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21st October 2020, 04:08 AM
#31
Re: cappy
Hi Cappy.
Welcome back, and there was me thinking you were older than me, and now finding out you will have to do another 8 years before the mast to catch me up.
Cheers Des
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21st October 2020, 05:30 AM
#32
Re: cappy
Originally Posted by
Des Taff Jenkins
Hi Cappy.
Welcome back, and there was me thinking you were older than me, and now finding out you will have to do another 8 years before the mast to catch me up.
Cheers Des
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Des, if that picture is any thing to go by may I say you look disgustingly healthy.
Happy daze John in Oz.
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21st October 2020, 07:41 AM
#33
Re: cappy
Originally Posted by
Des Taff Jenkins
Hi Cappy.
Welcome back, and there was me thinking you were older than me, and now finding out you will have to do another 8 years before the mast to catch me up.
Cheers Des
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Nice to see one of the original crew members behind the wheel, was that taken on arrival!!!
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21st October 2020, 08:58 AM
#34
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nice to see a proper ships wheel not a blooming set of buttons ,,,,jeez des if your that much older than me you must have been on the 1st fleet out to oz ,,,,,,and did you see john saborn he was aboard .......lol cappy
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21st October 2020, 09:26 AM
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Red Lead Ted
Cappy, There was a time i would fly up them masts with a kit of Red Lead, These days a couple of Deck heads around the house and i have to have a good sit down. But i am married to one who would not only give your decks a coat of paint she would also iron them sails, She bloody terrifies me. Big woman mate
Cappy, I have had a few smacks over the bloody head of her with the handbag, I told her the 2 M social distancing was 2 Minutes, That way i could see it coming as all i am doing is sitting at the laptop bugger all else i can do. And what she carries in that bloody handbag lord knows but its solid.
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22nd October 2020, 05:03 AM
#36
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Well Terry some one has to keep you in line, we cannot do it from here.
Happy daze John in Oz.
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23rd October 2020, 02:03 PM
#37
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nice to see you back Cappy, been away i while myself, i see you have sharpened that Geordie humour up since you have been gone, still on the Sols i hope, kt
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23rd October 2020, 06:30 PM
#38
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pleased to hear from you kt ....looked for your input when i came back on .....hope all is well for you and yours ......am pleased to be back and looking forward to some good old time crack ....are you still sailing like thom michael..my lad is sailing off corfu at the moment hired a 50 footer .....to much for me now ......always fall out with him when i say ......NOW WHEN I WENT TO SEA.......wouldnt believe that typhoon in osaka winds over 200 mph remember you were in that same time .....the riseley was all accom aft .....and big cracks just forrard of the accom...1961 i believe .....happy days stay well good to hear from you cappy
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24th October 2020, 09:04 AM
#39
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Keith, I was beginning to wonder where you had gone, I remember a post where you and your good wife where awaiting medical attention, Here's hoping its all behind you and everything went well good health to you and your missis mate Terry.
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24th October 2020, 10:11 AM
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Thanks for that Terry, all is well here now, was nothing too serious, new knee, carpel tunnel etc, biggest problem was having to travel to Southampton for all this treatment, but others have real problems.Without getting onto a delicate subject, people from the mainland have been sent to the Island for Covid tests, so avoiding ferry travel as much as possible, would not be good news for me to catch that, 80 year old, asthmatic , fat sod, lol, anyway stay safe mate, kt
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