East Coast Diary

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Make your own minds up about Suffolk folk

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David enjoyed the evening and decided upon a 10 minute break from his resolution made some 18 months ago

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Although very cold over the past few days this morning had a treat instore with a spectacular dawn.

Shotley may seem a bit of an 'Industrial' location but the Port has a certain beauty particularly at night.

Taken as most of my Snaps are with a p&s Canon Ixus 960 IS

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Jonny said:

i can see three bottles of bubbly there how more dint you show :naughty:

David has a penchant for bubbly Jonny and I can only count to five so your guess is as good as mine - oh and Tina was not drinking

It was though remarkable value for the quality

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David enjoyed the evening and decided upon a 10 minute break from his resolution made some 18 months ago

hay David are those Classics your smoking

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A weeks R&R for my patient some boats and other snaps from the point & squirt

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A few more

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Hi Perry

very nice shots

dont suppose you got any females on the beach

Jonny

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last one

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dont suppose you got any females on the beach

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worth a try

hope you & Tina enjoyed yourselves

Jonny

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Yes thanks Jonny we had a window between her treatment ending and two operations in the next 10 days.

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Yes thanks Jonny we had a window between her treatment ending and two operations in the next 10 days.

Hi Perry

a little respite does the soul a world of good

Jonny

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Hi Rod,

As you elude to I did not say which East it was!!

Your memory does serve you well although given that they are creating offshore land masses probably a bit more to 'bump' into now. I would also hazard it may have changes a tad since you were last there.

It would have been good to catch up on 29th but Tina has a major operation on 26th and won't be out of hospital to at least the following week.

I hope I can rely on you keeping the beer 'turning over' while I am away

Regards to Shirley from us both.

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It has changed then Rod

That is one of the Marina's not the Creek although the Dhow is a slightly unfair distraction and dozens of them in the Creek plying their trade to India. The one in the shot was 'off territory' and used as a Ferry for the Dubai Boat Show.

Jebel Ali was a couple of miles down the coast.

I will pass on your wishes to Tina.

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With my patient feeling well enough we had a quick overnighter at our ship.

Lovely sunny day but a moderate northerly wind cooled things down quite a lot.

It was the Shotley 'fun day' charity fundraising.

For all the yotties prepare to bow to the alter of Lord Tom

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Oh dear I think one of Rod's 'taxi's' is broke!

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These guys came over.

Sorry P&S only but they were not far above mast height

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Hi,

Good to hear you both made it to the boat

I hope you gave Tom Cunliffe a few sailing tips

Ian

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Hi Perry

looks like you had a realy good day did you take KiKi out for a blast or chill in the well

Jonny

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I’m not sure what’s going on with her Rod, not only are the wheels missing but the drive shafts as well, they have had her in and out quite a bit over the last few months and there is quite a selection of prop shafts on the ground underneath her so maybe they’re just trying to find a pair that they like.

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Jonny said:

looks like you had a realy good day did you take KiKi out for a blast or chill in the well

Hi Jonny it was a nice day but there was a pretty strong Northerly wind making it feel very cool. We did not venture out as SWMBO was still delicate and it was a fleeting 24hr visit to see if Kiki was still floating

We did manage a mosey up to The Shipwreck at lunchtime to make sure the beer was still OK

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The Wheels are missing :o

They certainly are Rod I think as a result of those Morse levers which are either full power or full stop

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Thanks for the update Rod and solving the mystery

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A super weekend.

Our technical mod showed his prowess with the fitting of another outlet off our Webo into the lavvy which will save me a winter ear bashing from SWMBO. It is a great drying room for wet weather gear. I did my best to fox him by getting as many wrong pieces of what was needed as possible only for him to day "I'll get my heater spares then".... I am sure if the Celebrity Cruises over at Harwich had an issue he would have spares So that was a 30 minute job which took two hours. Strangely I am very relaxed about David drilling holes in my ship if I did it myself I would be paranoid anyway it was completed and SWMBO is rightly chuffed with her drying room.

PM saw a serious session of boat cleaning with the pressure washer working overtime but gleams all round once completed.

We were sat pondering how early we could get off up The Shipwreck for dinner when a Pan Pan came over the VHF. A cruiser had lost engine power but Thames CG sent out Harwich lifeboat. The cruiser got his engine running just and was managing 5-6 knots with the Lifeboat escorting them back to Shotley (often the nearest port of call for east coat stricken vessels). At some stage the Lifeboat saw the pub beckoning and took the vessel in tow to effect a quicker rescue and two hours later had him strapped him alongside just out side Shotley; they moored to the waiting pontoon and allowed the vessel to just pootle into the lock. Well done RNLI I hope the vessels owners make a donation in the tin. The boat had evidently come from the Broads.

Apologies for the photo's P&S at 800 ISO as it was dusk (see the lights on) and the only way I could get some sort of image.

Edit to add emoticon missed from the original post

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Sunday saw us have a very pleasant run round to the Walton Backwaters and Hamford Water, a lovely tranquil spot and home of the famed Ginger Seals.

Unfortunately time did not allow us to anchor and get the tenders out but it was a very pleasant trip.

Some big stuff to be dodged on the way back

Again sorry for the image quality holding a P&S while bouncing around is not conducive to image quality....