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One of the riders- Guy Martin - builds canal boats for a hobby :)

One of the best sailing holidays I ever had was taking 'America' down the Broads one windy week in November. Fast and a bit of a handful. We never got to put the topsail up.

I understand a lot of the stuff is being brought over from Morfa beach by landing craft.

Moelfre is getting a new Boathouse. The RNLI is spending in excess of £42m on updating 4 stations in Wales...

I watched her being sea trialled last month off my local beach at Pwllheli. I'm wondering if she will fit in the existing house or whether they will have to do what they have done at Porthdinllaen -...

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/m/man-be_good_to_yourself_at_least_once_a_day(2).jpgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK8Lr_HL3eY

ElectraGlide in Blue.....so bad the projectionist at our local cinema turned the film off after a half hour and gave everyone their money back. Which teed off some of us quietly neckin' in the back...

missed you Meli

good to see things moving down there

I will certainly be staying away from the news, tv, radio, papers, over here tomorrow. It's state funeral time.

I wondered what was going on at Frongoch when I went past the other week [on the train= outbound to the Dinghy show in London]. i really should stop off sometime and have a poke around a good old...

Now I know where boats go to die. very melancholic to see. A River of Lost Dreams

I once sat on a hill at the seaward end of this area and watched a couple of phantoms chase what looked like a MiG up hill and down dale for what seemed like hours [what a MiG was doing there I have...

that was from Spitting Image!



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Although I did'nt share his politics, I think he was a genuinely decent person, who wanted to do the right thing for the country, but was surrounded by a...

well said Andrew.

I've always wondered whether Maggie was a necessary evil, who came in at a time when the Unions, especially, were getting rather too big and powerful for the good of the country....

I liked the way it filled the classes up to 2/3rds full, to allow the wine to breathe and develop a bouquet.

Only oiks fill their wine glasses to the brim.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/12/hand-powered-drilling-tools-and-machines.html

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well there's the candidate Big Bad for the next Bond movie sorted then. [and the plotline too I suspect]

the principle of keeping benefits at or below the average salary I can support, but it's the way it's being enforced I have serious issues with. The 'bedroom tax' is a case in point. In principle the...

Ah Hell, Mick you're giving me the scaries. I'm afraid my experience will echo yours when the time comes to take my Finn out for the first time.

Unlike you I have never sailed a Finn before....

Brings back memories of my Healy. Never had problems with the electrics though, even in wet Wales. Maybe it was because I did'nt have it for long |:) [sold it to have funds for Uni]

Lots of times Mick, lots of times.

No. how best to plane the extra taper in once the spar is glued up. The methodology was outlined, so I'm happy now.

I think the Monster Raving Loony Party might have something to say about that :)

good advice. I've been wondering how best to achieve this.

I wish my staves were that cleanly cut!

we all love to laugh at upper class nit-wits. I suppose there is a hint of 'schadenfreud' about it all.

personally, I can't abide the latest 'Blandings' sit-com, stellar cast notwithstanding. I...

nice job on that mast. I'd be interested in the final weight of it and the foremast [I have a similar job back here and need to keep the weight down. I'm using DF]

Loony bin, along with Napoleon

Had a good look at this at the Dinghy show last w/end. It's essentially a Merlin Rocket on Steroids, with a price tag to match. It's one of Keith Callaghans [see Hadron thread] so it's a boat that...

or the miles supersonic jet plane too, with it's inovative all-moving tailplane, which then miraculously turned up on the Bell X1?

looks better than some of the other supercar estate efforts out there, but still think it's a waste of time and money. If you can afford to buy and run an AM then you can guy a ford estate to tuck...

my friend Mandy was due to have gone up this am, but overslept. Two others from her hotel have'nt returned.

This how it's done in the UK: container city, hard by the Olympic Park in E London

http://ecoble.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/container-city-ii.jpg

http://hennessyhammock.com/

used one at Big Sur back in 05. wonderful night's sleep.http://hennessyhammock.com/images/uploads/Coiba-National-Park.jpg

still too cold here to do anything but bimble around the boats.

the Finn being grp in quite happy in the cold and wet , but needs a little filler here and there, also new bits of string and a...

I bet she never eats her own stuff... she's just tooo thin

all I can say to the above is if you get a chance, go and see the original James Caird in the maritime museum in Greenwich [was there a few years back, might have gone back to Dulwich by now]. Just...

As a kid I would stand there, with my mars bar or whatever in one hand and my pocket money [only a shilling in those days] in the other waiting for the shopkeeper to notice me or even come out the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbyiwT1jbGE

interesting prog on renovating Leader- one of the largest sailing trawlers of the 19th C.

some iffy asides [skip the fish cooking] but there's a look...

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from a Facebook friend in RI:

It is so intense here howling 50-60 mph gust of wind and drifting. There is...

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sent to me by a Facebook friend in RI. shot taken in Mass.

http://i.imgur.com/AonFioZ.jpg?1

In the meantime just join up with us, there's already one or two US members iirc.

Well, I'll have to manage with what I've got. Like you I'll be using it for pleasure not racing, so sailing flat is an unlikely event [knees, back etc]. I might travel for a couple of fun events, but...

The one thing that redeems England over all else and the only thing needed is the existance even if raised in Canada of Amanda Tapping...

I've just swopped the Unit planker for a Taylor built Finn from 1979. There's a bit of tlc needed, but essentially the boat is ready to go, even though I'm not. One of the problems with classic Finns...

The Italians beat the French in Rome 23-18.

France were below par to be honest, but the Italians worked hard and showed flashes of brilliance at times to take only their second ever win over...

I suspect it will be Wales playing to spoil England's G/S at Cardiff in the last game of the tournament

Yes, but was'nt that Aston Martin just drop-dead gorgeous?