The Gludy Bacon Butty Award

[Gludy]

I wish it to be known that Gludy is now awarding a prestigious new award - it is for the best bacon butty made whilst in a f8 in a planing boat, f10 in a semi-displacement boat and f12 in a displacement boat.

Awards will be announced on the 1st January each year right after the new years honours are announced.

All submissions, including testimonials form those who ate the bacon sandwiches, may be sent to Gludy before 1st September 2005.

 

[powerskipper]

does it have to be bacon butty? , I prefer egg and mushroom or plain egg buttys.

 

[kindredspirit]

Did you say "Bacon Butt"?

(Sorry, couldn't resist!)
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[gcwhite]

I have made coffee and then served it on the flybridge at 25kts on a planing boat. Does this count?

 

[Wiggo]

Wouldn't have been your old Sealine F33, would it?

 

[gcwhite]

No I'm afraid not; if anyone moved the whole boat lurched to one side so much too dangerous.

 

[deborahann]

Im sorry but this is not politcally aceptable, suggest a smoked salmon, cream cheese and bagal award, goes better with a displacement boat, and avoids fat flying over your nice galley.

 

[powerskipper]

Paul ,,,,#


Would it count if i threw something into the oven, left it for the right time and then opened the oven door at the right moment and caught the pies on a plate ......... think I mite be able to do it in a force 9 planning hull then........

 

[Gludy]

It has to be a bacon butty and there are brownie points for a hot cup of tea,

 

[Gludy]

No that does not count - no hot fat dnager involved.

 

[Gludy]

No that does not count - no hot fat danger involved.

 

[Gludy]

The fat flying everywjere is part of the danger involved in getting the award.

Gold stars are awarded for those serving the buttys to lifeboat crew whilst the boat is doing a slef righting turn.

 

[Gludy]

Powerskipper .... will you please try to stop getting around the rules - a bacon butty is a bacon butty ... it is not a hot pie .... it preferably must be a bit soggy as well.

 

[Wiggo]

Hot fat danger??? Sod that, Paul, think of your arteries, man! Grilled bacon, please! And much safer in a big sea, as well. Ot have I just devalued the Gludy Bacon Butty Award?

 

[kindredspirit]

Just did a little market research on bacon butties (well, actually I looked it up on Copernic!)


Britons are the biggest consumers of bacon rashers in Europe, spending over £430 Million on prepacked rashers alone.

Over 560 Million Bacon Butties are eaten every year

Independent Research commissioned by Danepak shows that bacon can generate a feel good factor:

37% of people say that a bacon butty helps improve their mood

17% confessed to preferring a bacon butty everyday to making love everyday

39% of workers think that Monday mornings would be bearable if their boss gave them a bacon butty to start the day.

If you put all the bacon rashers eaten in one year side by side, they would stretch round the earth 18 times.

 

[Dave_Snelson]

Aha - I think I qualify...

My stove is removable, and thats just what we did on a trip to Bardsey Island last year. The stove and gas bottle were placed in the stern on a table and SWMBO cooked the bacon, all in a reasonable blow that was enough for our raggies to get to Irelend.

And there's more...up front in the cabin, were my 3 kids, fast asleep with the bow bouncing up and down like a good 'un. They didn't wake until the cry went up that the bacon buttstervilles were ready...they scoffed them and then they went back to sleep. Well it was early..06:00

Talk about sea legs!!

 

[DepSol]

Steve Lloyd Spirit of Cardiff RTW trip did bacon buttys in most weather so I am told planing hull up to force 10 for sure.

DOm

 

[Gludy]

"17% confessed to preferring a bacon butty everyday to making love everyday"

Now this opens up possiblities because I reckon you should award the KindredSpirit Making Love Award.

I think the chances of doing this when in a displacement boat or even an sd type are much better than any planing boat bouncing across the surface all the time - in a planing boat only the boat does the banging - its a well known fact!

Unless you know soemthing I do not know.

 

[Gludy]

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that as this forum cannot even agree on the definition of a bacon butty it has no chance of every agreeing on the pros and cons of hulls shapes.

 

[ShipsWoofy]

I took a diving party out in a F6. I told them not to go, but they knew best. As skipper I also had to cook for them, bacon butties all around. In an 42 ft MFV this is no mean feat, she rolled like a bitch.

These lads were out and were damn well going to enjoy it. Until the first 6 entered the water for their first dive, I was comfortable with the conditions before anyone pips in. Around two minutes after they went under, 6 heads re-appeared on the surface, most had thrown up in their masks. I nearly had to run to the stern!

The best bit, was the sheepish guy who appeared in the wheelhouse on the way home, er, sorry mate, I've just been sick all over the heads. Around 100ft of Gunwale and he threw up down below. The second time I nearly ran to the stern was cleaning the heads at the end of the day.

Food and bouncy boats, hmmmm, not for everyone!