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22 June 2008, 21:38
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: Milford Haven
Boat name: Various
Make: Commercial
Length: 10m +
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Yeah, a few boats in the water at Milford now, and another couple perhaps later on this evening....
-Alex
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22 June 2008, 21:55
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: Milford Haven
Boat name: Various
Make: Commercial
Length: 10m +
Engine: Screw / Voith / Jets
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Hot Lemon going in a couple of hours ago.
-Alex
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22 June 2008, 21:59
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: Milford Haven
Boat name: Various
Make: Commercial
Length: 10m +
Engine: Screw / Voith / Jets
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Silverline 471 going in shortly after Hot Lemon.
-Alex
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22 June 2008, 22:03
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: Milford Haven
Boat name: Various
Make: Commercial
Length: 10m +
Engine: Screw / Voith / Jets
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Last one of Silverline 471, and then Seahound V arrived as well, although isn't going in tonight.
-Alex
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22 June 2008, 22:25
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: West Wales
Make: Vipermax 5.8, SR4.7
Length: 5m +
Engine: 150 Opti, F50EFi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Hi Alex: Presumably, they're moored up in the marina overnight, not at Carr Jetty?
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22 June 2008, 22:57
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: Milford Haven
Boat name: Various
Make: Commercial
Length: 10m +
Engine: Screw / Voith / Jets
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Yeah, they're in the marina tonight now...
Another 5 have just turned up at Milford in the last hour - they're continuing to launch the ones they can.
-Alex
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23 June 2008, 07:08
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Macclesfield
Boat name: Aqua Fresh
Make: Zodiac Medline
Length: 5m +
Engine: 60hp Yamaha
MMSI: 235051988
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I know the Weathers been Bad but !
why have they moved from Pylmouth to milford ?
would it not just of been easier to have had the lay day yesterday instead of on wednesday ?
i know that they would of had to change hotel bookings etc but that must of been an easier option than transporting all the boats via land
also some of the "RTD" from the first leg have know had longer to prepare for the next legs.
so if you retired in the 3rd/4th leg could you not then argue your case that those the retired earlier have had a better opertunity to restart ?
what would of happened if the leg between Milford and Bangor had/has to be resceduled its a longway via road and ship to northern Ireland
Andy
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23 June 2008, 07:17
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brighton
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It was clearly a difficult call, and not one that was taken lightly.
Taking the lay day early would have meant changing all the logistical arrangements at Milford Haven, Bangor and Oban. I guess they decided that it wasn't practical.
There probably wasn't a "right" decision, just the one that seemed least bad at the time.
John
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23 June 2008, 07:39
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Portsmouth
Boat name: Not sure
Make: ABC/Priddy
Length: 10m +
Engine: 2 x 500 FPT
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 928
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So Allen The Hairdresser has shown up again. He has been on the missing list as much as I have!!
Alan P 
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23 June 2008, 08:24
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Hairdresser
Country: UK - Isle of Man
Town: Peel
Boat name: Jane L
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: 315 Yanmar
MMSI: 235077935
Join Date: May 2000
Posts: 200
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Originally Posted by Alan Priddy
So Allen The Hairdresser has shown up again. He has been on the missing list as much as I have!!
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Missed you too xxxxx 
Off to Bangor now - will give your regards to anyone I meet!
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23 June 2008, 08:34
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: Milford Haven
Boat name: Various
Make: Commercial
Length: 10m +
Engine: Screw / Voith / Jets
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 792
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Just taken a hundred snaps over at Pembroke now... they're currently uploading which could take a small while but here's the link...
http://gallery.ribseadrive.co.uk/work/rb08/
Off down river shortly to get some pics of the start so will upload some more pics then.
-Alex
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23 June 2008, 11:50
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Member
Country: France
Town: Côte d'Azur
Boat name: Beaver Patrol
Make: Avon Searider SR4
Length: 4m +
Join Date: Jan 2004
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We've just launched and waved off RIB International who are are now making 55 knots across to Bangor 
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23 June 2008, 12:33
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Thanks Alex!!!
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23 June 2008, 13:33
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brighton
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Originally Posted by Tim M
We've just launched and waved off RIB International who are are now making 55 knots across to Bangor |
Looks like they might be shadowing Team Jersey's broken down Bat 28 into Wexford now.
Pascoe RIB #96 Mr Mako driven by Jamie Edwards & John Lindsay appears to be overall leader so far today.
John
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23 June 2008, 14:37
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Country: UK - England
Town: Reading
Make: None
Length: under 3m
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Not sure if it's just because I'm using Firefox but there seems to be a problem with MarineTrack. It's been fine (apart from the hiccups of 'Too many connections' yesterday) but just now I refreshed it and got a pop up box which I couldn't get rid of except by using Task Manager, which then, without warning, shut all the windows I had open, not just the MarineTrack one! I tried again and got the same problem but with a different message in the pop up box. Anyone else had something similar?
P.S. Make sure you save anything vital before refreshing MarineTrack!
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23 June 2008, 14:42
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Reading
Make: None
Length: under 3m
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Just found out, if I 'OK' every pop up, eventually it places all the markers on the map and then goes away! It never used to do that - very strange!
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23 June 2008, 17:42
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brighton
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Mr Mako was first in to Bangor, but beaten to first place by Wetpunkt who started half an hour later.
John
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23 June 2008, 17:50
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: Milford Haven
Boat name: Various
Make: Commercial
Length: 10m +
Engine: Screw / Voith / Jets
Join Date: Sep 2002
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ok, I haven't had a chance to drop the rubbish pics yet, so just uploaded the lot (all 648 images).... thanks to Peter24/7 for the lift this morning 
http://gallery.ribseadrive.co.uk/work/rb08/rb08_start/
-Alex
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23 June 2008, 18:18
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Sussex
Make: RIBTEC 655
Length: 6m +
Engine: Yam 150
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,160
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We have broke down 25 miles or Ireland with one blown engine. We have made 6 knots for 4 hours and got in at rosslare. We have an engineer with us and plan if we can get our new parts and oil to arrive at Bangor at 2am running along with 42 bat boat. Starting to feel tired now. Bit fed up of paying catch up but not giving in yet. Seems the more basic ribs with single simple outboards are going best. Top speed so far 62 knots.
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23 June 2008, 19:50
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Portsmouth Harbour
Length: no boat
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 175
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom
We have broke down 25 miles or Ireland with one blown engine. We have made 6 knots for 4 hours and got in at rosslare. We have an engineer with us and plan if we can get our new parts and oil to arrive at Bangor at 2am running along with 42 bat boat. Starting to feel tired now. Bit fed up of paying catch up but not giving in yet. Seems the more basic ribs with single simple outboards are going best. Top speed so far 62 knots.
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Really sorry to hear that Tom. Tim and myself have just got back to Portsmouth. What a shame it has happened.
Rich
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RYA Powerboat Instructor, RYA PWC Instructor, RYA Dinghy Instructor
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