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Three Men in Another Boat: Griff RhysJones
Griff Rhys Jones teams up with Dara O'Briain and Rory McGrath for a two-part maritime jaunt. Concludes tomorrow 9pm.
Tonight 8.10pm
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What make/model is it, any idea?
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Its a very pretty Philip Rhodes lift keeler....
We see her occasionally on the Orwell, and she is one very lovely looking boat
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Halfway through his book "To the Baltic with Bob" which is about the same boat. Cracking read, especially if you've sailed the area.
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Me too! Got it for Xmas. 
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During the Summer, they were in the Hamble and crashed into my school boat!!!!! Whilst we were tied up at Hamble Point.
Al.
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Pass me the "Sick Bucket" WOT a loada Bullox 
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its made to entertain the masses - not real yachties like us.
I like GRJ's reference to the Beneteau as a plastic shower cubicle with a stick attached!!
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Pass me the "Sick Bucket" WOT a loada Bullox
How stern of you, indeed! Loved D O'B on the Beneteau BED!!
S x
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I really enjoyed that programme; Brilliant!
Chris
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Fantastic....loved it...
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Suzie its not "3 men in a bed" Calm down my dear
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Well, that's the start of a constructive criticism.
Now elucidate, if you will.
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I really enjoyed that programme; Brilliant!
Chris
Me too... Excellent tongue-in-cheek portrayal of sailiing. Had shades of Old Harry and Sod's Law of the Sea... 
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A beautifull boat and some superb footage. Can't wait 'til tomorrow for the second episode.
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Good program that, very funny and I can honestly say it's been the best thing on over the Xmas/New Year holidays.
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Totally agree..it should have been called" 3 clowns in a boat " What a waste of a good programme opportunity. Lovely boat though!
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I hope you all enjoyed a look at my beloved MUD.
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I really enjoyed it too. Absolutely gorgeous boat and any saily stuff this time of year can only be a good thing right?
Anyone want to guess the value written on the bit of paper? I reckon in isn,t far off the price of the bennytoe
Cameron 
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On balance i think it was a good programme to entertain the masses,if it was a serious look at sailing it would have been scheduled at some obscure hour,i loved it and cant wait till the next one.
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graham
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01/01/2008 21:30
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A few laughs and a boat to drool over.Will definitely try to see tommorows .
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1/ the boat was already in London therefore already been though the barrier
2/ no pilot req for the barrier
3/ the aircraft fly-by = MCA advertising
4/ leaving Dover with a gale forecast with novice crew
all 4 starters
a total waste of a golden opportunity
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01/01/2008 21:31
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it was simply great to see some sailing on the telly; just what was needed in darkest coldest January! No it wasn't highbrow stuff granted - but a better use of airtime than that ghastly dancing programme that has (thankfully) now finished!
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NDH
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01/01/2008 21:31
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Very good viewing and a lovely boat, somewhat similar take on another programme I recall with John McCarthy and Sandy Toksvig on a boat with Tom Cunliffe
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graham
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01/01/2008 21:31
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I think your missing the point,its entertainment not a video yachtmasters course.
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Well, I'm glad I wasn't the only one to like it! Laughed out VERY loudly in some places - you know, that sort of oh dear been there done that hollow sort of laughter, with a light cringe...
S x
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I liked it. And I very much enjoyed his book too.
Sneaking off to the apartment then calling them on the radio was a classic ... misuse of the radio? 
Looking forward to tomorrow's program.
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I confess to know nothing about sailing.
I loved the boat
But I thought the programme was awful.
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got to entertain or no one will watch it, loved the boat seriously crashing about in the sea, & there was the bearded one STOOD UP inside, making tea. !! dream on.
But it does help people to understand what we do, they otherwise they think we are mad.
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Cheery
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01/01/2008 21:37
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http://ybw.yachtworld.com/core/uk/listin...p;&ybw=true
Not a bad price!
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Allan
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01/01/2008 21:40
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Did you miss using profane language over VHF and using a a marine radio whilst on land? Maybe like me you were enjoying a good romp in a boat like most of us and chose to ignore the bits added to entertain the less boaty types?
Allan
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Certainly better than the footie, and that gruesome 'VicDib' stuff last night.....
The boat is a darn sight easier on the eye than Pop Princess Kylie in a borrowed dress ( Jools Holland ) - at least Undina's sails fit!
....Back to the bar.
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Good fun - beauty of a boat. The inclusion of East Coast mud was a special treat. Conyer Creek I presume?
