ChrisB

Sorry Peter, but I totally disagree. If you are entertaining you don't want to be hanging about you want certainty. But I suppose it is not the sort of place that you would entertain in if it is important. very good food, but not fine dining.

Bet they will take a booking in Mid-Winter.

It is a long time since I moored in Thurne Dyke but I have always paid. Port side as you enter to the Pub, Starboard to the farm. However we always prefered the lost moorings of Boundary Farm and a walk.

Originally designed by an engineer working in East Africa. He saw women walking miles carrying wood collected for cooking. Meanwhile there was a mountain of maize cobbs around the village. He produced a very rudimentary version but it was capable of using the normal waste from their maize diet "The Cobb" as fuel.

It would be a very unwise move to do that now. Some years ago a load of rock and concrete was dumped along down stream to try to stop erosion. Actually the erosion looks very much like it was caused by cattle. I saw a Herbert Woods boat try, God only knows the damage caused to the prop and rudder.

Nothing to do with here. Facebook would do absolutely nothing. So I had to get them through the courts.

Sorry MM but we must agree to disagree. The few teddies thrown about on here do not compare to the venom I have witnessed by facebook devotees. I don't want to give details but I stopped a person on facebook but only after my only recourse was very expensive legal action. I think when moderation on facebook is the same as here someone could end up with a full time job. That is how I feel about the situation and I really do not wish to debate it any further, I shall resist posting on this thread. I shall post a vase of roses like the Beano used to when Dennis was going to get slippered twice in one day.

Unless both moorings are owned by the same company or you actually own moorings yourself, "doing a swap" is not easy.

Sounds like the whole Facebook thing would be better if it had not happened. Personally, my attitude is trolling and aggressive posts should receive a ban on both platforms.

Well if it gets rid of trolls, bad language, and verbal abuse great.

I must admit to a similar feeling. At the first sign of vulgarity or aggession, however fast it is stamped on I will ask for my membership to be removed.

I had forgotten the cream trim, thanks, OK vinyl, but years ahead of it's time. Mum's car certainly turned heads. I can't remember when my father bought it new from Saunders in Rickmansworth but I still had two or three years to go at prep school so I think it woulf have been about 1960/61

I shall report your post for moderation! We just can't have boats "Mounting" each other on a family friendly forum even if it is regatta week! Shame on you TheQ, if the said boat did mount another it should be kept to the confines of your club and certainly not made public.

You don't have to but it is just the way I have always passed it. You can see it from a fair way off so throttle back. It only takes two average size cars these days so the wait is mimimal. He gets going even taking the money underway, it is no hardship just to hold station for a couple of minutes.

It is hardy a long crossing! ( Out of season I always use the ferry rather than drive through Yarmouth and Lowestoft if going to deepest Suffolk ). Why not just hang back until he docks and is discharging then go through?

Triumph Spitfire! Triumph Herald! Austin Healy Sprite! Morris Minor/1000 like a room at The London Hilton. My father bought my mother a Morris 1000000 for a birthday present, wish I had it now. Judith at the wheel of our Spitfire so must have been down the pub! Sprite in Southern Spain and god only knows how! we were camping. Morris 1000000 were only available in this colour. My God we were just kids really, and we were engaged, but it lasted 50 years. Our prefered route into Franco's Spain and yes that road is 6300ft above sea level.9

Serious graffiti, Lisbon, Portugal.

These were taken from the balcony of my youngest son's appartment in Craysfoot, Melbourne. Unfortunately he only moved in a couple of weeks ago and can't at present find his tripod.

I reminded of Andy Warhol's famous words re:- "15 minutes of fame" ! The awful truth behind social media is the "Walter Mitty syndrome" the poor Clerk can be a CEO, a Surgeon, Fighter Pilot, or top lawyer. You can re-invent yourself, but it aint real. And this is where I believe it all goes so wrong. Those that are so pugnatious are most likely timid creatures who would run a mile if you said "Boo". Face to face. I find the misuse of social media very worrying, which is well documented and people who hide behind an internet persona are very vunerable. Both this forum and the other were used just a few years ago to swing the voting in Classic Boat's restoration competition which was designed to allow readers to chose their favourite. Maybe this was the first vote rigging by social media as votes were solicited and found just because it was "Broads" even though the origins of the vessel were nothing to do with this area. I know that Dan Huston was shocked and upset when he was Editor, that something designed and intended to be a serious survey of readers opinions was interfered with not only in this case, but others, by soliciting votes on forums, Facebook, Twitter and the like.

JFK. Was a very accomplished Star sailor. It is also said the real love of his life was Manitou a beautiful Sparkman and Stephens yawl. The yacht now restored to better than original is owned by a syndicate of keen Med Racers, she still has a beautiful hip bath installed said to have been used by Marilyn Monroe.

I can't believe that it is a year ago that I posted pictures of everyone up to their knees in Mud at The Game Fair at Hatfield House. This year it was at Ragley Hall at Alcester NW of Stratford upon Avon. For the majority of the 60 years it has been going it was run by Country Landowners Association, now it is a commercial enterprise and I am afraid it shows. Once there was Gunmakers Row, with everything from top London makers to the importers of the very affordable. Game fishing was catered for in Fishermans Row again with Hardy, Orvis, Peeks through the spectrum to starter kits. Sadly The Game Fair has become just another "Lifestyle" show with hot tubs, garden furniture, bbq's, works of art, sculpture etc. I have not missed many Game Fairs since my father took me to my first in 1962, likewise I have taken or laterly been accompanied by my son (s). But we agreed that this will be our last. It is true that entrance is free to we members of BASC but once within the food and drink prices would not disgrace Fortnums or Claridges. It is very sad but I feel The Game Fair could well follow The London Boat Show having lost purpose. On a brighter note I did choose a new Wildfowling gun. 3.5in chamber Winchester SX4 semi-auto in "shadowgrass" which they will deliver to my local registered FA dealer.

Spraying it might very well null and void it's guarantee so I would not rush the aesthetics.

First weekend of the main school holiday season rainis a dead cert.

When boating, caravanning and camping I have always worked on the principle get the very best you can afford. It is a lot easier to use inferior utensils at home than in the confines of a boat etc.

Having built the Seawych through the "Summer of 76" it is now 1967, Jubilee year and it was an awful summer but we were sailing. Our Seagull engine power can be seen over my left shoulder. I must go against the trend and say my engine bought new from J. G. Meakes at Marlow was unbelievably reliable, always starting first or second pull. These newer engines from mid 70s onward could be re-jetted to take a 25:1 mix instead of the 10:1 and I think it really helped. I always when leaving the boat turned off the fuel and let it run dry. I remember being becalmed as we left Yarmouth I.O.W. and motoring all the way back to Poole. Although I had the bigger tank on my engine as opposed to the little oval one we had to re-fuel at sea twice which was interesting.