tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003707989737559682024-03-21T13:17:59.169+00:00 ...Boogie NightsOne woman and a chihuahua attempting to find intergalactic oneness.Fox Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755786770137507169noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200370798973755968.post-13026740572191373512022-04-15T13:18:00.002+01:002022-04-15T13:18:39.727+01:00<p> The world tipped on its head in 2019. So I've been busy and neglected my blog for a while. <br />actually, I've been busy over on the the old book of faces and instagram. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWm2kDg5O8RIrL9A4NO9ouUO6N2Ukb5YypeXk8qH0gxgQrNaeqfARMTKRIlwz9bzw0PZsj0SdjEgU2_dbb3fhCz0GWDa8OSPVn_ye7yl1tp10a4dBnXTQ7cSKUoBeOgqsJjuSG_2NHjnOamY0B3MvAeEXFhqCHbelMCA1gukKdG8N-TtNQoymfuGCJw/s1122/think%20of%20the%20krill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1109" data-original-width="1122" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWm2kDg5O8RIrL9A4NO9ouUO6N2Ukb5YypeXk8qH0gxgQrNaeqfARMTKRIlwz9bzw0PZsj0SdjEgU2_dbb3fhCz0GWDa8OSPVn_ye7yl1tp10a4dBnXTQ7cSKUoBeOgqsJjuSG_2NHjnOamY0B3MvAeEXFhqCHbelMCA1gukKdG8N-TtNQoymfuGCJw/s320/think%20of%20the%20krill.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>meanwhile, I've been doing a bit of work for future and they've been the main focus of my attention for the past few months. </p><p><br /></p><p>here's a few articles I've written so far:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.mby.com/gear/best-waterproof-phone-case-iphone-android-118993">https://www.mby.com/gear/best-waterproof-phone-case-iphone-android-118993</a></p><p><a href="https://www.yachtingworld.com/yachts-and-gear/best-hand-bearing-compasses-tried-and-tested-137261">https://www.yachtingworld.com/yachts-and-gear/best-hand-bearing-compasses-tried-and-tested-137261</a></p><p><a href="https://www.yachtingworld.com/reviews/gear-reviews/steiner-navigator-pro-7x50-longterm-tested-best-binoculars-for-boating">https://www.yachtingworld.com/reviews/gear-reviews/steiner-navigator-pro-7x50-longterm-tested-best-binoculars-for-boating</a></p><p><a href="https://www.yachtingworld.com/reviews/gear-reviews/tested-best-sailing-knife-victorinox-skipper-pro">https://www.yachtingworld.com/reviews/gear-reviews/tested-best-sailing-knife-victorinox-skipper-pro</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ybw.com/gear/best-gps-fitness-tracker-6-waterproof-options-for-water-sports-74841">https://www.ybw.com/gear/best-gps-fitness-tracker-6-waterproof-options-for-water-sports-74841</a></p><p><a href="https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/gear/climbing-a-mast-best-climbing-gear-practical-guide-83875">https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/gear/climbing-a-mast-best-climbing-gear-practical-guide-83875</a></p><p><a href="https://www.yachtingworld.com/reviews/gear-reviews/garmin-quatix-6-review-best-boating-and-sailing-smart-watch-tested">https://www.yachtingworld.com/reviews/gear-reviews/garmin-quatix-6-review-best-boating-and-sailing-smart-watch-tested</a></p><p><a href="https://www.yachtingworld.com/gear-reviews/best-epirb-4-emergency-beacons-for-leisure-sailors-136679">https://www.yachtingworld.com/gear-reviews/best-epirb-4-emergency-beacons-for-leisure-sailors-136679</a></p><p><a href="https://www.yachtingworld.com/gear-reviews/best-personal-locator-beacon-fastfind-returnlink-vs-resqlink-view-rls-136755">https://www.yachtingworld.com/gear-reviews/best-personal-locator-beacon-fastfind-returnlink-vs-resqlink-view-rls-136755</a></p><p><a href="https://www.yachtingworld.com/gear-reviews/best-satellite-phone-8-devices-for-adventurous-sailors-136504">https://www.yachtingworld.com/gear-reviews/best-satellite-phone-8-devices-for-adventurous-sailors-136504</a></p><br />Fox Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755786770137507169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200370798973755968.post-68343617957970268332018-09-03T10:00:00.001+01:002021-01-13T00:08:48.284+00:00Clowning about<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iTAVtwWlrHQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Fox Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755786770137507169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200370798973755968.post-76518163397355285962018-08-01T21:27:00.000+01:002018-09-03T23:15:06.041+01:00Where's my pirate flag?<div id="fb-root">
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<br />Yes, that's right. Finally a friend was brave enough to bring her children aboard Boogie Nights for a few days. </h2>
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First stop: Marchwood yacht club to collect the kiddy life jackets. Thanks to Russell for having two children who grew out of their life jackets, which were then handed to Frank who has grandchildren who then loaned them in this direction. </div>
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Then off to Newtown Creek on the Isle of Wight. It's a popular anchorage and sods law dictates that the anchor would set just a tiny bit too close to a neighbouring boat. But then, the electric windlass was not working due to a faulty button. So, nobody could be arsed to haul the chain back up by hand so it was left where it was and the captain knew she'd be keeping a close eye when the tide swung round later in the night.<br />
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Before then though, there was a little logistical exercise of getting over to the beach. Ever played the game of Fox-chicken-sack of grain? Well. The little dinghy "Disco Biscuit" is only rated to fit 3 (2 adults one child) people and that's a squeeze. There's no engine, so one person has to row.<br />
Two adults and two children... How to get all the adults and children to the beach? There was a fair bit of rowing involved.<br />
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A beautiful sunset and a little sundowner in the cockpit. Followed by bed. Except for Flashheart, she had a late one planned on anchor watch.<br />
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The hammock was rigged up front, warm layers on and some warm blankets too. The captain dozed a while until waking up to hear a noise nobody wants to hear. This woke Amanda up at the same time as captain calamity. (the one supposedly on watch). The boat that had been eyeballed thinking it was the close neighbour was actually a different one. that one missed Boogie Nights by a mile. But the one that hadn't been watched properly had their bow snagged on the back end of Boogie Nights. Whoops! After being manually and gently pushed apart, Boogie Nights swung through the turn and hovered in close proximity but looked safe. Everything was going well until breakfast when both boats ended up drifting alongside each other. Thankfully the now VERY close neighbour was a very nice chap. The fat fender was deployed and then both boats tied together. By way of apology, the neighbour whose phone charging cable was broken was able to use the power on board Boogie Nights to juice up his phone.<br />
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The next stop after the close encounter in the anchorage was Yarmouth harbour. It was BUSY! Early arrival was needed to ensure a spot on a walk ashore pontoon. The heat wave meant both ships dog and Flashheart were hiding away from the sun. An easy day of chilling in the shade. The friendly neighbours who rafted up outside mentioned the salt water lido in Lymington as a good place to take children. </div>
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A quick motor across to Lymington from Yarmouth the next morning. Not knowing which pontoon to land on, The captain opted for one that said "strictly no mooring". Even just to drop everyone off and then find a mooring elsewhere. The harbour master came along and was super cool, really friendly with the kids and allowed us to pay for a short stay on the pontoon which is often restricted. The bonus was that it was literally right beside the Lido. Boogie Nights was visible from a deck chair in the <b>screaming palace of salt watery adventure.</b> </div>
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If you've never seen a salt water lido in full summer holiday swing, then this place will surely boggle your mind. It is full of crazy inflatable adventure to slip slide and bounce on. There's something suitable for every age. A fresh water splash pool for toddlers, a smaller inflatables section for nippers and then the big-ass-inflatables like you'd see on "it's a knockout"</div>
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With two slightly tired children we set off back to Ocean Quay making lovely burgers on the way which we scoffed in the cockpit. All was well in the world. A MASSIVE thanks to Amanda for driving nearly 200 miles south to come and spend time messing about on the water and to her two lively and adorable little pirates, Isabelle and Christopher. </div>
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The tally of things accidentally dropped in the water and retrieved</h4>
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One monkey toy</h3>
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This is normal operational mode.<br />
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The spinning whistling humming<b> noisy neighbour-antagoniser</b> sitting atop a pole at the back of Boogie Nights was out of control, it was spinning like an utter bastard.<br />
The voltage across the domestic AGM batteries briefly flashed 16volts before Captain Calamity flicked the switch to turn it off to save the expensive Rolls batteries from being fried. It was Autumn 2017. I didn't feel very much like dismantling the turbine rig.<br />
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It stayed firmly in the off position until a little research had been done. (trots off to do some internetsing and googlesing)<br />
This piece of kit is vital to keeping the batteries topped up and allows for engine free sailing. Some folks can't cope with the noise, but I say, huh? What d'ya say? Noise? What noise? It's definitely better than engine noise and burning diesel.<br />
<a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2018/01/fossil-power-bad-vibrations.html?m=1" target="_blank">fossil power bad vibrations</a><br />
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It would appear that the regulator circuit board was buggered and apparently it's a common issue.<br />
The air breeze turbine is popular and there's a fair few videos on ye old youtubular with folks doing their own home made repairs.<br />
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Well, after a little bit of looking, we found the only UK supplier who was able to order the replacement circuit board. They recommended the turbine be sent to them for testing first.<br />
But that would be an additional £150, plus the courier, necessitating finding a big box, then packing it, then driving to a post office. Which is a massive pain in the tits. The circuit board was £270 plus postage. That'll do for now.<br />
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So let's just have a look and see if we can do this ourselves shall we? There's enough online info that it looks like a straightforward job. Maybe a bit fiddly.<br />
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It helps if you have access to a vice. Or a clamp. Or something to hold the slippery cast cast shape in place while you work on it.<br />
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I borrowed a small corner of an engineering factory in Derbyshire. But it could have been done on the dining table with a bit of protection in place.<br />
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First the screws holding the main plate had to come out. Thankfully they had been coated in anti-corrosion paste prior to assembly so they came out pretty easily.<br />
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Sliding off the cover reveals the winding and the spinny magnetic what-dya-ma-call-it.<br />
The circuit board sits behind this.<br />
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So the brushes have to come out.<br />
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Once it was gutted and laid out on the table, it was clear to see that there was loads of small metal turnings still within the aluminium cast housing. They were all over the fekkin place. It could easily have been one of these little twats that caused a problem with the circuit board. There was a few stuck to the back of the old circuitboard. I'm guessing they crept there by static attraction and vibration over the years. <br />
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A bit of tapping, knocking and banging as well as blasting with air and the last of the shards of shite were removed.<br />
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Now to assemble this air breeze back to working order.<br />
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With a bit of cursing. the odd terse word between The Captain Calamity and her Chief of Engineering (also known as Dad.) it all went back together like a dream.<br />
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How about we follow the testing guidelines on the instructions? Yeah, those instructions that came with the new circuit board.<br />
Got a cordless type screwdriver? Switch it to slower speed, put a hex bit in it and give it a wee spin with a multimeter attached to the power out. Try that again with the electronic brake activated, does it work? Right then. <br />
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While the taps and toilets are all frozen on the land, the water is still running absolutely fine on the boat because the tank and pipework is far from freezing. The toilets can't be flushed on land but the boat toilet is absolutely fine as it runs on raw salt water. So that's 2 - 0 to the boat compared to land living. </div>
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It's a steady 8 degrees inside, which is 12 more than it is outside and if we take the wind chill factor into account, that is 20 degrees warmer. All things being relative, I'd say it's warm inside. (14/15C inside the boat would feel the same as 21C in a house given the small space and low ceiling height.) When it's 8C inside, this is warm socks/boots and a thick jumper conditions. Not unreasonable really. It's fkin cold outside. But kinda ok inside. When the wind changes direction, it'll be cosy.<br />
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<i>This reflection has taken a little longer than usual, due in part to being busier than bunch of shite hawks on the bins and in perhaps equal part to being rendered silent with apoplectic rage. </i><i>I'll try to explain, but keep it as short as possible. </i><i>It probably won't be all that short to be honest.</i></h3>
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<b>Last summer</b> a good friend with an almost identical boat to Boogie Nights asked me if I'd be interested in doing the Rolex Middle Sea Race.<i> "Fershure",</i> said I. <i>"I'm up for that." </i><br />
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As the weeks ticked off and the October race start date approached, the crew was assembled by a trickle down effect.<br />
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First there was Clair the owner, then there was me. Then Clair found a fellow interested sailor called Emmanuel (Manu) working in the same rented office space. They hadn't sailed together before but Manu had done plenty of sea miles years before with her dad. In turn Manu suggested someone she knew from winter ski seasons, called Mary, who apparently was quite an avid sailor too. That made four of us and everything was set. Between us we have all covered many thousands of miles at sea on various types of sailing boat. Some racing, some cruising.<br />
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Given my university work commitment at the time I could only take the time as part of my ongoing professional practice, ie, I needed to be working on media coverage of the race. After all, this was the first all female sailing team in the living memory of the race organisers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was collected from the airport by two of the most chilled out people. </span></td></tr>
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Race time rapidly approached and as I prepared to fly to Sardinia to help Clair and Manu sail the boat to Malta for the race start, apparently one more person had been invited, by Mary. The degrees of separation becoming ever more distant. Well, it's a small world and it turns out the 5th member of the team, called Lucy had married the winner of the 2012 Triangle Race, whom I had interviewed previously and bumped into on random occasions around the Solent area.<br />
It's a small world.<br />
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I flew out to Sardinia. pent up with stress about the university pressures I had to still cover my commitments to students. Clair and Manu were pretty chilled, with their roll up cigarettes and bikinis and I felt like a bit of a pent up stress ball next to them. Sipping my breakfast energy drink and looking a bit like a pale fat friend in quite sensible clothes. But it would be OK. We'd head to Malta, I'd get my work done, we'd do a race, yeah.<br />
The journey to Malta was far more relaxed than I had envisaged. So relaxed that we called in to places that I could only dream of enjoying. Yet, my head wasn't in the zone for jumping in and swimming. I was thinking of NSS scores and disenchanted students and the stress of being seen to perform for them. Dammit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it was the kind of water I dream about jumping into. But I never did. I need to go back without work stress. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />We were right there, in what can only be described as paradise. And there I was sweating over a laptop. </span></blockquote>
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We eventually arrived in Malta, I jumped onto the wifi there, conducted skype tutorials and then headed off to meet Mary who had flown in.<br />
Wow. She's a bit full on. Like, FULL FUCKING ON. But seems kinda reasonable. though, really fucking full on, and a smoker. Jeezaz. That's three smokers and one asthmatic.<br />
OK, but we're cool. We get the new code zero out Clair had made and went for a little test sail together.<br />
Now, this Mary, she seems like a practical person. Gets things done. But still pretty full on. A bit loud. but you know, she seems alright-ish. Maybe a bit on the overly pushy side, not the kind of person I'm used to sailing with but it'd be OK.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moored up, stern to, in Malta at the race village. </span></td></tr>
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The Rolex races are a bit of a trumpety fanfare event and they have owner parties and crew parties and it's all a bit much really. Anyway, after a bit of a night for the owners, the next night was crew party.<b> I was saving myself. This was gonna be epic</b>. I'd finished all of my work for two days.<br />
It was just one day away from race start. Lucy would be flying in during the crew party. Mary had gone to find her and show her around. I drank away the evening meeting more people than I could possibly remember, eventually landing on a 40 something foot charter boat, which had been chartered by a lovely bunch of Czech blokes.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Google translate is a fekkin marvel isn't it. Only one step away from sticking a fish in your ear. </span></blockquote>
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The Deydreamer crew of five didn't really meet up to speak much until the next morning.<br />
The morning after Manu and I had gone to bed at 7am having lightened the rum rations on the Czech boat.<br />
It was around 8.30am that Lucy clanged into life and decided to speak loudly to Clair, who was snoozing in the saloon, about lightening the boat. I was sleeping in the saloon too. I WAS. Manu had masterfully tucked herself away in the aft cabin and closed the door. (like a pro)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the weather forecast went something like: "there's a big high pressure, which might affect you, it might not."</span></td></tr>
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There was a few jobs on the snagging list to be crossed off, But Lucy made it her mission to empty the boat. What about filling the water tank? No, we'd have bottled water. She took most of the day to rearrange the boat and remove as much as she possibly could. Including a bottle of Clair's perfume, a slinky toy and a dream catcher.<br />
The boat is called Deydreamer. Removing the dreamcatcher is like removing the glitter ball from Boogie Nights, or Yoda for that matter.<br />
Nursing bad heads and wanting to give Lucy a wide berth, both Manu and I headed off to the shop to get the food sorted.<br />
Clair later snuck back into the container to retrieve her perfume and the slinky which was then hidden on-board.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the face of a hangover and realisation that I'd have to spend another 4 days on-board with someone I really didn't like. I'm not good at my poker face. Need to work on that. </span></td></tr>
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It's a 600 mile race, so that's likely to be 5 days on an old Dehler 36 CWS.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The weather forecast was light, light, super light then rough as fuck.</span> </blockquote>
The spray hood had been taken off. I was not amused. Being fair skinned and enjoying protection from sun and motherfuckingwaves.<br />
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As food was stowed away, it was apparent that Lucy had really made some changes to the layout of stuff on-board. So much so that Clair had to keep asking where things were. Nobody had asked for this change but there you go. Oh and guess what... make that FOUR smokers and an asthmatic.<br />
Oh what larks ay?<br />
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well, it didn't stop there.<br />
No, I wish it did.<br />
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Let's fast forward to the race start. We've slipped lines and heading around the corner which is about 20 minutes to the start area. I've gone forward to sweat up the main sail while Mary takes up slack, but, the reef lines had been tied in the day before and the original method of the Dehler reefing can be a bit tight. This meant a bit of jiggery pokery was needed to pull them through so we could get the main up. Lucy mistook my inability to hoist the main as ineptitude. She stomped forward in her British winter sailing boots and racing smock, beads of sweat at her temples as she barged me out of the way to hoist the main. I tried telling her it was just because the reef lines needed pulling through, but she then took the opportunity to attempt to explain to me how single line reefing works.<br />
You can see how this is going to end right?<br />
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It's roughly mid-day. There's Clair on helm, Manu on port jib sheet, Mary on main sheet, I've been asked to cover the starboard jib sheet despite trying to live stream the event and provide any commentary and there was Lucy. Standing like fucking Nelson next to Clair, barking orders.<br />
Who the fuck put her in charge? Nobody.<br />
She took it upon herself to assume superiority and assumed everyone else was a complete novice or had so little experience that everything had to be explained in a condescending manner.<br />
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SO, there we are, being barked at. I'm rapidly approaching the point where I'm prepared to jump off and swim ashore. I SHIT YOU NOT. I actually thought about it.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Instead I live broadcast that "everyone's a cunt" and immediately felt a bit better. </span></blockquote>
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Then it happened. You know when you have someone barking and someone trying to concentrate and then fast reactions needed. Well, another competitor tacked in front of us, <b>we were stand on vessel </b>still on starboard tack, but the other boat didn't react and it all got a bit contacty and scrapey and you know, bits of gelcoat were removed thanks to the other boats bow roller.<br />
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Still, we were good to continue, albeit in need of some epoxy touchups.<br />
The next two days were torture. Both in the sense that I really didn't want to be in the same breathing space as Lucy, but also because we were running out of bottled water. The weather was turning from nothing to everything and the tracker was showing boat after boat turn around and hide in various marinas in Sicily.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">pretty sight of the spinnaker run to the first mark on the course. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Skipper has a word. </span></td></tr>
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The weather hadn't beaten us but the fresh water situation was getting critical. The decision to pull in rather than attempt to bash through the bad weather was taken reluctantly. Dehlers are pretty good in heavy weather.<br />
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After a night in Messina, we headed out into the straight, pointed south, back to the start along with another boat of a similar IRC rating to us. It was blowing around 50knots of breeze but as we were running with it, it was actually a lot of fun.<br />
