10 Years

[SteveHall]

I wonder who the longest currently active member is... (that isnt Admin)

[Bern Hanreck]

Probably JK..........On both counts..........!........

[wavelength]

Steve...you're still a newbie!

[SteveHall]

wavelength - You must be one of the longest active members? 2001!

[tim griffin]

2003 me so still a young un
Tim

[wavelength]

hmmm - active? I'll tell the missus that one & she if she agrees.
Yep its been a bit of a boating fest in the years since I joined. We have always had boats but in those years since 2001 or whenever I've taken early retirement from one job run powerboat courses all over the world from Falklands to the Seychelles to mexico / belize and all over the med. Got hijacked to help out skippering on a windfarm for a couple of weeks that turned into 6/7 years of intensive transfer work and deliveries with some very nice boats. Escaped from that (well for now I have) and back home running the courses again now, and when I'm not doing that we are out playing in the boats. Never ever get fed up with it-absolutely lovin it! B****y Father times is trying to slow me down but he ain't won yet!- and yet another birthday tomorrow I can't have that many candles on the cake cos of the fire hazard!

[kerny]

Originally Posted by SteveHall

I wonder who the longest currently active member is... (that isnt Admin)

I wonder who is the oldest ????

[wavelength]

I wonder who is the oldest ????

don't even go there, or I'll send the boys with the zimmers round! ( s/s zimmers for onboard use of course!)

[willk]

Originally Posted by kerny

I wonder who is the oldest ????

DM

[wavelength]

and living life to the full....!!!

[Cookee]

Still here after 11 years ..................

[biffer]

I haven't looked. Just happy to still be here

[Mollers]

Gas oil (red diesel) has gone from 25p/ltr 10yrs ago to 65p. It used to a third of the price of derv. Now it's more than half.

[wavelength]

glad to be still here as said. Growing old is compulsory, growing up isn't ......so I never bothered with that bit! First day of my early retirement from a proper job (sort of) I celebrated the fact that they were now paying me to stay away from the office by having the annual training centre inspection in the morning followed by an afternoon behind a rib on the water ski (whilst missing the job terribly of course!)

[Andre]

Also still here. Joined October 2002 and if I am correct diesel was then 19p/ltr at Littlehampton Marina. That was when I had my first Parker 630 Diesel rib and most weekends when the tides were right I would just do a round trip of the IOW and top up the tank at Yarmouth for 20 quid. Those were the days . This thread had prompted me to look up some of my earlier posts and really enjoyed reading again the Littlehampton cruises which Phil Chitty and I would organize and about the May 2003 RibNet gathering in Plymouth. There was very nice group of people there. There a few we do not hear from anymore like Charles from Jersey, Crazyhorse, etc Nice memories

[Jizm]

June 2002 for me.....I was only 6'5" then.