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19 June 2018, 21:21
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brighton
Length: 3m +
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Thanks willk!
Just a quick note to let everyone know that after six years of hard work behind the scenes willk has decided to renounce his magical moderating powers and return to being a RIBnet muggle so he can actually spend more time boating.
Thanks for all your help, and I hope you'll be hanging round for a while yet 
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19 June 2018, 21:32
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: South Yorks
Boat name: Black Pig
Make: Ribcraft
Length: 5m +
Engine: DF140a
MMSI: 235111389
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Good luck Willk, welcome back to the darkside
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19 June 2018, 21:43
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe
Boat name: The Black Pig
Make: Ranieri
Length: 4m +
Engine: 60c hp tohatsu
MMSI: 235038018
Join Date: Jun 2013
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19 June 2018, 22:05
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Sussex
Boat name: Bombard
Make: Aerotec 380
Length: 3m +
Engine: Mercury Mariner 15hp
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 3,491
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Nooooo! - how the mighty have fallen! 
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19 June 2018, 22:08
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Country: UK - Scotland
Make: HumberOceanOffshore
Length: 8m +
Engine: Volvo KAD300/DPX
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 5,596
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Just a quick note to let everyone know that after six years of hard work behind the scenes willk has decided to renounce his magical moderating powers ....
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19 June 2018, 22:20
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Aberdeenshire
Boat name: Sula
Make: Ribcraft 4.8m
Length: 4m +
Engine: Tohatsu 70hp + aux
MMSI: 235087213
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Thought RIBnet was a bit like the Foreign Legion, you sign up, but can never leave? 
Willk has been a great admin and consistently fair when things have gone off topic.
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19 June 2018, 22:24
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Fort William
Make: Ribcraft 585
Length: 5m +
Engine: Yamaha F115
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 2,919
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I like to think of it as more like Hotel California.
Happy boating willk
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19 June 2018, 22:29
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Girvan & Tayvallich
Boat name: Breawatch
Make: Ribcraft
Length: 5m +
Engine: Mercury 150 F/stroke
MMSI: ex directory!!
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,203
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I like to think of it as more like Hotel California.
Happy boating willk
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Psychedelic even!![emoji41]. Watch out on the waves now🥃
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'Carpe Diem'
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20 June 2018, 09:23
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Norfolk/Suffolk Borders
Make: no boat
Length: no boat
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Yep thanks for all your efforts over the past six years !
Good Luck for the future . Bern .
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20 June 2018, 10:01
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Stirling
Boat name: The Gurnard
Make: Quicksilver
Length: 4m +
Engine: mariner 25hp 2s
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,664
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I am like you Willk  .. (or perhaps you are like me ?) 
And now prefer to spend most my time on the water rather than post on forums.
Enjoy your days afloat .. and who knows ... we may meet again ... some day ... on some far off place.
Best wishes from
The Gurnard
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20 June 2018, 10:04
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Country: Ireland
Length: no boat
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 315
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Yes indeed, thanks WillK.
It's easy as casual users of the site to forget that a few people commit a lot of personal time to this site.
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20 June 2018, 13:08
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Hamble
Boat name: Black Bear
Make: Ribeye A683
Length: 6m +
Engine: Yamaha F225
MMSI: 232039276
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 302
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I've only been around here a short time but you've been one of the 'constants' on this forum to me. Thankyou.
Good luck, and look forward to reading many more posts from you.
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20 June 2018, 15:32
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Member
Country: USA
Town: Cali
Boat name: Thumper
Make: Avon CRRC 4.5
Length: 4m +
Engine: Merc 50
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 422
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Thanks Wilk for all the time spent and doing a outstanding job mate.
Cheers, Don
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20 June 2018, 18:07
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Retford
Boat name: Spy-sea-one
Make: Excel 435
Length: 4m +
Engine: Suzuki Outboard/25/4
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 7,528
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Cheers wilk happy boating we need pics though mate
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20 June 2018, 18:49
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RIBnet admin team
Country: Ireland
Length: 4m +
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 14,893
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Thanks all for the kind words. I'm not going anywhere - sorry Piggy 
There were a few other things that I needed to spend more time on, oddly boating isn't an issue - 70hrs on the engine so far this year and I got paid for 50 of them. I'll certainly be seeing a few of you on the water if I'm spared, in fact, I might be in the Isles next week.
I always say "you can never go back" and I don't suppose this will be any different - but I must say I have very fond memories of Bigmuz7 and I waiting for Poly to slip down the pub for his habitual half of shandy on a Friday at 2230hrs so we could unleash chaos for an hour - kept him looking lively
Now that was living!
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20 June 2018, 20:15
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Make: HumberOceanOffshore
Length: 8m +
Engine: Volvo KAD300/DPX
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Well that's cool.
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By Isles you mean where? Since you're a secretive bugr...approximately.
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20 June 2018, 21:11
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RIBnet admin team
Country: Ireland
Length: 4m +
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 14,893
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By Isles you mean where? Since you're a secretive bugr...approximately.
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Well, that's the thing, we don't know.
We had a big cruise planned (the kind you NEED a satphone for) but some sad circumstances have nixed that idea for this year. If the WX and the home front allows, we might rip up to Skye or Harris, dunno. You out on the western front?
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20 June 2018, 21:16
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Member
Country: Ireland
Town: Castlebar
Boat name: Clewless
Make: Valiant DR 490
Length: 4m +
Engine: 60 hp ETEC
MMSI: Awaitng one
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Willk
At times when things were going out of control on this site you were often the voice of moderation
Regards
Tsm
If down in clewbay give me a shout
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20 June 2018, 21:17
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: South Yorks
Boat name: Black Pig
Make: Ribcraft
Length: 5m +
Engine: DF140a
MMSI: 235111389
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 12,164
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Originally Posted by willk
Well, that's the thing, we don't know.
We had a big cruise planned (the kind you NEED a satphone for) but some sad circumstances have nixed that idea for this year. If the WX and the home front allows, we might rip up to Skye or Harris, dunno. You out on the western front?
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Rockall, Faroes via Shetland??
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20 June 2018, 21:44
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RIBnet admin team
Country: Ireland
Length: 4m +
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 14,893
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Rockall, Faroes via Shetland??
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Some things don't change.... 
But yeah, exiting Area A1.
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