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Old 27 April 2010, 20:38   #1
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'sailing around Britain'

LOL, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...land-Kent.html
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Old 27 April 2010, 21:04   #2
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Must be true, 'cos you read it in the Daily Mail

http://rib.net/forum/showthread.php?t=35390
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Old 27 April 2010, 21:53   #3
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I even checked it wasn't written on the 1st April - extraordinary story - one of the instructors on the Powerboat course we did told us of a couple in a motorboat that had to be rescued as they had gone to see with a road atlas to get to France - I thought he was winding us up - clearly not
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Old 28 April 2010, 19:08   #4
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was one of those in the Humber a few years ago ,,he said he thought he would be ok as long as he stuck to the blue bits on the road atlas ,
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Old 28 April 2010, 19:17   #5
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Sounds very familiar
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Old 28 April 2010, 19:49   #6
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He's even made the national news.
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Old 28 April 2010, 20:07   #7
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I want his engine! according to the article he cruised for 36 hours on 20L of fuel
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