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[jimi]

After years of accident free driving (20yrs and c. 700,000 miles) and no boating accidents. In the last couple of months I've been rammed by a white van and knocked the outboard off next door whilst berting , snapped 3 shear pins in my outboard for no apparent reason, buggered my autopilot, tornn my genoa and discovered a holding tank. Why? Am I about to become lucky in love? Ooops nearly forgot Parahandy's outboard and Claysie's washing machine .. these were survivors!

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[tcm]

No, and you still have the locusts to come yet.

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[jimi]

can cope with locusts, apparently they're excellent when deep fried in batter .. sort of locust pakora.

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[Twister_Ken]

Horsemen from the Apocalypse are en-route.

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[BrianJ]

Begorra man.. put more water with it, less ice..
BrianJ

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[steffen]

Your just catching up with statistics, thats all.

Happy sailing, Steffen

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[nicho]

Jim, please be careful when pushing your trolley past our anchor on the pontoon - I fear it encroaches about 6" into your pathway, and could cause a major accident! Better fortune awaits I'm sure!

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[tcm]

Re: locust pakora

We're not talking about a few helpings-worth of locusts, but an entire plague-load. Which is zillions. Saying that you could fryem up is like saying you could have burgers for tea when facing a stampede of wilderbeeste. Anyway, you would probaly catch some nasty illness from eating the locusts- hence the Disease comes next, whilst the uncooked locusts eat all the other food, so hence Famine and soon Death. It's all very logical.

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[tcm]

Re: anchors over the pontoons

Ooh this is a bit unfriendly, or even somewhat dangerous. Can'tcha move the boat a bit backwards? I bet you could.

I would feel perfectly within my rights to get on board an adjust the lines on a boat overhanging the pontoon, and i bet I'm not the only one.

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[nicho]

Re: anchors over the pontoons

I was only joking really, honest, my anchor does not encroach the pontoon (though I bet some bugger will go and check now I've said that) - I'm just a bit worried about his run of bad luck, but, I'll drive down there now (it's only 150 miles!) and just check to ensure the lines havn't stretched in the past two weeks. I'm a bit worried about parking my car in the car park though, just in case he arrives whilst I'm there.........

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[tcm]

Re: Claymore\'s washing machine

He didn't tell us about this. I thought his boat was all rufty-tufty hardened yottie stuff with only the wind and a hidden half a bottle of malt when the going gets tough. A washing machine sounds a bit softy stinkiepotterish, and even then most stinkieboats have no washing machine.

Anyway, could you tell the difference between Laphroiag and Lenor?

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[jimi]

Re: anchors over the pontoons

Actually when you get there you may be in for a surprise .. due to the increduility of the crew at me hitting something (although it was more of a gentle blow off and rest against an outboard disguised as a fender) and the aforesaid outboard plopping into the briny, they forgot to attach the lines, I rammed the pontoon and it became detacched from the marina. Unfortunately free flow was operating in its last stages so there was a bit of a current through the lock causing the entire B pontoon to float through the dock. Just as it entered Soton Water it was hit by a container ship (who carried on regardless) and the entire contents set free apart from one poor twister which just disintegrated .. poor build quality I think. The tide was running west at the time and B flotilla was last seen heading out the Needles Channel, avoiding the demented tacking of Sunsail 56 en route. Rumour has it that is heading to France to return with a plague of frogs.

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[nicho]

Re: anchors over the pontoons

What a "cracker" Jim!! Best response I've seen here for a long time.

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[Twister_Ken]

Re: anchors over the pontoons

Why bother adjusting the lines?

It's easier just to remove it for safe keeping and eventual resale to defray your storage expenses.

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[jimi]

Re: Claymore\'s washing machine

Actually Claymore's boat is in fact many washing machines assembled in a different order ... apparently the previous owner was a washing machine salesman ...

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[nicho]

Re: anchors over the pontoons

Jim, in view of your very public confession of responsibility for this carnage, I guess you'd better warn your insurance company of many impending claims, not only from the scores of boat owners on B pontoon that have probably been sunk mid channel by commercial traffic (including my new Moody 52 that had just arrived), but also from the new boss of MDL, who, is alledgedly not at all like John Watson, and is very vindictive towards marina troublemakers.

My own personal claim will not only be for the Moody 52, but also for the 'his' and 'hers' brand new sets of Ping golf clubs, my Rolex Monte Carlo watch, and a whole bunch of very expensive jewellery I was minding for Bernie Ecclestone (who is wholly displeased with you, and that is not good news believe me) all of which were on board. There is a pontoon meeting this evening (on C pontoon, 'cos there's a bloody great hole where B pontoon used to be), to discuss the next moves. It's a bit worrying that Dave Wilson is erecting a strange device in front of the lock office, that bears a strong resemblance to some gallows.

I'd keep a low profile for a few days if I were you!

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: anchors over the pontoons

there is also at Hythe a pleasure boat for charter so we could arrange a sort of water taxi to run from Porto Solente to let people come for the festivities

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[nicho]

Re: anchors over the pontoons

Keep it quiet, but the plan is for the public execution to take place at 19.30 hours on Friday 11th July. This coincides nicely with the bertholders party taking place on the MV 'Leisure Scene', which is due to dock on Hythe Marina's holding pontoon at that time to pick up the many bertholders who are off for an evenings "p.ss up" (sorry cruise) around the Solent.

Blindfolds are available, not only for the wretched victim, but also for those who feel uneasy about witnessing such a gruesome scene just before their hors d'eouvres. MDL are looking for volunteers from this forum to act as executioner - shouldn't be hard to pick one from the score or so likely to put their names forward!!

Promises to be a fun evening (except for poor Jimi of course).

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[nicho]

Re: anchors over the pontoons

Do you mean the good ship "Alison McGregor"? - it's used for pleasure trips for old age pensioners. Perhaps these senior citizens could sit around knitting whilst the deserved deed is done.

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