yacht charter & broker company based in the South of Fra

[Telo]

Are you interested in a luxury yacht vacation on the French Riviera? Blue Water Yachting offers an exclusive range of luxury yacht vacations in the South of France.

This sounds right up my street. What sort of costs are we looking at?

[Nick]

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Hello BlueWaterYachting and welcome to the forum.

I assume that before you made this post you checked our terms and conditions and that you are happy therefore to offer a minimum 50% discount on all your products to any of our members?

[sahona]

but he did the snurble snurble handshake, does that not automatically entitle mates-rates? If not, the goats head should be returned.

[Telo]

I think I'd like a nice oil painting, preferably done in the manner of a renowned, but, sadly deceased, west coast artist, of Mme Shard, Minnie Shard, the Shardlets, and the Shardlings, on board a luxury yacht in the south of France. Can anyone oblige? I believe Silkie is a bit of a painter.

[Nick]

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I believe Silkie is a bit of a painter

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I believe a short piece of damp string is more likely to be a bit of a painter.

[cpedw]

I believe a short piece of damp string is more likely to be a bit of a painter.

That reminds me of the occasion a couple of decades ago when we took an artist friend out for a sail on the Forth. (She was a quite accomplished sailing artist and could lie on a lee cockpit seat daubing away merrily. Going about would cause some entertainment though.)
Back to the plot. This time, she forgot to bring any brushes. As luck would have it, only a few weeks before, PBO had described using a rope's end as a disposable paint brush for small touch-up jobs and such. So I equipped Annie with something similar and that was that. Much painting was done.

[Nick]

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Much painting was done.

Any chance of seeing the results??

[cpedw]

Any chance of seeing the results??

Unfortunately we don't have the raw material, a watercolour. But this oil was done from it and now sits over the fireplace. It's looking south from the Forth towards Hillend.


This watercolour was a live painting (using brushes) of the ferry cottage at North Shian as we shot past on the tide.


Not a bit boaty, but this is my favourite of Annie's paintings

Derek
p.s. Sorry the photos are a bit squint.

[lady_stormrider]

Sorry - but I had to type this comment and I fully expect to get keel-hauled by my skipper but...

Was the artist a POST-IMPRESSIONIST????

[cpedw]

Boom boom

[lady_stormrider]

My skipper often says that - as well as 'Yarh' a lot

[cpedw]

My skipper often says that - as well as 'Yarh' a lot

Are not 2 (possibly more) words missing from the end, as in "Yarh a lot of wasters" or similar?

[aquaplane]

More like "Yarrrrrr, prepare to repell boarders, Yarrrrr"

Or is it "prepare to be boarded" I forget?

You have to roll them r's

I learned much of what I know on talk like a pirate day!

[Rowana]

I wonder what Lady Stormrider would look like when she roller her R's?

Shiver me timbers, or something

[lady_stormrider]

Oooh! Roll my Rrrr's? Skipper says I have an automatic one for reefing with a sacrificial strip.

I do roll a bit when I'm sent onto the foredeck and made to do boaty stuff under threat of 'The Cat'.

If you have shivering timbers you need to get that looked at professionally - have you had an osmosis test recently?