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I am contemplating a trip to the dark side of the estuary. Maybe fish the Middles for smoothies, tope and ray. Overnight near Brightlingsea or trundle down the Blackwater to Osea. I am sure you know of some nice anchorages that I don't.
We will probably be going up to Yalding,unless its wet rainy and cold in which case,we will be going(driving) round to Henley to annoy some of the over waged big girls blouses forumites round there.
Stop off at Stone Point opposite B'Sea. You can get v.close to the beach there, and also BBQ there. If not, go round the corner to Pyefleet and anchor up.
Although I would recommend going into B'Sea and then on to the Kovalam for a fish curry to die for.
I ended up in the Pyfleet for a night and off Osea for the other one. Unusually I had a bit of bother getting the anchor to set off Osea. Took four attempts. My set up is a 80lb Danforth with 60 meters of 10mm chain. On the third try it came up with a huge rock stuck between the flukes. It must be a stone or gravel bottom there.
The stern line tied to the water in the last picture,do you have to go on some sort of RYA course to learn that or does it just come with years of experience.
Hope the locals told you to clear off,we are fed up with you rough lot from the north bank of the river coming over here up chatting up our wimmin.
Nice to see you are proudly displaying a full non matching set of "proper" Medway mix and clash fenders.
What do you think I brought the bloke in the frogmans outfit for? He's sitting in the mud holding the line. As for the fenders so long as they are blue or white they match. I did consider some tractor tyres.
"6th June fireworks at Chatham Riverside 10.30PM "
Yippee more free stuff........
No need to even move the boat as have good view from mooring....now if iinvite half a dozen friends to my "private" firework party and charge them say £10.00 quid a head plus er... 50p per cup of tea and say £5.00 to use the boat bog ?
If you keep your eyes open you might see me deploying a dozen giant floating lotus flowers off Chatham riverside on that Saturday and then pulling them up after the fireworks. That's if they don't fall apart first.
If your charging a fiver for the bog, I would feed them a local curry.
If you are out and about this Sunday around 11-12 of the noon you will have the pleasure of observing a dozen and one half boats of the Bray Cruising Club parade past your mooring on the their jolly way to Chatham Marina.
We have been press ganged as crew aboard one of them.
On Sunday we shall be basking in the sub tropical paradise that is Sarfend, so be a good chap and keep your speed down, don't want Albert falling in again this week. You could always stop by on the way round, I'll leave the Marconi Mk 1 switched on (16).
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"Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ..." (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
Ahem.... we did call you on Ch16,but hearing B/O assumed that the bit of old lighting flex you have connected from the battery terminals on the H/Held to your starter batteries had fallen off.
Are you going round to see Stoatys fire works ?
Oh deary me Fred, firstly I wasn't out there on Saturday, when you "saw" me. We went straight to Sarfend from our Luxury Executive moorings on Sunday morning, returning to Sharfleet that eve, I even rowed Albert ashore for his ablutions and with cat like grace scaled the mudbanks without falling over once.
We then returned the next morning having seen Stoaty fish charming in the distance.
I think you need to purchase real binoclears rather than the 1936 Woolworth's "just like the real thing" pair you have tied together with brown string.
We have broken the unwritten code and akshully paid to go and see Jules Holland.
Where's these fireworks then, and can we hide behind your boat, just in case they get their eye in.
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"Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ..." (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
The fireworks are at Chatham Riverside. Be careful though I am laying an obstruction of giant lotus flowers strung together over about 100mtrs around the low water mark.
The girls that designed and built the flowers were originally going to anchor each one separately with a breeze block. Until I pointed out that breeze blocks float.
I was actually referring the "other" Saturday...some people call it Sunday and it was blimming cold.
Us... after just passing a lot of snoozers in Stangite and making lots of loverly wash.
"Did you see half of them get waterlogged and fall over? "Nope
.......but did manage to stay up late propping up the bar in "The Ship" for several hours only to emerge at 10.30 to a distinct lack of fireworks !
How many times do I have to tell you.......
You have to put the papyrus face down and force it into the slot of your Raymarine with something pointy and then set fire to the internal candle to see the map in its correct north up view.
Anyway did you want to borrow this one for that long weekend away you have been promising her ladyship just glue it to the end of your Ramsgit one and keep goin .
Another Midsummer's day passes-----did I miss the "meet"?
Is anyone going to start the planning process for the Medway Midsummer Meet 2010?
Only amother 364 days to go, I can hardly stand the tension
The "events" committee fully intend holding a meeting to discuss this matter fully and at some length just as soon as they can agree on agreeing to meet up somewhere and agree as to when and where the agreed meeting will take place.
Please note it was agreed the above meeting should be cancelled until somebody decides something .
The next AGM will be held on 31/02/2009.
No apologies for absence will be accepted.
Photo taken at the last event committee meeting, the other members were somewhere else.
Fred, (far left as you look) can be seen holding his refueling container, in readiness for Sarah T's annual refueling cry in.
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"Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ..." (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
I don't know Stoaty as I've never been privy to such a rare event. I think it would be rarer than a sighting of the rarest of birds, the Kentish Lesser Spotted Concrete Gobbler, rarely seen I understand.
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Re: Midsummer Medway Meet.
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