Powerskipper
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Reged: 18/09/2003
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Loc: dorset/ Hampshire. south coast
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did it take you to be confident on your boat in most situations.
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PS that is not me just how I would like to have been !!!
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Oneaway
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Reged: 16/12/2005
Posts: 808
Loc: back in the UK
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My answer was seasons, the reason, there are never two days the same on the water and to get to know your own back yard takes years, and being a sad old git I go down to the shore on low tides to see where the sand and gravel bars have moved to.
God I need to get a life 
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"It's Better to Have Memories Than Dreams"
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ChrisKaye
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Reged: 26/08/2004
Posts: 547
Loc: Wiltshire
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Hi Julie, Thanks for your help last week, I do feel confident in taking the boat out myself now. Just looking for an opportunity and it looks like it coud be this coming bank holiday weekend. So watch out anyone round the solent area.........
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D3B
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Reged: 28/11/2004
Posts: 2986
Loc: Ely, Cambs UK
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and being a sad old git I go down to the shore on low tides to see where the sand and gravel bars have moved to.
Not quite as daft as you might think.
the journey from Denver Sluice down towards Kings Lynn is narrow, shallow and the sandbanks are continually moving. A friend walked the bank on several occasions at low tide and mapped all the nasty bits....so far he has never hit the bottom...
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MajorCatastrophe
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Reged: 31/05/2005
Posts: 15809
Loc: ust plague be upon you
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Good question, I think it took me most of the first season to get rid of the dry mouth syndrome. And yes, I go and look at paces at low tide so I have an idea of what I could hit.
Useful sometimes as I discovered that a nice looking bay near puffin island is a boulder strewn wasteland at low tide.
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MapisM
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Reged: 11/03/2002
Posts: 2894
Loc: Italy
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Funny, I could have given two different replies, but they're both missing.
After the first time I helmed a boat, I would have probably replied 'minutes'.
Now, after quite some years and miles, I'd rather say 'not yet'.
PS: re. instruction, you used a killer comparison I'm afraid.
I can only think of one thing which can possibly beat a good meal, and that's not a boating course!...
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KCook
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Reged: 30/08/2005
Posts: 946
Loc: western US
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Err, for the "Did doing a course or getting some instruction" category you forgot "Never had formal instruction" ....
cowboy Kelly
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