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Post by Plocket on Oct 29, 2006 17:28:27 GMT
You are a better person than him Susie - let your hair down and relax now it's finished!
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Oct 29, 2006 17:41:38 GMT
Don't know about better, but certainly more sober! Well, at the moment anyway  S x |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 29, 2006 17:43:16 GMT
PML! I've got a pimms on the go already - well if it was yesterday it would be past the yardarm!!!!! |
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Post by Margi on Oct 29, 2006 17:49:04 GMT
It's been said before, but some people have a very low yardarm!
M xxx
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Post by Plocket on Oct 29, 2006 17:53:13 GMT
The yardarm for us, or rather at Chez Plocket, is 6.00pm - normally!!! |
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Post by Margi on Oct 29, 2006 17:54:18 GMT
I do rather like a boat with a low yardarm, as it happens...
M xxx
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Post by Plocket on Oct 29, 2006 18:03:50 GMT
I know there's been a discussion about yardarm's before, but would you care to remind me what one is?
Pxxx
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2006 18:10:47 GMT
A nautical term, used to indicate time of day by the position of the sun relative to parts of a ship. I believe the yardarm is a beam supporting a square sail, hence would have had a certain height, giving a reference for the elevation of the sun.
Hope this helps, ps I am not of maritime stock ... a genuine landlubber !!!!
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Post by Plocket on Oct 29, 2006 19:01:37 GMT
Thanks! They said about the same on Wikipedia! And I'm not a landlubber at all, I love sailing! |
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Oct 29, 2006 19:06:17 GMT
Same here, I love being on water Looking forward to boarding Endeavour then P?! S x |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 29, 2006 19:18:42 GMT
Oh yes! My dream house would be near the sea so I could hear it lapping on the beach (been there done that but not bought the house!!!) but sailing is just dreamy, in decent weather. The clanging of the rigging, the rocking of the boat - I love it!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2006 19:21:30 GMT
Well standing in puddles makes me seasick !!!
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Post by Margi on Oct 29, 2006 19:27:56 GMT
I'm with Plocket! It's a while since I went in anything as little as a dinghy, but I used to go on the odd cruise for work and I love a good ferry! And I nearly died in a K1 canoe slalom race once...
Margi x
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Post by Plocket on Oct 30, 2006 8:27:45 GMT
Yikes Margi! I don't do canoeing at all, but yachting etc I'm your girl!!!
Pxxx
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