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Good day for just about anything!
Posted: 15 Sep 2019, 20:07
by PaulJ
'Nice day for messing about on the river
In fact a nice weekend all round with the Vintage Gliding at Ivinghoe yesterday and a pootle down the river today!
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Paul
Re: Good day for just about anything!
Posted: 18 Sep 2019, 01:48
by Wayne_H
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pootle - 'scuse my colonial naivety having never heard that term before, it does remind me of a joke, however I won't go there........
Re: Good day for just about anything!
Posted: 05 Jan 2020, 19:36
by Stew
Very nice Paul, what is your craft?
Re: Good day for just about anything!
Posted: 09 Jan 2020, 17:10
by GeeW
The rig looks very Mirror dinghy?
Re: Good day for just about anything!
Posted: 09 Jan 2020, 22:35
by PaulJ
I don't know what "Class" it is, if any, but it's not a Mirror. It is 12ft long, "pseudo clinker", fibreglass and with quite a heavy steel centreboard. It is relatively stable and not very fast, I bought it to sail with my granddaughter who had been reading "Swallows and Amazons"....... At least that was my excuse.
Paul
Re: Good day for just about anything!
Posted: 10 Jan 2020, 19:53
by GeeW
Well you are certainly starting your grand-daughter off the right way. Hopefully she can eventually get to read WDMTGTS.....
It will of course require proof-reading by her grand-father first!
Re: Good day for just about anything!
Posted: 10 Jan 2020, 22:41
by PaulJ
Her grandfather has indeed read WDMTGTS and she is reading it now. It begins and ends here where I live so naturally I think it is the best of Ransome's stories.
Paul