Well, it would have been a lot of fun if I had been able to sit outside. Instead I confined myself below, handing food out to the others, because frankly, there was still a risk of more clashes with Lucy.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The slinky was slinked sneakily when Lucy's back was turned. I sniggered like a child. </span></blockquote>
Clair jiggled the slinky out of the cockpit cabin window. We giggled. Like children who'd slipped toad spawn into grandmas best vase. <br />
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The one good thing that came out of this farce? Marina Foti had spotted us on the tracker and came to say hello while we were still moored in Sicily. I immediately liked the cut of her jib. (she arrived with fresh pastries and a flask of tea)<br />
After linking up via facebook, when I got back to the UK, I sent her a link to the Triangle Race.<br />
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Would she like to have a go at this with me in 2018?<br />
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"Yes" was the reply.<br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Don't assume someone is good to get along with via anecdotal evidence. SAIL with them in person first before committing to more than a few hours on the boat together</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Check if they are a smoker. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Check if they are in anyway likely to be a fucking cunt. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lay out the aims of the boat/crew/race before setting sail. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Assign roles to crew to establish some sort of teamwork. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Never let anyone stand like fucking Nelson next to you when helming. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If someone rearranges your boat without your permission, kick them the fuck off at the first opportunity. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Middle Sea race needs to be conquered. It's a challenge that needs completing.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Never take the sprayhood off for a multiday potentially offshore race. Sprayhoods are lifesavers for pale freckly people in the Med. </span></li>
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un-met expectations meted out metaphorically. </div>
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The captain is in reflective mood as we march rapidly through the first two weeks of 2018. </h3>
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Life is too short to be in the company of cut purses, footpads, ner do wells, emotional voids, crap shags and right 'orrible cunts. There's no time for fucking about, but the little blue screen electronic-mitherer never lets up. <b>So let's just release some inner "bread knife" on some shit. </b><br />
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Back in 2017 <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2017/09/hold-my-beer-minute.html" target="_blank">we counted up the female representation in popular magazine Yachting World </a>(YW).<br />
<b>It was dire.</b> Consistently utterly misrepresentative of real world sailing. It takes some effort to be that bad.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>But then ironically, having just called the publisher of said mag a cunt, we found ourselves leaping to the defence of the editor as she was on the receiving end of mysogynistic venom via that popular social meeja site. Arsebook. </i></span></b></blockquote>
The cause of the venom? For daring to comment on a strange skit that was produced onboard a Volvo ocean racing boat where the Australian skipper decided it might be funny to ask <i>what's the best way to apply sudocreme to a sore scrotum</i>. It was a bit weird, like boys laughing at their willies at primary school. Not very funny really but, Whatever. Harvey Weinstein and #metoo was kicking off. Some armchair warrior decided they would complain under the cannily numbered new rule 69 <i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[shnork]</span></i>, saying that it brought the sport into disrepute. It was all thrown out of course after a brief inquiry.<br />
The editor of YW commented on the incident saying :<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fuckwit<br />a breadknife to the back of the knee<br />contact him here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dai.jones.3114">https://www.facebook.com/dai.jones.3114</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">contact him here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013038572564">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013038572564</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">contact him here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/guy.crocker.7">https://www.facebook.com/guy.crocker.7</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: lime;"><b> It should be noted</b> that the sensible responses out-numbered the dickhead ones above. Some good responses from other blokes calling them idiots too. Big up to the terrific chaps who stand for equality and call out the fuckwits. We need more of you and less of this kind of nonsense above.</span><br />
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<b>Meanwhile back in the real world:</b> Captain Flashheart is still getting over having to deal with an incident where the metaphorical bread knife was wielded. A sailing event with an all women crew <b>out trumped</b> the spunk-trumpet of a <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2017/09/jog-to-alderney.html" target="_blank">Summer JOG race to Alderney</a> with the emotionally needy and sulky crew mate. One of the five women on board caused this face:<br />
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Ever tried being on a 36 foot boat and had to avoid being in close proximity to a crew mate<i> [use the word <b>mate</b> loosely here]</i> when the boat is pretty much up to capacity? No? This was a new one to us too.<br />
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Between undermining the whole crew, the boat and the fitness to race, her overzealous efforts to be a total fucking control freak, who thought she had more racing experience than the rest of the crew, despite having very little in reality, almost no people skills, no sense of humour and a bizarre need to<a href="http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/199327/First-all-female-crew-in-Rolex-Middle-Sea-Race" target="_blank"> big herself up in the media</a> after the event. Her actions caused the boat to be short of fresh drinking water and removed useful equipment to storage, including a heavy weather jib. After a collision just after the start of the race, during which she snatched the wheel from the skipper while she barked orders and was generally a bit of a mad cunt, it just got worse from there on. We were later forced to abandon the race. Water shortage was the first reason. She states in her hastily written turgid article that the crew consisted of five women including "two highly experienced offshore racers" well she aint fucking one of 'em. The picture is also mis-captioned. That's the person in question in the pic and it's <b>not</b> Emmanuelle who was a sheer delight to sail with and highly professional.<br />
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We wave a breadknife in your general direction Lucinda, you shit-shark plonker.<br />
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Of course the Captain Flashheart isn't totally without guilt, she did call everyone a cunt on live broadcast video, though she blames the goading of viewers who said <i>"what? where's the swearing? It's unlike you..."</i> and swearing was duly delivered. When a camera is pointed at you and someone says <i>"you're live, don't say fuck bugger or cunt."</i> What's your response to that?<br />
yeah. Sorry about that nice skipper lady who doesn't swear. Please accept this sincere apology. You definitely weren't all cunts, just the one really. See above.<br />
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Just go and dare say that the youtube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww" target="_blank">sailing la vagabond</a> is a bit vacuous and generally a bit <b style="font-style: italic;">meh, </b>we dare ya! You're highly likely get hit with some fanboy wet tissues, and lots of comments saying that it was just "jealousy" or "bitterness" making you say hurty things. Despite very clearly stating it was based on journalistic integrity. You wouldn't get that kind of BS if you were a bearded manly looking journo. No, women are always jealous of other people, especially women, because, duh, we're only judged on how we look... because you know, bikinis...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A bit harsh? What have YOU done? <br />Well big brother, I'm waving a bread knife at you patronising old farts. Say that to a male journo would you? Ask him what he's done would you? I think not. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">4-No, I haven't, but plenty are inspired by some amazing people who </span><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">aren't</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> vacuous youtube celebrities. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">5- How about I don't because I ALREADY DID?<br />6- BREAD<br />7- KNIFE</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ah, if only I ever went anywhere or did anything wonderfully fabulous like these young punks... Oh wait, er, yeah hold my beer... </span></td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9p8ChaDOMRyXJNEYRWWhkg/featured" target="_blank">SV Sarean video blog</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXbWsGV_cjG3gOsSnNJPVlg" target="_blank">Sailing Uma</a><br />
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The captain was asked a few weeks back, <i>"how come you're single?" </i>by a friend who seemed genuinely curious, well, friend, if you're reading this is why...</div>
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You know how sometimes you can't believe a date was actually as bad as you remembered it, so you wait 18 months and give it another try after being e-mithered repeatedly? <i>[at least once every six weeks, counts as mithering right?]</i> Yeah, don't. It really is fucking rubbish. You'll sit and listen to an entire night of whinging and complaining about other people, the weather and somehow <b>not</b> shake a bread knife when they comment dismissively <i>"oh I could never live on a boat" </i>then endure the most utter pish, I'll spare you the details.<br />
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<i>(It was like a cross between Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite and <a href="https://youtu.be/GKao7DHxUQE" target="_blank">Ted & Annie from the opening scene in the film Bridesmaids</a> followed by the Ace Ventura in the shower scene.)</i><br />
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<b>Crap dates, I'm waving a bread knife at you. No more saying yes when the word should be NO. </b><br />
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That sums up this summing up of a Bread Knifey 2017 and not very auspicious start to 2018.<br />
It can only get better, the expectations are entirely reasonable.<br />
If anyone else has anything that makes them feel a little bit "stabby" please share it.<br />
<i>Captain Flashheart </i>feels better already for releasing the pent up swears.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Disclaimer: it should be noted that at no point was anyone harmed physically during this blog post, no physical harm is intended to anyone involved and the metaphorical weaponisation of words is merely a simile to the old phrase, to have a sharp tongue. </span><br />
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<b>Stepping onto a boat, any boat, for the first time can be daunting.</b><br />
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They're like something between a space-ship and a caravan with a pointy end.<br />
Some bits within them will seem vaguely familiar while other things are positively alien.<br />
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A while back we wrote about <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2016/05/how-to-date-sailors-essential-guide.html" target="_blank">how to date a sailor</a>, but it was brought to our attention that advice should be given to those non-boaty types, or those giving it a go for the first time, on how to comport ones-self on board a boat or yacht. So for those of you deciding this is the year you're going to have a go, then get started with these 12 essentials.<br />
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1: Bag size</h4>
Your kit bag/luggage must be squashy and roll up to the smallest size possible or be able to change shape to fit in a weird shaped space or ideally convert to a pillow. Hard sided suitcases will be left ashore. They don't belong on a boat.<br />
If you bring a solid plastic suitcase, expect the boat owner to dismantle it and attempt to turn it into a dinghy.<br />
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2: Footwear</h4>
Soft squishy or rubberised soles only on deck and inside (ie ANYWHERE/everywhere on a boat). Not black soled hiking boots. Not pointy shoes. Not fashion shoes. Not brogues. Trainers are good. Squash or indoor tennis court shoes are good too. Deck shoes are ok. Crocs are not.<br />
Batman shoes are optional.<br />
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3: Clothing</h4>
Light, easy fitting, spandex or Lycra. <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2015/11/driving-wedgie-between-us.html" target="_blank">Big pants</a>/knickers. Stretchy clothes that can move with you. Something that will dry quickly, walking trousers are good for this. Cover over with wind cheating or waterproof clothes if sailing in the UK.<br />
You DON'T need to wear all the gear.<br />
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4a: Safety: Always a hand for yourself</h4>
One hand for you. One hand for the boat.<br />
It's as simple as that. Make sure the one hand for you is secure enough to stop you falling, slipping or flying in an uncontrolled way. Inside and outside the boat when moving.<br />
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4b: Safety: Wear a lifejacket</h4>
Find your jacket, make sure it's adjusted to fit before the boat goes anywhere, make sure it's all present and correct, ie that the gas bottle hasn't been disconnected or loose or discharged. Double check the service date.<br />
Wear it when the boat is leaning, wear it when it's windy, wear it when it's dark or going dark, wear it when you are on deck, wear it at all times if you want to, just make sure you readjust it if taking a big jacket off to make sure it's not too loose and make sure you use the crotch strap.<br />
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4c: Safety: Wear sunscreen</h4>
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4d: Safety: Always walk on the high side</h4>
If you need to go on deck, always choose the side that is highest.<br />
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4e: Safety: Never drink alcohol and sail</h4>
You'll either lose a finger in a winch or fall over and smash your face in and ruin everyones day. Save the booze for when the boat isn't moving.<br />
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4f: Safety: Never smoke on someone else's boat</h4>
You think you're outside right? Well, that smoke is wafting straight inside the boat. Trust us on this. The place that will stink the most is inside. The wind has a funny way of wafting that smoke inside. <b>No. Matter. Where. You. Sit. Outside</b>.<br />
If you do this on Boogie Nights, you will either get threatened with a bread knife or be told to leave. <br />
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4g: Safety: Step, Don't Jump</h4>
Never try jumping off the boat when mooring up. You should be able to step from the boat to shore with a rope in your hand. Jumping onto small finger pontoons can result in rebounding off the other side into the water, into a neighbouring boat or slipping between your own boat and the pontoon which isn't an ideal situation. You can also slip, slide or break an ankle if you land awkwardly. If someone else on the boat tells you to jump, tell them to fuck off. You're not there to compensate for poor mooring skills.<br />
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5: Switches</h4>
Some boats have a lot, others have almost none. But pretty much all boats have some kind of <b>switch craft sorcery.</b><br />
The electrics on a boat are a product of the dark arts. Nobody really knows how they work. Not exactly. The switches seem to go on, lights light up on a console but nothing discernible happens.<br />
Beware, these switches are usually the most important.<br />
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6: Cabin sharing/sleeping arrangements</h4>
If the host offers to share a cabin, this is pretty normal. Boaters are communal sleepers. It's not necessarily an invite to share bodily fluid.<br />
If you're hopping on to a boat for the first time, there's some basics to observe.<br />
You need to first find out, which cabin is the owners cabin<i>. (unless you're renting/chartering a bare <br />boat and then you have free rein to choose)</i><br />
Very often, the owner will take the forward cabin, which on most yachts is forward of the mast.<br />
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The forward cabin on Boogie Nights is the owners cabin and is otherwise called the <i>Princess Suite</i>. Only good mates get invited to this particularly private area of the boat.<br />
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7: Operating the cooker/oven</h4>
Another special skills test. Lighting a boat cooker or oven can be a a mildly disconcerting. Holding open the gas tap, pointing a flame on the end of a stick at it and the pregnant pause before it lights with a "kerfoof-woof"<br />
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8: Operating the toilet</h4>
So many devices, which one might you have?<br />
The Lavac? (put the lid down, pump 10 times, wait a few seconds, pump 5 more times) The Jabsco? (leave the lid up, pump at least 10 times on flush, then flick the switch to empty the bowl and pump until it's empty) The Baby Blake? The Bucket 'n' Chuckit?<br />
The most reliable toilet is the one with fewest moving parts. The bucket can only go wrong if you slip over on your way outside to empty it.<br />
The others all require pumping in some way or another. Make sure the valves (seacocks) have been opened to allow the raw water from outside to come in to the toilet and to let the water back out either to a tank or directly back into the water outside.<br />
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9: Operating any electronic device</h4>
Most items on a boat run on 12 or 24 volts. You're unlikely to ever get an electric shock. But, you are likely to need a degree in computing science to operate anything boat related. Never, ever drop your phone or electronic device into salt water. It will die.<br />
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Bring a USB cable with you and a 12v adapter the same as used in a car. If you have a larger USB powered storage battery, bring that as well.<br />
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10: Winches</h4>
They go clockwise. The winch handle can turn both ways with two different speeds, the drum always turns clockwise. Don't put ropes on anticlockwise. You'll feel stupid if you do and start trying to winch. If you're not sure, give the winch a little spin by hand just to remind yourself.<br />
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11: Ropes...</h4>
Once a rope arrives on a boat, it's no longer called a rope.<br />
so here's a handy guide:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that lifts up/raises
the main sail</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Main Halyard</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Up-Fucker</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that controls the
reduction in the main sail size</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Down-Fucker</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that controls the
end of the boom/main sail power</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Main Sheet</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">scream if ya wanna go
faster</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that pulls the boom
down</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that holds the end
of the boom up/is stored attached to end of boom but moved forward and tied
off at the mast when sailing.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Topping lift and/or<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Spare Main Halyard</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">what's that weird humming
sound?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Spare Up-fucker</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that lifts up/raises
the front sail</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Jib Halyard</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Front Up-Fucker</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that controls the
shape of the front sail</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Jib Sheet</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Fucking tack then</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">rope that turns the drum that rolls away the front sail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Furling line</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">It's that ratchety one</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that lifts up the
big colourful sail/kite</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Spinnaker Halyard</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Red Up-Fucker</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that controls the
shape of the big colourful sail</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 26.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 142.0pt;" valign="top" width="142"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Spinnaker sheets/guys</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">who's got gloves on?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">rope that we tie up with</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 36.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 142.0pt;" valign="top" width="142"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Mooring line</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">fucking throw it then</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Back in the summer during the brief phase of Captain Flashheart having a really shit milestone birthday (it's mid June if anyone feels the uncontrollable urge to spoil her this year) the battery charger decided to shit itself. And by shit itself, what we mean is, put up some error light that meant it no longer charges batteries but sits there doing fuck all in a cupboard. Thanks to Xantrex, you useless-bag-of-four-year-old-shite. </div>
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Never Mind. Boogie Nights is equipped with wind and solar, we're good thanks. No need for mains power anyway. oh, er, except for in winter that is, we need heating. We'll casually save up for a new charger that may or may not happen at some point in the next six months...</div>
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The captain was just preparing for a late night dog emptying trip ashore when the distinct smell of hot plastic assaulted the nose. The adapter for the lights, which also had the other multiway adapter plugged in had started to melt.</div>
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The 3kw heater was humming away in its aggressive little way, like a prolonged raspy Marge Simpson ARRRRGGGHHHH and the pretty fairly lights twinkled away outside. Oblivious to the impending blazing inferno. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">this kind of image flashed past the captains eyes<br />Pic credit: Andrew Jack</span></td></tr>
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It was all quickly unplugged and allowed to cool down. </div>
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The adapter removed and everything plugged back in, it was super-duper, thanks for asking. </div>
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<b><i>Fast forward two more weeks. </i></b></div>
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Now you'd think the captain would have learned to trust her spider sense by now, but she flirted with bullshit again and almost got burned<i> again. What's that burning smell...</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">slight </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">discolouration</span></td></tr>
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The socket and adapter didn't look overtly discoloured, but it was too hot to touch initially.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the adapter and socket were fused together and had to be prized apart.</span></td></tr>
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So, the whole lot got consigned to the naughty corner and the captain went shopping. <a href="http://www.cef.co.uk/branches/fareham" target="_blank">City Electrical Factors Fareham</a> were visited and whilst they don't sell the adapters pre-made, they do sell the bits to make the adapter with. </div>
