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oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Still gales and also tomorrow when I am travelling off island. Boats on alert but no cancellations yet. Livestock is being taken on a sailing by sailing basis due to heavy swell in Firth of Lorne. Difficult for farmers. In the good old days they used to divert round the top of Lismore to take any swell on bow or stern. Had some “ interesting “ trips in those days.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Morning all, A bit of a lie in today, The dog has been walked, breakfast eaten and the big rhododendron bush in the garden has had a make over. It was far too big, and a lot of the inner branches were dead. I am planning for next year and need a bit of space next to the bush for something else.
Off to lunch with MrsP and our son shortly, he is not in a good mood as his car was broken into again last night in the squash club car park. They smashed the back window and all they took was his work bag. There was a Motorola radio in it that he needs for work. That can be replaced, also probably tracked through GPS unless they take the battery out.
 

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
Morning all, A bit of a lie in today, The dog has been walked, breakfast eaten and the big rhododendron bush in the garden has had a make over. It was far too big, and a lot of the inner branches were dead. I am planning for next year and need a bit of space next to the bush for something else.
Off to lunch with MrsP and our son shortly, he is not in a good mood as his car was broken into again last night in the squash club car park. They smashed the back window and all they took was his work bag. There was a Motorola radio in it that he needs for work. That can be replaced, also probably tracked through GPS unless they take the battery out.
Scum that do that. Probably smackheads who just need enough for the next fix.
Mine was done in broad daylight with people watching. All he got was an empty lunchbox then he was off on his bmx.
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Mebbe a slight reminiscing could be allowed re interesting ferry journeys. Sometime in the mid 1970’s we were catching the “ midnight runner” which was timetabled to leave Oban at 2330 on a Friday. Since she was returning from Colonsay she was always late and it was a pitch black wild night. This was MV Claymore,an old boat even then. With little power in the bow thrusters the anchor was used to haul her off the pier against the wind. We made our way to the downstairs bar where most were fortifying themselves for the trip. Musical instruments appeared and a ceilidh developed. We realised after a while that none of the passengers had the faintest idea where the boat was headed because we were well beyond the scheduled timetable but thought we were probably heading round Lismore and trusted the skipper knew where we were going. By the time we docked well over double the usual time everyone agreed that even tho’ it was a bit wild it had been a great trip. Elfin safety would not allow such thing nowadays and the crew were probably well over their permitted working hours. Then we had the 21 mile sprint home. Them were the days.
 

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
My boat story.
On the overnight from Rotterdam to hull. 0230 we were woken by a lot of running and shouting.
Mrs D opened the cabin door to be told "there is a fire and we can't get it under control. Get to your muster sations":eek:
I can tell you, standing in the pitch black, in the middle of the sea while your ship is on fire is not funny.
Fortunately they eventually controlled it. For some strange reason we didnt go back to bed :wacko:.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
I like gravy boats.
 
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