JennyMorgan

Arrrr ha, but then you are a real nautical lady!

She needs a new skirt, 60' might just reach round her ample lines!

Was on a boat today when the owner referred to a 'painter', now I know that that is a mooring rope on a small boat. Anyway I decided to check and found out that it is the 'string at the front' in particular. Once it was an everyday term but now I rarely hear it used, or even use it myself which is a pity. Us boaters have a rich vocabulary available to us, as well as long standing traditions and customs. Have a peep at this lot: http://phrontistery.info/nautical.html There are only two ropes on a boat, a bolt rope and a bell rope, lots to learn. Then perhaps you'll tackle the complete Ashely Book of knots http://www.libramar.net/news/the_ashley_book_of_knots/2011-05-20-414

Was on a boat today when the owner referred to a 'painter', now I know that that is a mooring rope on a small boat. Anyway I decided to check and found out that it is the 'string at the front' in particular. Once it was an everyday term but now I rarely hear it used, or even use it myself which is a pity. Us boaters have a rich vocabulary available to us, as well as long standing traditions and customs. Have a peep at this lot: http://phrontistery.info/nautical.html There are only two ropes on a boat, a bolt rope and a bell rope, lots to learn. Then perhaps you'll tackle the Ashely Book of knots

Polly, could I avail myself of your kind offer, please.

I was well over to the right of centre! Just how near to the bank should we travel? Is it wrong to avoid anglers? Is it wrong to avoid hammering the reedbeds & bank with our wash?

some boaters feel it necessary to pass within a very few feet of moored craft. Carole, they are told to stick to the right hand bank and come hell or high water that is what they do! I've even had one big, three decker, complete with pram hood, overtake on my right side, brushing hard against the reeds and literally leaving only inches between us! Meanwhile on my left there was thirty or forty feet of open water.

At least one big yard owner is incredibly rich on the back of milking the customer. However there are those more than prepared to pay.

Likewise Polly, but we really mustn't promote above that low bridge. Went to the unmentionable pub last Sunday, it was heaving plus and the pub, let alone the staff, quite simply could not cope. The car park & moorings were stuffed. We went up to the nearby Wherry & had an excellent meal, a greatly underrated pub by the general boating fraternity. Unmentionable pub as in too darned popular by far, not because the landlord is iffy or anything! Re Yarmouth, agreed. A night at Berney is good, if you don't mind being woken by the dawn chorus, mooing cows and rampant bulls.

An all 'lads' group? Perhaps they had been warned!

Carol, there are more than a few private boat-owners who haven't got a clue either, and very often they have far more horses under the deck too. We were moored outside the Surlingham Ferry when, at about seven on a blissfully quiet and misty morning a Haines Sedan shoots past the twenty odd boats moored there just off the plane. Pig ignorant so and so!

Thank you, Keith, for confirming that. What has happened is water under the bridge now so best left alone. Be interesting to see how this now develops.

Previous discussion here: It'll save us repeating ourselves!

There appear to be many theories and stories concerning Stracey, some of which can be taken with a pinch of salt.The rights and wrongs regarding the moorings have previously been discussed in depth but one thing is for sure, as Keith has already written.

Interesting discussion at the BA today on this very subject. Seems that negotiations are ongoing. Can't say more at this time other than that they appear both interesting and positive.

Good news is that Jayne. I hope that she'll end up as something really special to you both.

I wouldn't have minded paying the owner of the moorings that I was moored on.

Being asked for a mooring fee by someone who was not actually entitled to demand it did rather jaundice my view of the place! I wonder what moorings the new owner has actually bought? My family and I loved it as the Yankee Diner. It used to be absolutely stacked during the summer but nevertheless still went under. Quite liked it as a Tapas Bar too and always stopped off when passing. Not sure that I will be using it as a temple though!

Personally I glad that there is a change of owner, rare for me but I really did not like the previous owners. Good luck to the new owner.

I note that one report suggests that the little girl was at a private 'pool party' to celebrate a birthday. I suppose because it's local, because we take our seven year old grandchild there, because we know James Knight of the WRC, both my wife and I can associate with this tragedy. This will be a life changer for so many people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those effected by this tragedy.

Heart breaking news: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/girl_seven_dies_at_swimming_pool_near_beccles_police_confirm_1_4517518 I can only feel sadness at this news.

My thoughts are with the little girl. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3568302/Bank-holiday-horror-girl-7-fighting-life-pulled-unconscious-holiday-park-swimming-pool-near-Great-Yarmouth-Norfolk.html

Just to clarify a point, it isn't so much the copying of a file for one's own private use but subsequent use that is the issue. I have no grief over folk who copy my snaps but I do and have done so when they have been published in print or for used for commercial purposes. In any case if I put photographs on the web I'm realistic enough to know that some folk will download them, how can I stop them, even if I wanted to? I like to think that most folk ask, as a matter of courtesy.

Emerson has also been dead for some considerable time, rather more than the seventy years usually required after the death of the creator. Copies may be of recent creation but does the copyright rest with the creator or the copier? In any case my use is private and in no way commercial. I believe that I am right in suggesting that to-date no one has successfully won a breach of copyright case in regard to the web.

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