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Hi All,
I 'crewed' one(?) of the company boats across the Bristol Channel and did not throw up, or feel sick in any way!  just to give you a little back ground until then the extent of my off shore experience was a cross channel ferry(vomit everywhere) and a very sick making lilo (not Lindsay Lohan, Griff!!). It was a mixture of "oh, that's why people like sea travel", calm & as I now know the difference between a line and a rope do I get my Blue Peter crew badge?
modified 14-Nov-16 4:37am.
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Several years ago I did a corporate yacht racing weekend on the Solent, 36 footers. I had only ever been in Lasers and Toppers before that. It was great fun
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Ahh! Lasers & Toppers sound like a dodgy night club to me. I still think I am a land lubber...
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glennPattonWorking wrote: I now know the difference between a line and a rope do I get my Blue Peter crew badge?
Well, if that has been "a line and a sheet" then it might have been on the cards. But ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I didn't need a "sheet" I went before we left 
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So you were at least one sheet to the wind! 
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If you have real style and experience you call it string and pointy end just to piss the sailing snobs off. 
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And refer to the blunt end of the vessel as Arse End! 
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I've been a handful of times on my dad's outboard tender, both as a passenger and as driver/serviceman and while not entirely pleasant I felt slightly sick only once, when there was the "long wave"... but then the tender pitched so much that adrenaline took place because it was imperative to keep the boat steady.
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glennPattonWorking wrote: across the Bristol Channel
Minehead to Swansea? Newquay to Port Talbot? Its either a small or large crossing, and with the usual crappy weather, and it being shallow, can be a vicious place, with a MASSIVE tidal flow, one of the biggest in the world. Not a body of water to sneer at so congratulations. And yes, sailing is a lot of fun. Feeling the power of nature captured, the way the boat powers forward, its epic stuff! 
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Ponty'something Welsh' to Avonmouth (I have friends there, looks different Sober in Daylight)
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OK, so more 'up the Severn' than across it. Still a vicious tidal race there though.
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Yup, going over the bridge to Wales it appeared to be mud with patches of water, floated out the dock sea was there. Tide had wandered in while we were faffing around...
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Its got a 10 meter rise and fall, huge, and the resulting tidal bore is one of the worlds largest, not somewhere to be caught out!
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Parent live in Weston -super- Mare huge tidal range always get a Brummie stuck in the mud in the summer!
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glennPattonWorking wrote: I now know the difference between a line and a rope
The one is a way to do drugs in urban yuppie environments, and the other is used to tie the captain to the yardarm during mutinies?
See, I know the difference too! Will my Peter turn blue as well now? 
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Not a Brit of a certain generation (Blue Peter is a kids show, that gave badges for things, google it!, I'm sure the footage of an Elephant having dump on the studio floor is on Youtube somewhere!)
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If you were out on a boat the most import question is did you catch any fish. I refuse to believe that you go out just for the sake of it without fishing.
The only time acceptable would be when you are on the ferry doing a booze run down to Germany.
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As they say "give a man a fish he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish he will wear a silly hat & drink beer all day"...never really seen the appeal of fishing...
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Some like beer and some like wine.
I've grown up with fishing so it contains a lot of emotion and tradition for me. Love the calm, one of few things where I truly disconnect from technology. Love catching my own food. Recently I've started fishing in lakes as opposed to the ocean which is an entire new challenge and it's also something I can do with my son.
Don't try to understand why fishers like it if you don't intend to try it yourself. People have a lot of interest and if you are going to understand why you won't have anytime left to do what you like. :p
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True, each to his own as they say
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I'm a dot in place, it's all about keeping the integer from the fraction! (7, 5)
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Decimal Point???
cheers,
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Very quick! I thought I'd do an easy one for Monday, but I didn't think it was < three minutes easy!
Care to explain?
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