Pansy's Back

Definately a bit more than lumpy there Mark , I don't mind it being rough ( any more in case Normans looking in ) but the " foot spa " in the bottom makes me feel uneasy to say the least ,you certainly went through some dodgy times and once again I take my hat off to all three of you , I might need to hide behind a cushion when I watch the full footage.
 
That jury rig is a masterstoke of up against the wall engineering...I bet to god you won't putting the old gal up against it like that again will you?

3mph Westerlies and gentle cruises out of the Tyne from now on?

haven't watched the Vid yet as I've not got quicktime on the work PC...I wait with anticipation...

erm...I didn't jinx you with my Illiad and Ancient Mariner comments did I? :red:
 
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That jury rig is a masterstoke of up against the wall engineering...I bet to god you won't putting the old gal up against it like that again will you?

3mph Westerlies and gentle cruises out of the Tyne from now on?

haven't watched the Vid yet as I've not got quicktime on the work PC...I wait with anticipation...

erm...I didn't jinx you with my Illiad and Ancient Mariner comments did I? :red:
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the boat took it in her stride, it was what she was built for I suppose and it was n her home turf, If we ever get caught out though, there's going to a nice comfort factor in knowing what she can handle

I'd rigged something like that on a yacht years ago, when I was getting stuff together to take up, I looked at a bunch of shackles in the sheds with some small blocks attached and decided to throw them in, don't know why I thought 3" blocks from a sailing dinghy might be useful, but without them we'd have been screwed!
 
Just watched the video..and TBH I experienced worst in the Ian woods Boat Comp last year...;):p

seriously though you've all got big
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When in the RN we were asked to go out on the Flight deck to do flight deck operations coz the senior pilot "had" to get his hours in...it was HUGE seas and HUGE hooly winds...funnily enough he lasted all of thirtys seconds...he took off and landed almost straight away (TW@!!)...leaving we mechanics to have to do all the after "flight" (!!??) servicing

like Norm' has already said...R.E.S.P.E.C.T...find out what it means to me...:red::yltype:..'had a few bevvies...g'night;):D
 
Amasing how fortunate your choice of bits and bobs turned out to be Mark ,I'm sure it was a "nah we'll not need them" ," but well just in case " decision but it turned out to be some trek eh ,fortune favours the brave and all that lol ,anyway if your down there this weekend I might pop down for a look .
 
Read all of this thread through today and it is class, nowt more or nowt less than I would have expected from you lads, but reading doesn't get much better lol. I hope you have a great future with Pansy and I hope she looks after her the way you will look after her.

"I'd rigged something like that on a yacht years ago, when I was getting stuff together to take up, I looked at a bunch of shackles in the sheds with some small blocks attached and decided to throw them in, don't know why I thought 3" blocks from a sailing dinghy might be useful, but without them we'd have been screwed"!

Strange thing that Mark, it is something we have all done but something none of us can explain mate.

Jim.
 
small issue of steering to resolve first!

going down there tomorrow, going to strip the hydraulics off then take stock, and try find a new pump, once thats sorted want to reseal/caulk a couple of seams that got blown out and then she's good to go, everything else we can potter on with in between trips

might try to get some of the caulking done as well tommorrow as well, going to try keep it as traditional as possible.... oakum & white lead putty!!

any volunteers for a crash course in caulking?? found my old caulking iron in the shed and cleaned it up ready
 
Congratulations on your sucessful journey chaps. I checked the sea conditions for your trip on magicseaweed and there were some nasty colours on the charts (didn't want to post owt incase I scared you's like). I can tell you there would have been some brown objects floating in that water in the galley if I'd been on board!. Well done again.
JF
 
Funny you should mention brown floating objects in the galley John. After safely getting into Peterhead there was a complete and total memory loss of what had just happened by all concerned - we strolled about, possibly a bit of Gambolling was going on, and talked about nice dry things. The skipper's OCD however meant that he had a look in the boat to see whether it's arse was still there. We heard a shout -

"The Boat is full of turds"

Me and nice Marc had a quick skeg -

"Aww naw the boat is full of turds"

Bear in mind the bog had already had a blow back moment and the whole effort was 6" under water - We realised that Ahab was exempt from poo patrol on account of his love for all things black, greasy, horrible and deiseled (This man only drinks Earl Grey tea FFS - with a sugar :eek:)- we knew one of us had to go in a some stage and wrangle a turd or seven, there was loads of them - like a little poo poo regatta. My excuse was the last one I done was proper squoity (Fact) come to think of it MArc was looking like he recognised a couple of them. The wee man actually offered to sort them out (later like) I argued that as he was a guest and wasn't chipping in for deisel he should have volunteered earlier. Anyroad we just ignored the little terrors and did something else for a while.


End of story - it was bits of caulking that had blown out and been washed through the bilges. When these devils surfaced on my kitched floor they looked more like turds than a turd does. Phew man - no turds.




We did try eating one on day 67 and it tasted like ****
 
mark said:
I only said they were caulking to get you to touch them :D
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Enter the stick :D

Straight up - I thought the whole gaff was awash with pa pa

Found out it wasn't - CHAMPION. another Brucy Bonus and I must apologise for using that term Brucy Bonus. Never previously said it but used said term at least ten times during the trip. Best use IMO was when Pansy nearly went all Olga Korbett on us but didn't and I didn't end up slipping slowly to my death through the inky cold blackness (Blowing on the life jacket whistle and seeing only bubbles) She righted herself, I'm sure Marc stopped phlegming for a second and Gandalf was just being all superb - and I couldn't help but say

"Another Brucy Bonus"


Kill me now
 
Ah the turd eposode.

It's all coming back to me know.

I remember being in the Caley canal and picking a cat littler poop scooper upper and thinking this is a crap dust pan (full of Holey things) then thinking, what the **** is this doing on a boat, must have been from the previous owners 'ships cat'.

All was to be revelled around Rattray Point though!

Had nowt to do with the cat, well suppose it had, that mad inventer, your best friend, "Tiger" Tom must have realised we would need it and put it there.

I did step up to the challenge and did offer to do it, suppose I had to really, you's saved my life, or one of them, mebeys I'm the ship's cat, Oh ****.

Do remember getting through Peterhead piers, sticking my head up above the window and shouting, "what the **** is that" then getting into calmer water, standing up, reaching for a tab, handing you one and saying "Piece Of ****" ha ha.



Would still have rather chipped in for diesel though!

Second thoughts, It's a industrial diesel engine isn't it, I could have just sea-phlemed into the tanks, She'll run on heavy black crude oil won't she :)
 
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Do remember getting through Peterhead piers, sticking my head up above the window and shouting, "what the **** is that"
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Them things was waves M8 and I remember saying -"There's plenty more where that came from Hobbs"

Waves are bad
 
Charlie_Thompson said:
Them things was waves M8"
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Them weren't waves, they were horrible, nasty, mustardy, green, black sea monsters......

Waves, go soosh, swoosh as they ripple over nice smooth pebbly stoney things when the sun is going down and your eating your pie while a beautiful blonde woman does salty things to your battered sausage cos youv'e had yur chips.

Still sure they were turds though, don't care what the skipper says.

As good ole Jim Royal would have said......Courk, my arse, at one point that was a option :)
 
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well i liked em, especially the big see through ones when we submarined and they broke over the bows and up through the scuppers

I think those 'not turds' are actually living creatures that have evolved in the bilges, they'd all disappeared when I was down there the other day and the biscuits had all gone
 
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