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Our illustrious leader writes all about long distance mile-munching in Dec mby editorial. Apparently he drove a motorbike from marseille to london once in 12 hours. Don't try this yerself, it says. Ooer!....or indeed, duh?
It's under 1100km from marseilles to calais, or about 680 miles, the legal limit about 85mph making it 8hours. Add 30 mins pumping fuel leaves a generous three and a half hours for reaching London via ferry and the final 75 miles to London. Not very illegal really? “Illegal” means reaching Calais in a shade over 7 hours from la napoule, an extra hundred miles along the motorway from Marseille, and getting fined by the plourds in Lyon en route – as per the very badly behaved Mrs tcm albeit egged on by the kids, I hear. Learner reports even higher velocities, but that’s probly in a French car, which is always faster, of course.
OK, next up he went from breakfast in Amsterdam to supper in Cowes, doing the 320m miles in a single day last summer, it says here. Wow, surely? But the straightline distance from Amsterdam (ijmuiden) to Dover is actually quoted at under 160nm in the almanac, and it's another 110 to Cowes from there, so perhaps the extra 50 blimmin miles was erm, GPS error?
At the reported 30 knots, 320 miles is under 11 hours of very gruelling um, sitting down. But anyway, breakfast in Amsterdam could happen at 5am giving an arrival time of 3pm local time in the afternoon. Was it a late lunch in Cowes, not supper? Or maybe they had a really really massive lardy breakfast, and didn’t set off till 11 in the morning. Even so, they’d still reach Cowes in the daylight at 9pm local, allowing for an hour driving 25 miles in the wrong direction towards Norway before turning the GPS the right way up.
The Nassau-Providenciales trip is 360 miles on the charts, although I expect this was in an American trawler thingy, possibly with Americans on board, so it may have felt a very long way indeed, plus GPS error again so maybe they did 500 miles or even more, praps…......but what’s that noise in the background? Oh dear, it’s the raggies- laughing rudely at the notion that this is a very long way. How very horrid of them!
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It's under 1100km from marseilles to calais, or about 680 miles, the legal limit about 85mph making it 8hours. Add 30 mins pumping fuel leaves a generous three and a half hours for reaching London via ferry and the final 75 miles to London. Not very illegal really? “Illegal” means reaching Calais in a shade over 7 hours from la napoule, an extra hundred miles along the motorway from Marseille, and getting fined by the plourds in Lyon en route – as per the very badly behaved Mrs tcm albeit egged on by the kids, I hear. Learner reports even higher velocities, but that’s probly in a French car, which is always faster, of course.
OK, next up he went from breakfast in Amsterdam to supper in Cowes, doing the 320m miles in a single day last summer, it says here. Wow, surely? But the straightline distance from Amsterdam (ijmuiden) to Dover is actually quoted at under 160nm in the almanac, and it's another 110 to Cowes from there, so perhaps the extra 50 blimmin miles was erm, GPS error?
At the reported 30 knots, 320 miles is under 11 hours of very gruelling um, sitting down. But anyway, breakfast in Amsterdam could happen at 5am giving an arrival time of 3pm local time in the afternoon. Was it a late lunch in Cowes, not supper? Or maybe they had a really really massive lardy breakfast, and didn’t set off till 11 in the morning. Even so, they’d still reach Cowes in the daylight at 9pm local, allowing for an hour driving 25 miles in the wrong direction towards Norway before turning the GPS the right way up.
The Nassau-Providenciales trip is 360 miles on the charts, although I expect this was in an American trawler thingy, possibly with Americans on board, so it may have felt a very long way indeed, plus GPS error again so maybe they did 500 miles or even more, praps…......but what’s that noise in the background? Oh dear, it’s the raggies- laughing rudely at the notion that this is a very long way. How very horrid of them!
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