A Very Sad Man

[Afishionado]

With Pride of Morpork all cleaned and spotless waiting to be sold, and Pride of Morpok II not available until 22 March, a gap has appeared in my 'things to tat around and do' list that retired blokes get their days filled by. I have read the Merry Fisher spec about 100 times, the Suzuki brochure 98 times, varnished me boat hook, bought a pile of goodies to go on the new boat, sat and sorted them out, cleaned and checked my tackle (Steady there in the back row!) Fishing Tackle!!! and am now bored.

 

So to the sad bit. A bright and sunny morning so I went down to Cobbs to look at the berth they allocated to us. I had preveously explained about my problem walking too far and shown them my blue card to prove the point. What a nice bunch of people they are turning out to be! They have given us a berth on F pontoon about 30 foot from the entry gate, bang next to power and the fresh water hose.

How sad? Two grown men and Carol grinning like loons stareing at a patch of water and imagining the hole in it that our new boat will fit in!

Any way it's a lovely berth facing on to the back of Holes bay which in the summer should give some nice views for those evenings that one just wants to sit and chill.

 

Mad Mike

[alun j.]

........but will you go fishing Mike??

[gaffa]

Ah Ah !

 

Looks like we'll be neighbours then Mike

 

 

Only Problem is my Berth is about 1/2 Mile along F pontoon but the exercise does me good

 

I keep thinking of maybe swapping moorings but what the hell it's the only exercise I get nowadays

 

It does have the benefit of being sheltered by the Damn Great Lifeboat thats suddenly appeared across from Reflections 2

 

Is it a sign????

 

Pete

[Afishionado]

........but will you go fishing Mike??

Oh certainly, we are expecting to fish more, particularly afternoon/evenings mid week. Launch and then recovering was a bit of a drag which was one of the things that prompted the upgrade. Also the very real posibility of overnighting on board leads to a good chance of going out on a Friday night and back on a Saturday evening when the weather improves.

I must say we are getting very excited about getting her and familiarizing ourselves with her. If my memory serves the first engine service is at 20 hrs, and we would like to run her in and get the service done before the season proper starts.

 

Just a thought by the way. Is there any chance of arranging a mutual photo session one sunny day on a you click mine and I'll click yours basis? It could be fun if several of us got together, and even more fun if we could get some flotilla shots for the web site.

 

Mad Mike

[Maverick Martin]

Mike

 

I would be up for the photo session bit as I'm desperate for some quality shots of "Awol" We (the ex Maverick crew) have been known to take some quality shots ourselves, just ask Tom and Adam

 

Let me know where and when, we will be there

 

Martin

[Afishionado]

That's great Martin, it wont be untill April I guess and it would be good to pick a bright weekend for the light. Shall we firm up something nearer the time with idealy a weeks notice? And as I said before the more the better because I think a flotilla shot would be the 'dog's' spectacles.

 

Mad Mike

[Maverick Martin]

Sounds good Mike

 

As I said earlier just let me know when and where and I will be there

 

Martin

[Fugazi]

If you guy's wanna do this in April, Fugazi will be back in commission then and I would like to get some on the water action shots. Providing its a weekend count me in for the flotilla shots as I'm not one of the retired just yet!

 

Gordon H