a fellow forumite had life threatening accident whilst demonstrating flares. they can be dangerous. the faulty in date flare nearly killed him.
only ever have in date ones
i have used white flares to let a big ship we are there. i am in favour of them.
take your old flares to the local rnli...
Re: Is it just me or is the America\'s Cup just stupid?
i think last time i checked the teams won in order of budget other than 5th came fourth and 4th fifth. other than that it was pretty much we had a competition to see who was richest whilst some yachts were on thewater
meanwhile on the...
i would get a tiller extension and bring the weight forard a bit
dragging the stern will be costing a bit
but i love the salt and pepper look of the skipper's hair
the red sail i love
it is precisely the inverse of going on a mobo
so you offer
scruttocks old badger breath ale (you would have have brought champagne but it would be showy to the adjacent swining mooring types)
you look longingly at long keeled boats if they have an AWB and say helpful things like
''i cannot...
put us down
i will have the left bunk
or the flybridge
or the
oh [--word removed--] no stick us down as maybe
mrs s is kicking off about childcare
apparetnly the childcare arrangements have changed from last time now the child is outside of her and has been joined by another
women eh?
if you know so much why buy the magazine?
oh you don't know how to get into the lesser known parts of brittany,
oh shame on you?
the same applies. YM HAS to be there for newbies. be it coil a rope or enter le havre.
just because an article is not aimed at you does not make it any less valid
i wish the lad well
can do nothing else for any sailor setting out on any journey
i just hope he is following his own dream
and its not his father vicariuosly fulfilling his own
on a trip to lanzarote with a certain forumite i re-read ellen's first book and decided all single solos are...
I had intended on making a spirited defence of your comments based on pure emotion of a a publication that has kept me same through long winter nights and all too short boatless summers
i have found that, a publication that once led to cherished back issues to the point of madness years ago...
no offfence dan but i grew up reading the adventures of the whitbread raace
adc accutrac debenhams amd alll that
the last vor i followed
they were pure racing machines going at full pelt around the globe skippered navigated and crewed by the finest in their field
some boats and crew paid the...
So I phone up my mater and pater this morning to find out how pater is.( he has had his first attck gout at 67)
he tells me a story
he used to race out of holyhead
and i spent a couple of early summers cruising highlands and islands on said boat as crew's thankyou. skipper of boat a swan 37...
in my pre-mrs s days i found a very unloved moody 33 tshoal draft that i was advised had all the upwind capabilities of a grand piano that i should have bought as it would have meant we had a boat that could be upgraded rather than no boat and wait for ''the one''
my advice
such as it is
would...
i was at the house
so have no idea about what happened ''offshore''
apparently i have a reduced tax on my alumni business thanks to ''a lovely old queen''
so all the old boys will be pleased
has had his previous guests in corfu arguing
he dropped anchor near a friend's house
he mentioned the small matter of a donation
he in fact meant the fact that both had stayed in air conditioned cabins causing significant increase in the fuel bill
he reckoned 50 grand would cover the cost...