HI!

[Cappodimonte]

Welcome Malc, Friend of mine was requested by the examiner to perform an emergency stop on his test, the route was quite long but after two passes and no examiner seen he went home and complained to the test centre, the centre were apologetic explaining the examiner had performed the jump out…….unfortunately it was a biker dressed in much the same clobber who knocked the examiner over putting him in hospital.

[Malc (Malvis)]

OMG! 😟 That’s dedication to a job isn’t it?

[Laverda Dave]

Welcome Malc, Friend of mine was requested by the examiner to perform an emergency stop on his test, the route was quite long but after two passes and no examiner seen he went home and complained to the test centre, the centre were apologetic explaining the examiner had performed the jump out…….unfortunately it was a biker dressed in much the same clobber who knocked the examiner over putting him in hospital.

I shouldn't laugh but that is a funny story 😂.
When I took my test the examiner had walked down the road and jumped out on the bend I was coming round! I didn't emergency brake, if I had of done I would have fallen off on the oil slick my ex-plod Matchless 250CSR had left behind on the two earlier circuits I had completed! We did it again further up the road next time round.

[Sesman]

Hi, Ted. Yes, it’s the 500 we swapped info on. “Regrets “, I believe it’s all relative.

I regret having to sell, but I’ve chosen to do so to persue my Round the World sailing dream without a guilty family £££ conscience.

If there are any wealthy benefactors out there who would like to help….please get in touch😀😉

The picture is of me helming a 68ft racing yacht with 14 souls on board.

[Johnny4428]

Hi, Ted. Yes, it’s the 500 we swapped info on. “Regrets “, I believe it’s all relative.

I regret having to sell, but I’ve chosen to do so to persue my Round the World sailing dream without a guilty family £££ conscience.

If there are any wealthy benefactors out there who would like to help….please get in touch😀😉

The picture is of me helming a 68ft racing yacht with 14 souls on board.

Wow! Good luck on your round world sail. Sounds amazing.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

What a whopping steering wheel Philip.
As a student I crewed on a 50 ft wooden converted fishing boat that sailed from Port Dinorwick in North Wales to Barcelona using sails & a Perkins engine. It took a shade over 3 weeks. No autopilot with a Kent Screen that was overwhelmed by rain going over the bay of Biscay during bad weather. As a19 year old I thought we would drown at sea in the bay.  5 souls but only crew 3 who worked when out at sea.

[Sesman]

Thanks, Johnny.

T3 Training in November….we will be flying “spinnakers”, which I call “sphincters” on account of them making mine twitch on deployment.

[Johnny4428]

Thanks, Johnny.

T3 Training in November….we will be flying “spinnakers”, which I call “sphincters” on account of them making mine twitch on deployment.

🤣🤣🤣

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

When we were sailing through the Straights of Gibraltar we encounter the Levante?
At 11 Knott's flat out we were going backwards so we had to put into a tiny fishing Port Called Motril I think it was back in 1967.

[Bryanj]

Only time i was there was a 70,000 ton tanker going in circles

[andy120t]

Wow, exciting stuff! It (almost) puts our Topper and 11-foot sailing dingy  to shame...but I love small boats! The round the world yachts were in St Catherine's dock in London a few years ago and I had the chance to look around and talk to some of the crew .. I'm not sure I'm brave enough for the Southern Oceans but the boats were incredible.

[Laverdaroo]

Thanks, Johnny.

T3 Training in November….we will be flying “spinnakers”, which I call “sphincters” on account of them making mine twitch on deployment.

 

[Laverdaroo]

Yer bits came today Phil, theyre REALLY good and in better nick than mine, Ive bunged you a 'shiney' text

That seive youre steering looks incredible, everyone that I know that sails puts it up there with ski-ing and bikes, looks  fantastic, bet they go like the clappers at that stage with the sphincter up? Is that the 'Gert Big Bugger' at the front?

How wonderfully exciting