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stumpy
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Apparently LIDL are offering an inflatable SUP for under £200 this week- you couldn't make it up!
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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 😉
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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 😉
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Welcome to the forum and the big fat grin and empty pockets club. We'll keep an eye out for you.
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2 hours ago, Smoggy said:
Stop picking on the french, they have given us lots of words that are now every day language.
Surrender and collaborate for instance....
Their letters have been quite useful too!
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2 hours ago, Meantime said:
I cannot remember the make of my friends one, but to make like easier we have installed a cigarette lighter socket powered by the 24V battery bank. He was able to find that they make a 24V power adapter for his machine and also a heated hose which seems to help in the Winter cruising period. Saves having to use an invertor and the associated power wastage.
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.
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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 )
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23 hours ago, SteveO said:
Nothing wrong with hake or even pollack in fish and chips as long as it is fresh. Considering we are an island surrounded by sea, we Brits are extremely conservative when it comes to fish and seafood.
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!)
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3 hours ago, ChrisB said:
Yes those green and red Booees take some getting your head round.
Especially when they're *rse about face "red right up!"
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9 minutes ago, Bikertov said:
Meethinks someone needs to come up with an additive that un-colours the red dye ...
Cat litter (Fullers' earth) - I was told when i was a Cussie, but that's a long way behind me now.😉
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30 minutes ago, floydraser said:
In Norfolk??
Beccles used to have a mountain rescue team - they would rope together and 'climb' between licensed premises 😂
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A alternative would be to fit a Kitchen rudder - no need for a reverse gear then.
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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.
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3 hours ago, Hylander said:
I have one of those little knife sharpeners and take it everywhere with me. Other half never understands but I sharpen everything when I get on board. Like others I always take frying pan , sharp knife, also take a can opener, wooden spoon, small whisk, my own knives and forks and turner tongs to turn over the bacon with.
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.
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8 hours ago, floydraser said:
Maybe you had the glasses on upside down?
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!
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2 hours ago, BrundallNavy said:
My Blackbird would do 0 to 100 in first gear in around 4 secs. And top out at 185 mph.
My Tiger 100 would.......Oh never mind. (Sounded good though 😉)
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38 minutes ago, Bikertov said:
Don't you just love continuity and dating errors in films !
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.
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2 hours ago, Cal said:
I am going to guess that on the Maxum it will only be 1 full turn lock to lock much the same as it was on our Sealine.
You really didn't need to turn the wheel much at all for it to respond and steer. Took a while for us to realise that the steering wheel wasn't on straight though. :)
Still miss her sometimes.
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!
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Just saying but Seamark Nunn have a chamois leather mophead for 40 - odd quid on their website.
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3 hours ago, annv said:
Or you could have solar powered fans in the roof they then work 365 days a year even in just daylight they fit in the chrome pancake ventilator cowls 'and cost nothing to run and are silent. John
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.
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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.
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18 hours ago, Smoggy said:
In theory if you have hips replaced your average age will have gone down as some bits are brand new.
Also, as I was told by the surgeon after a leg rebuild many years ago, you now have a scrap value!
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1 hour ago, Vaughan said:
"Oi hint never hard nothin loik it".
This is also an example of the classic Norfolk triple negative!
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)
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Speak to Alan Boswell in Norwich - 01603 218000 - very helpful and covered our 1976 Bounty with a survey, just an owners declaration of soundness.
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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.