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Forum: Meets & Greets 10-07-2008, 12:39
Replies: 13
Views: 3,257
Posted By linnetwoods
Living life...

Thank you, SkiprJohn! Every now and again, to this day, there is much hooting of ship's horns and an aircraft carrier or other large vessel from the states comes into the bay. Stern warnings are...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 03-07-2008, 16:50
Replies: 164
Views: 17,303
Posted By linnetwoods
Gosh! What an exciting thread - well it's more of...

Gosh! What an exciting thread - well it's more of a spool really and I have been wound up in it for what seems like hours! Oh - look at the time! It has been hours! Someone mentioned the lack of...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 03-07-2008, 16:30
Replies: 194
Views: 40,524
Posted By linnetwoods
I was born...

I was born...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 03-07-2008, 16:26
Replies: 0
Views: 1,694
Posted By linnetwoods
Free Sea Pass

Hello there! I mentioned elsewhere on these forums that I was working on something I felt needed doing and my beloved and I have managed to formulate the idea and put it on a website in which you may...
Forum: Meets & Greets 26-06-2008, 13:03
Replies: 13
Views: 3,257
Posted By linnetwoods
Hello, Robert Cateran and Scallywag and everyone...

Hello, Robert Cateran and Scallywag and everyone else, of course! Mallorca has, in parts, changed drastically. Mainly in the parts you mention, unfortunately, although fishermen still have to mend...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 21-06-2008, 11:36
Replies: 8
Views: 1,596
Posted By linnetwoods
300 yards? Unless you need a wheelchair, what's...

300 yards? Unless you need a wheelchair, what's wrong with walking?! No, seriously though, the problem with an electrified skateboard might be what to do with it when you get there... How would you...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 21-06-2008, 11:26
Replies: 36
Views: 7,393
Posted By linnetwoods
In more than one place we have fetched up in and...

In more than one place we have fetched up in and found work, we have done the math and found that a taxi, from the nearest spot the dinghy could be safely left, worked out cheaper than owning a car,...
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 21-06-2008, 10:57
Replies: 8
Views: 14,593
Posted By linnetwoods
Wise advice from SettingSail2009! There is no...

Wise advice from SettingSail2009! There is no question that owning a boat that you do not live on is horribly expensive and it is also undeniable that buying a boat to live on before you have tried...
Forum: Meets & Greets 21-06-2008, 10:46
Replies: 4
Views: 1,421
Posted By linnetwoods
Hi! Welcome to the whacky world of liveaboard...

Hi! Welcome to the whacky world of liveaboard cruisers. A word of advice is to live with things the way the are (within reason) for a little while, making notes of changes you'd like to make and why....
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 21-06-2008, 10:32
Replies: 9
Views: 2,294
Posted By linnetwoods
Not really off topic...

We were talking about products and not mixing the wrong ones together, from which I took only the tiniest sidestep to enquire whether we shouldn't be looking at less harsh products and you mentioned...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 21-06-2008, 08:56
Replies: 9
Views: 2,294
Posted By linnetwoods
Terrifying, isn't it? Stunning fish with...

Terrifying, isn't it? Stunning fish with grenades, scraping the entire sea-bed into a net... what will they think up next?
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 21-06-2008, 08:54
Replies: 8
Views: 14,593
Posted By linnetwoods
We spent a couple of years in the Caribbean from...

We spent a couple of years in the Caribbean from 1998 to 2000 and were never obliged to use marinas, although we did occasionally as a luxury treat (usually resulting in our scurrying back out to...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 21-06-2008, 08:50
Replies: 13
Views: 40,349
Posted By linnetwoods
We always say that a 'two-wave' boat is safer...

We always say that a 'two-wave' boat is safer than a 'one-wave' boat, that is to say, a boat that can sit across two wave-crests at a time, or something over 38', roughly speaking, but we have met...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 21-06-2008, 08:40
Replies: 9
Views: 2,294
Posted By linnetwoods
I rather hope that as many cruising sailors as...

I rather hope that as many cruising sailors as posible are finding less violent and damaging chemicals to use aboard, wherever possible. It is worrying to think about the potential problems caused to...
Forum: Meets & Greets 21-06-2008, 08:24
Replies: 13
Views: 3,257
Posted By linnetwoods
Good move!

Nice to meet you Henryk/Enrique!
Good to hear you plan to visit Spain again and with your own keel underneath you - it has changed a lot in many ways but in others it is just the same. Mallorquins...
Forum: Meets & Greets 21-06-2008, 05:00
Replies: 13
Views: 3,257
Posted By linnetwoods
Thank you, kind sir! She is a beauty, isn't she?...

Thank you, kind sir! She is a beauty, isn't she? The sails you see there are all manner of second-hand emergency stand-ins and she has since had new sails made, some of which are still looking...
Forum: Meets & Greets 21-06-2008, 04:08
Replies: 13
Views: 3,257
Posted By linnetwoods
Enjoyment...

The name of the game is enjoyment! The anchorage we are in at the moment is getting more crowded by the minute. In some places, and under some circumstances, that can be dreadful but, actually,...
Forum: Meets & Greets 20-06-2008, 03:41
Replies: 13
Views: 3,257
Posted By linnetwoods
Talking Hello from Mallorca

Hello cruisers! My name is Linnet and I have been living aboard the schooner Leopard Normand III since 1996 with Keith 'Robbie' Robinson, otherwise known as Captain Quite-Right. Currently we are in...
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