Thieving yottie in Cherbourg...

[Oen]

Got up at about 23.40 UT to put extra warps on, to find my Fender Step had been 'liberated' from the boat. There's no chance it fell off, as it was secured with shackles, and I can't help feeling that it must have been a fellow yottie who took it (what use would it be to a non-sailor?). Fairly obviously, it must have been a visitor...

So, we shall now take much sterner security precautions everywhere we go, though how we guard against fender theft is another matter...

 

[LymingtonPugwash]

That'll teach you to go to frogland.... What else did you expect from those thieving frogs? After all, they're almost a bad a those thieving Brits!

 

[Twister_Ken]

Fenderstep - my dear, just too too embarrassing. Shame on you.

I'm not surprised someone pukka removed it, to stop you showing off your ignorance to Johnny Foreigner.

Get thee hence and obtain a proper boarding ladder, hand-carved from expensive and rare tropical hardwoods by a lesbian mothers' collective in Sumatra.

 

[Oen]

Ahem, aside from a few of our Dutch cousins, the pontoon is chockablock wth Brits... I've drawn my own conclusion!

...and Ken, that just wouldn't look right on a ticky-tacky AWB, would it?

 

[cliff]

How do you know it was not a MoBo'r that nicked it?
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[KevB]

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How do you know it was not a MoBo'r that nicked it?


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Cause 99.9% of Mobo's have no use for them, where as 99.9% of yachts have. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

And besides, we all know all mobo owners are law abiding citizens.....

 

[jenku]

But what is a fender step in the first place?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Its all in the name....

 

[jenku]

A fender that is also a ladder? Or a ladder that is also a fender? Could still be anything. Up here ferryboats use old wooden stocks as fenderns. And I guess I could use a ladder as a fender if I had a steel boat.
Could also be a fender tied horizontally to the topsides to be used as a single step up the boat while alongside.
In fact it even could be a certain make of guitar used as a ladder. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[bilbobaggins]

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we shall now take much sterner security precautions everywhere we go

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Still looking for crew, Tim?

"I can do that! Gissajob....!"


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[Bejasus]

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Could also be a fender tied horizontally to the topsides to be used as a single step up the boat while alongside.

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Exactly.