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07-01-2018, 05:21
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A great pub to sail to...
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07-01-2018, 06:07
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Solent, England
Boat: Moody 31
Posts: 18,423
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
Dave, welcome to CF
For those who wonder what this is about, well its a couple of blokes going sailing to pubs and hostilleries around the Solent UK. No bades in bikinis, just two blokes and some real beers.
Pete
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07-01-2018, 08:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: W Carib
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Posts: 13,480
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete7
.. No bades in bikinis, just two blokes and some real beers.
Pete
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Well...so much for them becoming YouTube stars!
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08-01-2018, 03:39
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Senior Cruiser
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Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Dave.
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08-01-2018, 05:08
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Solent, England
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
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Originally Posted by belizesailor
Well...so much for them becoming YouTube stars!
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I said the same thing about bitcoins in 2009.
Actually they could be on to something, even publish a guide to good water side pubs with grub and real ales along the English Coast.
Pete
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08-01-2018, 07:13
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Port Ludlow Wa
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
Since it is January.. Now would be a good time to read the"rest off the story". While sitting in front of the fire... Bilge keel fell off?
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08-01-2018, 07:44
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Solent, England
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
Lets start him off.
It was bitterly cold January night with a strong ebb tide running out through the Needles Channel against a fearsome south westerly gale. Past the white chalk cliffs fighting the tiller all the way to avoid the treacherous shifting gravel banks to the North. The only sight of land a small white light on the distant foreshore marked a whirlpool known locally as the trap, were many a sailor had met his match over the years........
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08-01-2018, 07:56
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Helsinki (Summer); Cruising the Baltic Sea this year!
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Posts: 33,764
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
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Originally Posted by Pete7
I said the same thing about bitcoins in 2009.
Actually they could be on to something, even publish a guide to good water side pubs with grub and real ales along the English Coast.
Pete
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Like it's so hard to find a good waterside pub along the English Coast . . .
Next they will publish a guide to the sheep of New Zealand . . .
Kidding aside, I enjoyed the video. Just two old geezers knocking around the Solent in winter time and drinking beer. I suppose it might be nicer in winter to be in the Caribbean, but the Solent in winter is a joyous place for unambitious short-range cruising, just messing around in boats . . .
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08-01-2018, 08:00
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Helsinki (Summer); Cruising the Baltic Sea this year!
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete7
Lets start him off.
It was bitterly cold January night with a strong ebb tide running out through the Needles Channel against a fearsome south westerly gale. Past the white chalk cliffs fighting the tiller all the way to avoid the treacherous shifting gravel banks to the North. The only sight of land a small white light on the distant foreshore marked a whirlpool known locally as the trap, were many a sailor had met his match over the years........
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Yes, but it's actually a Nor'easter we've been having for the last couple of days. Cowes is exposed to the NE and the water was just boiling yesterday. Chafed through a nylon dock line I think the gale has about blown itself out, but we will have Easterlies the rest of the week. Good weather to get out of the Solent and take a run out to Dartmouth, or across to C-bourg, if one could take time off work . ..
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"You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
Cushion me soft . . . . rock me in billowy drowse,
Dash me with amorous wet . . . . I can repay you."
Walt Whitman
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08-01-2018, 08:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 11
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
That is very funny Boatman. I bet you don't tell your delivery clients that story too often Thanks for the welcome.
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13-01-2018, 08:07
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#12
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Solent, England
Boat: Moody 31
Posts: 18,423
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
The lads have been busy again sailing in muddy channels during the depths of winter
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13-01-2018, 08:59
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
Quote:
Originally Posted by IdoraKeeper
Since it is January.. Now would be a good time to read the"rest off the story". While sitting in front of the fire... Bilge keel fell off?
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Its been told here before..
But.. long story short the boat was due to be lifted at high water the morning after I arrived.. tide went out during the night and she settled in the mud.. when the tide came back in the front 3 bolts gave and she filled with water.. as she was lifted the keel was hanging by its last bolt.. which luckily failed as she swung over the hard.. so no diver required.
As an aside.. I really liked the pub at the top of the Beaulieu River by the bridge.. used to motor up there and anchor , spend the evening in the pub then head back down next morning.. there's a pool one can anchor in with a bilge keeler.
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13-01-2018, 12:40
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Helsinki (Summer); Cruising the Baltic Sea this year!
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Re: A great pub to sail to...
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Originally Posted by boatman61
. . . As an aside.. I really liked the pub at the top of the Beaulieu River by the bridge.. used to motor up there and anchor , spend the evening in the pub then head back down next morning.. there's a pool one can anchor in with a bilge keeler.
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Oh, I love that one. Monty's, right?
But note that you are no longer allowed to land in the town. You are meant to land at Buckler's Hard and walk up along the nature trail.
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"You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
Cushion me soft . . . . rock me in billowy drowse,
Dash me with amorous wet . . . . I can repay you."
Walt Whitman
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13-01-2018, 13:01
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Boat: Retired Delivery Capt
Posts: 3,684
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A great pub to sail to...
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Originally Posted by daverebbettes
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The answer to the original question is easy—- the one closest to the destination marina.
That one always has good beer, plenty of Jack (or rum or Tullamore Dew) and good stories.
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