stumpy

Well said! I'm 70 next year and I still fondly remember sitting on a bank with my grandad teaching me how to tie a blood knot! With the tip of his tongue sticking out, of course.

Apparently LIDL are offering an inflatable SUP for under £200 this week- you couldn't make it up!

I spent my formative years sailing on the Deben with the Sea Scouts and later out on the lumpy stuff in a third of a Dragon. The scout group also had a sweet woodie mobo at Thurne Dyke which taught me you actually could get to the pub before closing! The rest is history. We're often to be found in the Maybush, Arms or FBI 😉

Just saying but we filled up yesterday with E10 on the way out of Skeggie at £1.78 a litre! Morrisons back home was £1.89!!! ETA: Humble apologies for going North without posting a bridge pic 😉

Welcome to the forum and the big fat grin and empty pockets club. We'll keep an eye out for you.

Their letters have been quite useful too!

We asked about a 12v input last time we were at Papworth - apparently can't be done, must be 240vAC. Kathy made a fleecy sleeve to insulate hers for winter use, that and tucking it under the duvet was a great help.

Meantime, well said. Kathy uses a CPAP and although we have enough batteries to drive it overnight, we also have a 25m extension lead,a three way splitter and a 32amp to 16amp adaptor- never been caught out yet. (Of course, we'd never use any forbidden equipment )

Having spent my formative years beach or boat fishing I reckon I've tried most available fish - the only one I remember not being keen on was garfish (not a lot of meat and green bones!)

Especially when they're *rse about face "red right up!"

Cat litter (Fullers' earth) - I was told when i was a Cussie, but that's a long way behind me now.😉

Beccles used to have a mountain rescue team - they would rope together and 'climb' between licensed premises 😂

A alternative would be to fit a Kitchen rudder - no need for a reverse gear then.

Classic-marine.co.uk at Levington marina will sort you out but make sure you're sitting down when you open the page. If you visit I can highly recommend the sausage rolls at the cafe by the marina entrance, also the Ship Inn in the village.

I'm with you there - when we hired we built up a 'boat bag' which included a small carborundum stone, duct tape, WD40 and a Leatherman multi-tool.

Some (many) years ago when I first started wearing varifocals I had to wire a new pendant light into a ceiling rose. The only way I could function was to invert the specs- great fun while teetering up a step ladder! I now have cheap readers in various powers scattered about - the Lidl ones with LEDs in the arms are good for finding the dip stick hole on the mighty throbbing BMC!

My Tiger 100 would.......Oh never mind. (Sounded good though 😉)

My dear old Dad appears in 'The Yangtze Incident ' rowing his dad and big brother across the Orwell from Levington to Pin Mill - he was left with the boat to move it according to the tide. Apparently the family had been barred (again!) from the Ship and the Butt and Oyster was next nearest pub.

Cal, you'll be pleased to hear NC is alive and well living at Broadsedge next door but one to No Worries. She's been a bit of a floating caravan this year while her new owners waited for outdrive parts but they're a lovely couple and were very interested when I told them about the joys of Southwold and even the Deben!

Just saying but Seamark Nunn have a chamois leather mophead for 40 - odd quid on their website.

One of our first improvements for No Worries was a pancake vent with a solar fan in it. It lives in the forecabin hatch and has chuntered away happily for 10 years. We have a 60w tube heater in the saloon and another under the cockpit floor, both on thermostat plugs at +5°C. Some mould but a quick flit round with a bleachy cloth sorts it come Spring.

A few years ago I installed a rubber suckered 'driving instructors' mirror on the sliding hatch on No Worries - six quid from Amazon! It's been a godsend, even in an aft cockpit jobbie.

Also, as I was told by the surgeon after a leg rebuild many years ago, you now have a scrap value!

I grew up surrounded by broad Suffolk so am nearly bilingual - my favourite is "Well do that don't, that did do!" Said by my dear old grandad when something wasn't where he expected it to be (probably on the shelf in the back'us)

Speak to Alan Boswell in Norwich - 01603 218000 - very helpful and covered our 1976 Bounty with a survey, just an owners declaration of soundness.