anteak
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Reged: 28/01/2004
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Loc: West Sussex
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I love the bit about him commissioning the boat to mark his second marriage to Emmy but naming it after his first wife, Karin!
What sensitivity. No wonder he went so far in spite of the pastel uniforms!
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A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn. EB
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Sneds
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Reged: 26/02/2007
Posts: 2500
Loc: Bristol Channel
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Shouldn't it be about the boat not the politics? 
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Chrusty1
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Should it?.........I think it's about a lot more than just politics, but you have your point of view, and I have mine. Look, if it was just a windfall, from some German sailing club, I wouldn't feel as strongly about it, but that boat, at least as far as I am concerned, represents a lot more than that, maybe some of us have longer memories than others?
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No_Regrets
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Reged: 09/07/2007
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Loc: Welwyn Garden City, Herts UK.
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FFS, he's dead.
You can all go round burning Beetles and old Boats, but in case you didn't notice, we won the war.
Although I wonder if it was worth it sometimes 
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The scourge of Windsor, and notorious founder member of the 'Upper Thames Birchwood Massive' now outlawed by the EA and River pressure groups, currently planning a nice comfy retirement in the aft cabin of a Broom.
Now can anybody recommend any non-marking slippers?
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Metronicity
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Reged: 29/04/2008
Posts: 7
Loc: Paris
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Yes I'm aware of where Libya is but that's where the beginning of the end started - have you even followed the link and read the story?
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Seagreen
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Reged: 30/07/2005
Posts: 1421
Loc: ked myself in the locker again...
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Thats why having it sailing under an Israeli ensign would be so choice. 1930's mobos aren't my thing (see avatar), but they are better looking than todays gin palaces. so I'd like to think that someone out there does have the spare cash and the inclination to see her restored.
Sure, I think she's ugly but if in the right hands, and with the right new owner, she'd be great... if you like that sort of thing.
I couldn't resist this. Just enjoy the irony...
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"Let Joy be unconfined!"
I'll get her chastity belt keys, then..
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oldfrank
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Reged: 07/12/2005
Posts: 206
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Speaking of the 3rd Reich and much closer to home. Herr Mescherschmit's (confident he spelled it differently) sailing yacht is decaying in a yard in Great Yarmouth. Really bad condition - worse - doesn't look as if it was up to much when it was new. OF
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Debutante21Sixpence
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Reged: 24/08/2005
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I don't think I have particularly bad taste, but checked with my wife just in case  and we both think she has the makings of a very nice boat, and at 90ft I'm very tempted to get involved (if only I had the money) . Niether of us can understand what this hang up some people have is all about. So she was built for a senior German officer in WWII, so what, she's a nice boat and I wouldn't care if she was built for A.H. himself, I just see a nice boat
I do like the irony though 
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2nd_apprentice
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Reged: 18/03/2007
Posts: 356
Loc: Hull
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Why not get Erich Honecker's "Ostseeland"?
70's commie style and CCTV in every room!
Ah, that luxury! Those east German dictators sure knew how to seriously show off and throw up in style.
But if that's just not flamboyant enough for you get Saddam's gin palace!
Perhaps adding Pol Pot's cutlery and Idi Amin's fridge (for chilled drinks so everybody keeps a cool head) would be nice too, not?
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Debutante21Sixpence
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Reged: 24/08/2005
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Simple really, I don't like those but I do like the look of Carin II
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