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Post by patty on Aug 1, 2022 15:02:54 GMT
I've never sailed... on my list to have a go as n when I've only owned a narrowboat but I've been on board many different sorts of floating craft.. some a bit dodgy but none sunk. love being afloat.
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Post by patty on Aug 1, 2022 15:13:35 GMT
I've never sailed... on my list to have a go as n when I've only owned a narrowboat but I've been on board many different sorts of floating craft.. some a bit dodgy but none sunk. love being afloat. My parents were lucky enough to have a day out on a J class named - Valsheda. I don't know if they still do them, but I suspect that would be a fantastic day out, or onboard a tall ship. I did suggest to the adult kids that it'd be nice to have a day trip on a tall ship but they are not 'boaty'.. suspect I'll go alone at some time.. not that I mind trekking out solo, I did look at doing it this year but sadly life events have scuppered quite a lot of my plans.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 15:36:15 GMT
I also sunk a kayak years ago and almost drowned due to a dodgy spraydeck which took ages to come off. One of the old TYNE GRP kayaks the lip of which had dropped a bit thus wedging the spray deck elastic in place rather firmly.
Should have learned to perform an eskimo roll.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 15:38:54 GMT
And we also had a couple of "Nipper" GRP unsinkable dinghies approximately 5ft long which did in fact partly sink if you put a seagull featherweight on the back and two 12 year old boys. Quite funny seeing how far it would go before the engine went under.
Only a few hundred feet usually. This was in the Thames.
In those days we had river police going past regularly so quite safe.
Hampton Wick this was just down from Kingston on Thames.
Good times were had enjoying the divorce money my mother had got hold of.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 15:50:07 GMT
I've never sailed despite the old man being a Laser and Byte sailer and both grandfathers being keen and competitive yachtsmen. Propellers are my bag not flappy bits on sticks. You had an opportunity but you are too much of a pussy. The sails only flap if you're doing it wrong. And it's sailor, not sailer.
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Post by Jim on Aug 1, 2022 16:11:28 GMT
Started with a Campari Neoprene 1 man inflatable dinghy, bought from the original Karrimor factory and shop in Rawtenstall, aged 13. I made a double blade paddle in Woodwork, that got me the Woodwork Prize for my year too. Lots of fun on rivers and lakes with that, we went away caravanning a lot.
Age 17, while failing A-level woodwork, I made a stitch and tape 13ft kayak, lovely, varnished marine ply, with the gunnels taping done with white resin. Many adventures in that, taught myself a lot of canoe handling skills, just never learned to roll. That ended up getting nicked from my brother's garden!
I had a share in a grp Canadian, the mould for it had been taken from an old wooden craft rescued from Windermere, very stable, nice lines to it. Best adventure in that was running the Ardeche Gorge in France, over 3nights.
Also had a variety of grp kayaks over the years, still got one. 2001, day before 9/11, so I remember, picked up our first 17ft cabin cruiser on a trailer, a few months to fit out and we were off, trailered to Ashton Peak forest, Garstang on the Lanky, Silsden on the L&L etc. Went to York via Selby for the first time in that boat too.
Not enough room to move in that boat, so 2006 got a Dawncraft 22, very much a floating shed, fixed all the necessary stuff, re fitted gas work, put a wood stove in, steering gear etc, had many a happy trip in that, up to Ripon, a trip around the Trent clockwise, out at Keadby , Nottingham, Stoke, return via the Macc. The high gunnels on the Dawncraft were a trouble for SWMBO, sometimes had to hoik her up to get her on! So the opportunity came up to get our current boat, very cheap to reflect it's condition, we put the work in to end up with a decent boat.
Also, when I lived near Hollingworth Lake, I did RYA level 1 rag and stick, RYA Level 2 plank with rag and stick too, while never an expert I did enjoy scooting along on the sailboard on the occasions it all came together. Being surrounded by hills and houses Hollingworth is notoriously variable with its winds, visited Norfolk and Hickling Broad once, having a clean steady wind was a joy.
Latest acquisition to the fleet, an SUP stand up paddleboard.
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Post by brummieboy on Aug 1, 2022 19:27:46 GMT
After a weekend on a camping boat hired from Gas Street (Anson? , steered by Graham Wigley) I hired a small narrowboat a couple of times, then paid £1000 in 1984 for a 24ft Burnham cruiser with a Volvo Penta 99. Had great fun with that going all over the midlands. As an estuary cruiser it was a challenge on narrow canals as the only straight edge on it was the transom. I cashed in in 1998 when my house value rose fourfold, with 15% mortgage and becoming redundant, and bought Ashted as a shell with engine and windows. Over 34 years, have now been almost everywhere I want to go. Apart from enjoyable cruising, it has opened up a very fulfilling social life.
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Post by greenman on Aug 1, 2022 20:01:39 GMT
Helped on local fishing boats as a teenager. Local lifeboat crew for 15 years until I had to give up due to ill health in 2019. Went to narrowboats as a compromise with Mrs Greenman who gets sick just watching boats in choppy weather.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 20:25:30 GMT
I've never sailed despite the old man being a Laser and Byte sailer and both grandfathers being keen and competitive yachtsmen. Propellers are my bag not flappy bits on sticks. Its the only proper boating there is old chap. All this chugging up and down water filled ditches inland, trying to get your boat up a hill is utter madness. I gave up the ditch boating a while ago. Apart from the elf not really being up to it I did find it rather tedious. Have you ever tried sitting back in a comfortable electric canoe on a pleasant river with cold beer close by in a compressor driven coolbox? Not a great deal of trying to go uphill or downhill in fact not a great deal of trying to do anything at all but it is hellishly relaxing. I suppose everyone is different but if this is the only boating I do from now on in fine weather I will be content. Poor weather means stay inside and light the wood stove, while we are still legally allowed to use combustibles on this irritating planet.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 20:27:44 GMT
I've never sailed despite the old man being a Laser and Byte sailer and both grandfathers being keen and competitive yachtsmen. Propellers are my bag not flappy bits on sticks. You had an opportunity but you are too much of a pussy. The sails only flap if you're doing it wrong. And it's sailor, not sailer. Thank you for the minor error correction. It was the zombie suit that put me off the sailing to be honest. I didn't realise it was necessary to be so well secured inside an un-unzippable overall. It was actually quite shocking to my delicate disposition.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 20:36:27 GMT
You had an opportunity but you are too much of a pussy. The sails only flap if you're doing it wrong. And it's sailor, not sailer. Thank you for the minor error correction. It was the zombie suit that put me off the sailing to be honest. I didn't realise it was necessary to be so well secured inside an un-unzippable overall. It was actually quite shocking to my delicate disposition. As stated several times already, it's only needed on a cold day. The real reason is that you is a pussy though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 20:39:17 GMT
If you say so.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 20:40:37 GMT
Yup. I do.
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Post by greenman on Aug 1, 2022 20:42:21 GMT
The whole wafi thing never really appealed to me but I have been invited a few times. Maybe give it a go just to say I've done it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 20:44:23 GMT
eta @nemesis
Twat.
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