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No te preocupes amigo. Lo mas importante es practicar, no?
My Dad was in the Royal Navy...submarines.
Also my Señora has a friend (Argentine) who lives in Tauranga and teaches Spanish.
You're ex Navy right?
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« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2009, 11:29:26 PM » |
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No te preocupes amigo. Lo mas importante es practicar, no?
My Dad was in the Royal Navy...submarines.
Also my Señora has a friend (Argentine) who lives in Tauranga and teaches Spanish.
You're ex Navy right?
Si surface ships, seamanship was my speciality, I spent a fair bit of time on an oceanographic ship as well as the normal frigates etc. I served with Argentinians, Uruguayans and Chileans when I was with the Untied Nations in Cambodia in the 1990s. One of my friends here in Wellington is originally from Argentina. He still has family there and visits occasionally. He was last there at Xmas. |
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2009, 12:11:43 AM » |
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Wow! Must have been an unforgetable part of your life. I never joined the Navy, much as my Dad wanted me to. I was lucky enough to own a beautiful 1958 long keel Nicholson 35 for a few years and enjoyed many trips down to France and Spain in her. I'll never forget 11.5 knots (over the ground) creaming through the straits of Gibraltar. Wooden boat don't leak, they just take in water  |
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2009, 07:50:36 AM » |
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awesome I visited Gib once in 1977 on our way to the Queens Silver Jubilee. I was young and reckless in those days. Now I am old and reckless and with a lot less hair. |
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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2009, 10:06:11 AM » |
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« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2009, 10:08:13 AM » |
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boat life would never be for me but it sounds mighty adventurous the things you guy's must've seen Vasco and Splinter |
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« Reply #21 on: August 26, 2009, 12:15:17 AM » |
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Blimey Vasco, I was living in Portsmouth then and watched the spectacle from an old wooden dinghy. Ctulu imho, sailing although great fun, is like a marriage: long periods of inactivity interspersed by moments of intense action. Yacht racing has always been my favourite, except for the time in Palma, Mallorca when I had to abandon the race (and almost the boat) due to a small hole in the hull. Wooden boat though, so no major drama. Except when my brother whicpered to me 'I think we may have a wee problem Marc'  |
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« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2009, 09:48:51 AM » |
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I've always wondered if an umbrella would come in handy in that situation. You know, ram it through the hole, open it, then pull it back and let the water pressure flatten it against the hull..  How small a hole was it? Would a cocktail umbrella have fitted it?  |
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« Reply #23 on: August 26, 2009, 09:52:40 AM » |
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How small a hole was it? Would a cocktail umbrella have fitted it? |
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« Reply #24 on: August 26, 2009, 05:17:23 PM » |
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The hole was large enough to put your index finger in. Unfortunately I didn't have any cocktail umbrellas on board added to which all three pumps packed up.
The crew, including me were shaken not stirred.
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« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2009, 06:19:06 PM » |
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The hole was large enough to put your index finger in. Unfortunately I didn't have any cocktail umbrellas on board added to which all three pumps packed up.
The crew, including me were shaken not stirred.
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« Reply #26 on: August 26, 2009, 08:38:07 PM » |
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I've always wondered if an umbrella would come in handy in that situation. You know, ram it through the hole, open it, then pull it back and let the water pressure flatten it against the hull.. How small a hole was it? Would a cocktail umbrella have fitted it? I vote we stick you in a boat in the middle of a lake and let you test your theory |
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« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2009, 10:56:01 PM » |
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I've always wondered if an umbrella would come in handy in that situation. You know, ram it through the hole, open it, then pull it back and let the water pressure flatten it against the hull.. How small a hole was it? Would a cocktail umbrella have fitted it? I vote we stick you in a boat in the middle of a lake and let you test your theory I second that! |
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