fishing rights

[Ivan Cloherty]

#13... Ivan before the general public got used to cruising and getting their vast experiences of seagoing , I can remember being asked on numerous occasions what do you do at nights do you anchor. ? I got so peed off at such ignorance that I sometimes said , I put on my Pyjamas , drink a bottle of whiskey and go to bed. Today you have people joining these floating hotels and think they know it all. JS

Served my time on some 12 passenger ships (more than enough for me ugh!) I was once asked what the rondel was on top of the for'd wooden topmast and what was it called, told her it was called a truck and it prevents rain and seawater getting into the top of the mast thus stopping it splitting. She said NO! tell me what it's really for, so I told her it was still called a truck, but at night we filled it with seagull **** and wheeled it away. Thus ended my career on passenger vessels

[happy daze john in oz]

I have seen a list of the most stupid questions asked on ships, now and in the past.

Where do the ice cravings go when they melt. Back in the fridge
Where do the crew sleep, In their beds
Where does the electricity come from. A very long lead from shore side
Do the crew have to cook their own food. No they have take aways flown in each day.

The list is endless.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Another old one Ivan.
Young deck boy was splicing a rope, a woman passenger came up and asked what he was doing, "Making a dogs cock." he said. The woman was aghast and stomps off to the skipper, the skipper tells her that a dogs cock is a nautical term for a back splice. So off she went to apologize to the lad, She said I'm very sorry I didn't realize that a dogs cock was a nautical term for a back splice. He said, That's alright missus I F%#*d it up anyway .
Des

[j.sabourn]

As regards knots the one you could not fail on was the common old reef knot, if you made a mess of that one you finished up with a granny knot , and could always say that was your intention in the first place . That also happened to a lot of would be heroes who woke up next morning and thought they were in bed with their granny, JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Bit off topic but fits in somehow.
In the paper today a story about a small town in an EU country.
It has now officially changed its name to Fugging.

Apparently so many visitors, many from UK, had their photo taken along side of the towns name post of F#@()&ng.

[Ivan Cloherty]

. That also happened to a lot of would be heroes who woke up next morning and thought they were in bed with their granny, JS

So true, how so many seamen went to bed with a princess and waking up becoming converted shouting JESUS CHRIST!!

[Keith Tindell]

I see our French friend Barnier has gone soft, and his latest offer on trade talks is he will allow the UK fishermen an increase quota catch up to 18%, well how generous of him, kt

[cappy]

I see our French friend Barnier has gone soft, and his latest offer on trade talks is he will allow the UK fishermen an increase quota catch up to 18%, well how generous of him, kt

thught this was all settled last week .....we should just up sticks walk away and tell them to foxtrot oscar

[j.sabourn]

#27 .. And that was after foxtrotting all night Ivan. Ask Cappy. JS

[Keith Tindell]

Cappy 29, no, think this is a new offer, he's upped the anti from 15-18, it just astounds me, how can you negotiate with someone offering to give you something which is yours already?, i think this fishing rights is something we have them by the nuts on, and god help Boris if he lets go, kt