Dog at the Helm??

[ian parkes]

Originally Posted by Jonny Fuller

Depends if I can be bovvered.

But, I have a 250 mile range, a two berth cabin, central heating, mains inverter power for the kettle (most important bit of kit on board)

All you need is a tube on the stern to sit it level at rest so you can brew up then , them buldozer diesels must be heavy.

As long as it aint raining (hate that) I can be in Weymouth from Southampton in an hour, with ease (unless it's blowing a gale, then, I'd be at home like you lot of dreamers, except unlike the 'Bowie brigade' I admit

Then of course, with the sun sinking on the horizon, I can polish it if I wish. (that was for tubby Jono)

So C'mon, you started the 'whats the point of it' thing, what can you do with your 4 metre dinghy once you've got soaked to the skin crossing southampton water at 20knts trying desparately to stay in the thing in an a F2??...oh yeah, you can get just as soaked and desparate coming back again....most versatile craft you have there.

Why i would want to cross southhampton water when I can be on the Scilly isles in a hour or so . Its a very dry boat for just 5m gets us up and down the Cornish coast to the beaches , and gets us home safely when its blow up a bit , doesn't cost a second mortgage to run . easy to tow to other places . As i said before what 5 m hard boat would do the same job i have never come across one on the water or off it , if i do Ill probably buy it.

[Jonny Fuller]

Originally Posted by ian parkes

Why i would want to cross southhampton water when I can be on the Scilly isles in a hour or so . Its a very dry boat for just 5m gets us up and down the Cornish coast to the beaches , and gets us home safely when its blow up a bit , doesn't cost a second mortgage to run . easy to tow to other places . As i said before what 5 m hard boat would do the same job i have never come across one on the water or off it , if i do Ill probably buy it.

Don't go all serious on me, I was having fun!.

[ian parkes]

Originally Posted by Jonny Fuller

Don't go all serious on me, I was having fun!.

so what do you use for a tender does it inflate or do you always find a nice pier to park at

[Jonny Fuller]

Originally Posted by ian parkes

so what do you use for a tender does it inflate or do you always find a nice pier to park at

No tender.

Nice pontoon, carpeted, plenty of fenders (no, not ribs) couple of nice birds on reception

Then sit nearby with sniper riffle waiting for some nob to bash into it ..then go and slash his tubes.

[ian parkes]

Originally Posted by Jonny Fuller

No tender.

Nice pontoon, carpeted, plenty of fenders (no, not ribs) couple of nice birds on reception

Then sit nearby with sniper riffle waiting for some nob to bash into it ..then go and slash his tubes.

You sad old git

[Nos4r2]

Originally Posted by Jonny Fuller

No tender.

Nice pontoon, carpeted, plenty of fenders (no, not ribs) couple of nice birds on reception

Then sit nearby with sniper riffle waiting for some nob to bash into it ..then go and slash his tubes.

Are you sure?

Isn't this closer to the truth?

Originally Posted by Jonny Fuller

No, I'm quite tender.

Up on tree trunks, couple of old turkeys on reception

Then sit nearby getting drunk on a big bowl of sherry trifle waiting for someone to believe me

[ian parkes]

so now there are two things that come out of cowes backwards apart from the IOW ferry

[Jonny Fuller]

Originally Posted by ian parkes

so now there are two things that come out of cowes backwards apart from the IOW ferry

Sorry, you've lost me there! (but I'm sure it's hilarious!)

[Bigmuz7]

Originally Posted by Jonny Fuller

I wouldn't look twice at the hard boats they have on offer, as they're either yank lake boat dross, or one of the poor excuses we have for their uk equivelent these days. So I do 'kind' of understand many ribnobbas feelings that they're inferior in quality, or if it roughs up....

Hold on men ... I think we have him turning, he'll turn into Rubber Jonny yet...

[Jonny Fuller]

Originally Posted by Bigmuz7

Rubber Jonny

By Gad that's original!!

You can rest assured that I'd never heard that one before!

As a sweet little ginger kid, you guys can throw what you like at me, I've heard it all before, ten times over......nothing, and I mean nothing, is original.

[Rogue Wave]

Makes the name Johnson seem much more appropriate. I'm off to drive a hardboat for a few days , honest! It's a landing craft

[ribit]

Originally Posted by Rogue Wave

Makes the name Johnson seem much more appropriate. I'm off to drive a hardboat for a few days , honest! It's a landing craft

You won't get very far I watched on the news last night they stuck it on a roundabout

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by jonmitch

P.S. Just returned form watching the powerboat racing at Salcombe. Brilliant.

On leaving, were following a race boat (cockpit etc.) who was arsing about on the wake of big motor cruiser. They stuffed the bow and almost sunk the bloody thing!!!

Glad you enjoyed watching the racing in Salcombe - Did you see the RIB win the Basic race

Not sure who the race boat was as I was almost the last in (giving the competition winner from Sports Boat and RIB a spin) - if it was a green boat I know who it was and he wasn't racing (despite the numbers!). By the way he could have stuffed it, gone right under and still not sunk as all race boats have to have sufficient buoyancy to keep it afloat.

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by ian parkes

were the racing folk at Salcombe appealing for local rib owners to help as safety cover , like they did in plymouth last year ?? I seem to remember lots of the teams using ribs to get about setting up the course etc . Wonder why they did that , surely red speed boats would have been far better with Viagra dispensers fitted to every seat

As someone who did ask a few people to help with safety cover I would like to say that although RIBs are very good at being safety and marshal boats so are hard boats, so I asked everyone I knew with a boat! The only people I didn't ask were people who thought they were better than everyone else.

As an advertiser here, a manufacturer of RIBs and hardboats (for those of you who don't know we make Phantom 19's under licence), a member of both Boatmad and Ribnet, as well as a RIB racer (with sit down seats and a cockpit) I can't believe the amount of we're better than you stuff spouted on this thread - why can't everyone just admit that sometimes their favoured boat isn't the best at something!





Rant over! (At least I think that was a rant not a hissy fit )

[Jonny Fuller]

Stop moaning Cookie, you ribbers are all the same.

Anyway, we like the 'We're better than you' stuff!

Originally Posted by Cookee

The only people I didn't ask were people who thought they were better than everyone else.

You didn't ask many people on here then!

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by Jonny Fuller

Stop moaning Cookie, you ribbers are all the same.

Anyway, we like the 'We're better than you' stuff!



You didn't ask many people on here then!

I think you're reading too much into my posts John!

[Jonny Fuller]

John, I'm messin wich ya man!

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by Jonny Fuller

John, I'm messin wich ya man!

You must have missed the little smiley ......................