Don
Is there a spel check on this forum?

Mike

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Hi Mike.

No - but I was beginning to think I should install one.[;)]

I'll look into it.

Don

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Hi Mike

I have a spell check mod to try out.

I'll install it later today after I have made my mince pies (Brenda's just getting over the third operation on her shoulder in three years so I'm building up experience for my carer's badge).[8D]

Don

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yu shuld get a kera's baj fur that don - minz piez eh, veri impresif if i mite seh so.

don't think yu knead botha wiv the spel cheque tho, do yu?

HAPPY CHRISTMAS ALL!

Stephen & Berenice

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Hi Stephen

Any snow on the Isle of Mull? Bill tells me you are picking your new boat up on the 12th Jan. This is going to be quite a tow. Look forward to an article about it for the On-Line Magazine page of the SSA web site.

Bill is calling in to see me over the Christmas period. He tells me his his order book for 235s just keeps expanding. He seems to have a winner here.

I'll now get back to completing the Christmas edition of the Marine Crossword for the SSA web site. Baking has been postponed until tomorrow morning.

Best regards and Happy Christmas

Don

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Hi Don - glad a reprieve came through on the baking front!

No snow here on Mull - actually really warm at 7 degrees, though wet, which is nothing new!

We collect our boat on 11th Jan (I hope the 12th was a typo - please tell Bill it's the 11th otherwise ferries and hotels are all wrong!) and I'll endeavour to record the journey back in photo and print - it will be 200 miles to Carlisle on the 11th, completing the journey of another 250 miles on the 12th, via two ferries...it can make for dramatic photos in Glencoe provided one can find the motivation to stop and get out to take them!

All the best for Christmas, I'm going to light the fire and read victualling lists with a sherry...just need a mince pie....?!

Kindest regards,
Stephen & Berenice

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Stephen

You've got it easy - I lived on Unst in the Shetlands for a year.

Train to Aberdeen
Ship to Lerwick on 'Mainland'
Bus to North 'Mainland'
Ferry to Yell.
Small Bus to mid Yell
Smaller Bus to top of Yell
Ferry to Unst
People carrier to Baltasound
Van to RAF Saxa Vord north Unst

2 hours daylight this time of year
24 hours daylight in the Summer.

Not able to pick up TV then either, though I did take my life in my hands dinghy sailing in the freezing waters.

Regards

Don

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wow, I am humbled Don...makes our trip seem very easy!!

Don't know how we'd manage without TV, or the internet which allows us to both shop and sell - Ebay alone has financed our new boat trailer this year through sales of what is technically junk but valuable to someone. I've sold everytning from old MGB parts to Biggles anthologies!

Attached should be a picture of our last boat in Tobermory - sorry about the engine / lack of a mast, but it was a sprat to catch a mackerel - I needed to get Berenice to gain confidence on the water before adding a heeling over element!

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Stephen - well I am referring to something that happened 40+ years ago (Internet! What's that[:0]) - Our entertainment was listening to the Trawler band.

You seem to have cracked the posting of pictures but is one missing as I see what looks like a missing link?

Don

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Don - yes, went in a different route with the photo somehow, only meant to post one though so got the result I intended in the end!

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spell checker working OK
hrrm my spelling is so bad it takes two goes to get it right but thats a lot better Don.
Thanks

Mike

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Originally posted by Stephen Godber

Hi Don - glad a reprieve came through on the baking front!

No snow here on Mull - actually really warm at 7 degrees, though wet, which is nothing new!

We collect our boat on 11th Jan (I hope the 12th was a typo - please tell Bill it's the 11th otherwise ferries and hotels are all wrong!) and I'll endeavour to record the journey back in photo and print - it will be 200 miles to Carlisle on the 11th, completing the journey of another 250 miles on the 12th, via two ferries...it can make for dramatic photos in Glencoe provided one can find the motivation to stop and get out to take them!

All the best for Christmas, I'm going to light the fire and read victualling lists with a sherry...just need a mince pie....?!

Kindest regards,
Stephen & Berenice

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RICHARD WATSON

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Originally posted by Stephen Godber

yu shuld get a kera's baj fur that don - minz piez eh, veri impresif if i mite seh so.

don't think yu knead botha wiv the spel cheque tho, do yu?

HAPPY CHRISTMAS ALL!

Stephen & Berenice

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RICHARD WATSON

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Hi,

I am interested in your experience of getting to grips with the Parker. I am experienced at sailing having sailed numerous dinghy classes ranging from cadets to international 14's however concentrating on National 12's. I did have also a wide range of team racing experience including racing at Rydall School with some old buoys. Sailing also encompassed windsurfing, especially on Sailboard Sports, of which I sold to an old sea dog who headed off into the distance at Foremarke Resevoir.

Please advise on your sailing experience, particularly on the Trent, from which I cant remember alot of!

Regards,

Sea Dog Richard,

07734078896
richardw@machinemart.co.uk

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Originally posted by Stephen Godber

Hi Don - glad a reprieve came through on the baking front!

No snow here on Mull - actually really warm at 7 degrees, though wet, which is nothing new!

We collect our boat on 11th Jan (I hope the 12th was a typo - please tell Bill it's the 11th otherwise ferries and hotels are all wrong!) and I'll endeavour to record the journey back in photo and print - it will be 200 miles to Carlisle on the 11th, completing the journey of another 250 miles on the 12th, via two ferries...it can make for dramatic photos in Glencoe provided one can find the motivation to stop and get out to take them!

All the best for Christmas, I'm going to light the fire and read victualling lists with a sherry...just need a mince pie....?!

Kindest regards,
Stephen & Berenice

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RICHARD WATSON

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Hi Richard welcome to the Parker and Seal Sailing Association! You will find us a friendly lot. Your spelling is far too good for this thread, as is mine, but maybe we will escape the moderator! You will find the Seals and Parkers sail very like a big dinghy as they are fast light boats and very responsive on the helm. If you like racing there is plenty to tweak and the keel pops up and down like a centreplate in a dinghy. The advantage is that if becalmed you can put the kettle on and have a brew or a cold beer, and you can go on mad adventures up muddy creeks where noone else can visit in a yacht. All in all unless you have blue water aspirations they are ideal family boats for cruising and racing, and I'm sure someone will tell me I'm wrong about the blue water too! Regards Kate

Kate

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Hello Richard...strange thread to start you posting on...!!

But welcome....I sailing from Boston, up the east coast, down the Humber, into the Trent, Fosdyke navigation, Lincoln and back to Boston down the Witham.. It was a about 4-5 years ago now..

We stopped at West Stockwith on the Trent and they were a very friendly bunch..They have a lovley yacht basin and good club house...with a cheap bar..!!!!

My signature.

Parker 235/ 40 Lady Penelope...

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YOU OLD DOG, WATSON!!

Kate, Paul, everyone else - give this man a wide berth!!!

As I remember it, he was a very average Nat 12 sailor, and sold dud windsurfers. And Salcombe Week - well, another story!![:o)]

How on earth did you find me - its' been years, you old dog! Are you still sailing anything 'Charmin'?! Ah, the old days eh?

And how's Pierre, the famous french aviateur?

For the sake of all the good folk of Seal & Parker Ville, I'll e-mail you at work for further reminiscences!!!

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