where can i get blue dye for diesel?

[Tranona]

Harwich > Calais 67.2 ish
Harwich > Dunkerque 70.5 ish
Harwich > Oostende 72.5

I am pleased you dont navigate for me

Perhaps he does not need to navigate as he sails a CO 32 which as everybody knows is so good it can find its own way there!

 

[sailorman]

According to my laptop chartplotter Harwich to Calais is 61.33nm breakwater to breakwater, I can't be bothered with the rest.


Jimi wrote that Belgium was the closest foreign country to Ipswich (though I reckon Essex probably is) and he was wrong. That he cannae work out the tides and hits sandbanks is neither here nor there. You can fart about all you like with mileages, TSSs, sandbanks, windfarms, et al but it disnae change the shape of our oblate spheroid and move any of Ipswich, France or Belgium - so there!

Whitfor you fighting his battles for him, anway?

It is pleasing that you know more about my sailing area than i do, you sir are indeed amazing

 

[jimi]

According to my laptop chartplotter Harwich to Calais is 61.33nm breakwater to breakwater, I can't be bothered with the rest.


Jimi wrote that Belgium was the closest foreign country to Ipswich (though I reckon Essex probably is) and he was wrong. That he cannae work out the tides and hits sandbanks is neither here nor there. You can fart about all you like with mileages, TSSs, sandbanks, windfarms, et al but it disnae change the shape of our oblate spheroid and move any of Ipswich, France or Belgium - so there!

Whitfor you fighting his battles for him, anway?

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What battles? if you choose to make an @rse of yourself on a public forum, then people are free to pile in and laugh at you. Its not a privarte messaging system.

 

[sailorman]

Perhaps he does not need to navigate as he sails a CO 32 which as everybody knows is so good it can find its own way there!

The one i owned for 11 years could but that was 16 years ago so it might be rusty on nav these days as she hasnt ventured foriegn since i sold her

 

[awol]

Perhaps he does not need to navigate as he sails a CO 32 which as everybody knows is so good it can find its own way there!

If I was in need of cheap alcohol, I wouldn't be sailing to Belgium, that's for sure. Just fill in C945 and load up. I'm not sure why pointing out Jimi's limited grasp of geography has anything to do with my boat, but I'll bite anyway - anything to stop another diesel/Belgium will they/won't they thread. I'd rather bounce off a mud bank in my LKB than in a WKB any day.


LKB - long keeled boat
WKB - wobbly .............

 

[sailorman]

If I was in need of cheap alcohol, I wouldn't be sailing to Belgium, that's for sure. Just fill in C945 and load up. I'm not sure why pointing out Jimi's limited grasp of geography has anything to do with my boat, but I'll bite anyway - anything to stop another diesel/Belgium will they/won't they thread. I'd rather bounce off a mud bank in my LKB than in a WKB any day.


LKB - long keeled boat
WKB - wobbly .............

The daze of Duty Free booze, from Belgium, are sadly long, long over. There are not many who have brought back more than me since 78 & that`s a fact.
Most of my Eurocheques were 7,000 Bf each usually 2 x 7kBf

 

[jimi]

If I was in need of cheap alcohol, I wouldn't be sailing to Belgium, that's for sure. Just fill in C945 and load up. I'm not sure why pointing out Jimi's limited grasp of geography has anything to do with my boat, but I'll bite anyway - anything to stop another diesel/Belgium will they/won't they thread. I'd rather bounce off a mud bank in my LKB than in a WKB any day.


LKB - long keeled boat
WKB - wobbly .............

Hmmmmm .......

 

[sailorman]

Hmmmmm .......

Forget the Hype,the Co32 was not well built.
de-bonding lower main bulk hd
no stringers behind the loo / basin to name but 2 items

 

[jimi]

in my early sailind days I crewed on a Contessa 32 in a few races, they were wet, small and slow ;-) Nice lines though!

And we went round sandbanks rather than through them!

AWOL is just being an @rse again, for some reason he likes to have a pop at me every now and then, if he enjoys it, let him ;-)

 

[Tranona]

If I was in need of cheap alcohol, I wouldn't be sailing to Belgium, that's for sure. Just fill in C945 and load up. I'm not sure why pointing out Jimi's limited grasp of geography has anything to do with my boat, but I'll bite anyway - anything to stop another diesel/Belgium will they/won't they thread. I'd rather bounce off a mud bank in my LKB than in a WKB any day.


LKB - long keeled boat
WKB - wobbly .............