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Yes, I thought they were going to start shooting from the south coast - loved the Thames estuary bit
S x
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The creek where Griff was seen in a boatyard, and standing reminiscing about his father's boat, was Oare Creek. The pub with the daft notices outside the door is the Shipwrights Arms at the junction of Oare and Faversham Creek (there are even more ludicrous notices inside). The pub has the most negative and miserable landlord in the world.
The 3 of them did no passage sailing, there was a delivery crew. All smoke and mirrors.
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01/01/2008 21:50
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Loved the program, as has been said it was not about sailing more about entertainment.
I liked the, don't worry you'll learn as we go along style
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01/01/2008 21:51
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The 3 of them did no passage sailing, there was a delivery crew. All smoke and mirrors.
Now you've spoiled it.. 
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No offence Pete_Cooper, but when the program started I was mistaking Rory for you, there is a strong resemblance. 
Enjoyed the program too.
The quietest salesman I have ever seen.
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A fraction the price of a Picasso but infinitely prettier
Cameron
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I thought the Griff / Dara bit in the beneteau was a replay of the AWB/MAB debates on here.
Great stuff.
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The quietest salesman I have ever seen.
But what a haircut!
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01/01/2008 22:41
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And for those who missed it this evening it will be repeated at 0315 on Friday morning and the second part at 0310 on Saturday morning. Maybe not in all areas though.
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The 3 of them did no passage sailing, there was a delivery crew. All smoke and mirrors.
That'll be the Beeb's New Year resolution about honesty out of the porthole then?
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out of the porthole then?
Nah down the Jabsco !!!
Cameron
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01/01/2008 23:21
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The 3 of them did no passage sailing, there was a delivery crew. All smoke and mirrors.
Now you've spoiled it..
Like Top Gear, much of the action is scripted. No doubt their insurance company insisted on additional/delivery crew members, and the shadowing RIB. Produced for, and delivered, great entertainment.
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Then it's on a par with Top gear. Everyone loves that.
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Ah. Thought you may have been taking it seriously.
What does Michael Winner say?
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Sgeir
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01/01/2008 23:35
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Then it's on a par with Top gear. Everyone loves that.
Oh no they don't! 
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Micheal Winner said his soup tasted "salty"
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oldgit
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01/01/2008 23:38
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Sailing is deadly serious..No laughing by order of club regs 12(b)(9c)
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After the screening of this bunch in the upper Thames programme several Thames posters who also take themselves and there choosen hobby very seriously indeed, came and posted long detailed reasons as to why the programme had missed a golden opportunity to.................
Anyway had me and the missus rolling about.
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Oh well
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oldgit
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02/01/2008 00:00
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At least the three monkeys on Top thingy are able to laugh at themselves......
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I thought Griff was remarkably jolly with his pride and joy facing mangling.
It doesn't have to be a nautical copy of TG. It was just amusing and had some decent shots of a lovely boat.
Got to be better than Morecambe and Wise (again)
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I hate to admit it, but the show really did make us (myself and 'er indoors) consider weighing in the 5.7 V8 for a saily boat!
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Thank god someone else said it too! I didn't want to be the first!
Makes me wonder how different it is to my lovely bayliner - I'll have to try sailing one day!
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I thought that it provided very enjoyable entertainment.
Need to sack the continuity person - when they were 'aground' - the head sail kept disappearing and reappearing - dependant on the shot. Also the main did similar in the heavy weather shots.
Loved the bit where they were trying to beat upwind of the barge - but the keel was still wound up!
Will need to organise the VCR for part 2, cos I'll be out.
Beautiful yacht - hard to believe that she is 45' or 49' LOA from the interior shots.
Ash
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I could only take five minutes. Should have been called three millionaires get a few million dunces to pay for their holiday and massage their egos. Revolting.
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What isn't like that these days?
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I wish some of you would stop whinging. I read the book and enjoyed it and am really pi**ed that can't watch the program here. Some of you should be sentenced to watch a month of American none cable/sat crap
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I thought it was good entertainment for the masses, boaty or not, and only promoted our interest. I may be wrong though...... 
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I wish some of you would stop whinging. I read the book and enjoyed it and am really pi**ed that can't watch the program here. Some of you should be sentenced to watch a month of American none cable/sat crap
Jim - have you tried www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer? It's already there for a repeat.
S x
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Susy I love you had to go out so missed it
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Yes, I WAS the one who personally created bbc iplayer! And especially for GRJ's prog - the others are all just makeweights...
Take it for what it is - and you'll enjoy it!
S x
(PS Love you loads too, of course, naturally, goes without saying, now and forever, where's my fiver for boosting your street cred?)
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Street cred
Me
I can but dream darling
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S x
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Suzy ,first thing I did. Beeb software does not allow none UK access.