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The adapter is usually used for plugging the sander in or other power tools when working on the boat out of water and where the only power source is shore power. (not usually for the boat heating.)</div>
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So, the 3kw angry sounding heater that pushed the 13Amp socket beyond it's working limit has been removed and a lower powered silent radiator brought on board. </div>
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It's on the lowest setting, it's using just 800watts and along with the dehumidifier which is running at around 330watts Boogie Nights is sitting happily at 15 degrees again. That's a massive power saving. </div>
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oh, but now the Air Breeze wind turbine has decided to stop spinning and we're still no nearer to replacing the faulty battery charger. </div>
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Looks like the captain is going to be sparky McGrue for a while longer yet fixing failing systems. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Throughout mankind’s evolution, we have always been risk
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Harnessing fire was perhaps one of the first big risks we
took as a species, maybe lashing a load of logs together to go and explore the edge of the horizon was another, but it's most likely that these little discoveries would be followed shortly afterwards by a communal gathering around the campfire where we'd talk cod-shite about</span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> the best method to catch an angry mammoth whilst</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article/81_6-animals-that-can-get-you-high/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">licking the back of a frog</span></a>, getting off our caveman tits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Gambling, trying drugs, setting things on fire, thrill seeking, spitting in the face of authority or better still getting
paid to tie him up, dress him in a nappy, shove an orange in his mouth and piss
over him in the bath of five star hotel room. Lines of gak would be waiting
on the glass coffee table, while the TV blares out the latest MTV music video, Prince
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the British isles. The post-war era had given birth to a new wave of cultural
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riders, the archetypal rivals to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocker_(subculture)" target="_blank">Rockers</a></i>,
leather clad café racers, rocking and rolling in a rebellion of post war
austerity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parents worried about the
rampant urges of boys, growing their hair long while girl’s skirts were getting
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Americans and Russians were having a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race" target="_blank">race to space</a> and to land on the moon.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Meanwhile in Falmouth, UK, a start line was in place for pioneers of another kind. Over the duration of several weeks in 1968, nine adventurous sailors set off to attempt to be the first to sail solo and unaided around the globe, it was an event sponsored by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Golden_Globe_Race" target="_blank">Sunday Times</a>. Back when newspapers had money to spare. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Meanwhile, anchored over in the North Sea a Panama registered Danish ex-ferry was sticking two fingers up at the broadcasting authorities and the established order of quiet and orderly British Broadcasting. A bunch of rowdy disc jockeys </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">broadcast their own pirate radio, </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html" target="_blank">Radio Caroline</a>, </i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to the music hungry British teens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p>One man returned from his global adventure and became the first to successfully circumnavigate, solo. The other eight, well, their individual stories of adventure and mishap might only be shared with their family or friends. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst" target="_blank">Save for one</a>, who never returned.<span style="color: black;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As the 80s swung into view, on the back of the previous years <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Fastnet_race" target="_blank">historic Fastnet race</a> perfect storm where 15 sailors were lost, many others were rescued, <i>(and as a consequence new safety regulations meant that life rafts were much better designed)</i> we hit a new peak of
narcissism and risk taking. The 18s to 30s, drug addicted through proliferation of ket, heroin and amphetamines and STD infected through sexual
liberation. The consequences of unfettered capitalism, miners
striking over pit closures, Thatcherism and the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>flogging of
state assets in return for a quick spunk-load of cash in the coffers, lead to a
time of self inflicted suffering through delinquency and self-medicated excess. A wealthy entrepreneur attempted to be the fastest to motor across the atlantic, failed, got rescued, then had another go and succeeded. He then had a go at hot air ballooning across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Just because nobody had done it yet. Turned out some other adventurer would beat him to it.<br />He might not have advanced the human race but it was great brand placement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The last decade of the 20th century arrived in a blur for The boomers and GenX. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(did that
hotel room incident really happen? – Ed)</i> Tony Blair had pulled a flanker
and dragged the British Labour party from the left to the right in a public slight of
hand that would take over a decade for the nation to realise. Brit pop or shit
pop as it is often called, was like the dirty feeling of coming down from a
crazy hazy amphetamine fuelled cocktail party. GenX awoke to realise they’d become sensible parents jiggle-soothing babies in multi-way adjustable
carry-cot-cum-car-seats. The boomers were looking forward to early retirement and a second home on the costa-del-expat. Meanwhile, yet another group of people thought it was a good idea to do another solo race around the world. Someone was lost, someone was rescued in the nick of time and one chap defied odds to survive 4 days in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AkXFaCdMQ0" target="_blank">upturned boat</a> and was rescued by the Australian Navy. They redesigned race boats after that to have higher stability. Which was nice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As Prince’s anthem of Let’s Party Like It’s 1999 faded <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(which incidentally had been written and
released in 1982 - Ed)</i> , so too did artistic risk taking, it seems, gone were the crazy costumes and hair styles, in came an avalanche of mediocrity. While the nations musical foundations were cleansed with a coffee colonic, a young woman, the youngest ever at that point, decided she also fancied sailing around the world. She hit a submerged container, but came second in the race. There was no mention of banning container ships. Some dude decided to walk to the North Pole, had a bit of a mishap with his skis and some thin ice. Had to be rescued. Decided to hack his own frost bitten fingers off. Nutter. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Despite the Brits having lived relatively unencumbered by fear through
several decades of Northern Ireland “unrest”, <i>(as we like to
understatedly call terrorism, they were also called "the troubles")</i> when two planes managed to disassemble a couple
of shiny buildings in New York, USA in 2001, the impact went much further than the 540
metres of their vertical decent to ground zero. A war was waged on terror and
thus started a new era. One of fear. Fear of the terror. Terror of the terror. Risk-taking was now increasingly punishable by time in prison or other punishment. A big red pause button had been pressed. <b>No further risks may be taken without permission, without signing in triplicate and without an indemnity waiver.</b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In a recent UK based survey conducted across four generations, from
the baby boomers through generations X, Y and Z, </span><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(grouped: post ww2–‘65, ’66–‘80, ‘81–‘95, ‘96–2012) </span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">perceptions of
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along with his GenX paid hotel service are both more likely to have
lower perceptions of risk and lower sense of anxiety. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When we look at the youthful misdemeanours of our two earlier
generations let’s call them Bob and Nicole, they were all more likely to have
taken part in a wide range of risk taking. From indecent exposure, arson,
damaging public property, spraying graffiti, smoking weed, taking amphetamines
or other class A drugs, to drinking or drug driving, shoplifting and using fake
ID. But equally as likely to have gone sailing alone around the world or motorbiking across deserts and uncharted areas, or attempting to take a hot air balloon around the world on the edge of the jet stream.<br />Almost 9 out of 10 Babyboomers and GenXs agreed that<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“taking risks makes me
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 16px;">“Every single day since I heard that tap-tapping and knew I had survived, I have told myself I am lucky to be alive. Why go back? Because I’m a racing sailor; that’s what I do. I love the sea, and I love competition. You don’t give up on life just because you once had a narrow shave from death.” </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tony Bullimore</span></strong></i></span></blockquote>
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as youths? There’s hints of underage drinking, weed smoking and being a
member of the Guides or Scouts. Nobody was licking rizzlers, sticking them to
their drunken mates socks and accidentally setting fire to houses it would
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The time of mad-arsed risk-taking and adventuring seems to belong to a different time, a different generation. A somewhat irrelevant, dated concept of doing something for the sake of it. For no reason really other than just because we might be able to. It's a beige coloured, mind-numbed creature, suffering stress induced dementia pacing around in circles. </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">“What was I doing? Why did I come in this
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We had the illusion of choice, but the freshly labelled youth are waking up
to a society where everything has been dismantled. It’s been taken
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“We are approaching a time of no
national identity, post-genre, everything goes. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Forget Primark, let’s go primal” (Prof.
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Overwhelming rampant consumption is turning full circle to a point where everything is meaningless and a nihilistic sense of futility has risen. Questions are being asked by the Ys and Zs. Why bother with a massive house? Seems a bit pointless doesn't it? Why bother owning a flash car? What about the planet? There's so much still to explore. What about time out with friends? Sharing silly cat videos online trickles down to experiential sharing in real life. Amidst a malaise of anxiety, teen angst, fear aversion, risk avoidance and depression, a phoenix might be rising.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> As the door swings open, shining a stark light on our present situation, we see that it's us, the GenX and the odd Boomer who didn't quite make enough to take that early retirement, standing in just our pants. We're covered in shit and vomit, a bloodstream full of hallucinogens and clutching a <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stretchy-Rubber-Frog-Sensory-Toy/dp/B01LZK8VKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512013231&sr=8-1&keywords=rubber+frog">small rubber</a> squeaky dog toy. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">There's shit up the walls, there's puke and blood and jizz stained sheets, it's a hostile environment of our own making. The silhouette at the door. There with bucket in hand, mop in the other and a go-pro to capture the action or to provide evidence should it all go wrong. The tattooed superhero wears a ripped jean, with a mind unsullied by corporate greed, but rocking an immaculate eyebrow and eclectic taste in music. <br />
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The millenials are coming. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/teams/Turn-The-Tide-On-Plastic.html" target="_blank"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Turn the tide on plastic</a></b></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"><b><a href="http://exxpedition.com/" target="_blank">eXXpedition</a></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"><b><a href="https://storyofstuff.org/" target="_blank">T</a><a href="https://storyofstuff.org/" target="_blank">he Story of Stuff </a></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.theoceancleanup.com/" target="_blank">T</a><a href="https://www.theoceancleanup.com/" target="_blank">he Ocean Cleanup</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://themagentaproject.org/" target="_blank">The Magenta Project</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 28px;"><b><a href="http://www.oytsouth.org/" target="_blank">Ocean Youth Trust</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 28px;"><b><a href="https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Circular Economy</a></b></span></div>
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This not particularly academic soul has been arm twisted into completing a bunch of academibollocks ( a Masters degree) in order to progress in the world of teaching the next generation of feature journalists at a very splendid university on the very worthwhile and noble South Coast of the UK. So while I've been working like anyone else, full time and flat out, I was doing this as well, and now it's done and it's September already. Damn. </h3>
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Sooo, figured it was probably a good idea to share it with y'all.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">2017 summer has been one of those years where you look at it and wonder where in the flying fek did it go? It kinda went something like this: </span><span style="background-color: #ea9999;">expect occasional strong language. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">January 2017 <i><span style="font-size: small;">(we're 15 months into a 21 month course already, there's a major project and two other written assignments to go)</span></i></span></h3>
Deepest darkest phone signal deprived Cornwall...take some pics, meet fishermen, let's get this major project party started. <i>(I'd already spent the previous summer reading and researching for it)</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dripping like a skate out of a fish box</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><br />February 2017 (16/21)</span></h3>
Anyone know how to write to <b>"<i>masters level"</i></b>? Is that even a thing? Thanks to the lecturer for kindly explaining to me to remember that I should be writing to this level. But what is it? And who can tell me how to do it? <b>I'll just guess then</b>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a woman after my own heart. Wonder where I can find a decent spade... </span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">March 2017 (17/21)</span></h3>
The lecturer who never teaches me has nothing but contempt... the other lecturer who earns a living from confusing people thinks I'm an illiterate cunt... situation normal then.<br />
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Massive thanks for the Tesco credit card paying my student fees when nay other A-hole-banking student fee system would work, since my course wasn't eligible and fell between the cracks of bureaucracy. If ya gonna get into debt, may as well earn some clubcard points.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every little does help. in this case, we levelled-the-fuck-up and carried on. (gamification) </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">April 2017 (18/21)</span></h3>
Rent a small office and workshop away from Boogie Nights. Turn boat back to being a boat. Turn office into mayhem. Swear often and swear it well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's going to be tidy and magic will happen here - office</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">May 2017 (18/21)</span></h3>
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Work in the day, work in the night, create a website... smug mode. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theplatypus.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: large;">www.theplatypus.co.uk</span></a> </span></div>
Travel backwards and forwards taking photographs and making interview notes. Ongoing research into class systems and social structure is melting my fragile brain.<br />
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Eat many waffles, thanks Asda and Tesco for your sugared waffles. May those calories burn long and hard. LONG and HARD.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sugar waffles and chocolate spread. yes, yes and thrice yes. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">June 2017 (19/21)</span></h3>
What should have been a nice little celebration of a turning-of-a-decade birthday turned to utter shit and is memorable for being quite possibly the <b>crappiest, shittiest, saddest birthday thus far</b>. Thinking about it just makes me sad, then angry then sad again. I'll try not to think about it and focus on the project.<br />
Also got a new camera. so er yay. <i>(see info later about that)</i><br />
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The eating of many doughnuts: thank you Morrisons for the <b>catnip</b> of the human snacking world.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oooh heaven is a fully stocked Morrisons Doughnut rack</span></td></tr>
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Thanks to the Yacht club in Alderney via the JOG race club for the birthday Prosecco. Can't begin to tell you what that did for morale. <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2017/09/jog-to-alderney.html" target="_blank">read about the JOG race to Alderney here</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This bottle would be a saviour. Drink responsibly folks.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">July 2017, shit got real. (20/21)</span></h3>
Sleeping in the back of the van on locations all around the fucking place. Hell yeah. Van-ping is ace. <b>Who am I? Where am I? What year is this? </b><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">(some of the time was spent photographing and recording: Well-dressing in Derbyshire, owls, village critters, the Human powered flying club annual competition, the Birdman of Bognor, Fishermen of Looe, Fishermens choir, a crippled Lobster, The Dale Divas, shanty choir, two blokes in a garage - then in a field - with a massive home made flying machine, a poem about reaching out and touching Cod...)</span><br />
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Energy drinks from Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Co-op and Morrisons. You're all getting it. This ain't no time for sleeping. This is a time for action. Except for the time when you're sleeping. Obviously.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">emerge? more like wobble along hallucinating and sleep deprived. <br />Energy drinks will get you by though, in those darkest hours. <br />(this is one of my favourites though, if anyone from emerge is looking...)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">pulling all nighters is not as fun as I remember it back in the 90's</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">August 2017 (so that's that then.)</span></h3>
Shit got even more real and got <b>handed in </b>and exhibited half way through August. A real test of sleep deprivation and determination. The first two weeks of the month had roughly 7 all nighters, which is every other day, pretty much.<br />
Anyway, the project, the thief of summer holidays, the stopper of sailing adventures, the evil side kick of academia, the cunt of a bastard thing, why-did-I-ever-think-this-was-a-good-idea, it looks like this... <i>(there's three mapazines, one each showing a documentary)</i><br />
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and this... (<i>the exhibition in London which will be reassembled at the studio in Southampton if anyone fancies a look )</i><br />
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and this... <i>(the virtual reality 360 videos)</i><br />
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and this... <i>(the augmented reality)</i><br />
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The upside to all this academibollocks and making this monster of a project means we now have 360 video capability on Boogie Nights. So look out for the next incarnation of boat video experience. You'll be able to wear a VR headset to be on the boat with me on future adventures. Especially those <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2017/09/jog-to-alderney.html" target="_blank">glowstick night-time raves on watch.</a><br />
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Then it all got taken down again and the show was dismantled from the London gallery and brought back to Southampton.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A lecturer called this "bric-a-brac" and said it had a certain "charm" within my exhibition. I won't repeat what I said privately about those comments. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mine was the only entry in the exhibition guide to have interactive augmented reality. Hover your mobile phone over the catalogue image and it springs into life. (Blippar app needed)</span></span></td></tr>
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Meanwhile, the two yearly cycle of the Clipper race came around, and somehow they got their stuff made too. Thanks to local help from a very handy person who can drive a sewing machine.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a range of bottle holders and vegetable nets await delivery to Liverpool from Southampton. </span></td></tr>
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Fox Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755786770137507169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200370798973755968.post-9454666245480123672017-09-05T17:05:00.000+01:002018-01-15T09:16:49.604+00:00JOG to Alderney<h3>
A quick JOG race to Alderney was planned in June. It just so happened to be the first weekend after a milestone birthday for the Captain.</h3>
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The boat came out for a scrub and antifoul and then came out again a few days later to skim the rudder bearing (again) <i><span style="color: #666666;">there will be another post about that when I can be arsed</span></i><br />
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There was a terse verbal exchange during a poorly executed mooring by the crew, who we will call <b><i>118,</i></b> who had asked if he could have a go at mooring up, when I suggested it was <i>"obvious you've been sailing a long keel far more than a fin keel recently"</i> he responded by calling the captain a <i>"cunt"</i>, then told her to <i>"shut it shrimpy"</i> and promptly fekked off down below leaving captain calamity here to struggle to tie her own badly moored boat up.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bravo for not putting a <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2018/01/the-bread-knife-of-reasonable.html" target="_blank">breadknife</a> between his shoulder blades I say. Restraint of fairly high order.</span></blockquote>
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We set off from Cowes on a Friday evening.<br />
The watch system was casual, but the regular 2 on 2 off was agreed.<br />
Except the co-skipper, <b><i>118</i></b> decided this wasn't for him after trying unsuccessfully to sleep for 15 minutes, he came up and sat next to the Captain, who was blissfully enjoying a light airs night with some music in the cockpit and told her to go to bed. To which the word <i>"what?"</i> was uttered and a hard stare was issued.<br />
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He dismissed himself back down below with an attitude like thunder.<br />
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So much so that the captain made a log book entry along the lines of "co-skip not able to sleep, feeling troubled"<br />
Night passed to morning and the wind dropped as Alderney was in sight. The tide turned and Boogie Nights slowly drifted away from the finish line.<br />
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The Asymmetrical colourful thing was hoisted and used as a hold-us-where-we-are wind anchor for 5 hours. Plenty of time for a little chat.<br />
