Time for Claymore's Annual Quandary

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Put that way I have to agree! He raised my mast for me last year, all his crew turned up, I watched, they did it. Very proffesional. £40 crew and crane. Hope he does not knock nails into your glassfibre though /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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Re: Time for Claymore\'s Annual Quandary

If you need extra crew I may be available for a few days.
How long were you thinking of taking? Can we stop at some gardens on the way down?

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Yes Yes
Will the gardens be beer gardens?
Setting off Friday evening from home so underway Saturday am
Jimi and Para may well be with us

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Real Quandry Is...

Where will you have more fun

Cuilfail Hotel or

any drinking establishment 'near where you are'...

You would miss out on nice trips - and get to do some jobs on the boat.

Me? I take the boat to McAllister's in Dumbarton. Very handy

Regards

Donald

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Hmm - oxymoron there I fear - Solway + Haven!
Probably not - if we came down the Portpatrick route we'd probably leg it back to Fleetwood in one from there. If we came down the Irish side, again we'd possibly run right across either from Pt of Ayre or Chicken to Fleetwood.
I'm thinking
Day 1 either Kilmelford to Islay or Kilmelford to Tarbert via Crinan.
Day 2 Islay to Bangor/Strangford/Ardglass or Tarbert to Portpatrick
Day 3 Wherever to Fleetwood.

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Donald...
Too late. The crew (all 12 of us) are signed up and ready to go.
If he doesn't turn up we'll just take the boat and head south anyway....

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This just gets better - perhaps we could set up a relay team - I'll sail out of Kilmelford - say as far a Croabh then get off and go and get my car. This would leave Para, Jimi and Longjohnsadler to get the boat through the canal. I could then go along the road and open a few locks on the Crinan and drive down to Tarbert and get the beers in. Donald and Sheena could then join and take the boat through the Kyles as they know where the sticky up bits are there. I'll meet them in Inverkip and run them home whilst Jimi could take it from Kip as he would be bound to have had a good sleep by now. He could take it doon ra Clyde past East Kulbride and doon tae say Troon. The Sadler could then take it across the North Channel to the Irish waters he knows so well. Para would then take over and take her to the Isle of Man as he misspent parts of his youth there and so knows it well. In the meantime I could have driven back home and caught the King Orry where I could meet up with the erstwhiles in Douglas to do the last bit back to Fleetwood.


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Well - he tends to do it all on pilotage so doesn't really need a coors

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Well - if you are in Spain just now then it probably is - which is more than can be said for these parts

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Why does the boat trip from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' keep coming to mind?


Donald

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If I were you I would be more worried about Claymore's misplaced faith in what I know about the sticky up bits in the Kyles.

Donald

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Poor Claymore what a noisy unruley crew you lot are.. no wonder he's taking to the car!

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No I'm no. You wouldn'y have said yon if y'saw me. 5'2" hardcase so um ur.
Now where did i put that Burberry baseball cap?

Donald

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