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29 October 2013, 20:51
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Country: UK - England
Town: Hampshire
Boat name: Altea 2
Make: Narwhal
Length: 5m +
Engine: 90 Mariner
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 855
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How long have you been at it?!..
The old man found this corker and gave it to my eldest the other day, to cheer her up.
Didn't really realise I'd been mucking about on these things for thirty years now... Shame I still don't really know what I'm doing...
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29 October 2013, 22:59
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Country: UK - England
Town: Chorley / Holyhead
Boat name: Northwind Challenger
Make: Tornado
Length: 6m +
Engine: Mariner 115 efi CT
MMSI: 235080598
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 1,411
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well one things certain - there will be no 64page ribnet debate about lifejacket useage!
it could however provoke a debate on 'whats the worst hat your mum gave you'!
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29 October 2013, 23:00
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Chorley / Holyhead
Boat name: Northwind Challenger
Make: Tornado
Length: 6m +
Engine: Mariner 115 efi CT
MMSI: 235080598
Join Date: Jun 2011
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oh, and to answer the question...it all started off in holiday inflatables before i could even walk.
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29 October 2013, 23:08
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Country: UK - England
Town: Ashton-under-Lyne Lancs
Boat name: IMOGEN
Make: Air-Craft 5.4
Length: 5m +
Engine: Suzuki df70a
MMSI: 235087492
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 7,078
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Originally Posted by Festinghouse
it could however provoke a debate on 'whats the worst hat your mum gave you'!
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Don't make like this anymore.
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29 October 2013, 23:09
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Country: UK - England
Town: Dorset & Hants
Boat name: Streaker/Orange
Make: Avon/Ribcraft
Length: 4m +
Engine: 50Yam/25 Mariner
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 5,551
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I had a blue and white one of those hh numbers :-) .
24 years since my first go in an sr4...
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29 October 2013, 23:57
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Central Belt of Scotland
Boat name: Puddleduck III
Make: Bombard
Length: 5m +
Engine: 50 HP
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,066
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33 years - playing about in powerboats eek! went through a bad spell when I was 14 to 20 when you could find me on sailing dinghy 's - I grew out of that - those who have met me - that was never a truer word!
I am now a reformed sailor !
S.
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30 October 2013, 00:17
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Country: UK - N Ireland
Town: Rostrevor
Boat name: Ricochet
Make: Redbay
Length: 7m +
Engine: Twin F115 Yams
MMSI: 235083269
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 930
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30 October 2013, 09:05
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Country: UK - Scotland
Boat name: Wildheart
Make: Humber/Delta Seasafe
Length: 5m +
Engine: Merc 60 Clamshell
MMSI: 235068449
Join Date: Apr 2007
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That was back when a kill cord was something James Bond pulled out a watch to dispose of the bad guy's henchman! 
Me? Boats- goodness knows! Motor boats- probably in the region of 30-ish years and ribs since the summer of 87...
Probably just as well I have no photos, but I did have a bouyancy aid not too dissimilar to TG's...
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30 October 2013, 09:47
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Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
Boat name: BananaShark
Make: BananaShark
Length: 10m +
Engine: 2xYanmar 260 diesels
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,225
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Not many RIBs about when these were taken - used to fish every day for two weeks in the summer - can you guess where these were taken? 
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Originally Posted by Zippy
When a boat looks that good who needs tubes!!!
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30 October 2013, 10:17
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Bristol/Devon
Boat name: Nella
Make: Ballistic
Length: 6m +
Engine: Yamaha 130
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 364
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Cookee,
Both in Salcombe, below the sailing club on a very low tide for the first one? And Victoria Quay for the second?
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30 October 2013, 10:26
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Country: UK - England
Town: swanwick/hamble
Boat name: stormchaser
Make: custom rib
Length: 8m +
Engine: inboard/diesel
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 3,848
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They were wearing cock life preservers when I started, I'm only looking forward these days
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30 October 2013, 11:46
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Length: no boat
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 330
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Quote:
Originally Posted by biffer
They were wearing cock life preservers when I started, I'm only looking forward these days
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You must have had a very stiff resolve to wear one of those as a life preserver...
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30 October 2013, 12:22
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Hampshire
Boat name: Altea 2
Make: Narwhal
Length: 5m +
Engine: 90 Mariner
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 855
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it could however provoke a debate on 'whats the worst hat your mum gave you'!
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You're not wrong! She made it for me. Shamefully, I have to admit, that she sewed a bell on the top of it, so she could easily locate me, when I was out of sight!
However, I do like my nonchalant left arm, tucked in to the preserver 
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30 October 2013, 12:23
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Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
Boat name: BananaShark
Make: BananaShark
Length: 10m +
Engine: 2xYanmar 260 diesels
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,225
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Black
Cookee,
Both in Salcombe, below the sailing club on a very low tide for the first one? And Victoria Quay for the second?
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You're close on the first one - it was in front of the Marine Hotel, the second would have been at Cooks boatyard which was where the Whitestrand car park is now!
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Cookee
Originally Posted by Zippy
When a boat looks that good who needs tubes!!!
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30 October 2013, 12:33
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: N Wales Chester
Boat name: Mr Smith
Make: Humber
Length: 6m +
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 5,238
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Quote:
Originally Posted by biffer
They were wearing cock life preservers when I started, I'm only looking forward these days
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 Oh that's a classic.
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30 October 2013, 12:55
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: swanwick/hamble
Boat name: stormchaser
Make: custom rib
Length: 8m +
Engine: inboard/diesel
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 3,848
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Ha ha, I didn't notice that, bloody larf over here, nearly wet myself, would matter too much if I had me cock preserver on , ha, ha ha
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30 October 2013, 13:55
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Member
Country: UK - England
Boat name: Hysucat
Make: Hysucat
Length: 8m +
Engine: Twin Suzuki 175's
MMSI: 235102645
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 861
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What were you thinking of when you typed that ?
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30 October 2013, 14:31
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Southsea
Boat name: RIB GLADYS
Make: AVON
Length: 4m +
Engine: Mariner 60HP EFI
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 117
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Lovely read here guys... I am 46 years old and I bought my first Avon Rib 3 months ago and I enjoy every minute off it.... Why not earlier ? Lived in Holland most of my life and 12 years in the UK but moved to Southsea on the coast and got hooked..... 
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30 October 2013, 14:54
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Boat name: Wildheart
Make: Humber/Delta Seasafe
Length: 5m +
Engine: Merc 60 Clamshell
MMSI: 235068449
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 4,671
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Quote:
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What were you thinking of when you typed that ?
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My money is on spell check..
You know, when most of there pics were taken I bet the jack of predictive spelt check made communications so much less entertaining!
And I remember a life jacket that I would probably have been safer without! 
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30 October 2013, 20:34
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: New Milton
Boat name: Jianna
Make: Osprey
Length: 6m +
Engine: 200 E-TEC
MMSI: 235076954
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,940
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My aqua life kicked off with sinking Something over thirty years ago I was heading out to dive sites in one of two SIBs with Southsea Dive Club. The club itself had quite an illustrious history, being the place where Octopush was first devised, and being the home 'club' of one Alexander McKee, the true discoverer of the Mary Rose.
I got so used to the handling of SIBs that it came as quite a shock when I found that I did not have to take it so easy over somewhat rougher stuff when I started going to dive sites in RIBs - what luxury
Gradually I got more and more interested in the boats that are an essential part of diving, and got hooked.
Haven't dived now for a couple of years; but my kit in the garage keeps shouting at me 
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