Isle of Man run

[Ian]

BBC weather web site has Sat & Sun not bad at all.

[Garygee]

Hi Jon

Thats fine, I have taken note and will have a word with Denise(Wife) to make sure the Mums & Dads are well behaved .

(Well at least till the sixth pint anyway )

Regards Gary

[Keith Hart]

Any seats for DM & KH yet?

Keith (no mates) Hart

[Brian]

What?
Is nobody going to offer Keith a seat?
Common chaps if I am going to take him all the way round the UK in August, surely someone can Squeeze him in somewhere for the IOM run?

[whitingiom]

....is VHF Channel 12

If you're interested, Douglas Bay Regatta will be on Channel 6.

I will take my handheld out on the rag & stick, if you guys fancy selecting a 'cruise channel' I'll stick it in my dual watch. (or even tri watch with 6 & 16!)

I have assembled a motley collection of jerrycans - I will faithfully wash them all out with unleaded.

Petrol here is 81p a litre (robbing g*ts), I will be doling out 5 gallon drums by the looks of it......

If you fuel in the early evening that suits me as I can get off the sailing tub & do the carrying myself.

Anyone needing a quick top up at lunch time, please let me know and I'll see who I can organise.

I'm out safetyboating tonight, but will try and have a longer think (and post) later on.

Looking forward to meeting you all

Jon

P.S. If you give me an idea of alcoholic preferences it may be of use.........

J

[Ian]

Keith,
You and Dave have seats on Ged's 8M 200hp AirCraft RIB as posted a while back.
Ian

[Ian]

Jon, alcohol is definitely the preference!

[Keith Hart]

Thanks Ian, it's just that I haven't actualy heard from him to confirm. I'll send GED a pm.

Keith (Brian's pal) Hart

[Ian]

Windchill, have you managed to book a hotel yet?

[crazyhorse]

Dave M and Kieth H Your booked into my room at the Hilton IOM Saturday night £ 84.00 including Breki,I am booking another twin for Ged and me tommorow day.

Ian if you could check with Ged that this is ok ? I will book tommorow as the receptionist cant agree the rib net deal tonight.I need to book with Reservations 9/5pm tommorow day.

Its going to be brill.

[Ian]

Glad you're back onboard! Now 18 folk in total travelling over.
Anymore out there wanting to make the trip???

[Garygee]

Hi Jon

Has anything been sorted out for red diesel?.

If we are going round IOM i cant do both ways & round the island with out been too low for comfort.

Regards Gary

[whitingiom]

I have been given about 15 gallons of 'red' by a yachtie who answered my appeal for jerrycans....he gave me full ones, but said they'd been in his garage since last year.

I know petrol is best used 'fresh', but if there are no such problems with diesel, you can have them.

[wavelength]

web and tv seem to be in conflict as the tea time bbc1 fx showed a low winding itself up for weekend but this has not as yet been reflected on the web. Need to keep an eye on both, particularly tv chart, as they dont seem to be able to keep a consistent fx from one day to another- what a suprise
Brilly out there today - v hot and v calm - don't arf burn your head when youre going thin on top

[whitingiom]

OK

The yachtie racing doesn't start until 14:30......so I'm tempted to come out and meet you boys (& girls)!

If you have agreed some sort of waypoint rendezvous, I'll plug it into the GPS and we'll hope to see you there (if it's calm, the whole family may be along!).

For Sat evening, the commodore has confirmed you are more than welcome at the YC - the barbie will be going from 5pm (after the 14;30 yacht race, he asked if £2 a head towards food was too much (they put on barbie for all the entrants in the regatta included in the entry fee). I said I couldn't see it being a major problem.

We've had great fun tonight, even though it was calm for the dinghys:

One instructor diving for a sunken rudder, and one yacht tender capsized because they were too idle to turn the engine off before tieing up!

[Ian]

Great news about the BBQ. I cannot see £2/head being a problem.
I'll send you a Waypoint and ETA at it for us arriving from Conwy. Not sure of those coming from Fleetwood as we arranged to meet up in the harbour. We can change this and meet offshore Douglas before entering the harbour, but need to get times close.
Dave and Gary, what is your ETA Douglas?

I put 20 litres unleaded in my tank three weeks ago that I had from last September. Diluted with 60 litres of new it ran fine.

I have found the web forecastes to be more accurate than the TV more often than not, but watching both at the moment.
If it is going to break on Sunday then an early dash back to the mainland might be on the cards.
The 48 hour forecast on Friday evening must be the decision making time.

[Ian]

Reeds weekly weekend forecast gives Sunday as best day.
5mph winds all wekend on our route, not ideal for the yachties, but that's life. Still keep an eye on the TV but the forecasts I use in general are showing no problems for both days.

Still no reply from Windchill so we might be down to 4 boats (2 Conwy & 2 Fleetwood) and 15 people.

[crazyhorse]

Ok spoke to the Hilton today,The rooms are £84 for twin or double inc breki each

£57 for a single inc breki
£37 single no breki.

Final need to be booked tommorow day 9 to 5 with reservations manager or on here tonight.

Dave M
Kieth H
Me
Ged

We are all booked into 2 twins inc breki,Please let me now if you want a saturday night room at these rates.

Beter than a tent !,Get a single and argue over the floor if you want to save a few bob?

[wavelength]

missed weather by couple of minutes as we were called out to kids in water - couple of lucky bunnies really, brought off by ILB from a sandbank a couple of miles off Fleetwood with water all around. Closely followed by two seperate jobs similar at blackpool - so no time to sort gear tonite!!. Need to look at met chart tomorrow to see where that low is going.

[wavelength]

ch just looked at yesterdays post- re hilton there are 4 of us and as far as we know we are camping with t'others
Dave m