Biggles Wader
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Need a good lock there.
'Where from and whither bound?'
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john_morris_uk
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Praxinoscope
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Monaco, to see the F1 from my yacht moored in the harbour.
Frank Holden
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That chart table looks vaguely familiar.
Where do I
want to head? Have a guess.Sybarite
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A question of tense :
Whither - where are you going to (in the future)?
Whence - Where have you come from?
PhillM
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I think I’d head south to Cape Verde and then think about southern America. Not ever had that make that decision but have dreamt of doing so.
Poignard
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I have just begun reading "The Misty Islands" by Miles Smeeton in which he describes visiting Japan in Tsu Hang.
That would be an interesting destination.
That would be an interesting destination.
Wansworth
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For a forieign shore taster………North Coast of Spain,appearing and disappearing behind the swell,and gradually as the sun comes up the feignt shape of the land,later in the day landfall and people speaking an unfathomable language?
capnsensible
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Sounds like Tahiti if you add rain and it turns out its French being .....spoken.
laika
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The way things are going I suspect l’d be aiming for habitual zones with pockets of survivors, keeping a close eye on the weather and the Geiger counter.
Blueboatman
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First time we sailed into N Spain 1980!
I was the not quite teenage navigator with a plastic sextant and Blewitt and a reliable walker log, some ok dead reckoning , we had no inshore chart , except the admiralty pilot.
“In bad weather many lighthouses become lost in the cloud .. etc “
couldn’t lay Estaca de wotsit with an adequate accurate margin , it was November and blowing up pretty nasty from the wsw .. so we scooted into a place I still have difficulty finding on Google earth but it had a breakwater and water clear enough to safely come in , round up , anchor and dry out ( wooden leaker ?)…
then ashore .. pure bliss , Spanish accebts , fresh bread , friendly fishermen . Then the wind wound round to the nw as we knew it would , and it really started to blow.
We didn’t care .
Welcome to proper foreign cruising !
Iirc San Cyprian, or Ciprao ?? Ring any bells?
Now got a big industrial harbour adjacent I think ..
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Poecheng
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He didn't.
He said unto Satan "Whence comest though?"
As the creator of all things, including the English language
, He would know that the word 'from' was unnecessary.
Biggles Wader
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Hence my suggestion of St Helena.
laika
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Hence my suggestion of St Helena.
Or the med if able?
The Panama plan has already been mentioned.
On the theme of ending up where one started, I’m reminded of Robin Knox Johnston’s response to the question “Where from?” on his return to Falmouth…
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zoidberg
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No takers for The Falklands, then...?
john_morris_uk
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Poignard
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Q: 'Where from and whither bound?'
A: 'Hither and thither.'
A: 'Hither and thither.'
Frank Holden
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Bin there twice on my Sealord, no plans for a third visit. Appeals to some.
john_morris_uk
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That ICOM 706 looks familiar too. (G4BXS/MM or VP8CQZ/MM if my Falkland Isles call is still valid. )
Stemar
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I'd never heard of the Lello 34, so I looked it up. Very nice, but
"Early version (1975) had the deck around the coach-roof in plywood with fiberglass overlay and the coach-roof itself made out of wood. "
So it sounds as though I'm going back to the boatyard to rip her apart, hunting the rot.
"Early version (1975) had the deck around the coach-roof in plywood with fiberglass overlay and the coach-roof itself made out of wood. "
So it sounds as though I'm going back to the boatyard to rip her apart, hunting the rot.