the RN personnel in determining the Black-Stochastic probability of the vessel running aground.
The single defect in the entire package that the vessel will not be able to submerge as a normal submarine might, otherwise the stove will be snuffed out, is not viewed as any impediment to the Scheme’s ultimate success. After all, previous efforts didn’t work so why should this one?
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tome
New member
Re: All smoke and mirrors ..
Excellent. Simple, easily presented and with the benefit of the green re-cycle factor. The fact that it won't submerge should be presented as a positive HSE benefit rather than a shortcoming.
Your retirement, like mine, is assured!
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Excellent. Simple, easily presented and with the benefit of the green re-cycle factor. The fact that it won't submerge should be presented as a positive HSE benefit rather than a shortcoming.
Your retirement, like mine, is assured!
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tome
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Re: Life\'s Electric
Ken
I don't understand electricity, but I know it calms me.
Tom
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Ken
I don't understand electricity, but I know it calms me.
Tom
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ianwright
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Well yes,,,,,,,,,
Just turned 60, but retired at 50 so I'm more of a pensioner than a sailing pal who is 70 but retired at 65.As for Yachtmaster re-sits I did my first about 18 years ago and second 2 tears ago. Tom Cunliffe was the examiner and I was tested on my own boat without crew. I passed too. Mr Cunliffe was very kind...
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Just turned 60, but retired at 50 so I'm more of a pensioner than a sailing pal who is 70 but retired at 65.As for Yachtmaster re-sits I did my first about 18 years ago and second 2 tears ago. Tom Cunliffe was the examiner and I was tested on my own boat without crew. I passed too. Mr Cunliffe was very kind...
<hr width=100% size=1>Vertue 203, Patience
owendo
New member
Re: Pensioners
Following on from this thread,
Ian did in fact not make it to the Azores, I like to think that I has some influence on himpersuading him not to go.
Ian got as far as Falmouth and then when no one else turned up he set sail south and 40 hours later finished up on the French Coast.
We tried to meet up but he was delayed and I had to get back from my Brittany cruise.
That was the last time Ian was to go cruising.
Ian died very suddenly on 4th October 2005 at Heybridge getting his beloved Vertue ready for laying up.
Ian along with Rob Williamson and I sailed to Holland, Scotlnd and all sorts of othe places.
Ian was a great Mate and as someone else said on this forum special rules applied.
Wen the world got to shitty. There was always Ian to get matters back into prespective.
I and many others will miss him.
Following on from this thread,
Ian did in fact not make it to the Azores, I like to think that I has some influence on himpersuading him not to go.
Ian got as far as Falmouth and then when no one else turned up he set sail south and 40 hours later finished up on the French Coast.
We tried to meet up but he was delayed and I had to get back from my Brittany cruise.
That was the last time Ian was to go cruising.
Ian died very suddenly on 4th October 2005 at Heybridge getting his beloved Vertue ready for laying up.
Ian along with Rob Williamson and I sailed to Holland, Scotlnd and all sorts of othe places.
Ian was a great Mate and as someone else said on this forum special rules applied.
Wen the world got to shitty. There was always Ian to get matters back into prespective.
I and many others will miss him.
