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TheQ
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Sorry I'm not interested, in 22 overpaid men kicking a piece of leather around.
Sailing all year round is a lot cheaper than going to, and watching football.
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You'd look like a dalek wearing one of those!!
Oh some years a ago some junior RAF Officers were nicked for driving, fast but within the limit at night.... without their lights on. Their defence included the fact they were wearing night vision goggles, it was pointed out to them that light were also so that they could be seen.
Mind you I did come across a police car being driven down the M5 with no lights on, in the left hand lane. they put them on after I swerved out to avoid them. I think they were hoping to catch someone hammering down the outside lane that didn't notice them.
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You may have noticed as shepherded you all around, during regatta week, I do wear wrap round sunglasses for the reason above. as I did in Saudi. I've also spent most of the last 40 years working in buildings with no windows so I am sensitive to light.
Unfortunately, when my father who served In Aden and other places, sunglasses were effectively an expensive item for the well off (and not permitted to be worn in uniform) and he has had cataract operations.
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Just as a matter of interest, but are yachts exempt from speed limits? I know a racing yacht can do a lot more than 6mph but they leave hardly any wake.
And it is the wake that is the problem to river banks and moored boats.
They are exempt if sailing, under motor power they are supposed to obey the limits.
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Of course Normandy Barracks were formerly known as RAF Leaconfield until 1977, which until this year 2015 is where the Sea Kings Were based, it also still has a massive runway and two smaller runways. Hence the low flying aircraft. You live next to any military base you will get military vehicles / aircraft..
The harrier was brought down by the wrong type of gloves! The pilot was not wearing the correct type and they caught on a control and shut the engine down.
As pointed out on TV today more people die watching football than at air displays ((I know the numbers attending are vastly of different) come to that in many years more people drown in cars than when sailing.
Numbers / and risks can prove anything.
Flying straight and level at near ground level, is not advise able near buildings. I worked on a base where a F111 went supersonic at near ground level, it broke equipment from walls!!
The hawk aircraft is a 41 year old design
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Neither the 747 involved in the Lockerbie terrorist bomb or the brand new 737-400 involved in the East Midlands crash were built with 1950s technology
no the 747 is built with 1960s technology, first flown 1970, so its an over45 year old design, and the 737-400 is a design of 1964 first flown in 1967 updated in 1986 so a design of 20 to 50 years. Production methods will have been changed little as the aircraft has to get re approved.
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Some years ago at the bend by Horning sailing club a large Hire cruiser 35-40 ft (cream and red / marroon colouring) was coming down from Wroxham direction immediately before the bend the man at the helm handed over to a young lady (they were close enough for me at the club to see this and the reason I was looking at the boat it was in the middle to the wrong side of the river) as he disappeared down below she panicked and shouted what do I do.....
Well the hire cruiser went straight on and pierced a Richardsons bath tub amidships that was moored just in front of Southern Comfort. The bows going through a window and a bit of the roof, then splitting the side decks down and hull to just about the waterline. A tarpaulin from someone in the club stopped water from entering the hull and Richardsons sent someone down to recover the boat. No one was hurt during this exercise (luckily)
The perils of sailing on in a straight line
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I can assure you not everyone else goes in a straight line, especially hirers on their first day!!
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My deapest sympathies to all ..
There but for the Grace of God go I.
The week after the Kegworth air disaster I was stuck in a traffic jams parked on the scratches in the tarmac left by the crash.
The week after Lockerbie I was stuck in traffic on the A74 where some bits came downdown.
There is a lot more up there than a few air displays.
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Those Topliners were if I remember right were not successful, they cost almost as much to hire as a conventional hire boat, hence I think they have all been converted to normal hire boats if of unusual design.That particular picture looks faked though, as you cant get out of the caravan without going for a swim and the caravans had to be reversed on . They were also Inside the hull sides.
