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Ah memories! Elefant was always the boarding tot of choice when Tor Line used Felixstowe as one point of its triangle route. Did anyone else watch 'Triangle'? Kate O'Mara is even better in the flesh!

Not wires full of smoke but my earliest life changing experience involved a Mamod traction engine, an open pint bottle of meths and the living room carpet - I couldn't sit down for a while!

Hopefully the hire yard will sort it out - bummer at this time of year though.

Ouch!!! Bowsprit?

I'm sure Mum has still got my old Action Man matelot up in the loft somewhere if that helps.

JM - with a background of pipe smoke and a faint whiff of Stockholm Tar?

Raquel? I'll get my coat shall I? Signed Moon Unit

Thurne Lion has a shower (in the gents anyway - I have no knowledge of the Ladies) Kathy has just assured me they have one too!

I scrumped two frying panfulls (I think that's a word) of field mushrooms from beside the service dyke at Broadsedge last year - got some very strange looks from the pic-nickers!

And you could get hog-whimperingly drunk for a tenner!

'Blue Stripers' perhaps? Or have they gone the way of sippers and gulpers? (We sometimes had a war canoe visit Felixstowe and they were always very hospitable!,)

Hi and welcome Gareth. Good choice of boat and home mooring. Our Bounty 27 lives at Broadsedge.

My old Sea Scout GSM had a punt and gun, if you were very very good you would be invited to witness the annual firing over the Deben. Muzzle loaded with the charge and shot in 1/4 lb sweetie bags it was somewhat spectacular! I don't think it would happen today somehow.

If you're doing overhead work (e.g. dashboard wiring on a Bounty/Elysian) and you're of an age to wear varifocal or bifocal specs put them on upside down! It took me half an hour of cursing to work that out!

We chugged past this very afternoon _ looked like a couple of JCBs, a small tracked bulldozer and a huge pile of dark grey fine stuff being spread and whacked down.

We've just chugged to Beccles from Moulton and the banks are full of guys with brush cutters clearing pegs - won't be long now!

Many years ago I picked up, possibly from Ranworth Staithe, a floppy book titled ""All Bootiful and Noo" the OT creation story translated into Norfolk. It was a gift for my old scoutmaster, an RC priest! He loved it apparently. Re. Changing names - Remember Guy Gibson's dog??

Coo blast bor what'll they think of next?

Harrumph!(rustles Daily Telegraph in a pointed manner) - you'll be telling me there's televisions on board next!

The first thing we fitted to No Worries was a Fireangel CO detector. It's a sealed unit with a life of 7 years,it has a green flashing LED to show its functioning which goes amber when it's time to bin it and start again. We know it works as a hire boat set it off with its exhaust while moored at Womack last year -apparently they had to run their engine because a light on the dashboard told them to. £20-odd didn't seem a lot for peace of mind! We

Looks like some obscure French Jobbie - Panhard? The scooter however is a Lambretta Series 2 Li with an aftermarket seat - originally had separate saddles .(Sign of a mispent youth!)

I used to board visiting box boats on arrival at Felixstowe and the vast majority had a big box of blue shoe covers by the gangway which everyone had to don before entering the accommodation. Easiest thing in the world to forget when leaving for foreign - pretty sure they were bio-degradable , anyway.

Don't take this as gospel but our 27' with much more wind resistance than your lovely craft sits nicely to a 15kg weight in anything but a real hoolie. Maybe 7 - 10 would be plenty.

Great - thanks for that Leo Magill.

Can anyone confirm if the electric point is still there by the flagpole? We're planning on going South in a couple of weeks and being able to plug in makes it much easier for Kathy's C-PAP.