S-Westerly
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There's a section of M5 south of the Gordano Services junction where 4 lanes merge into 3 just at the brow of a long uphill straight. Virtually every month there's a shunt there, often at high speed when someone goes hooning up the hill, ignores all the signs warning that the outer lane has to merge and finds themselves straight into the back end of slower moving traffic with nowhere to go.
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I'm a bit ambivalent about an air vest. I can see the pros but for me a downside is I often wear a backpack and I'm pretty sure they aren't compatible. If I did buy one I would go for the tethered option for all the reasons stated above.
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I use laminated gear (not always Goretex) and ridden from Morpeth to Stroud in monsoon rain all the way. Not pleasant but I was dry except for a damp collar as there's no way to stop water seeping down. In summer months when my gear isn't laminated I use a Scott 2 piece which works well, especially the jacket. Summer gloves? I'm in the market for an allegedly waterproof pair. -
If we're going to be picky we prefer merchant seaman. Sailors are WAF idiots.
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Just a bit unless you're a passenger ship man. Which i am emphatically not.
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I was going to write steam off another bodily waste product but thought that was a bit uncouth being posh and all.
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Just can't get my head round this. I want a decent bike so I'll mooch off some other poor saps? I wouldn't give them a bent brass washer.
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And the dead badgers / foxes.
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Sounds like Gloucester.
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Probably but I'd rather not commit a crime where my ear could be used in evidence against me!
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From what I gather you can rob folks blind and get away with it but if you say hurty words about someone on social media they are all over you like a bad rash.
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Okay. I've used Ultimate Ear before and they've now got a digital record of my ears so I dont need to faff around with molds in future. I'd have been sad if they'd gone belly up.
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I know what the other F is too and don't entirely agree with the sentiment. Totally agree with what floats but no experience of something that flies.
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The last marina we kept our boat in Bangor NI didn't really like liveaboards although at one point maybe 20% of the bigger boats were. However a new marina opened up in Belfast city which was cheaper and welcoming to liveaboards so most shifted there. A lot of the folks were working in Belfast as well so it made sense in so many ways. I still regret selling the boat but I can charter one for 2 weeks for less than it was costing me to run. Plus the maintenance of course.
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Who was that? I've had a set delivered last month from Ultimate Ear and I've used them before as they made the earplugs that worked best for me.
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Humph.
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Change of plan. All training cancelled so a day's prepping wasted. Mooring to Odudu Single Buoy Mooring instead for second half of cargo. All good as the quicker we finish here the quicker we get on to the next voyage.
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Swinger? You may want to rephrase that unless you know something different?
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Lucky you.
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We kept ours in Bangor Northern Ireland. Looked at one of the Clyde marinas but even then they were about £1500 more than we were paying. Used to sail the Clyde quite a lot especially in from October through to April. In the summer months tended to go up the West Coast and the Isles. Great fun.
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Given I was spending over 3 grand a year for marina fees 9 years ago a one off £1600 sounds like a winner. One of the reasons I sold mine and it wasn't huge - 10.5 m.
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No we have to conduct various drills to rehearse disasters and mayhem. You wouldn't believe the crap I had to jump through after the recent shunt in the North Sea! There's a degree of logic to it though and it's largely me conducting the training in this case.
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Saturday is training day so have to plan for that and Sunday we are scheduled to load the second part of this cargo. Not the best weekend ever.
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On the subject of Aussie bands i used to quite like Cold Chisel back in the day.
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Module 2 - members test experiences
S-Westerly replied to a topic in CBT, Test and Advanced Training Information
Congratulations, now time to enjoy biking and the summer coming up too. Winner.
