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by steveyates
Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:15 am
Forum: Gear and Gadgets
Topic: Knox spade or rocna?
Replies: 3
Views: 5973

Re: Knox spade or rocna?

Thats service for you!
by steveyates
Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:57 pm
Forum: Gear and Gadgets
Topic: Knox spade or rocna?
Replies: 3
Views: 5973

Knox spade or rocna?

This post caught my eye ————- Re: penultimate sail of the season....dragging anchor.... Post by Nick » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:19 am wully wrote: I've just invested in a Spade anchor - hope it copes with the west coast weed better than the CQR's I've been using. I'm keeping a Fortress and a spare warp f...
by steveyates
Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:41 pm
Forum: Passages and Places
Topic: Sailing the Northwest Passage 2023: A Family's Adventure into the Arctic
Replies: 1
Views: 7622

Re: Sailing the Northwest Passage 2023: A Family's Adventure into the Arctic

The book of that story is out and is excellent read,
Thicker than ice by john pennington. Very highly reccomended.

Its his second book, following Orca, the story of their circumnavigation.
by steveyates
Wed Jun 05, 2024 12:19 am
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Free BlueMoment Burgee?
Replies: 5
Views: 7677

Re: Free BlueMoment Burgee?

Thank you.
Am I spoiling it by not waiting to next month to reply? :)
by steveyates
Mon May 06, 2024 10:54 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Free BlueMoment Burgee?
Replies: 5
Views: 7677

Re: Free BlueMoment Burgee?

If no one else wants it Mark, and you still have it, I’ll take it please.
I dont usually fly these things, and certainly not my sailing club one, but I’d fly that one as this is the only place where I never seem to see any politics and infighting.
Thanks.
by steveyates
Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:30 pm
Forum: Passages and Places
Topic: Travels with Selkie
Replies: 2
Views: 5824

Travels with Selkie

Most years I have a week or so on my mates Twister out of Ballahulish. Having just reached the giddy heights of semi retirement, I got round last month to editing the pictures I take. Here's a wee selection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8j3Lf9uPqM
by steveyates
Sat Jun 11, 2022 10:53 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: The Summer Isles, Philip Marsden
Replies: 3
Views: 9213

Re: The Summer Isles, Philip Marsden

I hadnt seen this, so apologies. The comment was aimed at the book, which I had previously read, so wasnt a go at your critiquing :)
by steveyates
Sat Jun 11, 2022 10:52 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: The Peat Dead and The Dead of Jura, Allan Martin
Replies: 3
Views: 12894

Re: The Peat Dead and The Dead of Jura, Allan Martin

Yeah, the current politics line is interesting :) I enjoyed them, tho I think the first was the best.
Recently read the shetland sailing mysteries set, and enjoyed them, tho no wonder that lass got the evil eye in one of the later books, shes a magnet for corpses :) :)
by steveyates
Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:59 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: When is a Marina not a Marina?
Replies: 7
Views: 8267

Re: When is a Marina not a Marina?

There you go then, FROM THE OED marina | məˈriːnə | noun a specially designed harbour with moorings for pleasure yachts and small boats Says feck all about shelter, just a place to park your boat. Seems a perfectly reasonable description to me. Of course, in parking said boat the hoary old salt will...
by steveyates
Mon Nov 29, 2021 1:05 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: The Summer Isles, Philip Marsden
Replies: 3
Views: 9213

Re: The Summer Isles, Philip Marsden

Its pretty hard going.
by steveyates
Sun Aug 22, 2021 5:47 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Defaced Flags
Replies: 33
Views: 38502

Re: Defaced Flags

What is a defaced ensign? I'm presuming it's not a union jack thats had FTQ spraypainted over it as was my first assumption?
by steveyates
Mon Dec 28, 2020 6:38 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Snow and hookers
Replies: 6
Views: 6411

Re: Snow and hookers

That fecking snow is making my eyes twirl! Oh, and the hooker is called Ritchie! Thats just no right is it? Someones gonna get a real shcok, or is this part of the modern multi gender way now?
by steveyates
Sun Apr 19, 2020 12:55 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Free this weekend, book of foties of scotland
Replies: 1
Views: 3447

Re: Free this weekend, book of foties of scotland

oh and if you dont have kindle unlimited, you can still see em here https://derwentphotography.pic-time.com ... 41/gallery

Enjoy
by steveyates
Sun Apr 19, 2020 12:52 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Free this weekend, book of foties of scotland
Replies: 1
Views: 3447

Free this weekend, book of foties of scotland

Stuck this ont he other place and too lazy to rewrite, so just pasted it below. I've published my first book! Just launched it on Amazon Kindle as an ebook. It is a book of landscapes and seascapes from my small boat trip so it's crap on an old bw kindle, but looks good viewed on the kindle app on y...
by steveyates
Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:07 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: A riddle
Replies: 18
Views: 16531

Re: A riddle

who would even notice? :)