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<i style="background-color: #d9ead3;">"What the fuck is your problem? Why are you being such a grumpy cunt?" I asked</i><br />
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<i style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><b>118</b> "you know the rave music you play, the kind of stuff you have glow sticks for? You play it a lot. All night."</i><br />
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<i style="background-color: #d9ead3;">"yes, and?"</i><br />
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<i style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><b>118</b> "I don't like it"</i><br />
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<i style="background-color: #d9ead3;">"the boat is called Boogie Nights. Clues in the fucking name you chump"</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">leaving Cowes and heading south towards Alderney</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Boats around us in the night are always nice markers to keep you on your toes to keep the boat moving. Very few 2 handed boats though. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A wind anchor, with almost no wind and a tide against us. </span></td></tr>
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A lesson here is: don't come sailing on Boogie Nights without bringing some of your own music, otherwise you'll be subjected to hours of "bangin' choons" or highly eclectic mix of folk, house, funk, rock and spoken word comedy.<br />
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<br />Fox Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755786770137507169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200370798973755968.post-7831839214462092572017-09-01T13:08:00.003+01:002021-09-23T11:41:35.604+01:00hold my beer a minute...<h3>
Now then, anyone with eyes and a vague interest in magazines over the years will have seen somewhere on those magazine racks is a whole smack of yachting and boating magazines. But open their pages and you're in for a limited world view. </h3>
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Recently a friend brought round a small bundle of yachtie rags and said <i>"here, fill your boots with these"</i><br />
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I'm pretty sure he didn't intend on releasing my inner feminazi, but here we go, <i>"I said don't get me started"</i>, he said <i>"looks like you already are, crack on"</i> the engine is revving and I'm ready to unleash venom.<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"> Beware, liberal amounts of potty mouth coming up. </span></blockquote>
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Oh Yachting World. a world of yachting. Yachting. World. You promise so much with your big colourful covers and sporty looking design. That high gloss finish that repels water, you tempt me. But open the cover and I am not sure if this is a time machine, taking me back to the 70s or 80s when women knew their place. That place wasn't at the helm of a boat. Or anywhere doing anything much. Other than looking pretty.<br />
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No.</blockquote>
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Instead we are treated to a singular mascine world view.<br />
I actually really quite like men. I genuinely do like them. BUT, for FUCKS SAKE, women are cool too. I want to be inspired by some of the most rocking, kick arse women there currently are, out there, in the world of fast yachting. They're out there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">give me fucking strength - and a pair of boobs, one for each hand. </span></td></tr>
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In the spirit of backing up my assertions and chagrin of mono-gendered magazine bullshittery, I did a bit of analysis and points scoring for the two visibly identifiable genders, with my apologies to anyone who is gender neutral or non-binary, you have your own issues but that's a much bigger discussion for another time. Anyway, here's how it works:<br />
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<li>5 points for a column</li>
<li>1 point for each image of an identifiable person</li>
<li>minus points for gender cliche such as a woman in a bikini sunbathing while a man steers or woman holding a child or woman in a galley (these are cancelled out if a man is also sunbathing in his mankini, holding a child or also in the galley.) </li>
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<u>Yachting World May 2017 issue</u><br />
<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Women 21 points</span> (they lost 3 points for women gratuitously wearing bikinis) <br />
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Men 117 points</span>. (none were found gratuitously wearing a mankini sadly)<br />
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<u>Yachting World July 2017 issue</u><br />
<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Women 27 points</span> (they lost 3 points for a woman holding a child, another used as a barely clothed model in circumstances that didn't require it and another was wearing a fucking swimsuit for no reason.)<br />
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Men 144 points </span>(6 columns of manly guff compared to just 2 columns of professional lady-ness. Sad)<br />
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<u>Yachting World August 2017 issue</u><br />
<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Women 18 points</span> (they lost 3 points for a woman holding a child again, a derogatory caption by a picture of a lady helming and another fucking swimsuit shite ad. )<br />
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Men 170 points.</span> fucking-Americas-fucking-Cup. There's a lot of testosterone in this one. Boring.<br />
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<u>Yachting World September 2017 issue</u><br />
<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Women 28 points</span> (fucking get in, there's three columns by the women, yes three, I am almost beside myself with interest! Though they lost 3 points again, that Beneteau Oceanis swimsuit ad is back, you cunts, then there's another pic of a woman looking wistfully through a window while a man steers outside and why would you choose a group picture of the women all dressed for hula? I dunno. Surely there was better pics than that?<br />
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Men 94 points</span>. No man was seen holding a child, working in a galley or staring wistfully through any window, or gratuitously mostly naked except for a small strip of white fabric covering his cock. Disappointed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">This is the closest I can find to a man holding a child from my own archive. </span></span></td></tr>
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Out of those 4 magazines, there's a total of 8 female columns featuring expert views compared to 19 columns written by the blerks.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">94 women</span> visible compared to <span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">525 men.</span><br />
(of which 3 women were helming, one hauling a line and the other on a winch.)<br />
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Is that the best you can do YW? It's not good enough.<br />
Sort your fucking pages out and get the content balanced up you cunts. You've got a female fucking editor for fucks sake. The myth that women don't sail fast or hard is perpetuated by the fucking media. We're out there, doing it. We aren't the exception, we are the rule.<br />
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let me just demonstrate what a woman helming looks like >>><br />
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and when women aren't helming, staring wistfully out of windows, holding children or wearing swim wear in unlikely situations... women also do other stuff >>><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">woman doing some proper sailing type thing - not staring wistfully through a window</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">woman needs to sail through night on helm, double handed/solo. Survived unscathed. Must be voodoo</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Occasionally a blerk does come on board and is able to helm, though he may need supervision. <br />Nobody wants to see this though do they. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spring is HERE!</span><br />
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Every winter the same questions are asked, by different people.<br />
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<li><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Is it cold in winter? </b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">What do you do in the evenings? </b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Aren't you scared when it gets stormy? </b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Don't you wish you were in a house?</b></li>
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I answer the above differently each time just to mess with peoples minds.<br />
But I decided it was about time I gave the definitive answers as a practical guide. It might be useful for anyone flirting with the idea of living afloat.<br />
This is for the wanna-be-live-aboard-in-a-northern-climate type, of for those curious. You know, like <i>we're curious if bears shit in the woods</i> or something like that. Nosey bastards.<br />
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So in reverse order let's go through them one <i>last</i> time. </span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">4: Don't you wish you were in a house?</span></h3>
<i>NO. </i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">3: Aren't you scared when it gets stormy?</span></h3>
<i>NO. Yes. No. Sometimes. Ok, a couple of times. Wouldn't call it scared, maybe more, high alert. When your house is bouncing around crashing against a pontoon it can get a bit bum twitchy and when you're balanced with the boat <u>out of </u>water in a cradle and you have 100 mile-per-hour winds and you feel it move and the extra supports start to fall out from under the boat, yeah that's a little bit of a moment when you think "the fk am I doing here?"</i><i>.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">2: What do you do in the evenings?</span></h3>
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Shocking I know, there's no television or broadband. We make our own entertainment. It can get surreal sometimes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, that's right. Ice cream. In winter. It's the only time you can buy ice cream and it doesn't melt before you've finished dinner. <i>(yes sometimes dinner takes liquid form and is pink)</i> </span></span></td></tr>
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There's also a small sewing business to keep ticking over, a Masters degree to complete, a freelance photography and writing career to keep alive and a couple of new magazines to be launched. It's a fkin hive of activity is Boogie Nights.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-size: x-large;">1: Is it cold in winter?</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is the number one question almost every boater ever gets asked. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The answer to whether a boat is cold in winter is complex. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Let's break this down into sub sections: <b><u>Sleeping</u>, <u>Climate Control</u> </b>and <b><u>Light</u></b></span></div>
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Like any mammal, you'll be wanting to sleep at some point but it takes a certain kind of dedication to preparation. <br />
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<b><< The duvet >></b><br />
Find the highest tog possible. Ideally take a small animal to test it. If the small animal disappears completely from sight <b>like dropping a chihuahua into a snow drif</b>t, when placed on the duvet, then it might be warm enough.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">this duvet is warm enough. </span></td></tr>
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If you can't find a duvet warm/deep enough, you might need to add another blanket. Actually, there's no might, you <b>will</b> need another blanket.<br />
Then you will pair all of that thermal lofting insulation, with a motherfucking <b>electric blanket</b>.<br />
<b>It is only when the electric blanket is added to a bed that unicorns happen.</b><br />
Don't scrimp on the electric blanket. Get the hottest, fastest heating up-est, most sturdy-est one you can afford.<br />
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<b><< clothes >></b><br />
We don't sleep naked. You need to be ready to leap out of bed at a moments notice if a mooring line snaps, if the jib comes unfurled or some other shit goes down, like a rat attacking your rubbish bag in the cockpit. You won't be ready and willing to leap out of the pit-of-unicorns if you aren't ready to face the world in a <b>basic encounter suit</b>. But <i>"I always sleep naked"</i> I hear people whine. Fuck off back to your warm houses then, you naturist bastards. That's what summer is for. If the thermometer reads in single figures, then <b>I'm keeping my socks on and most likely full ninja outfit.</b><br />
The secret <i>(not very secret really is it)</i> to a boaters wardrobe is versatility. What appears to be summer clothes are actually base layers in winter. We layer that shit up. Layer after layer after layer after layer...<br />
Those jeggings or leggings that form a thermal base layer in winter are outerwear in spring and summer. We're kinky like that.<br />
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<b><< socks >></b><br />
Bed socks, day docks, any difference? Put your bed socks over the day socks.<br />
You might start with small socks, followed by longer socks, followed by wooly knitted bed socks. Yes. They also act as light protection against walking on uneven or lumpy surfaces. <i>(see <b>cables</b>)</i><br />
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Going to the shower requires careful time planning. Unlike when you live in a house and roll out of bed and into a shower, when you live in a marina, you need to get up, get dressed for outdoors, walk a few minutes to a shower block then commence cleaning rituals. <br />
<b>The winter layers make a bit of a stack</b> and take time to peel off and carefully put back on again. Basically we are avoiding exposure of bare flesh on the boat, or keeping it to a minimum. So changes of clothes often happen really really fast, or ashore.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">yes, this many clothes. I have slept in THIS many clothes. </span></td></tr>
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<i>After 10 years of wintering on a boat, I have got the knack of changing underwear down to Formula 1 levels of speed. </i><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">LIGHT</span></b></u><br />
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Choose a lamp, choose a fucking bright lamp. Choose a daylight lamp of many 1000 lumens and 6500 Kelvin. Be prepared to look at it every evening for five months. The beams of light exiting the boat windows will look like you are calling Batman, but be assured, <b>the only caped crusader is you</b>, wearing a blanket in the depths of January in a small marina. Alone.<br />
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<b><< The daylight lamp >></b><br />
Anyone who has ever been on a boat at night will say how atmospheric the lighting is. But then, so too are boarded up abandoned buildings and <b>every cellar ever featured in any horror film</b> in the history of horror films. You'll be needing a daylight lamp and you'll want to sit as close to it as possible. Every evening. All the time. <i style="background-color: #ea9999;">(winter bonus, the lamp gives off a small amount of heat)</i><br />
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<b><< Vitamin D >></b><br />
<i>Big lights</i> are not enough on their own. You're going to need some chemicals, some D's n wizz. Eat them like they're strips of<b> post apocalyptic radiation treatment</b>. Pre-prepare your strips, eat them with breakfast. sprinkle them on your waffles or toast.<br />
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<b><< Solarium >></b><br />
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Winter is really hard. Get some winter sun.<br />
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<b><< blankets >></b><br />
There will be times when you sit at the dining table with a blanket over your head, wearing a head torch. It's normal. That's how we roll.<br />
<i style="background-color: #ea9999;">(bonus: blankets attract dogs. Dogs are warm.)</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">blanket on head. Not quite a caped crusader. </span> <br /><a data-pin-do="buttonBookmark" href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/"></a>
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<b><< heating >></b><br />
There's one heater on Boogie Nights and this is it. It's not on if there's no human on the boat and even when there is a human onboard, it's usually single figures celsius before it gets switched on. It's switched off at night. Notice the melee of cables, keep a good eye on those at all times. You will be stepping over them for roughly five months.<br />
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<b> << dehumidifier - aka moisture sucker >></b><br />
This desiccant type dehumidifier is the difference between clean, dry comfortable smugness and mildewy mouldy-mcmould-faced apoplexy.<br />
If you breath, then you'll be needing one of these.<br />
<i style="background-color: #ea9999;">(Winter bonus, these things kick out gentle warmth too)</i><br />
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<b><< cables (</b><b>walking on) >></b><br />
With the <i>big light</i>, the unicorn-powered-blanket, the money-burning inferno and the moisture sucker, you can be guaranteed that you WILL step on cables, daily. <br />
But if you are following this advice closely, you will already have started knitting yourself a pair of monster socks, that you could tread on an upturned plug with and barely notice. <br />
<i style="background-color: #ea9999;">(bonus: the amount of power being drawn through the extension lead makes it warm, which means at least it's warm to stand on.)</i><br />
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<b><< The temperature >></b><br />
So the truth is, <b>it's fucking cold</b>, <i>sometimes</i>. But not always. When the heater is on, we usually have 14 or 15 degrees celsius, which feels a lot warmer than it sounds. When your ceiling is only 20cm above your head, it means there's not a massive space to heat up, just a few cubic metres. The feeling of cold or warm is linked to the humidity, once you get that down to 80, it suddenly feels like a different world.<br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">It's the coldest, hottest, dampest and driest place I've ever lived in. </b></i><br />
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<br />Fox Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755786770137507169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200370798973755968.post-64637277979906457102016-11-26T14:56:00.005+00:002016-11-26T15:48:43.514+00:00Not a yottie<div>
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<i>"The habit doesn't make the nun"</i></h2>
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Are we defined by our labels or the things that we do? Are we defined by what people call us, or the way that we dress?<br /><br />What about social grouping or local accent, musical interest or how much money we've spent?</h3>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><i>A yachtie, a biker, a cyclist, a daughter/son of, a northerner, a southerner, an Essex girl/boy, horsey, a mum/dad, an artist, musician, veteran, immigrant, ex-pat, surfer, debutante, academic, homeless to name a few. </i></span></blockquote>
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We're quick to label and even quicker to judge.<br />But what if we're none of these but all of the above?</h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">L-R: Lynn Goodhead, having sailed most of the way around the world she is an enigmatic braveheart, adventurer and lively lady.<br />Sir Mad-Fish and his lady Bob (see other picture for Bob) have sailed across the Atlantic and back, with young family, not afraid to face a squall in his birthday suit apparently.<br />Captain FlashHeart of the vessel Boogie Nights, boat-whore will sail anything, anytime. Woof.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not a Yottie amongst them. </span></span></td></tr>
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<i>Let us introduce old Captain FlashHeart herself, a 3rd person monologue of bullshittery. </i></h3>
Cheers, here's to good health.</div>
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The rhymes are there purely by accident (and fuckwittery). </div>
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You see she was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, that place in the North of great renown, </div>
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between Yorkshire pudding land further up 'n' Robin Hood land further down.</div>
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They call it peak district, bleak district or OS Landranger one one nine</div>
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There's plenty of hills, quite a bit of sky, </div>
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look at map though, there int a single straight line. </div>
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She started off young, 'cause that's way of things, when you're born.</div>
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Grew up a bit, partly in age but mostly in height.</div>
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Showed an interest in tree houses, digging moats, running 'cross fields at night. </div>
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Home for her tea, which is a meal not a drink. </div>
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That's because she's a <b><i>Derbyshire Lass</i></b>, </div>
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Those northern lassies, not afraid of muck, of cold, or of brass. </div>
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Tried some girl guiding, but after getting labelled as <i><b>Strife</b></i>, realised she wa' better suited to military life.</div>
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Joined air cadets 'n learned to shoot, flew aerobatic planes, learned 'bout engines to boot. <br />
Teks afterer dad, n'er grandad thid say. </div>
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She's the daughter of an engineer, di'n't anyone mention? An Engineers Daughter all t' way. </div>
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"She's a <i><b>Marksman</b></i> our lass, a ruddy marksman ay, who'd a thought?"<br />
Though she's still a <b><i>Northerner </i></b>at the end of the day. </div>
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She's got an eye she has for detail, fair loves her cross-hairs and false horizons.</div>
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The Chipmunk has a De Haviland four piston inverted engine in case you needed enlightening. </div>
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For a pacifist she's quite a talent, for shooting stuff, </div>
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laid down and aiming for tin hat. </div>
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So she picked up' camera and started shooting things wi' that.</div>
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Our lass is a snapper, a <i><b>Photographer</b></i>, a pap. </div>
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Throughout all of this time though, since she grew big after being small, </div>
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she'd been boating, and floating and dinghying everywhe'r</div>
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as a young <b><i>Northern Marksman Photographer Daughter of an Engineer</i></b>.</div>
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Grew up some more, less in height but in width, </div>
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The labels grew longer as' picked up lifes lessons and gifts, </div>
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One week a <b><i>Musician</i></b> 'cause our lass knows' to read dots, play French horn and a tiny bit 'a Latin</div>
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the next an <b>Artist</b> 'cause she knows' to paint splots, in a surrealistic pattern.</div>
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Influenced by Dali, Bob Marley, Bowie and that Bob Clarke</div>
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But all the while she's a snapper, a pap and a <b><i>Member of the Press</i></b></div>
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how many more labels does she need as an address?</div>
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On they keep coming, as she becomes a velodrome racer, </div>
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a track coach and England's first lady motorpacer. </div>
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She's a cyclist, with a camera, a biker too. </div>
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Ah yes, didn't she tell you?</div>
