So HenryF Wants To Santize The Sea

[hlb]

I seem to remember that being done on the roads. Now hardly anyone goes out for a country drive. Instead they now go mountain biking, climbing or walking, just about anything to get out of the rat race.

HenryF's new world seems to be an ocean of new posh marinas, where every thing is pristine and nothing ever gets dirty and even the seagulls now wear nappies.

That quiet anchorage is a disgusting place and is to be replaced, by thousands of yards of tarmac, with just a few moorings, but only for the gentry.

Talking to, or even getting on with the natives will be frowned upon.

A way of smoothing out the sea has to be found, then some one can draw yellow lines all over it.

A law will be passed and no private boat will ever be allowed to deviate course, to a little old fashioned harbour. Of course eating fish and chips will become a sin.

Only posh boats will be allowed on the sea, once over five years old, it will be taxed more and more, until you desist from this unusual activity.

Strapping your self up to the gunnels to join this new jet set, is of course quite in order.

Buying for cash, that which you can well afford, including the contingency plans, well of course you must be a serf and hardly worth a snigger.

No boat shall be sold before double guessing, what the buyer may pay.

A bit like straying to far up the new girlfriends leg.

Just when do we get the honey.

 

[Whitelighter]

Oh Haydn, I dont know whether to laugh of cry really.

I am starting to think the honey pot has run dry, but then maybe there is just a scrapings worth at the bottom for one last taste.

Ah sod it, its 02:06z so so I think it going to have to be laugh.

 

[henryf]

What was the word you used?




That's right. Tripe. What utter tripe

I wouldn't mind if someone started to make Spangles again although I've no doubt once tasted they would be nothing like as good as I remember them.

What else can I say?

H.

 

[Garold]

I seem to remember that being done on the roads. Now hardly anyone goes out for a country drive. Instead they now go mountain biking, climbing or walking, just about anything to get out of the rat race.

HenryF's new world seems to be an ocean of new posh marinas, where every thing is pristine and nothing ever gets dirty and even the seagulls now wear nappies.

That quiet anchorage is a disgusting place and is to be replaced, by thousands of yards of tarmac, with just a few moorings, but only for the gentry.

Talking to, or even getting on with the natives will be frowned upon.

A way of smoothing out the sea has to be found, then some one can draw yellow lines all over it.

A law will be passed and no private boat will ever be allowed to deviate course, to a little old fashioned harbour. Of course eating fish and chips will become a sin.

Only posh boats will be allowed on the sea, once over five years old, it will be taxed more and more, until you desist from this unusual activity.

Strapping your self up to the gunnels to join this new jet set, is of course quite in order.

Buying for cash, that which you can well afford, including the contingency plans, well of course you must be a serf and hardly worth a snigger.

No boat shall be sold before double guessing, what the buyer may pay.

A bit like straying to far up the new girlfriends leg.

Just when do we get the honey.

Henry may have his own individual opinion on the current state of moboworld. Which you may not agree with.

But he's out there on the water, and in the boat dealerships/agents at a time when many aren't. And he's spent his own money on changing boats recently, so he ain't just all talk.

So, disagree with him if you want but his viewpoint is certainly current and based on his personal experiences. Not sure where the Spangles thing came in though.

We've been on the water on and off for many years, and it's changed, and continues to do do. Many of us may lament over the great memories but there's nothing so disarming as plug-in electric after a day of winter sailing, however tough you are.


Cheers

Garold

 

[Cardo]

Ha!

Surely HenryFFFFF would not want to put the wonderful Tinkerbell out of the water!

 

[martin]

Ignore him H ...I thought it was a great discussion and I agreed with what you said

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Ignore him H ...I thought it was a great discussion and I agreed with what you said

In context, I think this qualifies as the perfect political answer!

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[colhel]

I don't know what Henry said but I disagree with him

 

[Ghetto_skool]

Reeeeeeeeally! A topic about a topic? I might just sell my boat, buy another VW and go back to the mire of edition38 forums, i thought they could bitch but crikey the boating world takes the biscuit! It would be comical if it wasn't so serious. Put the laptops down, go for a sail, come back feeling fresh and reminded of why you bought a boat in the first place chaps!

 

[l'escargot]

...go for a sail...

Unusually good advice on the Mobo forum...

 

[hlb]

Ignore him H ...I thought it was a great discussion and I agreed with what you said

Thank you, all is forgiven now.

 

[oGaryo]

Reeeeeeeeally! A topic about a topic? I might just sell my boat, buy another VW and go back to the mire of edition38 forums, i thought they could bitch but crikey the boating world takes the biscuit! It would be comical if it wasn't so serious. Put the laptops down, go for a sail, come back feeling fresh and reminded of why you bought a boat in the first place chaps!

I have the urge to start another thread to bitch about the bitchiness in your post about this thread bitching about another thread.

p.s. HLB is no longer able to enjoy his boat through illness I believe but nice sentiment all the same

 

[oldgit]

The world of of boating has changed and will continue to do so.At some point the cold dead hand of financial reality always imposes a bit of sense into any market.Anybody remember some strange people queing outside the car dealerships at midnight in order to have the latest registration car sitting on the drive,purely to to annoy the neighbours when they opened their bedroom curtains in the morning.
Boating had become some sort of "flag of success" for a while,very much like the Porsche in the 1980s,but after a sort time it becomes obvious that owning your boat/car involves a bit of effort and some expence on the owners part to enjoy it to the full.
This means the "trophy " type owners quickly drop out leaving the rest of us to enjoy the experience of driving our porkers and boats, our choosen pastime being probably a lot less expensive as a result.