JennyMorgan Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 I had a different childhood to you JM, I heard... What is Brown and Smelly and steams out of cows...But yours was not the first answer that I gave lol.... Well I had never heard of Cowes on the Isle of Wight lol...I get the joke now...lolIt's a very, very long time since Southern Region Railways ran the ferry, back then, even before my time, it was brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking23 Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 It's a very, very long time since Southern Region Railways ran the ferry, back then, even before my time, it was brown. Ooops... Must have been a very very old joke when I heard it then... lolBut we like those on this forum... if we have heard them before... we have a slight chance of understanding them, a second or fiftieth time around lol...That's why I like watching the repeats of Dad's Army or Columbo... I can usually follow those stories, unlike Mid Sommer murders, I'd hate to live there. Jersey is another place of high crime, Bergerac is always on a case lol. Now, Norfolk is the place to live, a few boats get stuck in the mud, and the odd boat speeder... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExUserGone Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Back on topic.... I would imagine the hire fleet get enough use to keep the diesel throughput high enough to disperse most of the water build up, the dreaded diesel bug only grows at the diesel/water interface in the tank, it's the occaisional use private boat most likely to suffer the problem after a good shake up.I got towed into kings lynn by the skegness lifeboat once with a fuel blockage, annoyingly I'd only just welded the tanks up and had it clean enough to hoover the insides with the same hoover that does the house and only filled up the once, but the marina we bought fuel from had changed hands and the tank was full of crud due to lack of maintenence for some time (gits!) so not always down to boat neglect. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDTRIPLE Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 It just goes to show, people don`t know what they`re talking about. ......................... The Isle of Wight ferry also runs between Yarmouth and Lymington As a sailor Jenny Morgan, i thought at least you would know a little about Lymingto?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Back in 1970, when my wife to be and I went to see Jimi Hendrix at the IOW music festival, we certainly travelled from Portsmouth to Cowes and, on our return, the ferry steamed out of Cowes. Back then they were run by British Rail & were painted blue and white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Back in 1970, when my wife to be and I went to see Jimi Hendrix at the IOW music festival, we certainly travelled from Portsmouth to Cowes and, on our return, the ferry steamed out of Cowes. Back then they were run by British Rail & were painted blue and white.That sounds like the old MV Shanklin Sealink JM.Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 I've been using the IOW ferries from the 1960's many times each year, and the Southampton to Cowes route has always been run by the private company Red Funnel, now renamed as Wightlink, using car ferries and passenger ferries, then hovercraft, then hydrofoils, and now high speed catamarans.The other two main routes, Lymington to Yarmouth and Portsmouth to Fishbourne/Ryde, are the ones that were run initially by British Rail, and now by Sealink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 oops.... my correction, I've just checked through my old IOW photos, and the Cowes route is still run by Red Funnel.Wightlink is the latest name for the other two routes, that were previously Sealink, and then before that, British Rail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wussername Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 I like Reedham Ferry I do think however that for distance versus cost, it must be one of the most expensive ferry's in the world. It's late and I am too tired to do the maths, but say the river is 45yds across how much would the Reedham Ferry charge to do the Isle of Wight crossing............or the channel to Zeebrugge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound2Please Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 I've been using the IOW ferries from the 1960's many times each year, and the Southampton to Cowes route has always been run by the private company Red Funnel, now renamed as Wightlink, using car ferries and passenger ferries, then hovercraft, then hydrofoils, and now high speed catamarans.The other two main routes, Lymington to Yarmouth and Portsmouth to Fishbourne/Ryde, are the ones that were run initially by British Rail, and now by Sealink. Sadly I can remember when portsmouth - ryde used paddle steamers in the 1950's was knee high to a grass hopper at the time mind ..... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 So to sum up then... all sorts of things come streaming out of Cowes at differing speeds and of varying colours. This is still too much information... but then again, I don't know s***! (another old joke) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 As for the colour it's all a question of bovine diet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 These used to come steaming of Cowes as well, Red Funnel's hydrofoils, now replaced by the high speed cats.I caught this one out of the water at Cowes one Winter. It's surprising how much depth of water the non-retractable foils needed. Meanwhile the Cowes car and passenger ferries went from the little old Norris Castle types to the damn great Red Eagle types of today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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