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There's that flaming great beast, with engine and two wheels </div>
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like 'er demon released, all you'd see was' back of 'er Alpinestar heels</div>
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wazzing about everywhere, making ruddy gret sound</div>
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our <i><b>Northern Engineers Daughter, Biker Chick Press Hound</b></i></div>
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But what about that then, when she took back to sailing and boating and dappy adventure?</div>
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Single handed, double handed and sometimes the odd non sailing guest.</div>
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She'd rock up to a marina alone, the'd look at her like she's sporting wonder woman vest</div>
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and pants on outside of 'er salopette.</div>
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Yet another enquiry amidst the Royal Blueflaggins of the Baybar drinkin Yacht club, not sure if he was put up to it or if he was the loser of a bet, approached our lass cautiously, he'd never met her yet. </div>
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Is she a <b><i>Yachtie</i></b>? enquired the received pronunciation, a veteran of the seas. </div>
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<i><b>"No my good fellow, I'm not a yottie, I'm just me, as me as can be if you please."</b></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">L-R Sir Mad-Fish, FlashHeart, Bob of Mad-Fish and Lynn Goodhead<br />quite a lot of water has passed beneath the keels of this lot. </span></td></tr>
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This was written in response to two blog posts two people who love the same thing but contradicting each other:<br />
<a href="http://www.derbyhouse.co.uk/post/dont-call-horsey/" target="_blank">Don't call me horsey</a><br />
By Abigail Butcher<br />
<a href="http://www.sophiecallahanblog.com/2016/11/24/proud-to-be-horsey-my-response-to-dont-call-me-horsey/" target="_blank">Call me Horsey</a><br />
By Sophie Callahan</div>
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Fox Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755786770137507169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200370798973755968.post-15627249799310514012016-10-31T22:01:00.002+00:002018-03-02T10:44:49.539+00:00Speaking Yachtish <div id="fb-root">
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The language used on boats can be befuddling. </h2>
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For anyone not familiar with bobbing about on waves, the language of the sea can seem like some sort of impenetrable mire of yah and what-ho, spiffing Tarquin, would you splice me another bifter. Did you see Rupert there? He's already three sheets in the wind and we haven't finished our canapés yet. What a jolly chap. Gybe-ho. What a load of bollocks, is probably what you'd be thinking. </h3>
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Here on the Boogie Nights blog, we <i>(that's the Royal we)</i> generally try to keep the yacht-jargon to a minimum, for the reading ease and enjoyment of readers who aren't massively into sailing and to annoy the shit out of those who are. The Jargon can be a major hurdle for some who perceive this odd activity of leaning over a lot, getting soaking wet, frequently hypothermic, feeling bilious, as something that comes with a "posh" tag.<br />
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The simple lingo ethos is maintained onboard Boogie Nights as visitors and friends who aren't sailors appreciate the simplistic, all inclusive approach. So we've gathered together some of the common phrases used on Boogie Nights and on other boats that have been guest sailed on. The plain English and the not so plain English will follow.<br />
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<li><b>the phrase mentioned is in bold </b>-<i> the real meaning is in italics</i></li>
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Be warned. This will involve a fair bit of sturdy language.</h3>
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<i>If you are likely to be offended, you're in the wrong place. </i></div>
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<u style="background-color: #ead1dc;">On attempting to leave the pontoon</u></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a handy guide to mooring lines </span> <br /><a data-pin-do="buttonBookmark" href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/"></a>
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<li><b>Let's single up shall we </b>- <i>undo all of that knitting and let's have one rope on the front and one on the back. </i></li>
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<li><b>Can you take those springs off</b> - <i>I said one rope on the front and one on the back you fucking muppet.</i></li>
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<li><b>I'll just warm the engine up </b>- <i>I'm not sure if the engine will start, so I'll just give it a go and see what happens. "start ya bastard"</i></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">might need some of this</span></span></td></tr>
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<li><b>We're going get blown off </b>- <i>we might have to get out of here at full speed.</i></li>
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<li><b>We're going get blown on</b> - <i>we might have to get out of here at full speed.</i></li>
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<li><b>I intend to reverse out and let the wind bring the bow round</b> - <i>I'm going to pretend I know what I'm doing and let the wind of chance and fortune decide for me.</i></li>
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<u style="background-color: #ead1dc;">On getting the sails up</u></h3>
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<li><b>Point us up</b> - <i>put the wind on your face, no ON THE FRONT OF YOUR FACE, facing forward. Ferfucksake, forward. </i></li>
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<li><b>We might need a reef in</b> - <i>it's blowing dogs off chains. </i></li>
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<li><b>Not that one, the other one, no the other one</b> - <i>idiot.</i></li>
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<li><b>Shall we unfurl the jib (or, shall we get that front sail out)</b> - <i>stop faffing about you lazy arsed wanker.</i></li>
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<li><b>Stop, there's a riding turn</b> - <i>pay a-fucking-ttention you woggle eyed cunt, you've got that rope going arseways around that winch.</i></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">stack 'em neatly, like this. </span> <br /><a data-pin-do="buttonBookmark" href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/"></a></td></tr>
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<u style="background-color: #ead1dc;">On trimming the sails</u></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where else can you discuss an 8 or 10 inch Titan and not snigger?</span></span></td></tr>
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<li><b>A smidge more</b> - <i>a little bit more, but less than a tad.</i></li>
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<li><b>A tad more</b> - <i>a little bit more, which is more than a smidge.</i></li>
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<li><b>A snifter less</b> - <i>think about that dew drop on the end of your nose in cold weather and how much it takes to sniff it away. It's about that much. </i></li>
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<li><b>Tweak it</b> - <i>I'm fairly certain it's not right, it needs looking at. You do half a fucking job. Don't worry, I'll do it. </i></li>
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<li><b>Is it on the spreaders</b> - <i>you wound that it in too tight, you're going to fuck up my expensive sails.</i></li>
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<li><b>Go on, get your back into it </b>- <i>lily handed sponge arsed wastrel, put some effort in.</i> </li>
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<li><b>Wind on</b> - <i>pay attention, stop dicking about.</i> </li>
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<li><b>Luff me up</b> - <i>asking the person steering to be kind and make winching easier by slightly taking pressure out of the sail, <b>see also </b>:<b> go on, get your back into it.</b></i> </li>
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<li><b>We appear to have hove to</b> - <i>what the fuck happened to the autopilot? <b><u>or</u></b> oops, I fell asleep at the wheel. </i></li>
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<u style="background-color: #ead1dc;">On attempting to fly a spinnaker/gennaker/cruising chute/kite/massive colourful </u><u style="background-color: #ead1dc;">sail</u></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A colourful sail also known as "whoa ya fucker" or "shiiiitt" or "any idea how we get this down?"</span> <br /><a data-pin-do="buttonBookmark" href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/"></a></td></tr>
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<u style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><br /></u></div>
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<li><b>What's the wind saying</b> - <i>surely it's time to put that kite up? tell me it's time? is it time yet? can we put it up yet? we might be able to make that. <b><u>or</u></b>, I'm really not sure about this. I might need to quickly swap into my sturdier underwear. Can we have a little think about this? </i></li>
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<li><b>Whoops</b> - <i>it might be a bit too windy or it went up sideways.</i></li>
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<li><b>Trim</b> - <i>pull that sheet in fast, we're going to die. we're going to... oh, nice one, well done.</i></li>
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<li><b>Ease</b> - <i>let out that line, faster than that! faster, fuck me that was close, nice work on the winch there. </i></li>
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<li><b>Big Ease</b> - <i>we're going over... broach broach broach... </i><i>fuck it.</i></li>
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<li><b>Dump it</b> - <i>SNAFU, we're on our side going nowhere with a sail, boom and pole in the water. </i></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">SNAFU - this can happen quite quickly</span></td></tr>
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<li><b>Nice hourglass </b>- <i>that's a wrap around the forestay and it looks expensive. </i></li>
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<li><b>Going trawling</b> -<i> the act of dropping a sail in the water, still attached to the boat and dragging it partially or fully submerged. </i></li>
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<li><b>Pole up/down/back/forward</b> - <i>what a fiddly fucking wanker that pole is.</i></li>
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<li><b>Ah yes we might bring that down now</b> - <i>there's a massive vertical rip marching through the middle of the sail, it's going to explode, any time..</i>.</li>
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<li><b>Have you got it</b> - <i>I haven't got it.</i></li>
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<li><b>Blow it</b> - <i>I've got it.</i></li>
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<li><b>That was a fast hoist</b> - <i>you can come sailing again.</i></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">totally in control</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><u>On night watch changeover</u></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><u><br /></u></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">searching for the last minstrel chocolate</span></td></tr>
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<li><b>I'm a bit tired</b> - <i>I fell asleep.</i></li>
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<li><b>Anything to see? </b>-<i> I can't see yet, I'm still waking up.</i></li>
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<li><b>Can you just give me a hand identifying this fishing boat?</b> - <i>I'm so tired I can't tell which way round this supertanker is facing or how to avoid ramming it.</i> </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it's always good to have a ready reckoner like this handy for moments of extreme fatigue</span></span></td></tr>
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<li><b>I can't tell what this one is doing</b> -<i> it's a fishing boat.</i></li>
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<ul>
<li><b>It's been a quiet watch</b> - <i>I fell asleep.</i> </li>
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<li><b>It's been a busy watch</b> - <i>I've been at the caffeine again - I ate all the wine gums/ginger biscuits/chocolate - I ate everything.</i></li>
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<li><b>The devil rode over the horizon</b> -<i> I mistook the moon rising for a spinnaker again. At least I didn't try to radio them this time.</i></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ships that pass in the night</span> <br /><a data-pin-do="buttonBookmark" href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/"></a></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><u>On describing the weather/sea state</u></span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A child painted this sea</span> <br /><a data-pin-do="buttonBookmark" href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/"></a></td></tr>
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<li><b>It's a bit breezy</b> - <i>near gale 7 to gale 8.</i></li>
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<ul>
<li><b>Yeah, it's not our best point of sail</b> - <i>wind on the nose/arse, </i><i> autopilot likely to start acting like a petulant lover, we'll be hand steering.</i></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>Wind against tide</b> - <i>it's going to be choppy. </i></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>We might see a few overfalls</b> - <i>it's going to be massively fucking choppy, we'll need to hand steer.</i></li>
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<ul>
<li><b>I'm just going to put my legs on</b> - <i>it's going to be a wet one, I'm putting every bit of foul weather gear on that I can find.</i></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>letterboxing</b>, the act of being completely foulied up to the eyeballs. </span></td></tr>
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<li><b>A child painted this</b> - <i>it's massively fucking choppy.</i></li>
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<li><b>It's too calm for the autopilot</b> - <i>no wind, the sea is flatter than a witches tits.</i></li>
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<li><b>Shall we go to the pub</b> - <i>no wind.</i></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">no wind, slowly drifting. There's far worse places to be. :-) </span> <br /><a data-pin-do="buttonBookmark" href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/"></a></span></td></tr>
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<li><b>Shall we go to the pub</b> - <i>too much wind.</i></li>
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<li><b>It's sporty</b> - <i>this is about as much fun as you can have with clothes on.</i></li>
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<h3>
<u style="background-color: #ead1dc;">the other jargon</u></h3>
<b>tack</b> - <i>I'm turning left or right, be ready on that jib sheet, <b><u>official </u></b></i><i style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">phrase used "coming about" </i><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;">which is used rarely or sparingly on Boogie Nights, and is replaced with a small nod or inflection of the eyes in the direction of the jib sheet.</i><br />
<b>gybe</b> - <i>don't fucking turn that thing either way until I've got this main sheet centralised, whoa slow down, I'm not ready, ok I'm ready, nice one. </i><u><b><i>official </i></b></u><i><b><u>phrase used "Gybe ho"</u></b></i><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;">which is <b>never</b> used on Boogie Nights, and is replaced with a modest announcement: "Gybing" if being polite to others on the boat down below, otherwise, a very quiet, "shall we gybe" to crew or co-skipper followed by a short Bee-Gees dance while someone sings "gybe talking"</i><br />
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<b>hove to - </b><i> parking the boat at sea by stopping it moving forward, ie, stalling the sails in a way that holds the boat pointing safely at the prevailing waves/wind. Considered a basic essential manoeuvre if you have a delicate crew on board who needs to use the throne room or if one likes to dress for dinner. </i><br />
<b>beam</b> - <i>the side of the boat at it's fattest bit</i><br />
<b>bow</b> - <i>the pointy end or front</i><br />
<b>stern</b> - <i>the blunt end, back end or arse</i><br />
<b>aft</b> - <i>somewhere near the back</i><br />
<b>focsle</b><i> - fore-castle, fore peak, the front bedroom. Small triangular bed with low headroom. Not ideal for passionate encounters or sleeping in during rough weather at sea. Unless you like levitating. </i><br />
<b>autopilot</b><i> - an invisible and slightly petulant lover. Fails when we need it the most, cracks up under pressure, can't handle anything up the bum. turning the response rate up helps but very often we have to resort to doing it by hand.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">autopilot - sometimes needs a helping hand. </span></span></td></tr>
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<b>halyard</b> - <i>up fucker, pull this and things generally go in an upwards direction.</i><br />
<b>reef line</b> - <i>down fucker, pull this and things might go in a downwards direction. They Might. </i><br />
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<b>jib sheet</b> - <i>something to keep crew from getting bored</i><br />
<b>main sheet</b> - <i>scream if you want to go faster. it's like an accelerator but with the ability to kill or maim you. Beware the mainsheet.</i><br />
<b>rope - </b><i>halyard, sheet, rode, springs or line. The moment a rope arrives on a boat it's given a name. It's no longer a rope. </i><br />
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<b><br /></b><b>jack stay</b> - <i>a line on the deck that crew clip to. Ideally stops them falling overboard. Ideally never test it. </i><br />
<b>lazy jacks </b>- <i>a set of lines that keep the sail within the confines of the boom area</i><br />
<b>epirb</b><i> - sounds a bit like some sort of Yorkshire saying, but it's a safety beacon. Hopefully never have to use it. </i><br />
<b>the bitter end</b> - <i>the bit at the end of the anchor chain or rode that stops it flying off the boat and being lost overboard. </i><br />
<b>between the devil and deep blue sea</b> - <i>when ships had to be maintained at sea years ago, sailors would have to paint/scrape the sides of the boat by canting the boat over, the devil is the waterline of the boat and the sailors would be working between that and the sea.</i><br />
<b>baggy wrinkles</b> -<i> fuzzy brushes that fit on the cables that hold the mast up to stop the sails getting chafed. </i><br />
<b>ahoy there</b> - <i>wanker</i><br />
<b>are you a yachtie </b>- <i>wanker</i><br />
<b>salmon/brick coloured trousers</b> - <i>wanker</i><br />
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Yoga for Yachties.</h2>
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We know how to throw some shapes.</h3>
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<b>Nothing says bendy,</b> like a boater in a fix. Known to contort themselves into positions a yogi would be proud of, all in the name of changing an oil filter, fixing a water pump or entertaining a lover.<br />
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<b>It's no coincidence that we describe it as berthing a boat.</b><br />
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In the name of public service and to spread a little of the health benefits of this past time, we bring you the directory of boating shapes. Let us show you how to Bend It Like A Boater.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">see this ^<br />He's Chuck, he's hard, yeah.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Follow the handy key to difficulty (or hardness) level using the Chuck Norris method.</span></i></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="text-align: start;">See this symbol and judge for yourself if you're up to it. <br />We won't be held responsible for hernias, slipped disks or ripped gussets.</span> </i></span></td></tr>
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<b>Let's start with a simple warm up. </b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i> The Mount / Dismount </i></span></span></h3>
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<b>Now this might seem rather silly</b>, but to those who are <i>infrequent</i> boat visitors, the very act of mounting or dismounting these crazy beasts can seem a challenge.<br />
<i>(This is also a good way of judging if someone is going to be a practical addition to crew by their ability to get on and off in less than the time it takes to unwrap a Mars bar)</i><br />
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<b>Grab the stays</b> aligned centrally to your body <i>(the cables holding the mast up)</i>, get a foot firmly on the side and hoist your arse up in one swift movement. Bring the other leg up and straight over the guard wire. Then gracefully step inside with the other foot. If the boat is really high, then chances are you will have a bit of a hoist to do. Or you might be lucky and have a fender step. <br />
<i style="background-color: #ead1dc;">(If you recently had a knee replacement, then forget about it. It will feel like a "5 Chuck" manoeuvre. Visiting the insides of boats is so overrated.)</i><br />
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<i style="background-color: #fff2cc;">thanks to <a href="http://baileyboatcat.com/">baileyboatcat.com</a> for the use of this picture</i></td></tr>
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<b>To take this up a level</b> you can try climbing on to a boat with both arms filled with shopping bags, with at last one of those about to burst with a rapidly growing split, a chihuahua under one arm and a gas bottle around your little finger about to snap it off. Wearing smart office clothing and footwear with shiny soles.<br />
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<b>To level this up again</b>, introduce strong winds causing the boat to rock violently or attempt all of the above from a small inflatable dinghy.<br />
In a corset and long dress.<br />
Drunk.<br />
At 3am.<br />
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<b>When descending or dismounting</b> this must be in a controlled manner.<br />
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Never jump. Never Jump. Never Jump. I repeat, Never jump. Always step in a controlled and catlike manner.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>(Thanks Clair Reed for this pic xx)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i> The Squeaky Conscience </i></span></span></h3>
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<b>Cleaning is a boaters mantra</b>, clean boat, clean conscience. Or something like that.<br />
You're going to need some stretchy clothes. Avoid spicy food several hours prior to attempting this.<br />
<b>Find a confined space that needs cleaning or maintenance.</b> Now climb into the space and take a look around you. Check that both elbows are never more than 15cm from either knee. Check that the working height is never more than a third of your actual height when standing.<br />
Hold this posture for at least one hour. Fetch more cleaning fluids and repeat the procedure for at least three more hours.<br />
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<b>To level this up:</b> try climbing into the lazarette and attempt to do anything other than breath.<br />
If you can achieve this, then you are already well on the way to a top level of being able to bend it like a boater.<br />
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<b>There's an art to climbing masts.</b> it usually involves being pretty fit and/or lightweight.<br />
If you're not fit or lightweight, then you might delegate this task.<br />
If you're not exactly either, but you still want or need to attempt this, then find yourself a good spotter. Safety first and all that.<br />
<b>The ability to climb</b> or hold your own weight while your spotter winches you, as well as take the required tools with you to somewhere around 15 plus meters above deck, then hold yourself in position by clamping your legs around a wire or mast while you attempt to work on something that mustn't be dropped while you sway two meters one way then two meters back again is a skill that needs to be built up gradually.<br />
<b>You may want to attempt this in a climbing harness</b> for extra monkeyness. But beware, after an hour of dangling, your legs will go completely numb rendering any graceful landing impossible.<br />
