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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Dave Bryant Date: 19 Mar 02 - 05:14 AM London Branch of the IWA usually charter "Pudge" - I'll try and find out the price. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Lanfranc Date: 18 Mar 02 - 07:09 PM OK, Noreen, how did you do it? Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will quote (you had to follow on through another link at the bottom of the page): "from £450 for a two hour cruise at Maldon to £850 for a day sail on the Orwell." I seem to recall that we did the two hour cruise, which cost us £10 each for the 50 of us who went, winding up at the "Jolly Sailor" on Maldon Quay. A day sail is obviously better value, but given the geographical spread and boracic state of some, could we rise to the cost? They also do weekends full board at around £100 a head for a group of 12. Is this getting too ambitious (or exclusive?)? Alan
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Noreen Date: 18 Mar 02 - 02:15 PM Oooooh... now I know how to post without signing in at all... *divilish grin* |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:35 AM Alan, I didn't see any costs mentioned in that link, what do you understand by not cheap, please? (Apart from that it sounds a lovely idea) Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Lanfranc Date: 18 Mar 02 - 10:52 AM Was referred to this - not cheap, but split between 40, we Essex Singers were not deterred! Barge Hydrogen Charter Alan
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Lanfranc Date: 18 Mar 02 - 10:34 AM Essex Singers Club hired the "Hydrogen" for a day session a couple of years ago. I'll contact the organisers and get details. Alan |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Skipjack K8 Date: 18 Mar 02 - 10:07 AM Guest, I don't know what the ante is for hiring a barge, but I was thinking of approaching East Coast Sail Trust, with who I had a year in the Sir Alan Herbert (Now reverted to Lady Jean). They still run Thalatta as a school training ship, are a charity, and shouldn't be overly booked at weekends. Thalatta is based at Maldon, too. Maldon Town Regatta is on 28th September 2002 Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Dave Bryant Date: 18 Mar 02 - 08:22 AM Yes, I think that they included the lady (Clare ?) in a sort of Charlie Dimmock role to attract more viewers. She's evidently an expert on steam engines (visions of pistons going backwards and forwards in cylinders). Be interesting to see how they make out on the 'Edna', though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Skipjack K8 Date: 18 Mar 02 - 06:51 AM There is allegedly a programme on the electric television in the UK tonight (Channel 4 at 8pm) that features the 'saving' of the Ena. She's an old Pauls sailorman. No recommendations, but apparently the lady engineer is well tasty. Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: GUEST,micca at work Date: 18 Mar 02 - 06:20 AM Schooner you then me, mate, you might barge in and getget a smack in the gob from someone T(r)awler than you leaving you like a spar part and with a mizzen yard or so..and end up in the brig, |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: John MacKenzie Date: 18 Mar 02 - 01:47 AM Yacht not to have said that! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Dead Horse Date: 17 Mar 02 - 02:14 PM Can provide Guest with a cut rate cutter, but there might be a ketch! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Gareth Date: 17 Mar 02 - 07:28 AM Thread Merge Warning !!!! See MudCat at Sea. Click 'ERE Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: GUEST Date: 17 Mar 02 - 12:14 AM What is the charge for a Thames barge? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Gareth Date: 16 Mar 02 - 11:05 AM sorry Micca = My Error ! Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Dave Bryant Date: 16 Mar 02 - 04:08 AM Yes Bob was the skipper of Cambria. I've already posted this link when I was looking for the words of Bob's poem "The Hoily Rigs" - which I'm still trying to find. As Skipjack says though, a spritty doesn't have room for a lot of people - London branch of the Inland Waterways Association charter one each year and there's always a scramble for places. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stony Stratford...? From: Micca Date: 15 Mar 02 - 09:07 PM Gareth, I think it was Bob Roberts was the SB skipper!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Gareth Date: 15 Mar 02 - 07:04 PM Skipjack - I think you may be on a winner ! Mudcats on a Thames Barge - Maldon, or Faversham Creek, or Upnor - Needs some thinking about. But the Ghost of John Roberts Shall Rise, Shall Rise Again ! Just remeber the last barge to trade under SAIL Was "CAMBRIA" Gareth
