New Boat!

[Ray]

1 minute ago, Gracie said:

Will you and Mrs Ray be doing the royal wave as you cruise along?

Mrs Ray will be but I know my place, I shall be polishing the silver and cutting the crusts off cucumber sandwiches for her afternoon tea 😁

[Gracie]

Just don't go dressing Danni up as a Corgi, there are limits you know  x

[Ray]

There would be an awful lot of leg to hide... although her tiara may distract people from noticing 😁

[OldBerkshireBoy]

29 minutes ago, Ray said:

Mrs Ray will be but I know my place, I shall be polishing the silver and cutting the crusts off cucumber sandwiches for her afternoon tea 😁

Thought you would have Roger the cabin boy doing that 

[PaulN]

Fabulous boat Ray, congratulations. I believe she was Paul's own boat, so is no doubt in excellent condition.

[Mouldy]

2 hours ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:

Thought you would have Roger the cabin boy doing that 

I had to read that twice . . . . . . . my dirty mind!!  Some geezer called Bates will be doing the heavy stuff!

[Ray]

All aboard The Skylark 😂

[ChrisB]

[grendel]

I dont believe you will find any of the common misconceptions over names in captain pugwash to be correct, at least thats what the author told me when I chatted to him one day many years back, when he allowed me to park in his driveway by the castle in rye, lovely gent.

[Smoggy]

1 hour ago, grendel said:

I dont believe you will find any of the common misconceptions over names in captain pugwash to be correct, at least thats what the author told me when I chatted to him one day many years back, when he allowed me to park in his driveway by the castle in rye, lovely gent.

I seem to recall the cabin boy was Tom and not Roger, I also have the black pig in mind as the boat name but could be mixed up.

[grendel]

the master was master mate, there was barnabas, willy, and tom the cabin boy, just out of interest the author did successfully sue several newspapers over their claims of double entendres over the character names. though despite this the myth of the names has perpetuated down through history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Pugwash

[Ray]

I don't know if anyone really believed it... it was just a bit of fun!

[floydraser]

I remember the original carboard cut-out series as being the best and back then all those names were quite innocent. We've all had a few laughs with them since though.

Nice boat Ray. Lovely big windows will generate some heat when the sun comes out, it'll take some cooling in the summer. Good excuse for libation if any excuse were needed. 

[ChrisB]

It was a student rag that made it up and started it for a bit of fun, however a National Newspaper picked it up, and ran with it as fact, unchecked.

I believe it ended in court and the originator of the series won against them.

[Smoggy]

18 minutes ago, ChrisB said:

however a National Newspaper picked it up, and ran with it as fact, unchecked.

There's a shocker, not like them at all!

[Bikertov]

Although there really is a brand of electronic test equipment called Wayne Kerr ...

https://www.waynekerrtest.com/

[StillCruising]

I worked for Wayne Kerr in Bognor some 20 years ago when they renamed WT Test and then closed. The building was coverted to DHSS offices.

[AndyTBoater]

I have the Pugwash theme tune as my ringtone.

Its only for Mrs Lovejoys number so I know its her and can ignore it