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<b>to level this up: </b>Try doing this at fucken sea. You will probably feel like you want to die quite quickly. That or you'll ralf up your stomach contents at your spotter below. Hopefully they will be hiding under a spray hood.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i> The Cabin Diver </i></span></span></h3>
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The climb into bed depends on whether the bed is already occupied by either lover or friend. <i>(boaters are sharing types, beds are frequently shared in a non sexual, drunken, "mates who fart and put the duvet over your head" kind of way)</i><br />
You can ascend the wooden hill to Bedforshire in several ways.<br />
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If it's a<b> low cabin bed</b>, you can simply do a forward roll like a commando and arrive facing the right way. That's called <i>"Bedding like a Boss."</i><br />
If it's the<b> high level bed</b>, this is less graceful but good results can be achieved by getting a knee on the edge of the bed first, rolling sideways and diagonally, breakwind as you approach something of a tuck position, <i>(you may choose to avoid this part if you are trying to be romantic in any way at all)</i> rotate on your side, kicking the duvet around you as you go. If the bed is occupied, your space will be roughly one third of a cabin and will make the entry more challenging.<br />
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Think of it as a jockey doing an involuntary dismount. Your task is to arrive with minimal injuries.<br />
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You may have to avoid a dog, a flag pole, some spare sail cloth, some paddles, an engine manual and sundry other items that probably should be somewhere else but the front cabin seemed like a handy place at the time. You will have to do this at least twice as you first forget to bring your alarm to bed then forget to switch off the water pump or gas. Think positive. Every repetition means you're going to be that little bit more bendy.<br />
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<b>To level this up by at least two levels:</b> try leaving your foul weather gear on, get under a blanket and climb behind a lee cloth while the boat is leaning at around 35 degrees. Leave your boots on. Avoid squashing the dog who is likely going to want to sleep on your head after being displaced from the bunk.<br />
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<b>Without doubt the guest cabin forage </b>is a major challenge. This is where the various bits of paraphernalia live along with your guests and their baggage.<br />
If you need access to the bilge pump/s, the prop shaft, the spare jib, the solar panels, the dinghy seat, the cockpit table, life jackets... then you'll find them all nestled under your guests luggage in the back cabin.<br />
To access any of the above, you will need to transform yourself into <b>withered, permanently hunched Hobbit</b>. The back cabin is the equivalent of going caving. A helmet is advisable. Chances are you will emerge feeling slightly angry and sporting several new bruises. <b>This is character building</b>. Suck it up sunshine.<br />
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<b>The ability to rise from our pit</b> is one that requires sometimes unearthly efforts.<br />
If the ageing foam mattress hasn't crippled you or you don't have concussion from the low headroom, then you're off to a good start. <br />
It rather depends on your cabin location and whether or not you also have a dog or kit bag or friend that insists on wedging themselves in alongside you against the hull sides. All of them are a bit squishy and don't provide much grip.<br />
You're going to have to figure this one out alone as we still don't have this technique mastered. <b>If you find something that works, please drop us a line and share your wisdom. </b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i> The Squatting Crab </i></span></span></h3>
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<b>the half stand, half sit,</b> it's like a sideways crabbing squat manoeuvre.<br />
This works those glutes, lower back and thighs. Sometimes we can go around in circles, all the way around the table and never actually sit down as <b>we remember that thing we forgot</b> when we went to sit down in the first place. This motion can be repeated ad infinitum, depending on your age and level of senility. The bonus here, is that the more senile you are, the firmer your buns will be. So it's a case of yin and yang right there.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i> The Piriouette </i></span></span></h3>
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<b>The helm position</b> is unique to each boat.<br />
Now this one <i>(on Boogie Nights)</i> offers a nice little space behind the wheel and a mini gymnasium to get there.<br />
When the weather is being weatherish and you're clipped on, this makes moving from the helm to the cockpit a little adventure and slightly like a Crypton Factor exercise<br />
Sometimes, if there's two of you and you need to perform a hand over, with the autopilot not engaged, then there's a funny little pirouette that we call the Boogie Nights groove<br />
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you'll end up looking like the pig and dog, above.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i> The Slanty </i></span></span></h3>
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<b>Leaning over at 35 degrees is fun</b>. It's also a real work out of the core muscles. Do as much leaning over as possible. This will require you to go sailing as often as possible, however it is feasible to attach a halyard to a pontoon and winch the boat over so that you can practice being leant over for days at a time. Nobody will think you're odd. Trust me, your abdominal muscles will thank you for this.<br />
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<i style="background-color: #ead1dc;">(Alternative ways to achieve the lean is to run aground and let the tide go out. Always a winner that one, or leave your boat tied to a quayside and have one too many pints in the pub, you'll come back to your boat dangling at an alarming angle, which you'll be very happy about)</i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i> The Plank </i></span></span></h3>
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<b>We've all been there.</b> You're trying to leave a mooring or harbour. You're alongside and the wind is blowing the wrong way. You'll be tempted to push off. It's not advisable. <b>You'll do your back in or go swimming.</b> Of course you could give it a go just to see. Just because it never worked ever before, doesn't mean it won't this time. Everyone loves an optimist.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i> The Hook a Duck </i></span></span></h3>
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<b>Catching a mooring buoy</b> is like vertical jousting with a hook. You'll need to be quick. You'll find your jousting position well in advance. This may well be laid prone across the deck or leaning dangerously over the side. Once you've hooked your duck, then hang on for dear life. Even if it means running down the side of the boat with your hook jammed in position. <b>Never let go.</b><br />
Think in situations like this, what would a Jack Russell do?<br />
<b>Be that Jack Russell. </b>Using your teeth isn't recommended.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i> The Strictly Come Dressed </i></span></span></h3>
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<b>Putting clothes on</b> while a boat is leaning over is one thing. Doing that while you have a damp body is another. Doing it while the boat is leaning, your body is damp and you levitate on every other wave is again another skill to which <b>sailors not only thrive in</b>, but actually quite enjoy in a slightly <b>masochistic </b>way.<br />
We can't actually advise you how to do this, as every time is different. It requires balancing ability. You'll need to hang on, but simultaneously put something over your head. You'll need to use both legs merely to survive <i>(assuming you have the standard full complement of two, if you have modifications then this will help your chances. Legs are tricky things to get into long rubber lined tubes called salopettes - it's no coincidence that the French word for bitch is salop. If you want to slide those bitches on, you'll need extreme skills.)</i><br />
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<b>The sock</b> is the ultimate challenge. Putting on a fresh pair of these bad boys while enduring full on sporty offshore levitating conditions, well, you're certainly in a podium position for <b>skillz</b>. You'll be getting the call anytime soon for the next kung fu movie.<br />
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<b>Putting the dinner on</b> can be quite literal. We often end up wearing our supper. It's advisable to keep footware and salopette on to avoid scalding or a hot mini sausage from the caserole wending its way skywards and lodging itself in your base layer somewhere difficult to suck the juices out of without disrobing. You'll be wearing that sausage stain for a couple of days more yet.<br />
Wedging ourselves into a galley with a <b>gimbled flame</b> with scalding hot food balanced above it requires nerves of steel and a stomach made of unobtanium.<br />
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If you can master the art of basic cooking, then you might want to <b>level it up to a</b><b><u> six chuck</u> </b>(off the current scale) by baking a cake.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b><i>Have you heard the one about the two Irish fellows made redundant
from their factory jobs and queuing for their job seekers allowance?</i></b><br /> <br />Two good mates<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paddy
and Murphy wait in line. First Paddy gets called forward and at the counter the
lady informs him that the allowance he will get is based on the skill level of
his previous job.<br /> So he very proudly explains that he was a panty stitcher at
the factory and it took him two years to train for the job as an apprentice.<br /> Our lady looks up the job in her book of job descriptions
and informs him that it’s a semi skilled job and he would receive 50 euros a
week.<br /> <br /><i>“Right you are”</i> he says, and tells Murphy he’ll be next door
at the pub.<br /> <br />Murphy steps up to the counter. Our lady asks him what job
he did before in order for her to look up the skill level in the book.<br /> He proudly tells her he was a diesel fitter.<br /> She looks that up and tells him that it’s considered a
skilled job so he’ll receive 60 euros a week.<br /> Happy with that, he skips next door to join his mate for a
pint.<br />As they discuss their allowance, Paddy is disgusted to hear
that his mate Murphy has been given more than him. He marches back round next
door to speak to the lady behind the counter and demands an explanation.<br /> <br />Well, sir, you are semi skilled as a seamster, stitching
panties. Your mate there, he’s a diesel fitter, which is a skilled job. According
to my book here.<br /> Paddy, quite animated now responds to her,<br /> <br /><i>“My mate there was in quality control! How skilled do you have to be to put a pair of panties
on your head and shout ‘diesel fit ‘er’ ?” </i> </span><br />
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<b>For the duration of June, July and part of August</b> I have
taken on the additional role of <b>diesel fitter</b>, alongside the usual hobbies of
sewing, guffawing, drinking wine, writing cod -shite on here, researching for a masters degree major project and attempting to hang onto my current full-time job as a
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It all started back in <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2016/07/kinsale-yes-we-can.html" target="_blank">Kinsale</a> when the engine cut out just
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fitment, having fitted it personally just three years ago. I thought, foolishly, that by running it on white
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The engine had cut out enough times now that I had the process of re-bleeding fuel into the system down to a 30 minute art which included time for a drink and a snack.<br />
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<b>On my last visit to the chandlery I had bought a short piece of extra diesel hose and a priming bulb.</b><br />
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It was while moored up rather clandestinely to a buoy in Poole harbour that the engine cut out once again. <i>"No problem, I'll get that going again in no time."</i> I thought, but after using the new priming bulb to bleed off nearly 15 litres of orange diesel it was increasingly apparent that the problem was tainted fuel and there was no point starting the engine again using dirty fuel.<br />
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I got the dinghy out and called the local chandlery, <b><a href="http://www.piplers.co.uk/" target="_blank">Piplers of Poole</a> </b>to see if they had diesel treatment in stock. two bottles of <b><a href="http://www.marine16.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank">Marine 16</a></b>, a biocide which is recommended by the RNLI and neutralises diesel bug, were set aside for me. Now all I had to do was get ashore. It was <b>one mile across the middle of Poole harbour</b>. Life jacket on, waterproof vhf radio clipped to me and a dry bag with phone and wallet in the dinghy, I set off paddling.<br />
Almost half way across the harbour a friendly jetskier came over to ask if I was alright. You don't see people rowing small dinghies, everyone has engines. I tried to reassure him that I was fine, but he insisted he give me a tow across the busy part of the harbour. (where the ferries go through)<br />
I accepted on the condition he go slow.<br />
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Both bottles were emptied into the fuel tank then a bit of online research to find a local diesel polishing service. The biocide would take up to 72 hours to work but the tank would still need emptying and cleaning.<br />
There was no point getting the engine going there and then a day before the appointment to get the diesel filtered, instead waiting until just two or three hours the before heading to a marina that I had arranged a berth at the following day. <b>There was some misplaced confidence that the engine would be running again in record time. </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">using a flexible funnel as a way to give some "head" to the diesel which allows it to flow easily into the engine unassisted.</span></span></td></tr>
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Now after all of the above had been tried,<b> the diesel still wouldn't prime through the engine</b>. The priming bulb seemed to be solid and not pumping. The fault seemed to be with the lift pump. Fuel simply wasn't getting through it.<br />
I called a <b>Yanmar specialist.</b> I explained all of the steps I had taken. He suggested removing the banjo bolts from either side of the lift pump and clearing it with a cocktail stick or needle.<br />
As luck has it, I have kebab sticks, cocktail sticks and a variety of needles on board.<br />
But nothing seemed to be working. What I wanted to do was blow through the lift pump but it's impossible to access.<br />
<b>Then as I was on my knees praying to the sacred Yanmar, something caught my eye.</b><br />
Next to me, hung my bicycle frame, complete with puncture repair kit and pump.<br />
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I took the pump off the bike, quickly disassembled the valve fitting to reveal a simple tube, which<b> as luck would have it</b>, was a perfect fit for the diesel hose. I put a banjo bolt on the end of the short piece of spare diesel hose, then attached to the fuel-in side of the lift pump.<br />
Attempting to pump air through was met with solid resistance. No air would pass through at all. I figured I had little to lose by insisting a bit. It's a high pressure pump. So I gave it some effort.<br />
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<i><b><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A couple of pumps to build up pressure and then PAFF! Splat. Out blew a black gob of shite and diesel spray.</span></b></i></blockquote>
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Fuck yes! We were back in action. Reattaching the primer bulb, it easily and rapidly had fuel wooshing out from every open orifice. Close them off, fire up the engine and we were good to go.<br />
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Motoring around to the marina at reduced revs to avoid excessive fuel consumption, it used 1.6 litres, which was perfect timing for the makeshift 1.75 litre Diet Coke fuel tank.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">diesel polishing system, by <a href="http://www.cpfuelpolishing.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; line-height: 19.32px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.cpfuelpolishing.co.uk/</a><br />Highly recommend this mobile service covering most of the south coast.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">this was a pristine new fuel tank just three years ago. thankfully with inspection hatch. <br />That black stuff is dead diesel bug sludge. </span></td></tr>
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The fuel was pumped out, filtered, the tank was vacuumed dry and wiped clean. The fuel hoses were air lined to clear out any remnant bits of diesel bug goop and then the fuel was put back into the tank. It took just less than 5 minutes to pump 125 litres out of the tank, then another 5 minutes to filter it and pump it back in. It was just three hours to get the fuel system tiptop again.<br />
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<b>The Yanmar 3GM</b> started almost immediately after turning over just a couple of times. It was then watched for a while, looking for any diesel leaks and nipping up hose clips or quickly swapping an old copper washer for a new one.<br />
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<i>I expect there will be diesel leaks from any of the many places that have been undone and done back up again numerous times during the struggle to get it primed, so I'll be keeping an eye on it.</i><br />
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The engine has a nappy to catch any diesel drips, so it doesn't slosh around if there's a leak when sailing.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><i>* white diesel = beware that white diesel from the forecourts of British fuel stations now contains a small percentage of bio-diesel. This is a weakness in the "use by date" of diesel. If it sits in a warm or damp tank for any length of time, as is common with sailing boat fuel tanks, then you stand a risk of bacterial blooming. Use of a biocide is a good idea to stop it before it has a chance to get started. </i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">buy the biggest lowest cost nappies available, they make great diesel soaks and are much cheaper than marine versions. </span></td></tr>
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As we finally tied up alongside James Jermain's shiny new Catamaran, <i>Echo</i> on 23rd June in Torquay, 11 days after our departure and with an additional 950Nm on the trip meter, there was no jubilation, no elation, no high fives or fist pumps. There was just a nagging feeling of failure and a distinct whiff of diesel.</div>
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The departure out of Treguier river was beautiful with sunshine and a very gentle breeze.</div>
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The start was serene and the fleet wafted gracefully around the place and eventually over the start line.<br />
The wind was once again on the nose, but this time less of it.<br />
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The usual 10 or 12 hours of rapid crossing from Treguier to Torquay (it's about 90 nautical miles) would be replaced with a slow upwind battle.<br />
Boogie Nights isn't equipped for light wind sailing particularly. We don't have a fancy light airs code wotsitorother and we don't have a massive genoa (no never met her)<br />
The "ickle" jib, called Mistress Jibima we've got is perfect for bashing away across the Irish sea into 30 knots of snot, but not so perfect for this wind seeking.<br />
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After an expensive beasting across the Irish sea, a crash gybe run to France, we now faced an upwind, no wind run across the channel back to Torquay.<br />
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It was slow, infuriating and soul sapping. I nearly cut my own cable tie. I was ready to give up. Except I float and I'd probably get picked up again as they slowly drifted by.<br />
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We had a magnicifent sunset though and this kept spirits up for a while.<br />
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60 miles and 24 hours into the crossing we hit a wind hole. We parked up for a little while. I felt a bit daft really holding my arms in the air like I'm commanded to do, when we weren't actually moving.<br />
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It was with deep sighs and resignation of defeat that the engine was turned on. The time taken and then my plastic, slightly sun damaged nose was pointed directly at Torquay, 30 miles away. Arms aloft. Come on, there's at least drinks to be had in port.<br />
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Jayne went for a lay down but couldn't sleep despite looking tired.<br />
So she got up and gave Sue a much needed break after both had had a sleepless night before. At the very moment they swapped places, the engine note dipped dramatically. Then recovered.<br />
Jayne nursed the throttle for the next hour as the calm sea state allowed good straight line progress.<br />
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As we neared Torbay, the dolphins jumped and played all around us. I'd sent out a message (the ability to speak dolphin is passed from one figure head to the next thankfully) for them to come and cheer Jayne up. Dolphins always make her smile.<br />
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And then the engine finally conked out.<br />
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Five miles from Torquay.<br />
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Sue jumped on the helm and got us moving under sail again while Jayne started to pull things apart around the engine. Pulling out the box of engine spares and making ready with spare diesel.<br />
Priming the engine has always been difficult.<br />
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Sue exclaimed it was perhaps the best bit of sailing in two weeks!<br />
Meanwhile, Jayne had her sleeves rolled up, filters were swapped out, dodgy looking diesel was bled off from the diesel trap and all air voids filled with the use of a jug and a steady hand.<br />
The engine refused to prime though and the lift pump wasn't lifting the fuel into the system as it should.<br />
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After exhausting all of her knowledge at the time, Jayne phoned through to race control to see if anyone had a rib or motorboat that could be used for a tow.<br />
A fellow Triangleur was press ganged into helping.<br />
After a scrappy and ill thought out plan of entry which involved a quick lesson for a long keeler on how fin keels work, and some fraught moments that had me ready to sacrifice myself to fend us off a sea wall, we somehow ended up tied up alongside Echo, James Jermain's new catamaran.<br />
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That was the end of the Triangle 2016 for Boogie Nights. Jayne sat in the cockpit, head in hands utterly dejected, silently and mentally adding up the financial and emotional cost of the past two weeks and wondering how to explain quitting a race.<br />
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But then the news broke for the final results and it couldn't have been better. <br />
Amylou, a Maxi 1100 won the race overall. Having beaten off out-out race boats, the Maxi had raced with all the comforts of home which include scatter cushions, an electric kettle, a cockpit table and cockpit tent as well as hosting several drinks parties at each of the stop overs.<br />
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But the good news kept coming. Katisha, the Contessa 32, which is the oldest and lowest IRC rated boat in the fleet for several race editions, won their category on each of the legs, giving them the treble and third in the race overall with an X-34 called eXehibitionist sandwiched in 2nd overall.<br />
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This is what the triangle race is all about.<br />
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for a full list of the results you can look here: <a href="http://results.rtyc.org/triangle/results/tri2016os.html">http://results.rtyc.org/triangle/results/tri2016os.html</a><br />
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Despite the battering, despite the cost of the repairs, Boogie Nights will be back for another Triangle Race.<br />
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Meanwhile, there's a small matter of a sorting that engine out...<br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">thanks to the two narrators of the story, Disco Barbie and Grace O'Mally.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">and the two skippers for taking good care of the boat and themselves in difficult conditions. </span></i><br />
