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Hello there,Must be someone out there who had sailed on the Sal boats,no bad jobs they were.
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Hello Benloyal, First up may i welcome you aboard this great site!Here you will i am sure find friends that may have sailed with you,or very close anyway! Its a very good crew here mate with lots of info and good fun at times too. Take a seat till we fing a berth for you! Dont know if there are any Tinnies in the Fridge as Taff1i and a few others have raided it haha! We are all a bit mad! Also may i ask what your First name is so as we will know! Thank you Is this the Ship at all?
Last edited by Doc Vernon; 20th October 2008 at 08:56 PM.
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hi ben loyal. just to give you a warm welcome to this site. sorry we cant offer you a tinny, but were building a still. and we needed the empty tinnies to make a flue pipe. best wishes geoff.
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Welcome ben to the ship of dreams, no grog, Vernon sold it all to a passing mule driver in exchange for some bread, he wanted toast for breky. But pull up a pew the still is almost done.
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I was lucky enough to get on the last Sal boat "SALVINA" we were out for 8 months then she was sold from under us ....... could have stayed on her for ever great crowd ...conditions just an overall great job ...she became the Dawn Grandeur and a few other name changes happy days right enough i sailed on a lot of great ships but she was the best Backsplice
Hello Backslice! Just a wram welcome to this site,hope you have a long and enjoyable stay here with us. You can look to see if there are ant cold Tinnies left,but i doubt it hah! Cheers PS Please see your PMessage! Thanks
Hi! Backsplice and/or Ben Loyal/(Don't say Ben Dover-not on this site!) I met the SALVADA in the next drydock to us in Osaka,Japan in 70( 2 fantastic weeks there,and Expo 70 was on!. Even then in Japan a beer cost about a quid! Paid off with Zero(again!) Nice looking Cargo ship,the Salvada,and I remember the lads on her were O.k too. Let,s hear it for Salvesons then! Cheers,Davey
G'day Backsplice, welcome to the ship of dreams, and some nightmares, grab a cold one, sit back nad enjoy, never know who you may meet.
Hi Backsplice. another warm welcome. to our ship of mystery. welcome again. best wishes Geoff.
Originally Posted by Les Hi Backsplice I see that you are just down the road from me in the Central Coast and I am just near Newcastle. Are you related to Short, Eye, Long and short splice as they where all on the FIDdle as far as I Know. Anyway just thought that there are starting to become a few of us residing in NSW as Vernon is in Penrith and I always thought that there must be more of us around here than we thought. Les hi ben/loyal and backsplice. welcome to the site. hi les are they any relation to west country whipping or the west diamond krupper knot?. cheers. alf
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