Trafalgar 200 Portsmouth

[DJE]

Have a look at QHM's LNTM 43/04 at:-
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.qhmportsmouth.com/index.php?subject=note&seld=1&art=145>http://www.qhmportsmouth.com/index.php?subject=note&seld=1&art=145</A>
It is going to be a lot further from Portsmouth to Cowes next June.



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[BlueChip]

I got that email and a strange thing happened. After reading the message, when i go back to the mail in my inbox the body of the email has dissapeared

Does anyone else have this problem?

It happens with all emails from QHM but I never saw it with mail from anyone else


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[pragmatist]

At least QHM will be too busy to bully you to fill in forms ! Can't quite imagine what the commercial shipping companies will make of such draconian measures.

<hr width=100% size=1>a pragmatist is an optimist with a boat in the UK - but serious about not being in the UK !

 

[StugeronSteve]

Son et lumierre!!!! and I thought we won.

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[jhr]

\"I thought we won\"

You poor, deluded fool.

Of course, it looked as if we won at the time, but the French operate on the twin principles of (1) Revenge being a dish best served cold and (2) The mills of the Godly grinding slowly but exceedingly small.

In pursuance of this aim, they have given us, firstly, the bum-numbing discomfort that is Son et Lumiere and, secondly, almost anything remotely connected to The European Union and/or its various directives. In return, they have graciously consented to barbecue our sheep.

However, if you are really lucky, the Son et Lumiere will contain plenty of Sturm und Drang /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[StugeronSteve]

Re: The things they forget...

... to tell you in the history books. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Rather amusing that warships - you know, armour guns, radar that'll piclk up a pimple on a matelot's arse at 20 miles, hundered of hairy handed jack tars spoiling for a fight - should be worried about us lot, unarmed, bumbling peacefully about the Solent.

Next thinh you know, they'll be asking for extra ships to protect the ships they've already got.

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[jhr]

Re: The things they forget...

History books often take the revisionist approach.

For example, consider the following extracts from the works of recent historians:

"Cherbourg 2003: the tale of how a Twister won the day"
"King Jimi I was one of the earliest yotties to identify the existence and practical applications of the holding tank."
"Lord Montague was known as "The Red Earl" and often compared to Ken Livingstone, because of his enlightened views on providing low cost mooring for needy boaters".
"The rain and gales of Autumn 2004 provided a perfect environment to demonstrate the sea-keeping qualities of water-ballasted sailing boats with big outboards strapped on the back" (Actually, this one's probably true /forums/images/icons/wink.gif)


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[Twister_Ken]

And not forgetting...

...In Septembr, as part of its working-up process. Mirabella V successfully tested its keel configuration in a simulated accidental grounding.

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[Bergman]

I always thought Trafalgar day was October 21

Easy to remember:

21 Oct Battle of Trafalgar
22 Oct My Wedding aniversary
23 Oct Battle of El Alamein



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[Sybarite]

Les Rosbifs....

On reviendra mes amis....

Jean



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[Iota]

understandable though in the light of what happened to the US Warship in Aden. The impact of a Twister fully loaded with high explosive or explosive gases being let off near the ships doesn't bear thinking about. I guess any determined individual could buy a cheap mobo act normal until near the exclusion zone and then full throttles down etc. How do you defend against that?

Iota

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[Iota]

Go and see the biggest memorial at Waterloo. The British ridge scraped and lowered by a few feet and then a rather large memorial built to ....the French

Iota

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[Twister_Ken]

>How do you defend against that?<

Hold the fleet review somewhere where 1000 small boats don't bumble around every weekend. After all HMShips are big boats with lots of fuel capacity, and loads of anchor chain. So how about reviewing them 5 miles south of St Catherine's Pt? I can't see any good reason to block up half the eastern Solent for a week.

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[Iota]

bah humbug )

it will possibly the last chance for people to see this number of ships again.

Can't expect HMQ to trog all the way out to Nab they might not find their way back

Iota

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[Gunfleet]

Nous attendrons.

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[Twister_Ken]

The real reason for an exclusion zone

Judging by the state of the Arthur Daley class submarines we've just unloaded on the Canadians, QHM probably doesn't want ordinary mortals (the actual owners of the Grey Funnel line, BTW) getting near them, in case one or more HM Ships spontaneously combusts.

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[Iota]

Re: The real reason for an exclusion zone

ah you have heard the rumour as well, just keeping the naval tradition of sinking ships off Portsmoth. Year 2504 a few divers come across parts of a warship that sank during the Traflagar 200 celebrations. They decide to build a museum to hold outside the harbour that used to be known as Portsmouth but is now the extended marina for Sunsail.

Iota

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[CaptainCava]

Re: QHM Trafalgar 200

Does this nice representative of all our best interests (QHM for the un-initiated) actually have the right to impose this exclusion zone?

Does anyone remember the 50th anniversary of D Day........
when everything was anchored in the Solent......
and we all sailed (emotionally) close to these leviathans.......
and probably most of us, in our own individual ways,
payed tribute to what we owed their forerunners and the crews who died in them?

How dare they close the Solent?
WHAT IS THIS FLEET REVIEW FOR IF IT'S NOT FOR US, THE PUBLIC?
After all, we're paying for it!

Is this exclusion zone really the price we have to pay for 9/11 and our fear of Osama bin Laden et al?

Oh...... and again, do they really have the right to close a major chunk of the Solent?

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[plombier]

Re: QHM Trafalgar 200

The answer to 1,2 4 & 5 is YES.

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