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Old 05 June 2005, 20:16   #1
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Old 05 June 2005, 20:41   #2
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Blimey Phil, not only are you an Osprey support boat, but now Orwell trip boat

Looks like a good time was had by all. We're at the National watersports centre at the end of the month doing a similar thing. Two days of inflateable towing for the kids.

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Old 05 June 2005, 22:15   #3
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They look happy !


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Old 06 June 2005, 09:35   #4
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We passed you Phil when we where going into Woolverstone for lunch you were just unloading your passengers.
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Old 06 June 2005, 10:35   #5
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well its a bit different to the cruising I favour but it shows how you can have fun from the family point of view -my kids are no problem on the boat but they are not at all interested in sitting there for hours

Wayne , yes, gave you a wave -thats a very smart boat you have;just as well you didn't have 13 kids climbing over those tubes !
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Old 06 June 2005, 18:25   #6
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well its a bit different to the cruising I favour but it shows how you can have fun from the family point of view -my kids are no problem ... 13 kids climbing over those tubes !
Congrats on being so prolific also

Keep it up !

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Old 06 June 2005, 19:05   #7
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only four on board are mine and thats more than enough for anyone;should have invested in a tv
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Old 06 June 2005, 19:09   #8
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Old 06 June 2005, 19:39   #9
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There just HAS to be a problem here - I mean they are having FUN and Tony B Liar has BANNED that along with almost everything else!!!

Seriously though are you actually ALLOWED to carry that many? I know they were safe - YOU know they were safe but that doesn't count for much these days!!!
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Old 06 June 2005, 21:03   #10
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phil

nice boat good fun for the kids

i did see you at the weekend i was in the tiny valiant rib about ten miles behind wayne and peter trying to keep up at only 32 knots wayne pulls away like concord

nice place levington lots to sea and if its rought you can potter about on the river

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Old 07 June 2005, 09:19   #11
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The Humber has a plate stating thta it can carry 22 people so I was really only half full!
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Old 07 June 2005, 11:50   #12
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The Humber has a plate stating thta it can carry 22 people so I was really only half full!
Bloody hell - would have been great at Dunkirk - seriously though what European idiot could EVER think any 8m boat could be safe carrying that many people???
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Old 07 June 2005, 23:44   #13
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- seriously though what European saint could EVER think any 8m boat could be safe carrying that many people???
Bob Geldof (infamous jackeen ) might go for it

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Old 08 June 2005, 09:49   #14
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Given that there are 4 jockey seats and 1/2 on the suicide seat I assume people are meant to sit on the tubes -isn't that what the diver types do?

However for the trip out only my 13 and 14 year olds were allowed this privelege -the others were inside the boat

Is it safe? Well if I had capsized doing tight(ish) turns then no doubt a few questions would be asked. As skipper but more importantly as parent I have to assess the position and make a judgement -the buck stops here.
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Old 08 June 2005, 12:26   #15
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Given that there are 4 jockey seats and 1/2 on the suicide seat I assume people are meant to sit on the tubes -isn't that what the diver types do?

However for the trip out only my 13 and 14 year olds were allowed this privelege -the others were inside the boat

Is it safe? Well if I had capsized doing tight(ish) turns then no doubt a few questions would be asked. As skipper but more importantly as parent I have to assess the position and make a judgement -the buck stops here.
Actually sitting on the tubes seems SAFER than anything else!!!! Shaun Whyte who now runs Ocean Dynamics used to run high speed thrill rides around Tenby - once they had a capsize in really confused waters and all 14 people were thrown in - nobody was hurt!!!

http://www.maib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resou...ety_504204.pdf

Makes interesting reading - they couldn't really fault the way the trips were run and in particular praised the idea of giving all passengers canoeing helmets as well as lifejackets.
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