JennyMorgan

The evidence, Griff paddling the air! After a good night's sleep you would think that he would have at least managed a real paddle. http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv80/PeterWaller/Three%20Rivers%20028.jpg[/IMG]

Paddling in the RRR race, I thought you was asleep, supported by the shrouds! Someone had to be in the cockpit, to keep the tiller over to one side, compensating for the lack of drive on the starboard side!

I wouldn't say that I wasn't a fan, I was, to a degree. Simple, enjoyable, sometimes obvious humour, but rarely amazingly clever. A likable man, easy to warm to, always worth a smile and sometimes a laugh. Just not in the same league as John Cleese, for example. I liked Corbett as a person, it would be hard not to.

Twiddling a nancified steering wheel for so many years turns even a manly matelot Tyke soft! No guarantee of having the required technique either!

Right, that's two of us. Will you be up to it though? Wouldn't want to see the old girl going round in circles!

I did mention 'multiple quants', who'll join me?

It could have been worse, Albion could have been fitted with a bow thruster and electric engine! Mind you, she does have multiple quants so schedules should be achievable!

Scroll down to the last paragraph of this one: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/ten_of_the_best_poems_about_norfolk_1_4480025

Use plaited mooring ropes, old main sheets off a sailing boat, and creaking mooring ropes cease to be an issue.

In my experience those fender sock things are next to useless, holding grit & sand in the weave thus chaffing the hull. Not my idea of a good purchase.

Bugger, most likely I had a perfect swap for you!

Bloke used to live near me by the name of James Riddle. His wife has insisted that he change their surname to Riddell, can't think why! Don't know why Jimmy tolerated that though.

Why don't the hire yards all stock the same fend-offs? Make matching 'em a darn sight easier for us avid collectors! Mark, maybe a fender swap shop at NBN meets or even on-line?

Fender theme parks even? As it is I have a fence panel suitably and artistically hung with various fender oddities.

They'd probably do well on E.Bay!

I could just about live with that, Chris, but are there such things as Cornish Crabber fenders? Surely Crabber owners, like Drascombe sailors, are above such frippery?

As one who has never bought a fender in his life I view the fact that some hire yards are now having their names printed on fend-offs as a retrograde step. It was bad enough having a fender with SeaLine printed on it hung over the side, on a sailing boat for heaven's sakes, but can I justly keep a fender with the owner's name and address, as well as the deck-plate, on it? Does this latest, anti-social move mean that ardent fender collectors such as myself will leave named fenders forever floating along with the tide, or will their owners comes along and retrieve them? Will the Broads become a depository for lost fenders that no one wants? Will the yard in Wroxham or Staham refund me the postage if I return them? Will the owners be at Oulton Week and will they welcome the return of their lost fenders if they are lobbed into their cockpits as they pass? Indeed will the owners now row round the Broad after a days racing and retrieve their errant fenders? Perhaps there will be a system put in place for named fenders to be deposited for collection at 24hr moorings? I fear that my beer money is under threat!

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/watch_timelapse_video_of_horsey_mill_restoration_1_4477323

A spot of alternative boating here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07655y2/secret-britain-series-3-1-the-lakes I say alternative because it shows the joys of an open top boat, a non racing boat at that, and there are no electrics aboard, how can that be enjoyable!

Someone suggested that us 'sailies' leave our mooring under jib only. No way, firstly I have full control whilst under full sail. secondly whilst a 'sailie' is hoisting his mainsail out in mid stream the helmsman is considerably hampered, not a good idea, in my own opinion.

There are places on the Broads where mooring there can be a pain in the butt for sailing folk. There is a 24hr mooring in Oulton Dyke that really shouldn't have been there, whoever decided that was the best place for it clearly had absolutely no appreciation or understanding of tides, winds and trees.

Timbo, you forgot, or I missed, one important phrase, 'True Angler'. Not so many of 'em about today, regretfully. There is more to angling than just fishing. Re livebaiting, gave it up some fifty-five years ago, with no regrets. Since then have lure fished for pike and probably caught more than my fair share by doing so.

Nothing to hate about carp, they make excellent fertiliser, Big ones can be cut into cutlets that make excellent dead baits. Mustn't waste them! http://charliecarp.com/

Did you have it stuffed and mounted?

Perhaps someone who knows the real 'right' answer, someone who expects the program's researchers to have done their homework and not relied on the Authority's spin department. In reality this thread doesn't exactly bolster the program's credibility when a wrong answer is accepted as being the right one. Not a case of being pedantic, more a case of being absolutely and factually correct.