So who wrote that weather Forecast then....

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The MET office or as I now suspect ......... Enid Blyton.

5 hours bring bounced around like a bouncy thing...... Sigh!
 
boatone said:
Well, you've obviously survived and no doubt it will get more extreme with every telling :D
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I do NOT exaggerate !

..........anyway there I was lashed to the the wheel with my mizzzen gone and no chance of a ginger biscuit or milky tea with a large sugar for hours,the moon appeared briefly form behind the wrack and was gone,leaving me with only the whistle of the wind in the rigging for company and a large albatross following behind.
 
oldgit said:
I do NOT exaggerate !

..........anyway there I was lashed to the the wheel with my mizzzen gone and no chance of a ginger biscuit or milky tea with a large sugar for hours,the moon appeared briefly form behind the wrack and was gone,leaving me with only the whistle of the wind in the rigging for company and a large albatross following behind.
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More likely a Vulture.....

:)
 
So whos got two boats then.......Meeeeeeeeeeee

Andrew_Fanner said:
Presumably you were stranded for a tide on the wreck of Richard Montgomery, and spent hours trying not to cough, move, smoke or panic:-)
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Trust me,I panic should the merest light breeze even gently ruffle the surface of the water......
The old boat goes on Wednesday to her new home in Wales boyo :)
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and to satisfy certain old curmugeons who shall remain nameless this picture is not wonky at all.
 
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lenseman said:
Gosh you were lucky. I caught a brief glimpse of the moon this evening and it was a most beautiful sight low to the south west. A mere sliver of moon illuminated, the thinnest I have seen for some time. :rolleyes:
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Did you know that amateur astronomers have little competitions to spot the "newist" new moon and take pix to prove it..........
 
Brayman said:
Hey Fred, are you going to be able to get that under Windsor and Cookham bridges?
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erm....yes er no umm ? :)
It is very possible that excuse for a flybridge will be removed at some point.It is literally bolted on with a multitude of stainless hex bolts.
You basically ordered the hull and the deck format you wanted,which in the case of the "Broom" style version was a superstructure moulding with command bridge/ aft cabin or in my case an aft cockpit.Have the receipt for the fly moulding on file which amounted to the princely sum £251.00 excluding the wrap round screen which was extra..
 
Aquafibre.

byron said:
The flybridge on those was really a docking bridge on not meant for continuous cruising.
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It is about as spacious as a crows nest and probably a tad less comfortable.

The original order for hull,must have been a lot of money at the time
More than 2 years wages for the average working man ?
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The bill must have been raised just a short time before Brooms bought out Aquafibre. Don't forget there was also an aft cabin version of your boat. It looked like a skinny Moonraker. In fact I think they made more of those than the aft cockpit variety.
 
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