DaveRolaves Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 Twenty Years from now You will be disappointed By the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do so - throw off the bowlines Sail away from the safe harbour Catch the trade winds in your sails Explore Dream and discover. ............................................................................................................................. Sounds good what do you think? 1 Quote
Betty1 Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 I need that in a frame on the boatSent from the Norfolk Broads Network mobile app Quote
SteveO Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 Twenty years from now, I will probably be dead. 1 Quote
PastorsDayOff Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 Working on it. Bought the sailboat; now plotting the course ready to untie the mooring lines. A few more circuits of the Broads, then we are off. 1 Quote
Lulu Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 Exactly why we bought our boat last autumn instead of waiting to retire. The frustration is work gets in the way so we cant just drop everything and go up there when the weather is nice! Quote
MauriceMynah Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 9 hours ago, DaveRolaves said: Twenty Years from now You will be disappointed By the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do so - throw off the bowlines Sail away from the safe harbour Catch the trade winds in your sails Explore Dream and discover. ............................................................................................................................. Sounds good what do you think? I think he needed a diesel engine. Quote
grendel Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 13 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said: I think he needed a diesel engine. or a stern wheeler 2 Quote
ChrisB Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 I think the words are a little grand for the 100+ km of Norfolk Broads. I think you may search in vain for "The Trades" to fill your sails. Quote
TheQ Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 Well, a common phenomenon on a warm day like today is the sea breeze which sets in from the North East / East, betwen 12:00 and 14:00. So.... Twenty Years from now You will be disappointed By the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do so - throw off the bowlines Sail away from the safe mooring Catch the sea breeze in your sails Explore Dream and discover. Quote
Vaughan Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 This may be something you all knew, but Mark Twain took his name from the Mississippi river paddle steamers, which had to navigate the shifting sandbanks in the river by using a hand lead line up in the bows, especially when approaching the bank to come into a town mooring. The call from the bows "By the mark, twain!" meant there were two fathoms of water - about what you could expect in the Mississippi. Any less and you were standing into danger. 1 Quote
TheQ Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 So for a broads boat you need someone on the front swinging the lead, shouting " By the Mark Half" (3ft). Samuel Langhorne Clemens might have been at home on the top of Southern Comfort... Quote
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