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Old 01 November 2014, 12:01   #1
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Unless I'm mistaken there was someone on here that's done it in the last couple of years...
Had a search with no luck,anybody recall??
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Old 01 November 2014, 12:06   #2
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So off the top of my head there's at least one big redbay that was delivered there, but I think the story you are thinking of will be Mike and his wife in Magellan Echo... Note I might have the boat name wrong...

I also think one of the parkers has gone to Denmark.
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So off the top of my head there's at least one big redbay that was delivered there, but I think the story you are thinking of will be Mike and his wife in Magellan Echo... Note I might have the boat name wrong...

I also think one of the parkers has gone to Denmark.
OK I have refreshed my memory - Mike Garside sold Magellan Echo and then built Magellan Zulu for this trip: http://www.rib.net/forum/f8/heading-...way-55386.html
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OK I have refreshed my memory - Mike Garside sold Magellan Echo and then built Magellan Zulu for this trip: http://www.rib.net/forum/f8/heading-...way-55386.html
Mike has done some pretty awesome adventures which I have followed with him on FB with great interest
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I believe the Gillespie Brothers went to Norway as well.
They said they went, arrived, nobody spoke English, they went up and down one fiord in the rain and then came back again.
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Couple of Humbers OP's did it back in 2011 ;-)

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I believe the Gillespie Brothers went to Norway as well.
They said they went, arrived, nobody spoke English, they went up and down one fiord in the rain and then came back again.
It certainly pays to know someone when you get there...
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I believe the Gillespie Brothers went to Norway as well.
They said they went, arrived, nobody spoke English...
Oh dear - no all day breakfasts either I suppose?
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Unless I'm mistaken there was someone on here that's done it in the last couple of years...

Had a search with no luck,anybody recall??

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Didn't the guys that had Bouncer 11 go to Norway
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Didn't the guys that had Bouncer 11 go to Norway
Bouncer II or Bouncer the 11m? The family who commissioned the Bouncer Series are now on a 12m twin 370hp. They've been everywhere

There's any number of Redbays that headed in that direction - Faroes, Sweden, Norway, Estonia. The one that impressed me the most was the 8.4m Expedition that went to Sweden via the Caledonian Canal. They crossed the North Sea in "worsening conditions" and would have been at the outer limits of their fuel plan. Tough lads, tough boat.
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...and would have been at the outer limits of their fuel plan.
Bu**er that.
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there's a petrol station half way:
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The stuff that they sell is a little like asda fuel, unrefined. 😉
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The stuff that they sell is a little like asda fuel, unrefined. 😉
Its a diesel it will run on the waste from the canteen!
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Yep, that's asda diesel.
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Yep, that's asda diesel.
Haven't you ever noticed that every Asda has a Mcdonalds in the car park next to the petrol station
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Haven't you ever noticed that every Asda has a Mcdonalds in the car park next to the petrol station
Pasty shop down 'ere.

P'raps pasty gravy is the same. I'll give it a do.

Lee, the Plymouth Argyle (Green Army) fan will be here soon defending Asda.
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