suewhistle

Definitely worth the read - loved it... "It is clear from the statement that they have not understood the comments we made in our modifications and we would urge them to take time to read each and every part."

Hmm, I'm definitely a veteran and I'm still training and playing (a bit). If I'm around on my summer UK tour I'll pop along and bring me boots..... nothing like raising the average age with an over 50.;-) It would make a change from playing with 15 year olds!

What a very good summary..

Now that is my sort of sailing too! I started when I moved to a little village outside P****y and met some guys in the local pub. Myself and the lodger decided to join the local sailing club (her because she wanted to meet someone - now married) and me because i fancied sailing and cheaper beer!.... PS: Hamster, you do realise most boating fatalities happen between the boat and a hostelry. I think that probably applies both on the sea shore and on the river. Now we never used to drink on board but our routines for mooring/getting ashore/getting to a pub with decent beer used to be slliiiickk.

[[in my opinion, what will happen if Griffins are appointed as administrators, is that they will seek to setoff the £54M in losses that Gaydamak was responsible for, whilst trading insolvently, against the £32M he is claiming.]] ah, thanks GM, as a wage slave I wasn't aware of the niceties of efffing the IR and your competitors and clients. [ Hmm, so there is a possibility that PFC could have been shown to have been trading while insolvent in a Court of Law. [VERY IMPORTANT SNIP] First indications of the real bag of worms that Lampitt is trying to keep a lid on methinks. ]]

Turkish. do shut-up. I like a running joke, but not for a bloomin ultra-marathon.

Thanks, I'll probably put out the feelers at my old sailing club. I was crewing once on a Contessa 32 which broached off St Cats in a club round the island race and then got a wrap. I still shudder - no one was wearing life-jackets.

Don't _you_ start! Not even in fun! As somebody else said there are far too many assumptions being made by Alps. We know we need to strengthen in certain positions but the idea that nothing is going on is laughable.

No, never done French canals (apart from the channel up to Carentan) and tidal rivers e.g. Treguier. Yep, if I get the opportunity I'll certainly take it up.

Why sir, let me do it for you.

This thread is so far off topic I can't remember what it was about. I'd like to know what Turkish is on though, and he must have a real pain in his tongue and his cheek.

A quick scan shows they share many of our opinions: "The current level of unsecured creditors’ claims are estimated to be in the region of £83 million, although the Administrators are of the opinion that the final admitted claims will be significantly less than this total."

Ta Hamster: no it was more sailing boats, and even unpaid just to get out on the water. I love the mountains but do miss the sea. I don't earn anything for the next three months apart from the odd private lesson and I really don't want to teach* at summer school again. (*Teach, supervise, put to bed, hoik out of the wrong dorm, visit police station after inevitable shop-lifting incident, visit Casualty after inevitable...). So if I could earn.... Still, just been on The News website for the latest Pompey story and saw a temporary job at the Farnborough Air Show for Italian and French speakers: so that would cover my trip to the UK and the odd Saints ticket, and booking fee... I'll have a look at Apolloduck though, ta. My other option is crewseekers but as so many Solent types on here I thought it worth a try.

We ought to have someone do a management summary report every 50 pages or so!

Thanks, but i sometimes feel I don't what I'm doing! Plus I'm English, so a story from the round Italy trip (Sardinia to Venice to be exact). I shared a watch with a young American who had been on the boat for some weeks before hand on the way from the UK. We'd share helming, and I can't remember on how many occasions on night watch I told him to ease it a bit: "I know what I'm doing" Bang.. taken aback. Off-watch disturbed and I got it in the neck from the skipper. Not saying it didn't happen to me (I'm used to sloops not schooners cough cough), but I learnt to hate that phrase!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/electric-ride/map/index.shtml Two reasons, soppyoldsod: lack of ground level vehicle emissions which is important in big cities like London (in line for a fine for poor air quality) or Los Angeles which also suffers from fumes trapped by temperature inversion, and secondly the potential for the electricity they use to be generated by all sorts of alternative ways: wind, PV, geothermal, tidal, hydro...

Yep, injunction time, and then they'd be in even deeper...

There was an item on Radio 4 today (via the net) about a guy driving his leccy car around Europe. Easier over there apparently, and he's had a few problems but not a bad idea for leisurely touring. Given that sometimes I do the Thames Valley to Italy in a day not for me. Cheap and second hand electric cars haven't arrived yet, but I'd certainly consider them if I were flusher. With current ranges they're OK for short commutes but it's the mid distance cross-country trips that would be difficult and where the train is a pain because of multiple changes: such as from my house in Hampshire to my Mum's.

How much are King Edwards and the Uni owed?..

around - as in around an area. Actually I think you can if you go into the Morbihan to Vannes and then pick up the canals up towards* St. Malo: but you wouldn't want a fin keeler! *towards, as in "the general direction of" - I don't have a French canals pilot book to hand...

miaow

Make him pay 2 thirds, he must be the happier of you two!;-)

Oh, they do, but you are in a little world of your own. I don't knowingly abuse anyone here apart from StuRS, and that's for obvious reasons, but you really take the biscuit. You are consistently a half empty type of person, even when there is a brimming pint in front of you. Your post was so ill-considered that for a -very - brief moment I thought you were parodying yourself. Anyway, our last "warm-down" training session was Friday, the end of season junior tournament yesterday was a success and I'm looking forward to holidays and the World Cup. I suggest that you do likewise.

End of term this week, no footie training or skiing and I need to do something for the summer.. So, Day Skipper (theory) and DSC radio ticket. Limited experience: around Italy as watch leader on 60 footer, Falmouth - Crosshaven, around Channel Islands and Brittany, and of course the Solent and Cherbourg Milk Runs (214' IIRC) (from when I lived in 'Ampshire). Any leads, anybody? Surface vessels only TDD!

Thanks fatty.