Best Ribbing Pictures and Videos Of 2006

[J S]

Thought i'd start a thread so people can post pictures of their best places visisted, things they have done and seen this year. Mine is got to be seeing dolphins in cardigan bay and learning to wakeboard.

I will post some pics when i find them.

Thanks

James

[Andy Moore]

1. The freezing day we picked up our new Avon 620 from Bembridge Outboards;
2. Anchored close in at Osborne Bay;
3. Our first trip out to the Needles.

[Cookee]

Potugal with John Bunyan - Had a great initiation into these fun to race boats - Thanks John, V, Fiona, Sophie and all of the competitors!

[Cookee]

And of course the trip to Egypt of the Red Sea Rib Rally - 10 days in winds up to 55 knots! ........... And amazing sunsets - and of course some great company!

[Mollers]

How 'bout less of the comedians leaping about in the yellow thing and more of the lithesome lovely sat on the yellow thing. Is that Cascais where the Zaps are racing?

[J S]

Great pics Cookee

James

[alystra]

Just a couple of pics of one of my favourite anchorages. In the pic showing the two beaches, the object looking like a submarine near the upper beach is a basking shark. It was in the bay when I arrived and still there when I left about four hours later.

The place is locally known as David Balfour's Bay, because it's the place where the hero of RLS's Kidnapped was washed ashore after being shipwrecked on the Torran Rocks. It's on the south side of Erraid at the west end of the Ross of Mull.

If you type Fidden into Google maps, choose the satellite view and scroll south, you'll see the bay and two beaches. Iona's just round the corner.

That was the longest trip yet in my RIB, 35 miles from home. Time, erly June this year. Saw porpoises, dolphins, lots of guillemots, razorbills, a couple of puffins and diving gannets. Great day out - could've stayed overnight if I'd had the time.

Tony

[J S]

Looks lovely, and that nice blue water

James

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by Mollers

How 'bout less of the comedians leaping about in the yellow thing and more of the lithesome lovely sat on the yellow thing. Is that Cascais where the Zaps are racing?

Yes it was Cascais where the P1's were racing - we (the Thundercats) were there as a demonstration and it was good fun although very tiring on the arms!

Forgot to mention my first outing in a P1 boat in Cowes in a twin V12 Lamborghini powered aluminium beast!

You mean Robyn - our apprentices young lady?

[Tony]

Not really Rib Pix.....but I like them >:O)

[J S]

V.Nice tony Really like the one of the Zapcats Where is the first pic

James

[Stoo]

Originally Posted by alystra

The place is locally known as David Balfour's Bay...

That's Scotland??? Not at all what I would have expected. That could be in the Carribbean... Gorgeous...

[Nasher]

My best times this summer.

Start Bay in August

Nasher.

[alystra]

Originally Posted by Stoo

That's Scotland??? Not at all what I would have expected. That could be in the Carribbean... Gorgeous...

Sure is Stoo. We keep it secret. You have to be a nice person to find out about such places :-). You're right. Could be the Carribbean - until you touch the water. Then you know you're 56 deg. north. :-) By August, with a rising tide over hot sand a five minute swin might be comfortable - just.

Cheers Tony

[alystra]

Originally Posted by J S

Looks lovely, and that nice blue water

James

Yep. Super on such a lovely day. I think the water comes straight from the Carribbean via the Gulf Stream. So tempting 'till you dip your toe in it. :-). Still, sitting where I was I was sweating in a tee shirt. No people either. That place is really busy if there's someone else on the beach.

Tony

[Stoo]

Originally Posted by alystra

You're right. Could be the Carribbean - until you touch the water. Then you know you're 56 deg. north. :-)

LOL.. That sounds like our Tobermory too. I love to hear tourists shreek when they jump into the lake in front of my place.... By late August, the surface might hit 15C... but 6" down it's a very different tale...

Certainly not the place to impress the ladies when wearing a Speedo!

[Tony]

Originally Posted by Tony

Not really Rib Pix.....but I like them >:O)

Thanks JS
The first picture is Belle Grave bay in Guernsey(The states are trying to get permission to fill it in and make a "little Venice")

Second Picture is Just off the bathing pools at La Valette Guernsey

Third is Zap cat racing just outside of St.Peter Port Harbour

[Mollers]

Originally Posted by Cookee

Yes it was Cascais where the P1's were racing - we (the Thundercats) were there as a demonstration and it was good fun although very tiring on the arms!

Forgot to mention my first outing in a P1 boat in Cowes in a twin V12 Lamborghini powered aluminium beast!

You mean Robyn - our apprentices young lady?

Lucky boy, in more ways than one. I spent six months toing and froing Cascais managing repairs on a big ketch that we damaged in a storm coming up from Gib. There's a nightclub next to the marina that operates a ticket system for drinks. You're given a card on entry, the barstaff make a mark for every drink and you pay when you leave. The two young deckies used to jump off of the balcony onto rocks and nip back to the boat having had a cheap night out.

[Milan]

Originally Posted by alystra

Just a couple of pics of one of my favourite anchorages. In the pic showing the two beaches, the object looking like a submarine near the upper beach is a basking shark. It was in the bay when I arrived and still there when I left about four hours later.

The place is locally known as David Balfour's Bay, because it's the place where the hero of RLS's Kidnapped was washed ashore after being shipwrecked on the Torran Rocks. It's on the south side of Erraid at the west end of the Ross of Mull.

If you type Fidden into Google maps, choose the satellite view and scroll south, you'll see the bay and two beaches. Iona's just round the corner.

That was the longest trip yet in my RIB, 35 miles from home. Time, erly June this year. Saw porpoises, dolphins, lots of guillemots, razorbills, a couple of puffins and diving gannets. Great day out - could've stayed overnight if I'd had the time.

Tony

Stunning photos I thought I had seen a fair bit of Scotland over the years considering I go there so often but it is such a magical place it still holds so many surprises I have to say when I visited Iona it was a hot glorious summer day and a place I will never forget this is one of Ballachulish

[Shaggy]

2006 highlight for me was the SW Rib Noobers trip to the Scillies in June, the weather was fantastic, just a shame I haven't managed to get back there since

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Shaggy