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Old 06 July 2013, 18:19   #21
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Feel free to update thread. Made it safely in 2.5 hours to Bryher and tent pitched. Gearbox still intact! Fraggle Rock pub awaits :-)
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Old 06 July 2013, 18:28   #22
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2.5hrs is about right. It could've been lumpy when he broke Lands End, we've had a fairly stiff N Westerly blow for most of the day. Plenty of sunshine, :-) Tell him to buy Chris the Landlord a pint of Doom, it'll oil the wheels nicely. ;-)
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30kts?.......

30 foot more like it
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Old 06 July 2013, 19:32   #24
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Great timing by David on the weather! Wish I'd booked this week off instead having to go inland for work.

I bet he's having an amazing time!
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Old 06 July 2013, 20:20   #25
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Proper Northerly blowing here now. I can see two distant wind turbines from our sofa, ideal windicators. ;-)
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Fair play to him though, he went off and did it instead of sitting on his arse talking about it

(No offence to the people sitting on their arse talking about it )
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Old 06 July 2013, 20:53   #27
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Fair play to him though, he went off and did it instead of sitting on his arse talking about it

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Totally. Or made a whole Ribnet carnival out of it.
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Old 07 July 2013, 08:40   #28
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Perfect conditions today. Warm getting hot, clear skies and light airs.
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Perfect conditions today. Warm getting hot, clear skies and light airs.
Any chance you could dial this in for last week July, first two weeks August?
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Any chance you could dial this in for last week July, first two weeks August?
I wish. Here for most of next week for the SW according to the forecast.

Just getting the SR ready for a bit of beach and spearmissin' over at Molullnan (Mollers).
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More news from David:

No boating today but a morning spent walking around Bryher worked up an appetite for lunch which got slept off this afternoon in the sun. Supper at the Hell's Bay Hotel beckons! B-)
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Jim tell him!
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Jim tell him!
Anymore texts or has he had to porn his phone, use the rib for paying thrill rides and sell a kidney to pay for supper.
8 coffees 12 muffins £58
Thank got they'd stopped serving a breakfast
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More news.....

Sorry for the delay but battery ran out! Now charged on boat whilst viewing puffins and seals. Gearbox still intact despite that and refueling at St Marys. Now in Turks Head on St Agnes for lunch. Then back to Fal. Sea flat calm B-)
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Stunning weather here today. Mid 20's C and light easterly. :-). Avo has hit the jackpot with this one. ;-)
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Fair play to him though, he went off and did it instead of sitting on his arse talking about it

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Every Time!!! I heard from him on Friday...Always have been Talkers and Walkers..And Some of us WERE on the Irland trip
Looking forward to it at the end of the Month though,when the weathers there you just gotta go!!
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..and there are some who like to talk and walk with brass band accompaniment.
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..and there are some who like to talk and walk with brass band accompaniment.
Actum non Verba Works for me!...You should just...try a positive attitude...you may surprise yourself!
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Yeah? 'Mit Speck fängt man Mäuse' always works for Sven Hassel and myself!
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This just in.....

Safely into Falmouth and a cheap and cheerful B&B. Lizard v choppy. Caught prop on pot line. Signaled passing Braher boatman with yacht in tow who ok'd. In the meantime self-rescued with inflatable. Boatman furious with potman. Inboarded line and threw ashore. Betty Stoggs now improving things here in Fal. Dartmouth tomorrow. :-)
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