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claymore
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This is beginning to get difficult I fear.
Also reading back through some of the descriptions, it resembles an instruction manual. I have never been very good at understanding either instruction manuals or pilot books and so tend to avoid them whenever possible.
I think the simplest way of getting this lot sorted out is to have practical demonstrations, perhaps the Chentleman's cruise might present itself as an opportunity to do this?
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Ah, a cunning ruse to lure me round Mulligan's Tyre while still recovering from the Clyde Scuttlebut. And then a poopdiving contest, no doubt blindfold and with a high gamma-GT reading. Sounds good, but realistically I think we'll still be in the Clyde at the time the intelligencia of the internet are anchored in the pool of honk 56 19.4561N - 005 35.2287W
This could be so good the meerkats should pay, so I'm chucking the ladders and going into showbiz. Tickets will soon be available...
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I'm planning to spend a few weeks in the Clyde before heading northwards in July - perhaps a Synchronised Activity may be possible?
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Look forward to synchronising, hopefully not associated with swimchronising, otherwise the meekats win. see PM
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I have long been a devotee of Fiona the Fenderstep as she allows one a leg-up and at the same time doesn't mind being squeezed between Claymore and whoever Claymore is trying to get close to.

Now - I have to advise you that dire prognoistications befall people who advertise on Sailing Forums - Simon the Weather did this a while back and the fallout is still continuing. I would have thought your position was particularly precarious now that the Smithy has shut down and the Cartford had gone upmarket
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Before you paid good money for this trollop Fiona you regularly wipe your feet on, (there is a name for this but I won't go there), did you try two fenders, tied together(parallel), horizontal? - just wondering as the cost of a Fiona is now about £30 as opposed to 3 halfcrowns worth of debris from the bosuns bag. How do you tie her down, by the way? 2 verticals and 2 springs? Is she absolutely failsafe?
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Fiona is a wonderful little thing - even after Parahandy's attempted seduction of her.
2 strings attached and she is well hung.

And JohnS gets across that busy road on his own?
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John, you are more than welcome to have your business website in your signature (even if you did cancel your paid advertising :) )

So is anyone else - as YBW do, all I ask is that you put a link to BlueMoment somewhere on your site.

(Simon is allowed as many links as he wants - top, bottom and middle - because the service he is providing is worth it :D )

I would also remind people that there is a very underused 'For Sale' forum on here, whch has no arbitrarily defined upper limit. If it is a whole boat however I would ask that you use the Classifieds system - which is free anyway until at least 30 people put their boats on it.

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I'm pretty sure there's a market for those if they will float and can set a sail.
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