Where's Chalkdock ?Anchored at Chalkdock on Saturday.
(Feels slightly churlish to be following the guy around with a camera but the boat appears designed to attract attention and I can't resist sharing gossip.)
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Where's Chalkdock ?
I hope he's paid his harbour dues!Anchored at Chalkdock on Saturday.
(Feels slightly churlish to be following the guy around with a camera but the boat appears designed to attract attention and I can't resist sharing gossip.)
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According to Google Maps, it's at the top of Langstone Harbour, by the A27/M3 junction.
I hope he's paid his harbour dues!
Suspect not !I hope he's paid his harbour dues!
Presumably not with this stiff NE wind.How on earth did he get that from Newtown to Chi?
Thanks for the correction. We went into Langstone once, years ago, decided it didn't have a lot going for it, and never went back.Wrong Chalkdock, but thanks for sharing the name. I swore I'd never go there again after a run in with the Harbour Patrol. Knowing it has a name makes it suddenly desirable.
Just waits for the correct wind. Does that make him more sensible than some of us ?How on earth did he get that from Newtown to Chi?
Anchored at Chalkdock on Saturday.
(Feels slightly churlish to be following the guy around with a camera but the boat appears designed to attract attention and I can't resist sharing gossip.)
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A colleague was fined for flying the Jolly Roger on his motor boat on the Thames a few decades ago. Seems commonplace now.Something just struck me...
I'm pretty relaxed about flag etiquette, and break flag conventions pretty much every time I go out. (I have no way to correctly fly two club burgees.) However, the presence and absence of flags in this case is enough to mildly raise even my heckles.
I suspect one reason we have flag etiquette is so we don't (unintentionally?) annoy each other on the water by making statements.
Not in Newtown Creek on Tuesday night there wasn't. Packed to the gunwhales and every type of water user to be seen, particularly the ones that let their young kids zoom around on their own in the tender, scream at the top of their voices, large motor vessels with gennies running. The fun started when it got dark and we relocated to avoid the chav elements, half the boats didn't bother with anchor balls/lights. A few boats had marine life scaring disco lights flashing below the water, wind generators buzzing through the night.There is plenty of water for everyone
A colleague was fined for flying the Jolly Roger on his motor boat on the Thames a few decades ago. Seems commonplace now.
Really? I didn't know that. Why? I mean, I imagine the Spanish might have a more negative view of the age of piracy (not that a positive one makes much sense) but I thought the French got just as into it as the English did?It wasn't until I started to work with a Spanish guy that I realized the Jolly Roger is genuinely offensive in France and Spain.
Really? I didn't know that. Why? I mean, I imagine the Spanish might have a more negative view of the age of piracy (not that a positive one makes much sense) but I thought the French got just as into it as the English did?
The senior club (the older, usually*) on top.I have no way to correctly fly two club burgees
Hoist it to port, as a house flag. We have a Breton flag to port, in honour of Madame's ancestry.We shall be flying the Essex flag if anyone wants to look out for us in the Solent. Q - which side shall we hoist it? The starboard already occupied by two club burgees.
The senior club (the older, usually*) on top.
As you say, the Spanish is pretty obvious, once you think about it. As for France... I don't recall, I presume because of Privateers but maybe I've just read too much Patrick O'Brien. Perhaps my memory is just wrong.