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The Brinks Rhapsody solution is currently what I'm having fitted to my boat, all gas will be gone, there will be a microwave and a hot plate, Fridge (and TV for SWMBO) But I still will have a diesel heater. But I do a lot of short journeys and will have four solar panels on the roof to cover those.
The battery pack is however big enough to do Horning to Potter but normally for such a journey I'd wind up the Generator to keep the batteries charged up. the generator is in a "silent" box and very quiet .Oh I could of course plug into the electric posts and use them for what they were meant for charging the propulsion system.
The system is based on the ideas of this gentleman and his canal boat http://worcesternb.blogspot.co.uk/
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If you are out and about on Sunday am there maybe one or two cyclists on the road. The race starts at Strumpshaw Hall and covers locations including Reedham, Wroxham, Ranworth & Stalham - the lunch stop is at the Museum of the Broads where volunteers will be handing out lunches. Loads of riders cycling for charities and it's a great way to highlight the beautiful Broads. http://www.revolutionevents.co/tour-de-broads#.VdVwlcSkqK0
Give them a wave!
Do non competitors have to keep the bank and not weave around?
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Riyadhcrew, I think you Missed out a bit about the traffic in Riyadh, the eight cars in front of you on a 3 lane high way at the lights, when you're only one row of cars behind the white line. The one on the right turning left, the ones on the left turning right. no indications when changing lanes they just "lean on you". Oh and the horns start when the lights start to change on the crossing traffic before your lights change.
Comparing to that over here and the broads is Maffe Mushkila
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That does sound like something I said to a few people during the week but other recuse boats would be just as forthcoming,
if he had a black hat and sun glasses it was me!!
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And finally the big boys out playing
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Yeomans playing with the motor boats, they will turn away!!
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A couple of more pictures from a friend also on rescue boat duty,
First one for Grace;
mind the bowsprit!!
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My only worry is that they might be under the impression they can carry out a full Hindu Cremation on the bank side, throwing the remains into the river as they do in India.
Which would be " interesting" if the Three Rivers Race is using that as the turning point at the time.
Many years ago I arrived in my somewhat slow sailing cruiser and sailed round the mark and back up river. Behind me all I could here was the hiss of the contents charcoal barbeques being thrown in to the river as the faster boats had been having a party on the bank while having to wait for the tide to change.
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I'm not sure it's an improvement over the bright orange it would have originally displayed but at least you don't need sunglasses!!
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Yesterday, Our cat ran past SWMBO when she opened the back door, and deposited a mouse which luckiy hid in a corner.So she was able to evict it easily,.
Today Twix tried to get in carrying a vole when refused Twix eat it as usual. It's not unusual for her she often has 3 or 4 in a day.
No we didn't name the cat, that was its previous slaves, it had a sister called Aero.
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What about sticking a big pointy thing on the front to spear other subs?
that'd make it a underwater gaffer!
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My update to 10 took 2 hours, and that's on a quad core machine of reasonable speed. at one point it said " not long to go now" then a few minutes late it said " this is taking longer than expected"
A SSD or hybrid SSD is definitely on the cards when I have the time.
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It's not just down here, up in Scotland the bus service my sister uses (X19 from Bo'ness to Edinburgh) is being cut from hourly to 2 twice a day, due to a loss of subsidy. This leaves her (and her husband ) with no way of getting to work, or back. Also the 47 bus service across the hill to Linlithgow is also being cut, so they can't go bus and train.
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Sorry for the delay in some pictures first the forum was being updated and then My home computer went to Windows 10, taking 2 hour to update!
All the above pictures were taken on a Tesco Hudl tablet computer, as I daren't risk SWMBOs camera, they came out better than I expected
its nearly strictly o'clock
in The Broadscot Lounge
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At least that over paid, pensioner isn't running the show anymore, we used to have the mute button ready for every time he used his obvious over rehearsed jokes ie every time he came on. He seemed not to know the show wasn't about him.