Easter tip

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jim.r
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Easter tip

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.. use spare chocolate in your sailing shoes, it melts down, moulds to your foot thus providing a glove like fit
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Nick
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And . . .

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And it means you have some extra survival rations in the event of having to abandon.

This is definitely our best Easter tip yet . . .
- Nick 8)

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Another one.

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Tip: Don't allow any pompous pilot to insist on some scruffy Christian being executed on your rigging - the nail holes will do the mast and cross trees no good at all.
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Arghiro
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Re: Easter tip

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jim.r wrote:.. use spare chocolate in your sailing shoes, it melts down, moulds to your foot thus providing a glove like fit
There's no such thing as "spare" chocolate. SWMBO stores our supplies in her belly.
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Havant-a-clew
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Post by Havant-a-clew »

I understand that Brie fullfills much the same function and has the added advantage that it tastes just the same before and after, a quality not shared by chocolate. I stand waiting to be corrected.
For 27 years, I've pretended to be an adult. I wonder when they'll find me out.
FullCircle

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Havant-a-clew wrote:I understand that Brie fullfills much the same function and has the added advantage that it tastes just the same before and after, a quality not shared by chocolate. I stand waiting to be corrected.
Very sound advice. Welcome here, we need your brand of down to earth solutions.
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