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<br />Fox Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755786770137507169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200370798973755968.post-54743749911405348832016-07-09T00:34:00.001+01:002016-07-09T18:46:17.378+01:00Tres Gruyère bound! <h3>
Hello there, it's Grace O'Mally, reporting once again, this time for the second leg of the Triangle race 2016</h3>
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<o:p><b>Downwind sailing to France? </b>Anyone fancy that? It's all very well if your boat is set up for spinnakering like a pro. Boogie Nights is equipped with a spinnaker and a pole and some ropes and stuff. I've had a look at them and they're not all that. In fact you've gotta be pretty brave to use that set up because <b>it all ends up going arseways pretty quickly... </b></o:p><br />
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<o:p>Jayne has a fairly strict rule it's <b>not used in anything more than 15kts</b> of wind. Everyone agreed that it's a pretty good rule. That is, if by everyone we mean Jayne. Sue wasn't keen at all. </o:p></div>
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<o:p>On the start line we had around 20kts and most boats were going for the big sails hoist. <b>Sue looked on with mild mannered dismay</b> as Jayne put the spinnaker pole in the ready position and got the Spinnaker bag clipped to the rail. For <i>"just in case"</i> she said. </o:p></div>
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<b>Anyways, we set off on white sails</b> until the wind died down. Then when everyone had fekked off up ahead with their fancy coloured flappy things, <b>Jayne hoisted the red white and blue thing</b> and then they spent the next few hours faffing trying to get it to fly. </div>
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Which it wouldn't. Though it must have done something good because the other boats weren't really getting any further ahead for a long time.</div>
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Until Jayne decided to drop it and try again later. Which went more literally than she intended as the halyard slipped off the mast winch accidentally and <b>nearly launched Jayne skywards</b>.<br />
We ended up with a nice <b>colourful sea anchor</b> around the bow and under it. <b>Barbie caught it in her teeth, risked severing her cable tie she did. </b> </div>
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Sue's training and experience in sail retrieval came in very handy as was Jaynes ability to hove-to in a split second. They rapidly exchanged ends of the boat. Sue dashed forward from helm to bow and Jayne jumped on the wheel and sorted out the various sheets before running forward to join Sue to get the sail back on deck. </div>
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<b>The wet spinnaker was dumped</b> through a forward hatch, inspected and repacked quickly by Jayne while she muttered expletives. <b>No damage luckily, only a dented pride.</b> </div>
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The boats ahead had visibly shrunk in size in the short time Boogie Nights was parked for the retrieval.</div>
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We white sailed through the night, gybing every couple of hours or so. The basic model of autopilot on Boogie Nights can't cope with downwind sailing very well. So they took turns, hand steering. 2 on, 2 off. Poor buggers. </div>
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It was extremely tiring. <i>Well, it was for them, not for me. I'm only 7 inches tall with my hat on and can't reach the wheel. <b>Has anyone seen my hat?</b></i><br />
Despite having the boom brake pulled to maximum tension, we still crash gybed countless times. The brake took the sting out of the gybes, but not the frustration from whoever was helming at the time. How many times could we crash gybe before something would break?</div>
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Another day, another night of sailing without a single AIS signal or boat in sight. It was morale sapping for the two not to have anyone to spar or race with. (other than each other to the ginger biscuits)</div>
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Another unsuccessful attempt to fly the spinnaker was made at lunch time as we passed the shipping lanes, but a much more successful drop, retrieval and repack, we were back to white sails again. At least the red, white and blue was dry now.<br />
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The Irish food that Sue had stocked up on was going down a treat. Another casserole with Irish beef and then the pizza. <b>Oh the Pizza.</b><br />
It was actually more along the lines of Cheese with cheese and a pizza base hidden within it.<br />
When they were making the pizza back at the little shop in Kinsale, Aoife there shouted to her mate Nell,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"hey Nell, can ya put some cheese on that batch of pizzas?"</span></i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">"Aye I did."</span></i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"Well, couldya put a bit more on?" </span></i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">"Aye I will. " </span></i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"Make sure there's plenty on there." </span></i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">"OK I put some cheese on the cheese" </span></i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"just stick a bit more on, just to be sure like. We can't have 'em thinking we scrimped on the cheese."</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Sue and Jayne pondered the <b>risks of becoming cheese-bound</b> as they took turns to eat the entirely cheese based food from their dog bowls. </span>The conversation took a turn for the abstract as Jayne cast a final piece of cheese overboard and pondered the possibility of a dolphin becoming cheese-bound.<br />
Sue suggested that it might be <b>similar to a petrified effect</b> that can only be counteracted by looking at things through a mirror and not directly at it...<br />
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I'm going to leave this conversation here.<br />
They had been hand steering for quite some time and that was A LOT of cheese.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">No word from Barbie on the matter. I'm surprised, I thought she was a fan of dolphins. And cheese.</i></b></span></blockquote>
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After another exhausting night of hand steering and crash gybing, we emerged the other side of darkness to be greeted with the scent of land.<br />
The wind shifted and finally a brief spell of autopilot to give Jayne a welcome rest while Sue was off-watch in her bunk. </div>
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Jayne took the opportunity as the sun rose and the invisible crew was steering, to make some brioche toast for breakfast, followed by a nail manicure and a <b>cucumber face mask</b> pamper time in the cockpit. </div>
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<b>That's the beauty about racing your house.</b> Inevitably something slightly odd will be left in the cupboard that isn't strictly speaking a necessity for racing. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">evidence of "lady times"</span></td></tr>
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After a morning into early afternoon of sailing fast and furious, the wind gradually started to die as Boogie Nights approached the finish line. The tide was due to turn any time. </div>
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It was like the two women were cheering a football match with odd<b> random outbursts of "c'MON!" </b>as they willed the boat on and the wind not to die and it couldn't have been more perfect. Sue clocked our finish time on the mark, we were on the end of slack water and the tide was just turning.<br />
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<b>Then arrived the two French Customs dolphins</b>, named <i>Eeeheeehh eee Eeee ee </i>and <i>Ee Eeeeheeeh eep ee</i>, (roughly translated that's Davide and Davidette) escorting all yachts in through the rocky entrance to the River. They swam alongside, almost touching the boat sometimes they were so close. Jayne stood helming but leaning over the side to get a better view. <b>What she got was a face full of Davidettes blow-hole.</b> Oh yes, and in public too. Nothing to declare. Nothing to see here. Move along. </div>
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Our journey down the river was easy and there was finally a little time to look around and enjoy the scenery.</div>
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On arrival both ladies were quickly showered and ushered onto Amylou which was resplendent with its cockpit tent. How many people can fit into the cockpit of a Maxi 1100? Somewhere in the region of 13 people enjoyed the cosy space. Not once, but two nights in a row. It's always a good night when you see the night turn to day again. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gary (the owner of Amylou - on the left) was top host, along with his co-skipper</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Russell (co-skipper of Amylou - on the right)<br />Both chaps not only sailed like gentlemen, but also made sure to call their wives as they picked up a signal via the Scillies on their way to their 4th place in France. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sue sits next to James (owner/skipper of Katisha, a Contessa 32 came first in class 3 in leg 1 and 2.) </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">evidence of drinking past and drinking future.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">evidence of the benefits of cockpit tables, even when racing. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">team Resolute Dave and Gary, are just taking a little power nap at the back of Amylou. <br />They're like coiled springs though. </span></td></tr>
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There was the usual parade through the town, up to the cloisters in the Cathedral. And the ladies got the jet wash and dremmel out. They scrubbed up alright.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You wouldn't believe how much cheese these women can eat. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alan? Alan? Alan? Alan? Alan? Al? Al? Al? Steve? Steve? Steve? Steve? If you were part of the triangle fleet that were kept awake by the revellers shouting the above, then you need to see the following video link. If you heard anyone shouting Dave! Gary! Phil! etc, that was most likely Jayne, or Sue, or Phil, or Gary, or Dave, or possibly Russell, maybe someone else...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFhNJ8ozDBk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFhNJ8ozDBk</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anthony and Yves of Big Doris were one of the nine boats that didn't make it over to Ireland due to the weather, so they came straight to France and rejoined the race from there. Anthony has taken part in every race since 1998 and still can't pose for a photo. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some small adjustments to his chartered boat, A J109 called Bonfire 4. Gaffer tape has many uses, it's not just for kidnappings and stopping water leaks on hatches. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mister Lucky, an Australian entry in the race and much welcomed by the fleet. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sue has lost her parrot and her wooden leg. If you see either, please get in touch. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the fleet are finally back together in France, minus a couple of casualties who remained elsewhere to make repairs. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fellow triangleurs discuss techniques for catching Sues parrot. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The river that leads to Treguier is pretty with interesting houses and a real sense of history on the banks.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sue googles "Dolphin petrification through cheese consumption" as we head out of Treguier for the start of the next leg.</span></span></td></tr>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The various characters on the boat have been notably quiet
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We’re all going on a fekkin' diet</h3>
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<b>Losing weight </b>seems to be the preoccupation of many people,
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Between Jaynes obsession with only allowing small things
onboard and one-for-one, we also had the issue of her only allowing things on
board if they were to be used in a two week window. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the systematic emptying of cupboards and only refilling with essentials. </span></td></tr>
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She started by emptying the saloon cupboards. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Charts for East Coast? <i>Get out</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Pilot books for East Coast and the Med? <i>You can get out as well you fat
bloated bound pieces of paper. </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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DVDs, board game, book on tying knots? <i>Way too heavy. Out!</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Then the galley. <i>Would all the glasses please step forward?
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<i>Ok, not you small wine glass. Or your buddy there the
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<i>But the rest of you? Fek off out of here. This is no place
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Now then what’s going on in the throne room? PINK HAIRSPRAY?
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Three hair brushes? Has anyone failed to notice Jayne had
her long tresses chopped for the Princess Foundation over a year ago? She ain’t
gonna be needing you again for a while. <i>Get in the box. Ok, not you, little
compact grooming device. She’s not a complete scruff bag. </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Box after box of surplus STUFF left Boogie Nights, and it
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Gradually the waterline crept higher and the Ducato Maxi
(known as the shed) hunkered down on its suspension, the fuel economy dropping
from a marvellous 55mpg to a less marvellous 45mpg and <b>stopping requires forward
planning, similar to that of a fully laden cargo ship. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Nearly 200kilos were shed from the belly of Boogie Nights.
All the empty cupboards on the starboard side were filled with heavy stuff from
cupboards on the port side in an attempt to re-ballast a perpetually annoying
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If the boat had a voice, he might complain, like Marvin the android with the pain in all the diodes down his left side <span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/p/this-boat-is-male.html" target="_blank">[*3]</a></span></div>
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A few luxuries remained though, the <b>cocktail shaker </b>along
with decent sized cabinet of liquid refreshments. <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Medicina</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">l</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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A <b>baking tin</b> and basics for making a cake. <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Medicinal.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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A second edition of Mill on the floss as well as an 1889
edition of the Pears Cyclopedia, because you <b>never know when you’re going to
need the exchange rate of the Rupee</b> or Italian Lira as of the late 19<sup>th</sup>
century when you’re racing offshore in the Irish sea. <br />
And of course, a collective sigh of relief, the mascots
all remained. Wonky knitted Donkey, Scary feet Sulley, Bendy Wendy the
barometer legs, Talking Yoda, Silly sausage, Mr Oizo, wiggly Lil’ and me, the new
girl, Grace O’Mally, Irelands fiercest, most notorious Pirate. EVER <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><a href="http://www.badassoftheweek.com/omalley.html" target="_blank">[<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">*2]</span></a> </span><span style="background-color: white;">I'll be telling this story because I'm not cable tied to the front like a certain other character round here. Terribly quiet isn't she... </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Final checks: have we got enough fuel for a full day
motoring? Yes, there’s 50 litres in the 140 litre tank, plus the emergency
jerry, that should be plenty. No point carrying an extra 90kilos of fuel for no
reason ay? <span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">[*1]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Jayne relabelled the crew bins (little stash bins for small personal things) under Bond Pseudonyms. Her
chosen Bond Girl name was “<i>Inna Flapp</i>” Professor of perpetual faffing. (aye that's about right)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Triangle Race fleet assembled gradually over the space
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Boogie Nights was delivered in glorious sunshine to Torquay
with the help of a fellow skipper who’s identity must remain anonymous, but we
will call him <i>Dr GingerFinch</i> for the sake of keeping a Bond theme. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ice creams were eaten, new sacrificial sunglasses worn and
new friendships forged as fellow crews started to mingle.<br />
<i>GingerFinch</i> made a hasty retreat back to his Bond lair. Sue arrived with a truck load of food and supplies and chose her Bond Girl name as “<i>Clara Onnatopp</i>”</div>
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Going Swimmingly</h3>
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<b>The speed log </b>on Boogie Nights hasn’t worked for some time
and a strand of weed was blocking it, so a quick swim with a scrubber was
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Meteorologica Shminky Pinky Bang Bang</h3>
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The weather forecasts started flooding in and there was a
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Good friends on a Maxi 1100, Amylou moored alongside Boogie Nights uttered
the words <i>“boat breaking conditions” </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sue busied herself going through passage plans again. Jayne
was doing a thorough shackle and fittings check, adjusting, tightening and
double checking. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A westerly wind of 25-30 knots was predicted and a rough to very rough sea state. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This isn’t really much of a problem, except this is the
Irish Sea we are crossing and we wanted to go West. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The thing with yachts is that, however marvellous they are at
harnessing the power of nature, they can’t actually sail directly into the wind
and this meant we would have to “beat” upwind, also known in Boogie Nights
terms as :doing the the ziggy zaggy or a bit of a jiggy jaggy. </div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"Either way, whether we jagged or zagged, I tried to reassure Jayne it'll be grand. It always is. More or less. Except when it isn't."</i></span></blockquote>
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Leg 1</u></h3>
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Race start was typically entertaining in the sense that Sue and Jayne have only ever started one race together before. So while they
discussed which line to pull, the race got underway:</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"ease the main sheet, no the main sheet, no the main sheet, no that's the second halyard, no not the vang, no that's the third reef, the main sheet, the blue one, that one..."</span><br /><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"right, ok"</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"can we gybe? are we ready to gybe? We need to gybe"</span><br /><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"yes, I'll try..."</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"can we gybe a bit faster, no faster than that, ok, that was a bit faster than I meant... but that's ok the boom brake was on"</span><br /><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"shall we get the jib out?"</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"yeah suppose we should really since the race started a minute ago..."</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A familiar sight for the remainder of the triangle race as Sue comes up from making her hourly plot on the chart. It's a ritual. It's her thing. </span></td></tr>
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<b>The first day and night flew by</b> and there was still the odd
boat visible on the AIS radar screen but as the second day wore on, those
signals started to fade and the weather switched on. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And it really switched on. It was like old times. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Determined to keep their stomachs full of excellent food
pre-prepared by Sue and avoid any downtime with mal-de-mer they dropped Kwells
like ravers on acid, minus the UV facepaint or excess sweating. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The beats were ON</b> though, sometimes 80’s disco, sometimes
hardcore dance music, sometimes classical, rock music, reggae or world music, but always ON. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The rusty, orange stained pods pumped music out 24/7 and the waves built. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Both women took turns at helm, 2 on, 2 off.
Sometimes more, sometimes less. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The near full moon was beautiful and equally revealing of
the savage Irish Sea. It illuminated the breaking tops of waves in an eerie
bluish colour. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the wake, sparkled phosphorescing particles or critters,
which was both mesmerising and hypnotic to watch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The wind turbine hummed, howled and whistled according to
the wind intensity but never stopped spinning. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Dolphins had come to visit</b> during daylight hours, torpedoing out of the building seas towards us, swimming around the boat before heading off again. </div>
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2 on 2 off</h3>
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Sue slept soundly below like a sausage roll in her duvet
after another night time watch changeover. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Jayne sat at the helm, eyes still adjusting to the
night-scape. Still clipped on with two tethers after the changeover-shuffle, she tweaked
the autopilot located by her left knee and settled down into the “cosy” port
aft corner, leaning against a fender tied to the back rail. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cosy being relative when you are in the firing line of most
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Wearing the full monty Gill Ocean jacket, the collar is so
high that the only thing visible when the hood is drawn is a tiny slit to see
through. Rather like looking out of a letterbox. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Boogie Nights launched off of another wave. Like a rapid
descent in a lift, the stomach takes a moment to catch up. We landed with a shudder in the trough then started climbing another foamy peak. A cross wave hit
us, SLAM - spray, the boat lurched off sideways as we headed swiftly down the
other side of the peak, another wave threatens but passes by, breaking just
behind us with a hiss. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the troughs, the only things visible are the <b>slab sides of water</b> around us, in the brief moments as we crest the peaks there’s a feeling
of observing the world from a height, it’s a massive aggressive watery
desert as far as the eye can see in every direction. The <b>moonlight illuminates
a horizon</b> that curves away and is quickly blotted from view by the next wall of
water. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And then, it is inevitable. </h3>
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Looking across in an attempt to read the next series of
waves, a<b> long horizontal foamy tube of blue resting on a black wall of water
has your name on it.</b></div>
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In the time it took Jayne to utter <i>“oh fu..”</i> the wall of
water, easily the height of the boom,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slammed into the side of the boat and broke across the cockpit.<b> It was like
being hit by a baby elephant.</b> Lifted up from her corner by the volume of water
whooshing across, Jayne’s tether pulled taught for a moment as she buried her
head into her elbow trying to avoid too much water getting into the letterbox
opening. <b>Still holding the wheel she landed with a bounce</b>, shaking the water
from her hood and wiping her eyes in an attempt to focus again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Patti Smith – Because the Night blared out of the speakers.
