Show us your wake shot !

Chrusty 1 said:
Yes I have seen that one, and I think it would be best if Dylan ditched it, it don't do us raggies any favours Dylan.:)
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Is there a link to it? It sounds funny. Let me guess...camera pans across a beautiful, tranquil half-tide harbour; wading birds, a couple of sailing barges moored-up, clinker dinghies...and then, eight tonnes of glow-in-the-dark white plastic flybridge-cruiser?

Like a beautiful Polynesian virgin in a grass skirt...but as the camera pulls back, she's wearing...a lurid McDonald's baseball cap?

Oooops! Just realised this isn't a sailing forum. Sorry chaps. :o:D:D:D
 
dancrane said:
Is there a link to it? It sounds funny. Let me guess...camera pans across a beautiful, tranquil half-tide harbour; wading birds, a couple of sailing barges moored-up, clinker dinghies...and then, eight tonnes of glow-in-the-dark white plastic flybridge-cruiser?

Like a beautiful Polynesian virgin in a grass skirt...but as the camera pulls back, she's wearing...a lurid McDonald's baseball cap?

Oooops! Just realised this isn't a sailing forum. Sorry chaps. :o:D:D:D
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I'll take the Polynesian virgin - don't give a monkeys what kind of hat she's wearing!
 
blueglass said:
I'll take the Polynesian virgin - don't give a monkeys what kind of hat she's wearing!
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I was thinking of the besmirching effect of tone-lowering unnatural crud. :eek: Ooops, there I go again!

I meant, the opposite effect of a silk hat on a pig. No; that doesn't make sense either... :confused:

But I think a lot of sailing yachtsmen incline that way - showing ineradicable suspicion and distaste about modern motor-cruisers and speedboats, largely because of their pace (whether or not the potential is misused), their noise and their bright, artificial appearance.

Don't mistake me for an anti-motor-boater; I dislike lots of modern plastic sailing boats, too. But not all; it's a question of careful work on the part of the designer, which is why monstrously ugly boats deserve derision - because they didn't have to look that way.

That's a very different matter though. As long as mobo skippers are courteous and considerate, long may they do as they like.
 
blueglass said:
And as long as yachtie skippers are ALSO courteous and considerate, they too can do as they like.
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M'dear chap, that should go without saying. I mean...

...yachtie skippers are always courteous and considerate!

Only kidding. I echo your sentiments.
 
dancrane said:
M'dear chap, that should go without saying. I mean...

...yachtie skippers are always courteous and considerate. (SNIP)....
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I wish, but really, is there any point whatsoever in behaving in any other way? To my way of thinking, there is just no profit in it.:)
 
ricky_s said:
A very refreshing attitude Chrusty 1, work on your peers please. :)
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Thanks Mr Ricky, but it cuts both ways, neither side is perfect in regard to the issues we have been discussing but maybe just maybe if enough of us start making the right noises, maybe here, and over there in buttlescut, just a few raggies and mobo jockeys might decide that being nice to each other is a better way than the alternative? I don't want folk to think I am being evangelistic about this, I certainly am not, just trying in a very small way to prod a few folks into thinking a bit about these things.

I have been guilty in the past of taking the piss out of modern mobo designs, with comments about being designed by Zanussi and such, but I have decided that as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, who am I to cast aspersions on somebodies taste in boats? It's just childish really.

I aint perfect, and I might well forget meself and fall by the wayside, if I do, feel free to kick me arse.:D

Edit, I do of course realise that very many folk, probably the majority, already behave perfectly properly, just trying to get the ones who's behaviour at times falls a bit short to think about things.
 
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Yes Chrusty - there are many modern mobo designs that don't do it for me either, I'm more into trawler yacht types and aft cabins and displacement and semi/d boats, which I know many moboers find dull and boring. FWIW I actually wasn't especially keen on the one which caused Dylan's vomiting fit, but as you rightly say, that is my eye and not someone else's. You pays yer money and makes yer choice and Mr Winters rants are a bit juvenile IMHO
 
And there are a few of us mobo types that wish we had a lot more time to properly enjoy a sailing yacht. There's a Southerly 420 at Sparkes that I can't walk past without stopping each time.

Clue: if I won enough on the lottery to be able to cease working, I would probably not "mobo" into the distance.
It would be fitted with a decent set of underwater lights, obviously :o
 
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FlowerPower said:
And there are a few of us mobo types that wish we had a lot more time to properly enjoy a sailing yacht. There's a Southerly 420 at Sparkes that I can't walk past without stopping each time.

Clue: if I won enough on the lottery to be able to cease working, I would probably not "mobo" into the distance.
It would be fitted with a decent set of underwater lights, obviously :o
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:D:D Obviously! That would be one of these then?

http://www.northshore.co.uk/yachts/southerly/420/

I really like Southerly yachts, they are ideal for around here, but like you, only on the cards with a lottery win:)

The 38........ http://www.northshore.co.uk/yachts/southerly/38/

Would do for me, as with all of them, the facility to run 'em up the beach or dry out upright up some secluded creek is a big yes please for me.

Who says the Brits can't build quality boats?:cool:

I think we might be getting it in the neck for Fred Drift if we keep this up though.
 
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tico said:
Oi BurgundyBen
Wheres the 'extreme ironing' shot on D2?
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Do you mean the Thundercat guys?

Extreme Ironing:


Also extreme BBQing:


These are Thundercat UK crew - A great bunch of guys who I had the pleasure of spending a weekend with in Oban (I'm the Irish contingent, but we are learning from the UK guys)

I hope we get to meet them again in the UK, i've never met such a nice, welcoming community
 
I was watching one of those things flying up and down the river here in Bideford last summer, boy are those things quick, look like great fun, but a doddery old fart like me would probably kill himself!:D
 
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Our wake somewhere in the wash on a flat calm sea....
 
Has anybody experienced the wash from the biggest Cunarders, offshore when they're at speed, during weather which is flat enough to judge how high the resultant swells get?

I know they're designed to be efficient - so maybe the wash is pretty anticlimactic. How about those massive crude-carriers, making eighteen knots mid-ocean? They always look completely bathtub-shaped - so I'd guess their trails are quite amusing/daunting/alarming.
 
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