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A chap I knew, who used to work for British Waterways, bought a large, traditional wooden motorboat, The White Swan, and, with his wife sailed it all around the Med. I think it might have had sails. They sailed it back to England and moored up by the Star and Garter at Hazleford where they used to do river trips. I remember going up to Hoveringham with the kids years ago. He sold it and bought a house. His wife was known as ‘Brenda the boat’!
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Easiest way to tell the difference...I was told this many moons ago." You can put a boat on a ship, but you cannot put a ship on a boat".
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Being picky it's wrong to only class subs as boats, except maybe in the navy, Boat etymology: small open vessel (smaller than a ship) used to cross waters, propelled by oars, a sail, or (later) an engine," Middle English bot, from Old English bat, from Proto-Germanic *bait- ........ long before submarines were invented.
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Technically most of these are ships with the exception of Brittania which is a yacht,all surface craft, a true boat is a submarine Rog read that somewhere
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So if you don't have to apply for a licence, how do you get one? Iv'e seen some you tube vids on shooting rats. It seems y'all fighting a losing battle. As for being 'third man' in a boat, I do have my own paddle !
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‘Three men in a boat’ Barrie. You’re the third.
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Oztalgian, yes I'd forgotten about Mcrae's original. I heard it often on children's favourites. And some evocative videos here. IMO there are few activities that can match inland sailing a single crewed boat for pleasure. My brother got his sailing certificate and passed his knowledge on to me during broads holidays.
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Can anyone remember the disco boat on the Trent ?
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I am a massive Rod Stewart fan and have been to see him in concert so many times. Talking of water venues, I used to go to Carrington Lido as a child with my mum and loved it, also the boating lake on Queens drive (?) where we used to sail my brothers little boat and paddle.
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I love boats and had one for fishing for the last 60 years. Nothing big - just 10' - 16'. Still got a 16' Tehri boat with small Honda 4stroke and an electric outboard. I'm in a fishing boat most weeks - Carsington tomorrow then a local water on Friday. I have borrowed bigger boats - a Princess 30' motor cruiser and a traditional Norwegen Folkboat for sailing in Scotland. Going to Ireland for a weeks boat fishing in a fortnight and then up to the Highlands for another week a month later. Even if the fishing is not that great it is satisfying to be out on the water in wild places.
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Myself and friend used to hire a row boat on the Trent when we were at primary school. Nobody seemed to bother in those days. When I was at Mellish I was a cox for the rowing crew. We were based at Brit. and trained on a Saturday morning. We competed in regattas all around the Midlands. That’s what stimulated my interest in boats. I still have a cup for coxing the winning crew in the Butcher Cup on the Trent. I taught myself to sail in on a nearby pond in Mirror dinghy which I built myself and later sailed an Enterprise dinghy at Notts County Sailing Club Hoveringham.
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Talking to a friend yesterday about his time on board a narrow boat touring parts of France, he told me they empty their dirty/ toilet waste straight into the canal and it's perfectly legal, whereas here in the UK we rely on the water companies to do it for us, just a comment I thought I would pass on Rog
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The first whale of our season has been spotted near a small offshore island, they were on a Big Duck boat tour.
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We have often hired houseboats on the magnificent Murray River in South Australia with two other couples. We book a boat where each bedroom has its own en-suite. The boats have all the mod-cons. There is usually a bar area and a spa on the upper deck We went on one like this. We also cruised the Whitsunday Islands on luxury catamarans
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Done many holidays on broads boats and narrow boats on canals, from 2 berth to 8 berth, normally very relaxing away from the daily grind. One year (1970s something) a group of us hired an 8 berth boat on the broads and day one we came alongside to Moor up for the night and discovered that owing to a mechanical fault we couldn't select reverse to stop, neither would the engine-stop pedal work. Out of control the boat slowly nudged into the boat moored in front of us and its mooring rope got tighter until it was like a rod when its mooring bollard broke off the deck, shot across our bows and h
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My brother lived on a narrow boat, moored at Etruria Stoke for the last part of his life. As a mechanic he was always tinkering with the engine.
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Doubt if you'd catch many whales in that Phil. And anyroad, where could you render the blubber? Biggest boat I had were 66ft narrowboat. Didn't own it though. Took it over Pontcysyllte aqueduct loads of times.
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The largest boat we had, which never left the Trent during our time, was ‘Sybaris’, a 35’ motor cruiser built locally at Langar by Bourne Plastics. At one time they were at Netherfield and built grp body shells for Lotus cars. It had two Ford Mermaid Diesels and the generator was the engine from a Sherpa van. She had fore and aft double cabins and the main deck could be converted into a sleeping area. I bought it from Roger Pearce, who had the motor caravan dealership, Brownhills, at Newark. I sold it to the owner of Newark Marina who did take it across the Chanel. It was moored down at the Is
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We had a boat in the Med and John helped my husband move it from Corfu to Menorca about 30 years ago.
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I haven't been fishing since I was a lad - probably about 10 years old, over 50 years ago. Then it was a rod, float, hook and bait (often bread) catching who knows what in the local canal! Move forward 50+ years - yesterday I had the opportunity to go fishing on Lake Michigan with a couple of friends. I caught an 8lb Lake Trout, and a friend caught a 21lb King Salmon. "Not a very good day" according to my friends - to me it was magic! I learned to deep water fish, how to clean fish, and now they are in my refrigerator! I had never actually caught a fish I could eat before! I expected to
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I remember The Golden Cage. It was there for years. Also Pennyfeathers on Goldsmith Street, in an old Victorian house that probably isn't there any longer. They were ideal places for finding theatrical costumes. When I was a child, we lived next door to an elderly couple whose only daughter, Muriel, had been one of my mother's best friends from early childhood. After attending Berridge and the dreaded Manning Grammar, Muriel went to Millers Business College and then found employment as a secretary to one of the directors of Player's. Muriel's mum, according to my mum, was determ
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I'm convinced at the moment Labour will win but equally sure Starmer is such an ineffectual leader challengers are biding their time so as not to rock the boat, but once in power he will go.
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Very similar to my memories, though I didn't buy skirts or anything else from Chelsea Girl.. I frequented shops like 'Jeff's' for jeans 'Lord Jeffrey' for slightly more formal stuff and assorted Army Surplus stores where ex-Army white 'Arctic' smocks, assorted old jackets and stuff got 're-purposed'. I was never either mod, or rocker or hippy and probably best described as 'beat', wearing jeans, old suede or cord jackets and so on. Used to love a 'Russian' Lemon Tea from the Kardomah.. or 'KD' as we called it. Evenings were in assorted 'locals' from Mon to Weds, but the weekend often st
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Robert Plant was at the Concert Hall last week, he still reminisces about the Boat club when he was with Led Zeppelin.
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Are all the boat clubs that were along the Trent bank opposite the Forest Ground all gone too? If so what is there now? Little Boxes as per Burl Ives. Had some great nights thereabouts.