Well I inspected my keel only a few weeks ago and it looked exactly the same as it did 13 years ago when it came out of the factory - despite having bounced off Greek rocks and slid through lots of Poole Harbour mud. But of course I would not expect anything different from a well designed and engineered boat. It also found its way from Corfu to Poole with a little bit of help from me and my crew.

 

[awol]

in my early sailind days I crewed on a Contessa 32 in a few races, they were wet, small and slow ;-) Nice lines though!

And we went round sandbanks rather than through them!

AWOL is just being an @rse again, for some reason he likes to have a pop at me every now and then, if he enjoys it, let him ;-)

Aye, a high RAF is all they have going for them. That and the keels not falling off. You'll note I wrote "mudbanks" - I wouldn't recommend any vessel to bounce off sandbanks, they're awfy hard things.

If pointing out a statement you made is wrong makes me an arse then so be it, perhaps I took your words just a tad pedantically, but if you believe you are correct in your assertion then fine. I've just taken the http://electricpulp.com/guykawasaki/arse/" test and regret to tell you I scored 4. May I suggest you do the same?

 

[LionsDen]

So I can avoid being caught with red stuff?

Esso Blue

Not read the rest off this thread yet so apologies if already mentioned..

 

[sailorman]

Esso Blue

Not read the rest off this thread yet so apologies if already mentioned..

Ble Doola

 

[Daydream believer]

Harwich > Calais 67.2 ish
Harwich > Dunkerque 70.5 ish
Harwich > Oostende 72.5

I am pleased you dont navigate for me

You could be both right
I seem to recall that if you study the optimum times for tides to Dunkerque & ostend
Then leave at the optimum times you will find that ostend is effectively quicker on some points of sailing due to the east going stream pushing you to ostend whereas it is not so helpful going to Dunkerque or Calais

 

[jimi]

Aye, a high RAF is all they have going for them. That and the keels not falling off. You'll note I wrote "mudbanks" - I wouldn't recommend any vessel to bounce off sandbanks, they're awfy hard things.

If pointing out a statement you made is wrong makes me an arse then so be it, perhaps I took your words just a tad pedantically, but if you believe you are correct in your assertion then fine. I've just taken the http://electricpulp.com/guykawasaki/arse/" test and regret to tell you I scored 4. May I suggest you do the same?

Look, AWOL, if you can't take it ... don't dish it out!

 

[jimi]

Esso Blue

Not read the rest off this thread yet so apologies if already mentioned..

;-) hee hee, paraffin blue was where I was aiming until some plonker derailed it ;-)

 

[sailorman]

You could be both right
I seem to recall that if you study the optimum times for tides to Dunkerque & ostend
Then leave at the optimum times you will find that ostend is effectively quicker on some points of sailing due to the east going stream pushing you to ostend whereas it is not so helpful going to Dunkerque or Calais

Harwich > Belgium make little difference as the course is accross the tide, 12 hr trip & no allowance really req ( much like Solent > Cherbourg), just off-set the balance of the tide.
Harwich > Calais would be leave HW Harwich (Ish) would give you LW off Ramsgit / Sandwich & carry the flood accross the Dover Straights to Calais, it would give foul tide from Folgers Gat to LW, so longer through the water than going to Belgium

 

[awol]

;-) hee hee, paraffin blue was where I was aiming until some plonker derailed it ;-)

Look, you geographically challenged, short-arsed, wee nyaff, even I don't believe you are simple enough to start this thread actually seeking a dye to add to your diesel.

 

[Daydream believer]

Harwich > Belgium make little difference as the course is accross the tide, 12 hr trip & no allowance really req ( much like Solent > Cherbourg), just off-set the balance of the tide

The tide on foreign side runs faster & is alined with the coast
The tide at longsand head runs more southerly
So leaving longsand head it takes you south then the tide heads you along the coast away from dunkirque
That is why the difference in mileage is offset by the tides
To get to ostend a course of 127deg takes a offset south
The journey takes 10 hours so you can have 6 hours of flood & 4 hours of east going stream
Hence you get to belgium quicker than france

 

[sailorman]

The tide on foreign side runs faster & is alined with the coast
The tide at longsand head runs more southerly
So leaving longsand head it takes you south then the tide heads you along the coast away from dunkirque
That is why the difference in mileage is offset by the tides
To get to ostend a course of 127deg takes a offset south
The journey takes 10 hours so you can have 6 hours of flood & 4 hours of east going stream
Hence you get to belgium quicker than france

what state of the tide are you leaving on, Oostende no matter but heading to France on the ebb
one of my Belgian trips