Weekend observations

[Guest]

Lousy tides this weekend, so rather than leave at the crack of sparrowfart, we had a lie in Saturday and slipped around 1.30 in the afternoon. The same time as Hagrid. We arrived at East Head about 20 minutes before him, and were anchored up, with fenders, warps and beers at the ready. Thing is, we came from Christchurch, and he came from Chichester...

Also, after a wonderful dinner at the Ship Inn at Itchenor, we discovered that tenders should be left on the outside of the pontoon, not the inside like the miserable old git we met told us.

We also discovered that what looks like a normal beach is, in actual fact, foot deep foul stinking mud that almost cost me a pair of deckshoes. How the girls laughed. Also discovered that Hagrid's SO should not be allowed near shopping centres, particularly ones like Gunwharf Quays, with rather too many designer outlet stores.

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[Moose]

How are the photos?

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EL MOOSEO

 

[Guest]

Ah, the CD from Andy? If so, excellent, thank you.

BTW, does anyone want to admit to shouting and waving at me from a 40-ish foot flybridge on Sunday morning? We were on the pontoon 200m up from the Ship Inn and a boat neither of us recognised went by with a lot of waving and shouting...

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[Moose]

"Happy Moods" (rog) was out and about, he has a Phantom 40 so maybe him?

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EL MOOSEO

 

[Guest]

That was him! Who is he, then. I've obviously never insulted him while drunk, so I'm struggling to think why I don't recognise the name...

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[Moose]

A forumite.

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EL MOOSEO

 

[hagrid]

Where did you get to this weekend?

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[rog]

Graham
Yeah it was me!
Sorry you don't remember - we met in Jersey about 2 years ago now with the Fairline Club.
Didn't think I did too much shouting - was just a "GRAHAM" and a friendly wave.
Hope you had a good day

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[Guest]

Good grief! Well spotted, is all I can say. And I understand you know Moose, as well.

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[iangrant]

Were you the Black roped black and white boat on the visitors buoy adjacent to the jetty Saturday night? We were in the bunch of yachts next to the hooray henrys who got themselves stuck on the jetty at 4AM.

We had dinner outside the Ship Inn too. Good food I thought it has improved this year..

Ian

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[iangrant]

Oh and BTW - If you were at the east end of east head (if that makes sense) - yes it's muddy the new spit end is pure sand.

I leave my dingy on the inside of the jetty behing the Haines workboats but not on the ferry side. You should have told the old git to get lost.

Ian

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[Guest]

East Head was fine - we were anchored up with Hagrid at the eastern end. We overnighted a couple of hundred metres up from the Ship on the long pontoon there, so no, we weren't the one you saw.

We left the tenders opposite the workboats you describe, and when we came back, they were ten feet from the water, and sat on foot deep stinking mud...

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