selling the slug and buying a mobo

dylanwinter

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I am thinking of selling the slug

and replacing it with a mobo because I fear I will die before completing my circumnavigation of the UK

I am also told that if I buy a mobo then that will help to persuade them to join the 650 small boat sailors who have signed up to my website.

So my problem is....

what should I buy

How about a PWC?







A rib?







An old but powerful classic?






or just something to take the mates out drinking in?






The trouble is that I feel that the slug just does not allow me to make the impact I could on other water users - but if I owned a big planing mobo I could earn the respect and admiration I deserve





Dylan

seriously though

now that I have left Essex and Suffolk behind I am much more relaxed about big power boats. I now realise that it was a geographical thing caused by spending too much time hanging around the Colne and the Crouch.

The lovely tranquil drying harbours of North Norfolk do not seem to suit the power boys - and I guess its a long drive up from Romford
 
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The world has been turned upon it's head!

Dylan. Motorboat.

No I'm sorry but the two words just don't go together.

Next thing you know we will be cozying upto the French! Paying off Irelands debts. Proposing University Tuition Fees reforms but not voting for them.

What is the world coming to?

(I am now off for a lie down!)
 
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Yes, go for it. There is no point in being unselfish in this life and leaving the world's resources and climate and wildlife unalloyed only for another generation of young layabouts to enjoy them when they wouldn't appreciate it anyway.
 
Dylan, the 'wash' was minuscule.

I feel you have some anger issues. I accept the first two were idiots and should be drowned at birth, but your hatred for MOBERs is verging on paranoia.

"Beer swilling MOBERs" As if a yottie has never been known to 'swill beer'.
 
19 footer with inboard diesel? The slug (like Sea Rush, bless 'em) IS a mobo isn't she? :D

You'd be bored out of yer skull in a MoBo & it would frighten all the birds and be useless for drying out up the creeks. You couldn't pay for the fuel you'd need and you'd have no-one to rail at. But you know all that already don't you?
 
anger management course

Major Catastrophe said:
Dylan, the 'wash' was minuscule.

I feel you have some anger issues. I accept the first two were idiots and should be drowned at birth, but your hatred for MOBERs is verging on paranoia.

"Beer swilling MOBERs" As if a yottie has never been known to 'swill beer'.
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Anger management courses

I went on one of those

they suggested a few tiny lifestyle changes

they told me that all I had to do to remove this source of irritation

It was a three step course

1/ buy some headphones and an Ipod to play loud music so that I can't hear them

2/ buy a 40 foot yacht so that the wash becomes 'minscule' to me too

3/keep the boat in a marina so that I never have to risk exposing myself to a 'miniscule' wash while doing something really, really stupid like using a tender in among the moorings.


So that is what I am going to do

now then ..... first buy a 40 footer

Dylan

PS - sailors sip beer

but they quaff wine
 
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You need something like this:
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look at how minscule that wash is

johnalison said:
You need something like this:
IMG_8184.jpg
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that is one beautiful boat

traditional yet elegant

fast and sleek

sophisticated and attractive

'Poop.. Poop" (wind in the willows)

the wash is a bit miniscule though

I am sure those canoeists will enjoy what they have coming to them

In my opinion they should not be there anyway - such tiny people in small boats - a danger to themselves and the rescue services

they should be banned

Dylan
 
Seajet said:
Dylan,

It's not a motor boat you need;

It's a Kalashnikov...:)
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I think a lot of fun could be had with a remotely controlled dinghy carrying two child-sized dummies. Drive out from behind a moored boat ten feet in front of one of these pratts in motorboats, trailing a hundred feet of polyprop. If the heart attack doesn't get them the fouled prop will spoil their whole day.

For the jetskis it either has to be a slingshot or piano wire at neck height.
 
you watched them right to the end

LittleShip said:
The last line of the last video says it all........


"Perhaps it's just me"

Chill my friend Chill :)

Tom
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I do hope it was not too traumatic for you - watching right to the end

Perhaps you could watch the films with the sound turned down - or your own stereo turned right up - I have heard many a mobo doing that as they motored up the Crouch or the Blackwater.

I have also heard that some mobos find the behaviour of sailors really rather upsetting.

- as I understand it the sailors travel around in an annoyingly silent way while inconsideratly making no perceivable wash at all and then to cap it all failing to to break the laws of physics and the sea by refusing to get out of the way of the mobos.

or at least thats what my inbox tells me.

Perhaps one day a mobo owner will decide to make a similar slow journey around the UK and he or she could make a collection of films of raggies being slightly inconsiderate.

I would watch them.

Dylan


here are some great films made by another boat owner

 
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Go Back to Your Roots,Man..!

Go and rescue Molly from the glue factory and get her to pull you round.

I can lend you a bit of rope if you haven`t got enough to reach the beach
 
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