BLUEMOMENT

arriving late last Friday afternoon at Yarmouth IOW, I noted that the Harbour Master returned to duty at 0700 on Saturday which was also the time we should leave to catch the tide.

So, at 0659 on Saturday morning my friend is aware of a call to nature and shuns my pleas to avail himself of the onboard facilities which included a bog roll the very apogee of the art of softness.

After a while, he returns £29 the poorer which, to be fair, wasn't just the cost of a poo but included the cost of an overnight stay + electricity at winter rates. Would this rank as the most expensive ablution ever?

Depend how you measure it. Was it £ for pound, or £ / minute. If it was a whopping great poo produced by a constipated friend over a considerable time, then it might be value for money, partic as if that were the case, your heads might have been irreteivably damaged causing a lot more than £29 worth of damage.

The cost of the ablution is irrelevant, and erm..... not of interest.

You should always stick around to pay the nice HM person for your overnight stay, instead of trying to escape for nothing. That's just duck's arse behaviour.

There's no such thing as a 'free lunch' ... or disposal thereof.

I think TCM's efforts at colonic irrigation at Croabh worked out at a higher rate.
From memory that cost £8 for about 2 hours

claymore wrote:I think TCM's efforts at colonic irrigation at Croabh worked out at a higher rate.
From memory that cost £8 for about 2 hours

jings .. was he on the cludgie that long?

You should always stick around to pay the nice HM person for your overnight stay

If you arrive when there are no staff on and leave before they come back in the mornming then it is moot whether or not you have had full 24 hour value for money - for one thing there have been no staff on duty. In this case I would have been inclined to leave a tenner in an honesty box if there was one, but £29 for a few hours alongside is a bit steep no matter how soft the bogroll.

The last marina we stayed in last year was Glenarm. We came in at teatime and told the HM we were leaving at 02:30 to get the tide up the N Channel. He very nicely waived the charge as we were not staying all night. It's a pity a few more places (Craobh for one) aren't a little more flexible.

The man in Glenarm would be a Ballymena man

You can always tell a Ballymena man but you can't tell him much.

Nick wrote:

You should always stick around to pay the nice HM person for your overnight stay

If you arrive when there are no staff on and leave before they come back in the mornming then it is moot whether or not you have had full 24 hour value for money - for one thing there have been no staff on duty..

I fear you may be taking me just a tad too seriously, Webbie. I was merely making a point that Para was being 'thrifty'.

I know what you mean about £29 for a short stay though. When we came back from the Scuttlebutt to Cherbourg trip last September, we agreed to meet Tome and crew in Yarmouth. Then they changed plans and stayed in France for another 24 hours recuperation, which did them no favours as they caught the worst of the weather the next day. Never got to see the poor blighter again.

Anyway, back to the point. I had a choice of spending the night on our club pontoon in Lymington for nothing, heading back up to Beaulieu to our home berth also for nothing, or a run ashore in Yarmouth. All are within 5 miles of each other. I decided that as all three of us had taken the next day off work we should go for the run ashore in Yarmouth - which cost me £35 for 12 hours on a pontoon! (Great showers there, though)

what's that about a fool and his money are soon parted?!

Nick wrote:In this case I would have been inclined to leave a tenner in an honesty box

A teener? jings, that'd get a round in?

Whilst on a cruise 3 yrs ago, I came across one of these things:-



I recall our captain pulling his wallet out in the vicinity and I'm sure he slipped a tenner into it although I had heard him tell how an entire year's mooring could be purchased for a similar sum so he might have pro-rated his offering?