Maybe Brendan could help us expats out with a fiddle?
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Someone on the Mobo forum said he'd found it on Virgin something - check the thread there.
I'm off to bed!
Night night
Susy x
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Bit green-eyed ain't it?
You may as well level that accusation at everyone on TV.
I'd just take the box to the tip. They'll be open today.
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I side with the 'loved it' brigade. Of course I could start getting upset about the continuity, the falseness of some of it, the scripting of the scenes, but some of it couldn't have been scripted and a lot of it was just funny. Our whole family watched it and recognised some of the things that happen. I am sure that hitting his head getting out of the berth was not as scripted as some bits. He hit it too hard!
Enjoy the boat, and the occasional insights into Gryff's sailing. He might have more money than me, but he admits to having a relationship with his boat that a lot of people on these forum might recognise and admit to as well.
Even SWMBO thought that their crew recruiting criteria was funny. I am sorry that they only showed expensive boat prices (yet again). When will the media start getting the message that most people start sailing on the cost of less than a second car? A couple of thousand or more will get you afloat and this is never mentioned.
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I wish some of you would stop whinging. I read the book and enjoyed it and am really pi**ed that can't watch the program here. Some of you should be sentenced to watch a month of American none cable/sat crap
Jim - have you tried www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer? It's already there for a repeat.
S x
As I understand it iPlayer stuff is only available in the UK???? Or that's what the FAQ's imply....
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Hugely enjoyable. I did suspect there was something odd about the passage making when it cut from them leaving the Swale to entering Dover Harbour without North Foreland in between, and then cut from them leaving Dover in a lumpy blow to entering Brighton Marina in a flat calm. Did they actually put back into port after each shot and let the passage crew take her around?
I found Dara and Rory much better behaved than they'd been on the Thames trip, and the tea-making was hilarious.
Still, it must have been crowded on there - the three of them, the cam crew and the sound man.
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3/ the aircraft fly-by = MCA advertising
Don't see your problem here.
1 - The MCA Islander aircraft is airborne pretty much all the time over the CNIS area - any unidentified yacht would be likely to get buzzed as it enters or transits the seperation zone,
2 - MCA / HMCG are public services and the look behind the scenes at Dover will have interested a lot of people and may have educated a few. Any publicity that helps prevent rouge vessels and collisions is hardly black propoganda...
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So what number is in the piece of Paper?
How much is it worth any ideas
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Oh yes, and did anyone else catch the Hun on that 'sister' boat in Brighton giving the old 'Seig Heil' in return when they were singing?
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I enjoyed it. Thought the program got the balance between sailing and entertainment about right.
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Wish I'd been able to see it after all the comments on here!
Is it on YouTube or out on video yet?
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I might be being dim (and know sod all about sailing) but how come the land was always on the port side during their passage?
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I'd agree. Good entertainment. No one seriously expected Griff to be producing a serious sailing documentary did they?
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I sat mute while SWMBO laughed and looked at me....
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Dyflin
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02/01/2008 09:59
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I really enjoyed seeing a bit of boaty content on prime time TV and SWMBO enjoyed/sympathised with the novice crew bit. I very much enjoyed it and am dissapointed that it's only two episodes in duration. Would be great to see a 'Coast' type program done by sea.
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The sister boat has just sold and was listed between 145 and 155 here
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Agreed, I was hoping it would be a weekly slot for a bit.
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Yep, you don't get a lot of space in a timber boat. Waterline length is a more accurate reflection of the internal space. 34'!
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Well yep, but when looking round the bénéteau and they said it was (£140,000?) he was saying about he'd spent just that on restoring Undina!
Then when they were given the figure Rory and Dara made it out to be 'Over 4 times what he'd spent on it so far" but surely it isn't worth £560,000!?! I must have misunderstood as usual 
Surpised we havent got a broker on here that could help out...
More info here:
http://www.britishclassicyachtclub.org/register/undina.htm
Chris
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02/01/2008 12:06
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I didn't realise Josephine had been sold. It belonged to Tim Blackman, moored in the Medina in the summer, and lifted out at Attrills in Bembridge Harbour for a few weeks each winter. It is in super condition. Tim Blackman was, I believe, one of the founder members of the British Classic Yacht Club.
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He was/is. I met him a while back in Ipswich at a BCYC do. I am only assuming that she has sold as she is listed as such on the Sandeman website. AFAIK he now has Infanta, which was at the East Coast Classics last year.
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02/01/2008 12:35
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Just watched it on i player.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
Will be available to view for 5 days.
What a beautiful boat, wouldn't want to own it the maint. must be horrific. But would love to ship as crew.
