Pansy's Back

Cheers Bob,

Here's a couple more pics from the voyage, I've just stopped wobbling and my eyes are now working properly, since about lunchtime.

Mark's Black Hole where he could be found for probably the best part of the first two days, we let him up now and again, mostly when we broke something else or when we didn't know what course we on and needed help.... sometimes for bovril as well.

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Ell could normally be found here in his own little hole, if he wasn't polishing his worktops or his lemons it was his kettle for bovril.

This was later renamed as 'Ells Kitchen' now it needs a plaque made with little horns and stuff now.

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This one is our supper just before we left on the first night.

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Pansy might not be able to match Slinky Kate on speed but her drinks cabinet makes up for it........

Breakfast, mmmmm

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And the stick, well I'll leave one of them two to explain that.

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We did have a visitor half way across the Forth of Firth as I renamed it, a little feathered friend that got lost heading North, possibly from Africa and absolutly knackered. We ended up bringing him back to the Tyne which he probably wasn't to pleased about when he woke up.

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And just waiting at one of the locks again, Notice 'the stick'

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Sort some more out soon.
 
Great pix Marc.....Looking forward to seeing more from the trip......and reading more from the captains log (?)

Errrrm.....that last photo........remind me again - which one is "pansy" :D
 
Great pics indeed , I'm looking forward to getting down to St.Peters to see the craft and her heroic crew .

Yes about the last pic there ....Ell looks like he's sizing up a nice plump whale while Mark is having an obvious Noel Coward moment .... sorry lads didn't mean it HONEST ,I've heard how hardy you lot are like :D
 
Vids will be up the morra need the JVC software from work unless anyone knows how to convert .mod to .avi or proper mpeg? I've looked all over and changing the file extension doesn't work
 
looks like you were hoping for a genie to come out of that kettle the way you were rubbing ing

great photos
and as usual ells face puts a smile on any ones face
 
fork me, I've held back on commenting but I think I've urinated, cried and laughed the entire journey! Fantastic stuff guys! Hat's off for everything, especially again as mentioned the light hearted attitude the whole way. :)
 
been looking at the vid bits... not a lot as to be honest, there was too much to worry about for our erstwhile camerman to do his stuff (steering/bovril/sinking/dying/sea Phlegm.. that sort of thing)

just shrunk a quick taste-ette, best leave the rest to the professional, taken off rattray, about an hour before it got proper rough! thats 30 odd ton of boat, nearly 50 foot long playing bouncy bouncy!

when it did get really big, the whole boat was going airborne and slamming with a horrendous bang down into the bottom of the swell, the next wave breaking straight on the bows and combing over the top and through the scuppers. the old girl hasn't been to sea for a few years so the planks above the waterline have dried out a bit (not any more!) and the force of the big waves blew some of the caulking out, especially on the top plank where it shoulders the deck, at which point, with each wave we started to take a LOT of water, about an hour after this bit, there was best part of a foot of water in the cabin, repleat with floating lemons, just gave myself the heebee geebees watching it back. there was one particular set of waves that came from front, port and starboard one after another, it was possibly touch and go as to wether we'd roll... everything that wasn't fixed down went for a walk. How big... the fish finder bounced from reading 70foot to well well over a hundred and back again continually for a while

it would of been nice to see some of the really big stuff back again again, but our minds were on more important things!

oh yeah did we mention the steering!

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fork me, I've held back on commenting but I think I've urinated, cried and laughed the entire journey! Fantastic stuff guys! Hat's off for everything, especially again as mentioned the light hearted attitude the whole way. :)
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I lost it twice - once when playing footsie with the huge ship in the dead of night. A coastguard report came over the VHS(?) and some show off R'n'B, pseudo christian, voice wobbling, arse shaking, US, papalicious bellox was blasting out of the orrible sound system we'd found in the bilge. (I'm a Radio 4 / 5 man with a bit of Leg - Ends of an evening)

I said the F word and turned it off

I also lost it trying to get the zip up on my floatation jacket. Double zips - what the flip are they all about, they both still end at the bottom. Can a man not just unzip his jayket, have the wee then zip it back up again. These double fellared lads you need a laser beam to line them up beofre they'll play ball. Marc had to "Do me zip" once and I almost had to ask him another time. I am 42 and my arms reach down to my trouser pockets when I want them to.
 
RE: the video

It's quite obvious I suppose but a little video camera in no way illustrates the reality.

  • The clips are short - measured in seconds, this thing went on for hours
  • It's being viewed at home and not on a sinking, mental boat
  • During the worst bits videoing was kind of off the agenda, we had to cling on (those of us standing up like ;)) there's a perfect set of teethmarks on the edge of the chart table
I was seriously preparing myself for a dip in the ocean, I even stuffed a book and a lemon into me chesties in case the rescue chopper took it's time. Mind the life jackets weren't auto inflaters and I could only find the whistle - peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Mark wassup with this - is it Deisel?
 
now, what would of been funny, especially if we'd filmed it relates to the fact that the release for the liferaft had been tethered to the side of the boat... and the waves did knock the liferaft about a bit.... if it had knocked it about a bit more, the tether would of run out of slack and the raft would have, well, 'gone off' I suppose.

in which case we'd have been getting thrown around in mountainous seas whilst towing a bouncy castle, or very possible a giant inflatable jack in the box, or maybe out favoutire "'inventor cum engineers" dirty washing, we really don't know whats in the box, and hope I never have to find out

just looked at the last of marc's photo's above, and compared it to how battle scarred the front end is now..... there's another wee shiver down my spine
 
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RE: I was seriously preparing myself for a dip in the ocean, I even stuffed a book and a lemon into me chesties in case the rescue chopper took it's time. Mind the life jackets weren't auto inflaters and I could only find the whistle - peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Mark wassup with this - is it Deisel?
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Me morning Cuppa has just come out of me nose :D:D:D
Absolute first class lads think I will need a couple of stugeron to watch the final video though how you all have kept your sense of humour going through out when most would need counciling...
Stars the lot of ya!!!!
 
Just needed a wiff of the diesel and i think i would puke on the Bairn sitting here :D
Making a vid would have been the last thing on my mind :o;)
 
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