Rib Companies

[Ian]

RIVA, welcome back. Hope you put the ciggie out!
Sign up for the Paintball, should be good fun.

[The Jackeens]

Originally posted by RIVA
ok black and tan is slang for guinniess,

No its guinness and something else

The answer depends on who you ask. The all-Guinness Black & Tan is Harp's Lager and Guinness. (Harp's is brewed by Guinness at Dundalk). Many consider the classic Black & Tan to be Bass Pale Ale and Guinness. (To some Irish, they appreciate the fact that the Irish comes out on top!) However, Bass Ale is not as available in Ireland as it used to be, and either Harp or Smithwicks is generally used. However, there are many variations involving a stout or porter and another lighter coloured beer, either lager or ale.

A half-and-half is often just another name for a Black & Tan. However, in many North American Irish pubs, the Bass/Guinness combination is called a Black & Tan, while the Harp/Guinness combination is called a Half-and-Half.

JESUS I'M SAD



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[RIVA]

will you be in the gemmini on boxing day if so i will look for you i cannot say what to look for cannot decide rib or ski will have to see on weather if its very rough it will be ski if the wifes with me its rib

[The Jackeens]

Originally posted by RIVA
will you be in the gemmini on boxing day if so i will look for you i cannot say what to look for cannot decide rib or ski will have to see on weather if its very rough it will be ski if the wifes with me its rib

Yep - You can easily spot us - we'll be the bumping into everyone else out there.

The Dark side are meeting at the folley also.

Do you ski from dataless slip way

[RIVA]

hms dadealus yes 5 minuites from home or warsash , or easterney depends on tide but lee slip is very good

[Petrov]

and Petrov was talking about something that happened ages ago...

I thought thread started with the problem i mentioned in my post!! people has the same problems today as i had some years ago.

[The Jackeens]

Which one is easterney?

Is it the one just before lee comeing from gosport

never tried that.

[RIVA]

no portsmouth side of langstone harbour, just before the eca building , all are free and concreet , sorry except warsash

[The Jackeens]

ah,

theres quite a few here based at ECA.

the problem with dadealus is the stones can cover it this time of year.

hope to see ya out there for QM2 come over an say hello


Paul

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[The Garfish]

Originally posted by Pete7
Paintball, nar, couldn't have professionals taking part, very unsporting,

wel dats verry spawtin ov de peet6. dem snypers fromm de cayterin corpse waz dedly sowljers. wan fkin chopp an yorr ded.

an downt yew nobburs bee too ard onn dat riva jus cuz hees a jettski boyy. iz furst naim iz larda sow hee nose orl abowt a kwalitty proddukt an ow too dummp itt onn a unnsuspektin pubblik. i wontid too by a noo jettski at de LBS lasst yeer butt dem sailsmen orl torkt bollix. i fink thay ort too corl it de Lyin Bastuds Showw

[Andre]

Originally posted by The Garfish
wel dats verry spawtin ov de peet6. dem snypers fromm de cayterin corpse waz dedly sowljers. wan fkin chopp an yorr ded.

an downt yew nobburs bee too ard onn dat riva jus cuz hees a jettski boyy. iz furst naim iz larda sow hee nose orl abowt a kwalitty proddukt an ow too dummp itt onn a unnsuspektin pubblik. i wontid too by a noo jettski at de LBS lasst yeer butt dem sailsmen orl torkt bollix. i fink thay ort too corl it de Lyin Bastuds Showw

What's this in the Queen's ENGLISH


Andre

[Mark Anderson]

I lost the will to live after about page 3 and have just jumped straight to a reply so excuse me if it is at all out of context now, anyway.

Spent 3.5 years in the marine trade selling yachts, our company was doing in excess of 100 units a year and was still a small, mainly family business, we got the job done but I am sure we annoyed alot of people along the way by not getting back to people. Unfortunately most of the UK marine trade is family business.

I prefered to be as accurate as possible with my quotes and would only knock off the pence, however the very successfull old timers I worked with plucked prices out of thin air and had been known to sell £250,000 boats using hand scribled contracts on a piece of tatty A4, it never failled to amaze me that people felt happy about this.

People not phoning you back in the marine trade is a massive problem and can be blamed on a number of reasons, business grew faster than the staff, to many dreamers wasting your time, trying to deal with other people in the trade who are not phoning you back and I know alot of people in the trade who multi task so you could be trying to sell a boat one minute and hoisting another out of the water the next.

Before I launch into my next rant I would like to say that I love RIB's, however. They are crap value for money because they are low volume, generally very individual and customised, in effect one offs and are built predominantly in the UK where labour isn't cheap and the fit and finish on some boats is just amatuer.

I cannot see this problem going away in a hurry as the market for RIB's is not big enough that someone is going to invest millions and go into mass production. Also I beleive the UK marine trade is at best sitting on a plateau at the moment and the massive growth we have seen over the last couple of years has now stopped.

Basically what I am saying is that the trade know they should be doing it better but at the moment they are selling more boats than they can build and if one customer gets annoyed another will soon be along.

Lets wait and see what happens if the market crashes ?

[STORM(y)]

Even your 10m Ribtec would now be built on a production line in Cape Town SA. along with any new Ribeye or prestige.