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09 June 2012, 22:36
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Now thats what I call 'flat calm'
Spent a few days in Scotland last week helping a friend with his new boat - OK its not a rib 
Couldn't believe how calm the sea was one day - it was glassy! Never seen that in the Solent. And the depth! well over 500 feet in places  - again very different from the Solent - or Channel for that matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...v=NhxVWHIUCWw#!
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09 June 2012, 22:48
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Its lovely to see ... It does happen now and again  , more than peeps believe, but it cant always be appreciated when we like .. but when it does,.. theres no where else like it 
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09 June 2012, 22:55
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and the weather was much better than down south. Not dreich at all!
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09 June 2012, 23:01
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now what your saying there fella, can make ships upto 8 mile away look like their floating in d sky, or maybe i drank to much t night bfer.
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09 June 2012, 23:05
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Water like , "oil" the stuff of dreams - or boring as hell to some fora members, you can't please all the people all the time. I liked it beautiful.
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09 June 2012, 23:07
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Its lovely to see ... It does happen now and again , more than peeps believe, but it cant always be appreciated when we like .. but when it does,.. theres no where else like it |
Quite right Bigman and its all ours!!
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09 June 2012, 23:08
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I hope it's like that all week when we go up there end of August looks great.
BTW any encounters with Clegs while you were there.
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09 June 2012, 23:16
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I hope it's like that all week when we go up there end of August looks great.
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Got you worried Stevey boy 
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09 June 2012, 23:22
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Clegs... as in horse flies? No, but some unwelcome encounters with giant midges - one evening was like walking out into a snow storm - except the snow bit!
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09 June 2012, 23:24
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No we get them here in the Pennines as well so I'm immune, well to the English ones at least.  not sure about the Midlands though the scars might be everlasting on there skin  fook me he might come back home like he has caught smallpox and that's not including the S.A.B.S. (Scottish Division) trained midges. 
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09 June 2012, 23:24
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I hope it's like that all week when we go up there end of August looks great.
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That will be a nice run for you to do
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09 June 2012, 23:30
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Kingairloch. Just down the road from me.
Ive been in those hills a few times.
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10 June 2012, 08:51
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Quite right Bigman and its all ours!! |
Hey..You've not put the Border wire up quite yet Laddie
Fantastic location,gotta be worth the Loong Haul for That! As for the Midges, it would be worth a few mils of Claret.. Pretty Obviously you Jocks are made of Sterner stuff....But KILTS !?  
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10 June 2012, 09:26
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Hey..You've not put the Border wire up quite yet Laddie
Fantastic location,gotta be worth the Loong Haul for That! As for the Midges, it would be worth a few mils of Claret.. Pretty Obviously you Jocks are made of Sterner stuff....But KILTS !? |
No border. All welcome.
Sent from my iPhone using Rib.net
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10 June 2012, 09:56
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On way from France to Guernsey
This was on 28th May this year on route to Guernsy from France. Sunny, Warm and very calm.
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10 June 2012, 10:03
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Spent a few days in Scotland last week helping a friend with his new boat - OK its not a rib
Couldn't believe how calm the sea was one day - it was glassy! Never seen that in the Solent. And the depth! well over 500 feet in places - again very different from the Solent - or Channel for that matter.
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I've seen it flatter than that many a time between Portnaluchaig and Eigg. My brother and I take our family's, and the boats up just about every year for a couple of weeks R & R.
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10 June 2012, 12:10
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Ahhh memories of sailing the west coat of Scotland in the late 70s
Slightiest of breeze ,Flat calm sea , morning sunshine , thinking about the luminance in the water from last nights row back from the pub
And the faint distant beat of a single cylinder diesel engine from an old wooden fishing perhaps 3 or 4 miles away smell of cooking bacon sandwiches and all of us saying it doesent get much better than this ,,,,, that much one of the lads girlfriends went over the side we thinking she had fallen over when she then said she was daydreaming staring down into the water and it just drew her into it !
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10 June 2012, 12:51
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I've seen it flatter than that many a time between Portnaluchaig and Eigg. My brother and I take our family's, and the boats up just about every year for a couple of weeks R & R.
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Now you are exaggerating It couldn't have been flatter - it was like a mirror!
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10 June 2012, 13:11
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Scotland is always like that!
river clyde about 10pm a couple of days ago-
cheers
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10 June 2012, 13:36
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Very nice pics Xk59D
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