So What Are You Doing For Jubilee Bank Holiday Monday?

[nortada]

Me - I’m travelling 1500 miles back from Portugal to go to the Walton & Frinton Yacht Club (WFYC) Taster Day.QUOTE]

Now back in Blighty & do hope the forecast is wrong!

But just to make you all feel a bit better spent much of last night in Portugal in rain & a rising gale strapping the boat down prior to catching the 6am train to Faro for the flight back but at least it was warm.

Knackered you don't know the half of it!

Roll on some East Coast Beer, not to mention time on/in the mud. Don't have such good beer or mud in Portugal.

 

[nortada]

Sorry, bit of Fred Drift.

I as one whose last port before departing south to spend my dotage in warmer climes was Shotley, I still spend some time (always in summer) in the old country & follow the latest on the East Coast Meeting Forum.

Question – How does one become a East Coast Pirate & if you get your own East Coast 'flag' how do I get one? It would be great 'to show the flag' back in Portugal.

 

[Tomahawk]

ECF flag.... Signal

I gather that we are moving towards hoisting a simple ECF code..

It doesn't have an official meaning to confuse those who know these things...

 

[John 32i]

Did everyone end up doing what they planned then....or did the weather make you change your minds....lots of marina cancellations locally!

 

[Koeketiene]

Did everyone end up doing what they planned then....or did the weather make you change your minds....

Didn't go anywhere - bloody weather

 

[PaulGooch]

Didn't go anywhere - bloody weather

Same here.

 

[Toutvabien]

A very nautical weekend.


Watched a DVD of Hue and Cry, Ealing Comedy from 1947, while the rain lashed down, and then scrubbed the teak and polished the cockpit.

Highlight was a drive to Clacton to eat in the new Asian Restaurant, EME in Pier Street, well worth a visit miles above any other Chinese/Thai in the area that I have been to.

 

[Athene V30]

Did everyone end up doing what they planned then....or did the weather make you change your minds....lots of marina cancellations locally!

Pretty much as planned. Got to Calais and won Little Ship Club Diamond Jubilee Shield but didnt get to Gravelines. Watched River Pageant on TV in Calais YC Bar with Ships Company from HMS Puncher. Had a tot. Usual stuff

 

[nortada]

I had a great time at the WFYC Taster Day, met a lot of old friends & made some new ones. Courtesy of Captain Pete, even got out on the water but didn't go aground; wet yes, cold no, beer good, mud - same as always!

See that they now have more finger pontoons & power points in The Pond, making it much more visitor friendly.