The Change

[Peppermint]

Should you be forced, by new legislation, to change the hobby of your lifetime, to give up wearing your red jacket and making your strange calls. If you had to put your pride and joy out to pasture or worse still to the knackers yard.

In short what would you do if you had to give up sailing.

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[Becky]

If I had to give up sailing, perish the thought, I would buy three or four Samoyed's (sled dogs, but bigger than Huskies) and a three-wheel trolley, and I would harness the dogs to the 'sled' and charge all over the countryside shouting 'Mush'.
Truthfully, it seems tremendous fun, I have met people who do it. In Alaska, when I was there a couple of years ago, everyone was waiting for the winter to go dog sled racing, and it seemed to me that we could be missing out- very cold admittedly, but balance, daring, skill, endurance and loads of excitement. And dogs are far cheaper that yachts!
On the other hand, the Caribbean doesn't have hurricanes all the time, does it?
And I would be warm without exercise, now that could be better!/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Ohdrat]

start a new kind of hunting.. politicians with dogs ... probably rottwiellers

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[BrendanS]

My boat is actually named after the annual dog sled race in Alaska ( I stayed in the hotel which is the HQ for the race)

In that area of the world, there is also the possibility of ice yachts, which I have to admit sound like wonderful fun!

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[brianhumber]

Buy an old barge with a slow speed air start diesel and toddle round Europe and down the Danube never to return to Blairland and its dictator again.

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[flaming]

In the winter, ski. (well, no real change there then!)
In the summer, Surf

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[paulineb]

Try HRT ...... fab for the change (so im told)

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[tcm]

Well, if it involved me forcing a team of slavering barking maniacs to charge around at my whim, and if it caused the untimely death of innocent countryside animals, well then.... Just a minute - that's what happens when the kids do the fenders while swmbo makes me a chicken sandwich! Is that banned now?

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[Olly]

I go sled dog racing and it's terriffic fun. (probably because I don't have a boat - when will my lottery numbers come up?) The sound of the dogs baying in a snow covered forest is amazing. If the weather is no good for sailing this weekend I'm off to the forest of Ae to meet up with a friend who has Alaskan Malamutes. (Much, much bigger than Huskies) Sled dogs may be cheaper than a yacht but they are serious high maintenance - more a full time occupation!

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[tugboat]

Is the Alaskan sled dog race called 'the Bath Tub'? I thought it was called the Iditerod or some such./forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[tcm]

Re: haha

hm, brendan's humourous bio has bitten him on the bum...

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[BrendanS]

Quite right. The Bath Tub and back is an endurance event that lasts at least as long as the Iditarod, often twice as long, depending on how the hot water is holding out.

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[oldsaltoz]

G'day Tom,

Let me get this right.



Is it a bit like a group of boaties going out to hunt down harmless fish and indiscriminately killing them?


If so, we also need a uniform, but not the red coat and crash hat please, how about a beanie, sunnies, brown shirt with hundreds of pockets and hunting cry of tally-fish.

Avagoodweekend............





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[Twister_Ken]

See you there

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[Iota]

Become a ploughman the slow way, never could hit a wood shot off the fairway properly.

I would also train a pack of meldrews to hunt politicians, once cornered by the meldrews the politicians would be bored to death by their house of commons speeches being read to them repetitively and loudly by the pack.

Iota

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[Gunfleet]

Yacht design.

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[Andrew_Fanner]

Back to playing with miniature steam trains, or become a full time advocate for the abolition of Parlaiment and return to personal rule by the monarch.

<hr width=100% size=1>Two beers please, my friend is paying.