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Clyde_Wanderer wrote:Could swear that is Camden or there abouts??

Wigan - the pic is about a half a mile along the canal from the famous Pier.

hi guys just a quick update. i left tunisia for sardinia straight into a 57 knot storm ( i filmed 48 on wind instruments). engine packed in again second day i had 20 knots on the nose and the third day was a gale on the nose. spent 2 days in a marina, 50 euros a night, fixing engine, cylinder head off again. runs like a dream now (touch wood). had a couple of nights at anchor(25 knots) then i sailed for minorca which is where i am atm. cya l8r guys.

huggy wrote: spent 2 days in a marina, 50 euros a night...........

Bloody Hell! I'll never again complain about Tobermory, Arinagour.....

We've had our share of sailing in strong winds this August, but not in 57 kts. Looking forward to the next vid.

hi guys. ive had a nightmare. im not exagerating when i tell you evertime i sail i end up in a gale at best. i left majorca about 10 days ago pissed off cos i thought i had to motor because of light winds. how wrong was i? i got 9 miles from majorca and the winds picked upto 40 knots with 4m waves. because it was a short sail (motor) i left my dinghy assembled but with the big following seas the dinghy caught up with me and broke the rope to my windvane controls, and was getting swamped, so i had to get into the dinghy and bail it out. very scary at night in big seas. i then tried to use the engine to get back to the safe bay in majorca but my jib sheet washed through a deck scupper and tangled around my prop and i then couldnt use my engine so i had to keep going for ibiza. i fanaly got 1.3 miles from there very tired and looking forward to calm seas so i could get in and untangle the prop. the winds died and i was left drifting east away from ibiza. after considering calling the coast gaurd i decided to tie my dinghy to the side of the boat and use the engine from the dinghy for power and steer from the boat. anyway, i got my boat to santa eulalia in ibiza, only to find my prop was broke.(btw, my prop is variable pitch with no reverse) ive now got the bits and i am waiting for a lift out to fit it. i was anchored outside the marina in a storm and i dragged 3 anchors and a 60lb weight atached to a 50lb fishermans and i was less than a foot from being crushed by a big cat. the fishermans dug in and i was safe. ive now got a mooring untill i get fixed but i now only have 300 euros left and its going to cost me 150 for the lift out. my advice to anyone is"sell your boat!"

ive not had chance to fit the prop cos there has been 3 weeks of storms. the chain to the mooring broke and i dragged my stern anchor. lucky me!

Huggy - do you never think there is a greater being, dropping hints that perhaps you need to be somewhere else or something?

I thought you were at your finest and safest losing the dog and getting "bonjour'd out " avec les froggies

im not religous, but ive prayed a few times when the weather has been bad, but i honestly think if there is a god he f***ing hates me.

huggy wrote:im not religous, but ive prayed a few times when the weather has been bad

In the early 90's I was in the little Russel Channel in a gale. Decca was on the blink. The waves were too big to identify any lights. We didn't know where we were but we were pretty certain we had a lee shore behind us and the engine wasn't stopping us heading backwards towards it.

Like Huggy, I'm not religious but I told god that I'd marry my girlfriend if I lived.

Fortunately for me instead of God, the St Peter Port lifeboat came and towed us off and I was able to dump her when I went to uni!

True story.

Fortunately for me instead of God, the St Peter Port lifeboat came and towed us off and I was able to dump her when I went to uni!

St Peter Port. Porte = door in French hence St Peter Port = Pearly Gates in Frenglish. Perhaps you did indeed die? And therefore marrying your girlfriend was not strictly necessary. What's it like communicating with us mere mortals from beyond the grave?

I'd been thinking that, in God's place, I'd probably send the St. Peter Port lifeboat rather than putting in a personal appearance. Maybe you should have got hitched to your childhood sweetheart Markie?

Dan, there is a notice on the Largs pontoon bridgehead saying that on a 60/40 split it is 86p I think. For 100% propulsion it is 102p.

Haven't bought any myself this year (except when I ran low in Tarbert) as I have several cans of stockpiled pre-tax stuff
I wished I had just taken cans round at Tarbert and got it for the heating though.

Haven't bought any myself this year (except when I ran low in Tarbert)

So - when does not buying any convert into buying some....?

thats a great story markie and you put a smile on my face. it just goes to show. every storm cloud has a silver lining. but maybe not a gold ring!

hi guys. finaly made it to gib, met up with my m8 phil, and ive got fifteen euros left. never mind. worse things happen at sea.

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Hi Huggy,

What are you going to do with the fifteen Euros? I gather the exchange rate you are offered in the shops there is diabolical . . .

Have you sold the film rights to your trip yet? Keep yer pecker up man, things can only get better.