Well, I'm back from a few weeks on the seas

[NigeCh]

At least 51%

Sofar I've always managed to come back ... I've been rescued twice: once when I was 13 (in 1955, off Lundy sailing to the USA on a stolen lugger having decided to run away from home with a school atlas as a chart !!!) and the 2nd time in the Menai Strait 7 years ago when a pipe laying barge was blocking Britannia Bridge.

If advice can be counted on a percentage basis, then 51% is better than 49% - I don't know, I'm still a learner. But then aren't we all?

 

[AndrewB]

Bad advice, good advice.

Rescued "off Lundy sailing to the USA on a stolen lugger having decided to run away from home with a school atlas as a chart !!!"?

How romantic! I'm happy to suspend disbelief - test my credulity and fill us in with plausible detail, please Nige.

 

[cynthia]

Re: Bad advice, good advice.

Hi Nige - welcome back. Been off sailing myself - just a temporary landlubber - praise the Lord!! C

 

[NigeCh]

Barbu ou dejas barbu?

Comme un type chauve, perhaps I'd better email you the whats, the whys and the wherefores. Suffit dit?

 

[NigeCh]

They don\'t understand ....

The seas are the seas are the seas .... and the seas are the seas for sailing on and to finding what life is all about ... But don't tell them as wilderness sailing is what it's all about.

 

[Rabbie]

Re: They don\'t understand ....

Hello again Nigel.
Is this something from the Cantona book of verse?.
Rab.

 

[dk]

Good weather

Glad you've had a great time Nige. I've just returned myself from four weeks sailing in the sunshine - now I don't think 'er indoors will ever want to sail in the UK again! What's more - we paid a total of £8.40 in berthing dues, and this was only when we tied up for fuel and water!

Where? - Greece of course.

Yesterday, when we walked around Hamble Point looking out through the chilly mirk across the Solent, I couldn't help but wonder why we bother over here.

Maybe I'm just getting soft in my old age!

 

[Mr Cassandra]

Re: Good weather

Please stop telling everyone ,how cheep it is over hear , otherwise the bloody lot of you will come. cheers bob t

Bob T

 

[Guest]

Re: They don\'t understand ....

Are you on drugs?

 

[Viceroy]

Advice, etc.

Nige, et al... as another opinionated sailor, I've got a 3 page list of "stuff" particularly developed for newer off-shore sailors. I'd be happy to e-mail the list to anyone interested. Contact me at Ramsay64@aol.com. Promise...no spam, no other junk...just the list. Cheers, Richard.

 

[Grehan]

Re: Well, I\'m back from a few weeks on the seas

Well done, Nige.

For the posting(s) and for the giving-up.
Keep up the posting(s) and keep up the giving-up.

[I also found the patches very effective, once I'd decided I was giving up of my own free will and not through PC bullying. But where's all that bloody money I've saved for Pete's sake? Gone, like Grehan's wake]

Good on yer, squire.

 

[Guest]

Re: Well, I\'m back from a few weeks on the seas

Well,I'm back too!!from Dancy8888 to Manateee_Gene; since I live on the Manatee
River in Bradenton,Fl. We too have been at sea. 3 months in the Bahamas, mostly
on Andros Island. One month cruising the Middle Florida Keys. Now preparing for
the 200 mile trip up the West Coast of Florida and home. Sounds like we both have a bit of sea time. I had your same problem over on the bulletin board of
Cruising world. Now I just, look and Laugh!!
Gene

Keep on Learning!!

 

[chuns]

Oh, Nige, really!

I can cope with your ramblings, but I cannot cope with the new self-effacing and sycophantic you!

My wife put on weight when she quit smoking - you seem to have put on unctuousness!

 

[ghostwriter]

No man called NigeCh can ever post a silly post

the problem is not in the writer , the problem is in the reader(s) who don't read what is written , but you sure do your best to hide that at times , do you ? ;-)

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Well, I\'m back from a few weeks on the seas

Nice to hear you back NigeCh, lovely area to sail, my brother was over at the peel festival and the TT, the classic races, wonderful! I was in the meddy, back offshore now! Glad you managed to quit, a new lease of life awaits you!! Colin.