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Skipjack K8 Date: 15 Mar 02 - 05:23 AM Biscuits? It's all rum, bum and baccy. We could charter a Thames barge (90' datebox) for static charter on Maldon Town Quay, but they are only licensed to take 12 or so bodies to sea. The hold on the unconverted barges would contain thirty or forty folk, and the cost would be defrayed over that number to an acceptable level. We could combine it with Maldon Town regatta, in September, which is always a jolly affair. Only problem is I'm 200 miles away from Maldon. I'd handle the hiring of the barge, but I can't volunteer as event organiser because of time commitments and distance. A flavour of Maldon is at http://www.maldon.gov.uk/data/visit/vi_intro.htm and barges at http://www.sailingbarge.co.uk/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Dave Bryant Date: 15 Mar 02 - 05:13 AM Another venue on the East Coast could be Walton-on-the-Naze. It has a flourishing little folk scene, several folk-friendly pubs and it's own Folk Festival. I have quite a few contacts there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Terry K Date: 15 Mar 02 - 04:33 AM Hey - if there's biscuits, maybe the good ship "Euterpe" could be tempted out of winter storage too! Cheers, Terry |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Noreen Date: 14 Mar 02 - 04:54 PM A Mudcat Meet aboard the Good Ship Skipjack? Thanks for the offer, Skippy... (I'll bring the ship's biscuits.) Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Skipjack K8 Date: 14 Mar 02 - 04:13 PM Maldon sounds good, 8 miles from the good ship Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: MudGuard Date: 14 Mar 02 - 04:07 PM Gareth, hope you didn't misunderstand - I didn't want to say you are too slow - I just wondered whether I missed something. And yes, I know, banks can be very slow... MudGuard/Andy |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: John MacKenzie Date: 14 Mar 02 - 02:26 PM I've been all at sea for years.*BG* Venue suggestions, Whitby, Arbroath, Seahouses, Maldon, can't think of any on the east coast. Failte.....Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Gareth Date: 14 Mar 02 - 02:13 PM Andy et all - waiting for the bank - matters progress more slowly than I like but it's comming. Dead 'Orse, yer in good company, so did Nelson, & Captain J Walker. Nothin particular in mind - just a stone in the puddle to see what happens to the ripples. Gareth
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Dave Bryant Date: 14 Mar 02 - 07:36 AM Gareth - do you have a coastal or marine venue in mind ? Most folkies would be happy singing shanties in the middle of the sahara desert - they don't need any encouragement from the sea. If it's "at sea" do I have to turn up in Ursa Minor ? - it would have to be calm weather she hasn't got a lot of freeboard. Actually about 1/2 mile offshore would be a good place for a kazoo/bodhran workshop - preferably without a boat ! Giok - Scan the pics onto your hard drive - open them up with your image editing program (I find PaintShop Pro 4 - unregistered version the most useful) and save them again and you should be alright. The only other thing that I can think of is that YAHOO has a limit on the size of the pics that it will accept. Why not zip them up into a single file and send them (as an attachment) to Jeff@mudcat.org and get him to put them up on the Mudcat photo site with Mudguard's ones. You'll probably need to give a description of each. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: MudGuard Date: 14 Mar 02 - 07:18 AM Dead Horse, getting sea-sick does not fit your Captain-Ahab image... ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Dead Horse Date: 14 Mar 02 - 04:31 AM A UK Catters Gathering - at Sea, or on the Coast??? Put me down for the coast. (Just for your ears only - I don't want this getting round - you know - only - .........I get sea sick) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 14 Mar 02 - 03:00 AM 'Maid of Kent' was one of a pair of cross channel ferry doing the Weymouth-Boulogne run back in the 1970's when Weymouth still had ferries.... She would regularly come back 'dry' from the booze cruisers so she was renamed the 'Maid of Ale.' LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: MudGuard Date: 14 Mar 02 - 02:55 AM Gareth, after the HREF="..." of the second link you had a . instead of a > which made it impossible to answer which I allowed myself to report in the help forum... Just a question for you, Gareth, or whoever knows about it: What is the current state of the "Friends"? Last thing I heard were the minutes of the initial meeting... MudGuard/Andy |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Gareth Date: 13 Mar 02 - 06:54 PM Very Much Thanks for the JoeClones who fixed my HTML. Now just a tiny thought - A UK Catters Gathering - at Sea, or on the Coast. Discuss ! Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Noreen Date: 13 Mar 02 - 06:20 PM Giok- scan them in again, choosing jpeg format? Cobble had something similar happen, his digital camera said the output was jpeg but Yahoo wouldn't accept them; when I resaved them as jpeg, yahoo took them- perhaps there are different meanings for jpeg? Sounds odd, but seems to be the case... Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: vectis Date: 13 Mar 02 - 05:50 PM That's better than being at the bottom of the Medina where she was when I left the Island. Time to buy a plate as a thankyou for some lovely parties I enjoyed in her. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Gareth Date: 13 Mar 02 - 03:26 PM Sorry Dead Horse - She aint made it to the Dockyard yet, she's lying in the Graveyard at the back of Hoo Island.
