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Old 25 March 2013, 21:23   #1
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Virgin altlantic challenger

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Virgin Atlantic Challenger on Facebook!! For Sale in Leitrim - DoneDeal.ie
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Old 25 March 2013, 21:44   #2
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According to this VIRGIN ATLANTIC CHALLENGER 2 Used Boat for Sale | TheYachtMarket she's still available for sale. That's a lot of boat for under £250k too!
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Old 25 March 2013, 21:48   #3
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On Lowestoft Boatyard it's €225K and its under offer
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Old 25 March 2013, 21:51   #4
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Give it 6 months and it'll be on whale wars
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Old 25 March 2013, 21:54   #5
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Give it 6 months and it'll be on whale wars
6 months 1 day and it'll be sunk ...............
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Old 25 March 2013, 21:58   #6
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6 months 1 day and it'll be sunk ...............
yeah, But it won't be their fault......
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Old 25 March 2013, 22:24   #7
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Give it 6 months and it'll be on whale wars
I'm dumb on this .. do you mean some honest punters will have been gullible enough to donate that amount of cash.. for some whale stroking green nobbers to go and trash it .. in the belief of the cause of saving whales ?
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Old 25 March 2013, 22:29   #8
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I'm dumb on this .. do you mean some honest punters will have been gullible enough to donate that amount of cash.. for some whale stroking green nobbers to go and trash it .. in the belief of the cause of saving whales ?
well.... they do have previous gov
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Old 25 March 2013, 23:35   #9
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Check out the Facebook page,they got the engines running this weekend there was a wee bit of itself bug in the filters........
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Old 26 March 2013, 17:53   #10
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any sign of whale wars returning to the box?
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Old 26 March 2013, 18:09   #11
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any sign of whale wars returning to the box?
Apparently soon. Ads on discovery in the last week.
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Old 02 April 2013, 21:07   #12
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The wait is over!

Discovery channel Sunday 9pm!!
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Old 02 April 2013, 21:41   #13
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I was speaking with the Irish guy who is getting her back on the water again over the weekend,as soon as she is recommisioned and seatrialed she will be winging her way back o the south coast of Uk to be refitted internally as a private boat,watch this space....and the upcoming article in boat trader magazine....
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Old 02 April 2013, 21:45   #14
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where was the boat then ?
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where was the boat then ?
She's in Spain at the minute,how do you upload YouTube here?
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Old 02 April 2013, 21:50   #16
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http://youtu.be/b7qqt9YvACY

Hopefully that works.
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Old 02 April 2013, 23:27   #17
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Wow, is that clip to help sell it??? How much smoke :-0
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According to this website it's sold.... First thing I would do is hang a frame saying Richard Branson took a crap here


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Old 03 April 2013, 06:54   #19
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Cracking boat, can't believe it was 1986!!!
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Old 03 April 2013, 20:48   #20
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I remember that going past when I was fishing off Beachy Head as a youngster. It was en-route to London for Mrs T to travel up the Thames on it. I remember it because of the noise that preceded it - only surpassed by a Lancaster at about 50' a few years later*.

The project manager on that - Steve Ridgway - became head honcho at Virgin Atlantic.



* I did go home inbetween times.
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