This was power ballad weather alright."</span></i></blockquote>
<i>Jayne sang along, muffled inside her massive collar "Because the night belongs to nutters, because the night belongs to us..." </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the sea, painted by Hokusai</span></span></td></tr>
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We were 15 minutes into a watch of 120. This was going
to be gnarly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>And the beat goes on. As always at some point, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy finds its way through the random playlist whenever challenging weather presents itself. It's like being in the book "Good Omens" where the Demon, no matter the tape cassette he puts in the stereo, always ends up with Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody playing. </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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At the next watch changeover and two episodes into Hitchhikers, Sue emerged blinking from the
companionway, suited and booted ready to sit in the firing line, cheerily she
wished Jayne a good morning (it was a little past 3am). Her ability to be cheerful is something that
should be bottled. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Jayne explained the previous watch excitement and suggested she sleep in the cockpit as the weather was showing no signs of improvement and it would be much easier and quicker to react or help out if that final reef was needed. <o:p></o:p><br />
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As both women discussed their fatigue induced hallucinations, Sue had spotted a stranger in the heads and Jayne heard a male voice several times make various vocal noises that sounded like a "hmmm" or "aaahh" which she attributed to the boat talking to her <span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/p/this-boat-is-male.html" target="_blank">[*3]</a></span>, just then, a metallic clatter was heard, both women looked around in
vain to see what it was. Jayne looked up at the rig and Sue looked down below.<br />
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<b>BANG - massive wave. The boat shuddered.</b></div>
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A second clatter was heard, slightly less metallic and again
no sign of what it was. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As the night passed into day and the two skippers continued their shifts, Jayne stood in the cockpit to look over the deck, scanning the fittings to see if anything had gone awry in the night. The angry waves hitting
the boat from all directions were summarily dismissed by Boogie Nights as it
powered on. Relatively little water found it’s way into the bilge, just a few
basins full.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Except. Ah. Wait. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The lashed boat hook? Gone. Metallic clatter? Yes. Check. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The contoured deck panel that covers the lines from mast?
Starboard side, Gone. Slightly less metallic clatter? Yes. Check. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Fek a doodle dandy!</div>
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That diet is getting ridiculous now. That was weight we didn’t mind staying ON the boat.</div>
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The non slip mat on the deck was also peeling up on every leading edge. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">spot the missing panel. That'll be £650 to replace then. Shit. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">With the big weather came small discussions and a compromise about routing. </span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">route A or route B? A was faster but required slightly more navigational skill, route B, easier to navigate but would result in a tougher point of sail later by putting too much north into the route.<br />It was debatable over which route would be the smoother passage. </span></td></tr>
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Jayne had opted for the popular route north of the Scillies
and south of the traffic separation zone (A). <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s not buoyed but it’s plenty wide enough gap to sail through. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sue wasn’t sure she was happy in the night sailing through
it in the weather conditions. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With no other boats around us on the AIS to use as a
judgement tool, and wanting to remain a strong team together, they re-routed to
the east side of the traffic separation zone, up to a buoyed channel heading
north (B). Knowing this would take them to a difficult place to sail on to Kinsale
from with the strong westerly winds, it was decided to prioritise team work before speed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The route would add another day to the journey. This was no longer a race but a matter of team survival and developing trust together.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">time to start drying stuff, Sue put the lid to the wine cave outside to dry... which revealed a nice little stash of booze on the starboard side.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Surplus battery power thanks to loads of wind? Switch the fridge on and get that Prosecco chilled!</span></td></tr>
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As Tuesday came and went and Wednesday dawned, the two were
anxious not to miss the cut off arrival time on Thursday Lunch time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But the good food kept coming, the calmer conditions meant
that the boat tidying could commence and the pair managed to catch up on some
sleep. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">knackered sailor</span></span></td></tr>
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The first signal Jayne found on her phone was one from
fellow competitor sharing a screen shot of the AIS signal of Boogie Nights
pointing towards Kinsale, followed by the same from Jaynes Ma. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The extra day delay meant the crews who had already made it to Ireland
were worried about those still not accounted for. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While those awaiting our arrival on Wednesday evening could see this:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">AIS signal as we approached Ireland</span></span></td></tr>
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We were looking at this:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">beautiful evening approaches to Kinsale</span></span></td></tr>
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<b>Only 20 boats out of 29 made it to Ireland.</b> Whilst
Boogie Nights wasn’t the last to arrive they were the only one out of contact
since the early hours of Monday when the weather turned nasty. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was still a little adventure to go even as we crossed the line, Jayne fired up the engine for the first time since Torquay 3.5 days before, it ran for just 2 minutes then cut out. <span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>[*1 - air lock. 50 litres is not enough it seems in a 140 litre tank. Next time there's big weather, make sure the tank is full]</i></span></div>
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So we sailed at 7 knots up the river with two reefs tucked in and the bombproof jib roughly set. Jayne fired off some help messages to the Race Organiser David Rayment who quickly came to our assistance. </div>
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A rib came out of the darkness to meet and guide us into a temporary spot alongside two other boats in Kinsale Marina. </div>
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<b>The reception the Boogie Nights team received in Kinsale was absolutely top drawer. </b></div>
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Drinks into the night in great company and nobody minded that the two <b>unwashed ladies</b> turned up after just a brief wet wipe down. <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i style="background-color: #d9ead3;">[see Jaynes other blog about sailors and their <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2016/05/how-to-date-sailors-essential-guide.html" target="_blank">wet wipes</a>]</i></span></div>
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With such a short stopover there was little time for anything other than a quick trip to a chandlery to replace a lost winch handle, a rapid deep clean of all wet cupboards, receive a booby-prize for the most miles covered between Torquay and Kinsale (455 as it happens) and then hit the town for some traditional pub time. </div>
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Sue had already crashed out, needing to recharge before the start of the next leg, but Jayne took one for the team and enjoyed some fabulous music in equally fabulous company (Katisha, Spruce Goose and Resolute)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">live Irish music and an impromptu evening out in the town. </span></span></td></tr>
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Did I mention Barbie was still quiet?</div>
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She did a decent job up there on the bow granting us safe passage, but arrived looking a little worse for wear. She's still not talking to us. At least she has all limbs still attached and managed to keep her shoes. </div>
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to be continued...</h3>
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And for once I was chef rather than heater-upper. Though, I'm no <a href="http://www.boogie-nights.org/2014/10/the-f-word.html" target="_blank">Steven Seagal...</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>"I don't know what's going on here, but at no point above do I see any mention of being <b>honked at</b> by that massive ship leaving the Solent because dipstick one and dipstick two failed to make their intentions clear to the myopic watch of the bridge, like pointing me at the fort wasn't clear enough, or Sue having a minor moment of <b>"ee bygum there's a lotta ships in the dark"</b> and I've seen no mention of the chaos of re-entry to Portsmouth Harbour (3 ferries coming in, 1 ferry going out, two tugs escorting a ship in, a floating dredging raft blocking half the entrance and <b>Jayne almost breaking a sweat</b>)</i></span></blockquote>
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It is something I feel aught to be made into a handy guide, rather like a first aid manual, for which I am recently re-ticketed after a refresher alongside my esteemed co-skipper Sue. When asked how best to deal with burns by the instructor, <i>Sue offered: bagpipes and a haggis? </i><br />
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We were given acronyms to help us remember essential things we shouldn't forget.<br />
I've forgotten most of them now. But I will always remember my ABC, Airways Breathing Circulation. or Accelerator Brake Clutch. or in the case of boat dating:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />A - Awesome at all times. - the ability to act cool in all situations.<br />B - Barometer brain - knowledge of when pressure is rising or falling.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">C - Charm and comedy - the ability to laugh the isobar off a weather front. </span></blockquote>
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<u>Do your ground work before considering the first reef point of dating:</u><br />
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There's three types of people in the world, those who go boating, those who go sailing and Those-who-don't<b>. </b>It's important at this point that you know which one of those <u>you</u> are and which kind is the person on whom you intend to shine your head torch. (metaphorically)<br />
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The difference can be discerned simply by asking the following: "<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How often do you fill your fuel tank?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Boater</i></b><i><b>,</b></i> "my MercruiserVolvoManCatterpillarYanmar is/are quite economical, I can cruise for miles before filling up, every time I go anywhere..."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><b><i>Sailor</i>,</b> "surely that's excessive weight no? Cost me about £30 about a year ago."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Those-who-don't</b></i><i><b>,</b></i> "er... I go to Asda/Tesco/Morrison's/Sainsbury's once a week because it's on my way to work..."</span></span></blockquote>
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Note that you won't get a straight answer from anyone, but you can figure it out like this:<br />
a <b><i>boater</i></b> will avoid saying out loud how much fuel they need to put in their boat, <br />
a <b><i>sailor</i></b> will make it very clear how little it cost and how long ago it was.<br />
<b><i>Those-who-don't</i></b> will reference a Supermarket.<br />
<i><span style="color: #666666;">[There is a 4th type, they're called Sunsailers, if you accidentally meet one of those, run. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #666666;">Run away. Do not go there. I repeat, do not go there.]</span></i><br />
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Now that you know what kind of person you're dealing with, the process of dating becomes simpler.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tips for first reef point:</span></h4>
It's important to understand the different techniques involved in the pickup and delivery of chat up lines. A boater needs converting and Those-who-don't need persuading (and quite possibly a safety briefing) A sailor needs little encouragement.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>chat up line for a boater: </b></span><br />
Would you like to pop round mine to help me service my engine? I'll provide coffee and cake.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>reasoning: boaters love their engines and they've often got a better quality oil suction pump, which is useful for servicing</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>chat up line for a sailor: </b></span><br />
D'ya fancy going for a sail?<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>reasoning: nothing says, come on, than asking a fellow to partake in shared interests of rope fondling, casually discussing tidal flows and computational rates and tables. </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>chat up line for Those-who-don't: </b></span><br />
Would you like to meet at Boathouse-Mcboaty Marina clubhouse for a drink?<br />
<i><span style="color: #666666;">reasoning: it's best to get social relations started away from the yacht initially. They need to see the shoreside human version before you morph into gibberish speaking rope tweaking sailor the moment you step onboard your beloved precious</span>. </i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">acceptable attire and pre-date-prep for sailors on a first date with Boaters or Those-who-don't:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Do </span><br />
Wear your sunglasses on top of your head like a hair-band. It is definitely sexy. It doesn't matter if it's dark and/or raining.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span></span><br />
Wear foul weather gear. Even if you have stripped down to your salopette and vest. Yes I know, sailors amongst sailors, nothing says sexy like a salopette worn over long johns and a vest but this is a language your potential beau has yet to learn. Patience padawan.<br />
Wear jeans and a smart top. Leave those sailing boots on the boat. Wear shoes. Unless you're wearing shorts, then wear boots. because sailing boots and shorts, yeah baby, you'll be irresistible and will look slightly like a pirate. Everyone loves a pirate. AmIright?<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span><br />
Use wet wipes instead of a proper shower. Save those for when you're in full action mode strutting your stuff several days at sea. For now, use water. From a shower head. <i>(you were reaching for those wet wipes weren't you?)</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Do </span></span><br />
Clear the dining table and galley of any paraphernalia not relevant for a potential evening ahead. Laptops, tools, excessive numbers of head torches, part-used tubes of sikoflex, steam cleaner fittings, toilet servicing parts, tubes of water-resistant grease or winch lube, shackles, bits of rope and dirty socks all need to be stowed away out of sight. This will be especially important later, which I will cover a little further down. <br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span></span><br />
Forget to scrub the heads (toilet and shower room) within an inch of breaching the hull. It must be spotless.<br />
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Scrub the heads again for good measure. Poo-pipe stink paranoia is a real thing. Use air freshener and close the door/curtain.<br />
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Now you're all set, give yourself a wee check in the mirror, nobody will notice your white sunglasses induced tan panda eyes. You're looking hot to trot my friend.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">you are the epitome of ABC</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tips for second reef:</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>chat up line for a boater: </b></span><br />
Thanks for helping with the engine. I've got a bottle of wine in the cooler, would you like to come back for dinner/tea? (you can go up a level here by offering ice cream – this is high level luxury.)<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>reasoning: by demonstrating you have a cooler, you have shown that your yacht has a modicum of luxury and is worth further investigation beyond the engine hole. </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>chat up line for a sailor: </b></span><br />
D'ya fancy dinner/tea while we sail?<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>reasoning: nothing says, come on, than a carefully prepared cornish pasty wrapped in kitchen paper. </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>chat up line for Those-who-don't: </b></span><br />
I've got food onboard, would you like to pop back to mine for canapés and a little music, you like rum cocktails don't you?<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;">reasoning: you need to keep up pretences that yachting is glamorous for as long as possible. The illusion will be shattered soon enough. (just got to get 'em onboard and ply them with dark 'n' stormy)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tips for a smooth transition into second reef evenings with Boaters or Those-who-don't:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Do </span><br />
Continue to wear your sunglasses on top of your head like a hair band. It is definitely still sexy. Even when you're cooking or serving canapés.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span></span><br />
Wear a head torch to see inside the cupboards, it will ruin the sunglasses-on-head effect, instead, hold the light in your hand like a torch, or better still, don't use a torch at all and give the impression of being a cupboard-ninja with the ability to find the right thing simply by echo location alone. <i><span style="color: #666666;">[remember our acronym, A = Awesome at all times even if you put you hand on a sharp or hot object.]</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Do </span></span><br />
Bend at the knees. not at the back when looking in those lower, floor level cupboards. This is not the time for a total eclipse of the moon. Save that for later.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span><br />
Forget to explain how the toilet works and general boat-toilet etiquette if your date is one of Those-who-don't. It's best done earlier rather than later, but not the moment they climb through the companionway. Give them a chance to down that first drink. <i>(handy hint: You can pre-prepare by having all seacocks open to save time and avoid terrible blow back consequences if they only open one.)</i> Be aware that it can be confusing to explain that <b>everyone must sit</b> to use the toilet, but no-one should drop a bomb, we go to marina facilities for that sort of thing.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Do </span></span><br />
Use mood lighting, the red LED from your chart table is acceptable for this purpose. It will also save on battery power. Win win!<br />
<i><span style="color: #666666;">remember C- Charm? The dimmed lights will enable your beau to see past that salt blasted complexion and experience your charm and wit with fewer barriers. </span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span></span><br />
Use real candles, see reasons here > <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-35413080" style="background-color: white;">Boat tips over, candle sets fire to clothes</a> and here > <a href="http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/sailing-skills/crash-test-boat-fire-29724">boat fires</a><br />
Nobody wants to be that person calling the emergency services.<br />
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Put some ambient music on, better still invite your guest to bring music. This will be especially important later when someone uses the toilet. <i><span style="color: #666666;">[having an adequate stereo music provision should never be overlooked. Consider a modern car stereo with bluetooth, usb, auxiliary inputs and CD ability as a small investment in providing the sound track to your love and toilet life.] </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tips for third reef:</span></h4>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>chat up line for a boater: </b></span><br />
Would you like to see my back cabin? <i>(this isn't prison slang, yachts do often have back cabins)</i><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>reasoning: Nothing says, hello to a boater than being shown the back cabin. If the answer is yes, then give yourself a pat on the back. It looks like someone just pulled. </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>chat up line for a sailor: </b></span><br />
Shall we anchor up for the night?<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>reasoning: nothing says, come on, more than dropping a hook and swinging about with the wind and tide in a sheltered bay, amongst a whole flotilla of others in what is the equivalent of a road side lay by, near some beach and nature reserve. Sundowners in the cockpit anyone? If the boat's rocking, don't come knocking. (or was that a ferry?)</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>chat up line for Those-who-don't: </b></span><br />
Would you like to use my guest cabin? I have set the electric blanket to pre-heat the bed for you.<br />
<i><span style="color: #666666;">reasoning: Keeping up the appearances of sophistication is a must. You don't need to tell them that they will be jammed in with at least one spare sail, a couple of fenders, solar panels, dinghy paddles and spare life jackets. They will discover this soon enough when you use your own body as a barrier between them and your paraphernalia. Waking up with the mark of a photovoltaic grid pattern on your arse is a small price to pay. </span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Do </span><br />
Turn off the electric blanket after 10 minutes. You don't want to overheat your guest too soon or ruin your expensive and strangely shaped foam mattress in a pool of sweat.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span><br />
Attempt to do any show-boating yet. This will result in separate cabin sleeping arrangements. We don't want that. The aim is to find an excuse to share the same cabin. If they are Those-who-don't then you are in luck. You can simply explain that it's normal that everyone shares a cabin for safety reasons. They won't know any different.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Do </span><br />
Leave a single night light on in the main cabin. Your guest may still be unfamiliar with the layout and struggle to find their way around in the dark if they need to use the heads. <br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span><br />
Forget safety precautions. Don't leave the electric blanket plug upturned or in a place where anyone, even your awesome-ninja-self might tread on it. Try not to utter: fuck, bugger or cunt if you do accidentally hurt yourself, remember your ABC, it's your job to be awesome. <br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Do </span><br />
Switch your mobile phone, AIS alarm, VHF distress alarm, anchor drag alarm, depth sounder alarm to silent or off. You don't want interruptions. If you happen to be at anchor, you might want to have a back up plan. You might leave your boots and safety pants in a rapidly accessible place, rather like a grab bag.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span><br />
Roll your eyes when the object of your affections comments when the boat rocks, saying <i>"did we just rock the boat or was that a ferry?</i>" or some other seemingly funny comment. They don't really understand that you've lived with this effect for years and don't even notice it anymore. Indulge them, it's still a novelty.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Do </span><br />
Take note of their complexion. If they drain of colour at anytime or go clammy, this is a warning that you need to dispense either Kwells [<i>motion sickness remedy]</i> or Alkaseltzer <i>[too much dark 'n' stormy remedy. </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #666666;">remember your ABC, be awesome at all times and (barometer) detect pressure rise or fall, comedy and charm will enable continued fun times in the guest cabin. </span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't </span><br />
Climb over your guests head, naked, when exiting the bed. <i><span style="color: #666666;">[for the uninitiated, most yachts have beds with a tiny access by the head of the bed which means an ungraceful entrance and exit]</span></i> Instead, playfully throw a pillow over their face to distract them as you make your exit to visit the heads, or fetch water etc. Try not to accidentally smother them as you slip and put additional unintended pressure on the pillow.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Now assuming all went well with reefs one, two and three, you might get adventurous with your now willing and able cabin mate.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gull-winging:</span></h3>
<i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>Definition: </b>to gull-wing is the act of a delicate balance, a little dance if you like, trying to simultaneously carry one sail in one direction and the other sail in the opposite direction. This is a precarious position to be in, but can be rewarding, and has been known for people to cross an ocean like this. It may require additional apparatus in order to keep the front sail up. You be the judge and tweak and adjust things as you go to get it just right. </span></i><br />
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With headroom limited to that of a seated greyhound you will soon run out of options in a yacht cabin. You'll need to get adventurous and consider anywhere that has full standing headroom.<br />
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This is where you'll be glad you cleared that dining table...<br />
<i>(Beware, the dog will be watching you. Try not to feel judged.) </i><br />
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