Click 'Ere for more info. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: John MacKenzie Date: 13 Mar 02 - 02:43 PM Well I've tried to load piccies via my scanner onto my Yahoo site, and it won't take. It keeps telling me that the pictures are in the wrong format, although the blurb says that Yahoo will convert any format to JPEG. I do have them on a CD but my CD drive is weird, every time I put a disc in I get the blue screen of death. So as the actress said to the bishop, "What the f**k do I do now?". Help.....Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Dead Horse Date: 12 Mar 02 - 03:26 PM Will do some checking, but I believe the Medway Queen is in Chatham Dockyard awaiting extensive restoration. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Dave Bryant Date: 12 Mar 02 - 09:19 AM Still no more piccies - how are you getting on with that roll of film Giok - take it out and get it developed now -then you won't have to use up the camera batteries any more. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: vectis Date: 10 Mar 02 - 07:29 PM The Medway Queen, an old paddle steamer, made it to the Isle of Wight. It became a floating casino until someone set fire to it. I think it sunk. That particular maid of Kent went south and never saw home again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: John MacKenzie Date: 10 Mar 02 - 04:46 AM Some are born geezers, others become geezers, and some have geezerhood thrust upon them. Don't worry old 'oss it comes to us all "Keep young and beautiful, it's your duty to be beautiful" Sing-along-a-Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Gareth Date: 09 Mar 02 - 03:30 PM Ahhhh !!! That lovely rambling Kings Arms, and the Ship, and the Tudor, remember,it is better to be in the bar wishing you were at sea, than at sea wishing you were in the bar . Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Dead Horse Date: 09 Mar 02 - 03:16 PM Gareth: First met twinkle toes in Upnor, serving in the Kings Arms (her parents pub) when I was a squaddie at Chattenden. Liked the way she pulled a pint, so I married her. That was 23yrs ago, and she aint pulled me a pint since. Given me two daughters and made a home, so I aint bitchin. 'Twas all her fault that I got into the dreaded folk scene by way of the morris lot wot she went and joined in order to *keep fit*. Now she has got me into Cajun stuff, but NOT Apple-asian. I aint doin none of that thar jingle-tappin & hoofin, its as much as I can do now to waltz-step. Turnin into a Geezer......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: John MacKenzie Date: 09 Mar 02 - 02:02 PM Well seeing as 'ow my SO is from Herne Bay, that'll make her a Maid of Kent. Sounds like a good name for an old paddle steamer dunnit? Still no answer to my query on the Granny Patel, I was just trying to extrapolate frome the old joke about the Indian cloak room attendant called Mahatma Coat,and his Scottish assistant Angus McCoatup!! BOOM BOOM Failte.....Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Gareth Date: 08 Mar 02 - 06:27 PM Oi Dead 'Orse - as a Welsh Git I sail out of Upnor on the Mudway. Gaareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Dead Horse Date: 08 Mar 02 - 04:35 PM Strood, where Kay & meself reside, is norf of the Mudway. But seeing as 'ow she was birthed in Walfamstow,Lunnon, meself in Sowfend-on-Sea,Hessex, that makes us both furrigners. Me Great-great-grandad was frum Scotland, he married an Irish lass - ergo - ich bin ein Welsh git. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 08 Mar 02 - 11:20 AM Can we let this one die please? The constant mis-spelling of Stony Stratford is doing my brain in!! (I'm thinking of writing an anti-drugs anthem -- "There Ain't No 'E' In Stony") |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Steve Parkes Date: 08 Mar 02 - 10:37 AM Me, I was brought up on the Tame Delta, where we used to look up from the cotton fields and watch the canal boats going over Telford's aqueduct. All spoilt when they built the M6 through the middle of it ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Dave Bryant Date: 08 Mar 02 - 08:37 AM Jon - For your definition to work, the Medway would have to flow E-W - Which would mean that it would never reach the Thames at all. In actual fact it flows NE - SW, so perhaps it would be safest to define Kentish Maid/Man as being to the NE of the Medway and Man/Maid of Kent to the SE. I wonder what you'd be if you were born on "Monkey Island" at Tonbridge, with branches of the river on both sides...... I was a Kentish Man - until Greater London came out to engulf me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Steve Parkes Date: 08 Mar 02 - 05:20 AM No Dave, that's the end of my old mandolin ... "When I'm paddlin' mandolin home ..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of Stoney Stratford...? From: Dave Bryant Date: 08 Mar 02 - 05:01 AM With the end of me old guitar, Tra-la-tra-la-Tra-la I violated Essex Girl with the end of my old Guitar. Linda strongly denies that it was "in there" - she says that it's only an optical illusion. Incidently after looking at the pic, I reckon you should check the guitar for Athelete's Foot. |