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I enjoyed it- so did the rest of my family, we all knew it was cut/edited /staged for entertainment purposes but that didn't matter. What annoyed me is that I didn't realise that the beautiful boat moored on my pontoon a few feet away from my boat in the summer was her- I would have lurked trying to get on the TV! But I did see a few glimpses of my boat in the Brighton shots- must try the iBBC thing to see more.
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Just watched it on i player.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
Will be available to view for 5 days.
Merde! Only available to view in the UK and I'm stuck here for another fortnight.
Thanks for the link anyway.
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I think if you go through a public proxy server located in the UK you might be able to view it.
I just took a quick look and http://www.prxy.co.uk/ has a box at the bottom where you can type the address.
Give it a try - when I tried it thought I was from the UK - but then I am ;o) If it doesn't work there are other public proxies that you could Google.
Cheers,
Paul
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I enjoyed the programme and it was great to see shots of a beautiful yacht on telly. I have seen her up close and she is simply gorgeous. It brought home to SWMBO that we don't need a bigger boat to have more space, just a newer one.
I can't see that anyone on here is really so naive as to think it's not scripted, rehearsed and staged, in places at least, or that there wasn't a crew on board and a safety boat nearby. You could even see it in some of the shots and who do you think is doing the filming?!
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A quote from Mrs S as she watched them trudge through the mud after inflating a rubber duck trying to breathe life into an outboard and get a wet arse en route the the pub
''anyone watching this will think were fecking mad''
she said it with a smile though
brilliant entertainment
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Thinking aloud here, rather than giving advice you understand, but if you logged on via a proxy server based in the UK, you would have a UK IP address. If you do a google on public proxy servers you may be able to find a UK one (these change quite often, so you may have to repeat this process many times if you want to use iPlayer regularly, and being public servers, you don't know their intent, so make sure you have firewall and good antivirus etc, and only use if for downloading BBC content, not doing banking or anything that would give away personal information and make sure you don't use the same password for anything over the proxy you use elsewhere!!!!!!) Though in honesty, you'll probably struggle to find a public proxy in the UK with sufficient bandwdidth to support downloading or streaming from iPlayer.
If you know someone with a business in the UK, and their own server, who knows and trusts you, you could do the same with a proxy server or VPN (virtual private network) with limited network access (just need internet access from the network)
These are the two probably easiest to set up, though there are many other ways.
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Re: Timely reminder; Three Men in Another Boat:
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VALUE.......
I'd go for GBP 320,000 but havn't seen any more of it than you.......the Ancastra gut knew its value straight away?
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Re: Timely reminder; Three Men in Another Boat:
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Sister boat was up for £150k-ish, so I doubt it's as much as £320k...
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Sgeir
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02/01/2008 15:33
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Did anyone notice the outboard?
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Was it a Yamaha 2.5hp 2 stroke?
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Re: Did anyone notice the outboard?
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I think it was a Mariner 2.5....
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Spyro
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02/01/2008 15:48
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Well yep, but when looking round the bénéteau and they said it was (£140,000?) he was saying about he'd spent just that on restoring Undina!
I thought he said that was what he'd spent on varnish!
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jhr
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02/01/2008 15:48
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Re: Did anyone notice the outboard?
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It was an elderly and battered Mariner 2. In the words of Number One Son: "Look, Dad - he's got our outboard"!
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Re: Timely reminder; Three Men in Another Boat:
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Ooh mebbe, I was watching and working at the same time I'm afraid, so I wasn't paying full attention 
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Yes, he said it was what he'd spent on varnishing, hence rather tongue in cheek. I've recorded it, so can transcribe his exact words if necessary.
The later comments about the value of the boat by the two 'crew' were about what he'd bought the boat for, not what he'd spent on it subsequently.
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Spyro
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02/01/2008 16:05
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Re: Timely reminder; Three Men in Another Boat:
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Yes, he said it was what he'd spent on varnishing, hence rather tongue in cheek. I've recorded it, so can transcribe his exact words if necessary.
That won't be necessary but thanks for pointing that out otherwise I may have thought he was serious. 
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I wasn't pointing it out to you (as you recalled correctly, and was agreeing with you), but to the others on many threads that are discussing pricing.
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Oi! Will you two keep your smooching for The Lounge, and after the YBW watershed (;) when mini-Mods go to the pub! (:-)
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While we are picking holes: they go aground in the East Swale, (who hasn't) but we are then told: no worries the tide is rising. I can't believe that anyone with GRJ,s experience would leave there on the flood when bound for Dover. As has been said, nice to watch, and great to see mates' boats in the background, but not to be taken seriously.
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