RIB Groupies - Page 8

Alan · 18 March 2002, 11:13

they'd all be in the marina bar anyway wouldn't they!

Ribald · 18 March 2002, 12:42

having first arrived there by sea

GraemeCooper · 18 March 2002, 12:58

Only if it were a flat calm day ........

Nadia Lehmann · 18 March 2002, 16:24

Well, I have been IN the Bristol Channel throughout the year (hm, actually got a waveski - sorry I know this is a RIB forum) and got my fair share of "ice cream" head!!!

So, when we get though the summer....!

wavelength · 18 March 2002, 17:17

boatings fine in the winter-we do it all year too -depending on what youre doing. Eddies right -thoughts of sitting in the confined space of a tiny inflatable when you've just hauled yourself out of the water from a cold water winter dive just aint fun - or safe.
Solent chop-pah. Come up here where we have proper tides - 10.4 metres at Easter - and see what wind over tide over shallow water can really do!

Ribald · 18 March 2002, 17:41

(sorry, couldn't work out how to display an accent).

This will no doubt get Stealth tp mention his 13.5m tides

GraemeCooper · 18 March 2002, 17:44

There are 2 distinctly different things here....

1. Boating - be it in a RIB or Inflatable - is great at an time of year - and a bit of 'weather' can add some spice to it - but a day when it's like a mill pond and you can skim accross the sea without a care in the world is an experience that has little equal.

2. Diving - around the coast of the UK - in winter - is surely only for those amongst us who have serious gaps in their social lives !!

Now, diving in the Red Sea at Sharm-el-Sheikh in warm, clear waters with coral reefs and shoals of colourful marine life - that is where diving should take place.

(As I will be doing frm 14 - 20 April

)

Splishsplash · 18 March 2002, 20:08

Sorry Graeme, can't agree with you there! I've dived around the world (I'm not going anywhere unless there is water!) and even after I've just come back from the cristal clear waters of Bonaire I can't wait to get into the water here. You just can't compare the two (other then getting wet in both cases)...

Often just being under water, away from it all, does the trick for me...even in zero degree & zero viz

Eddy (waiting for his gills to grow...)

GraemeCooper · 18 March 2002, 20:20

Yes Eddy - but you are Dutch - and supposed to be a bit strange ........

(only joking)

I am an 'any weather' boater - but only a 'fair weather' diver

wavelength · 18 March 2002, 20:46

dive scotland after new years eve/hogmanay north of the border fine way to forget the hangover - too busy worrying about the hypothermia - great stuff

Splishsplash · 18 March 2002, 20:57

You just wait and see...I give new meaning to the word strange!

We have to make life interesting, don't we?

Eddy

Splishsplash · 18 March 2002, 21:01

Nadia,

Just saw that I made the 150th reply to your thread! What do I get now?
Perhaps another piece of your picture (I'm making a puzzle...already have a piece of leg

and a piece of hand!)

Eddy

aladdin · 18 March 2002, 23:12

I know this is a rib and groupie thread, but to reply to the seasonal comments........

Due to the distance from the sea the boat gets 'rested' in December/January but the diving (scuba!) continues. Nothng better than -2 deg on the surface and under ice on new years day. Every year for the last 25!!

K

Nadia Lehmann · 19 March 2002, 06:20

Hey K,
What are you plans for the SOC send-off - you still keeping your evey on that thread? Have not seen your name on there for a while?

Back to this business!!!

Eddy,
Did you not know it was a 1,000 piece puzzle, and some of the pieces are very hard to come by...so, it may take you awhile to finish!!

I personally prefeer diving in 60ft + viz seas off and around the coast of Barbados(then again, that is the limit of my diving)
No drysuit, just a cozzie and a t-shirt, and then if night diving or deeper diving, a shortie!!!
(then again, not much sealife at 150ft)
Sometimes you do not need to go more than 40ft to have thousands of fish around you, the occasional turtle, the seahorses, and the friendly Barracadua!!!
(only seen a couple of nurse sharks once and that was off the beaten track / patch)

jools · 19 March 2002, 21:33

Hey maybe I could go into buisness

Nadia - I've been inundated in requests to post more pieces of the Nadia "puzzle"..... So here's the next piece.....

So, do you want more?

Bribes taken to post the rest!!!

Allen · 19 March 2002, 22:09

Looks like the "Teazemaid" to me

Splishsplash · 20 March 2002, 06:11

Jools, you're the man!

I'm still missing some rather important parts, but I am sure I will get the puzzle finished by the end of the year!

Bribe is in the mail!

Eddy

Nadia Lehmann · 20 March 2002, 15:35

Jools,
you post any more photos and you will not be allowed into the Bay!!!

Splishsplash · 20 March 2002, 19:45

Hmmm..we get to see a whole other side of Nadia here...interesting!

If I wasn't intrigued already..I am now!

You know a bluff when you see one don't you Jools?

Eddy

Nadia Lehmann · 21 March 2002, 15:19

Jools,

You can come in!!! But no more photos of me!

You will be advised to use lock 3.

I know your skipper wanted to talk to the Barrage anyway, so they are awaiting your call.

What are your timings?