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Fink
In: West Wales
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It was a bloody good childhood, wish I could have given the same to my daughter

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Fink @ 01/07/2022 23:03

Ragnar
In: London
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I spent 3 years going to school on a boat and I don't mean taking the Woolwich ferry to get there.
It was moored just down river from Tower Bridge

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Ragnar @ 02/07/2022 07:00

Mister Pete - Optimi
In: Burntwood
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Chartered bareboat in BVI - Pirates Pub / Saba Rock - great memories
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" I've sailed around the British Virgin Islands and the islands aroundTurkey,"

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Mister Pete - Optimist @ 02/07/2022 20:18

izzyhill
In: Hamilton
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I was born on a boat, mum never made it to the hospital and dad literally took the shirt off his back to wrap me up. No roads, rivers were the 'highways'.
Travelled by ship a couple of times from SE Asia as a child so been through Suez and around Cape of Good Hope. River cruise down the Rhine was part of our last trip home. Land based after that with just the odd ferry and school cruise, then dad went back overseas and every summer and Christmas for nearly ten years we took up sailing dinghies and keelboat, and did some water skiing.
Was lucky enough to win a ride crewing with Shirley Robertson for the round the island, Isle of Wight, race - that was fun!
Always enjoy a wee ferry crossing and up here there's enough opportunity for that to keep me happy.

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izzyhill @ 02/07/2022 21:42

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I have a Norman 23. I got her from whales, rebuilt her from the inside out, she now on the cannal east of Manchester

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Deleted Member @ 04/07/2022 17:55

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sounds amazing izzy 😁💫. we came back through the suez when we moved back to UK from Cyprus i believe, but i was only a wee lass so vague memories 😄😄💦

my mate has a Norman and for years i though he had named her that 😄. he keeps his ferrets on her and towed her behind the narrowboat 💫

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Deleted Member @ 14/07/2022 19:33

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Yes am intrested

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Deleted Member @ 25/04/2023 13:41