http://www.followtheboat.com Tales (not just) from the high seas Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:30:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.followtheboat.com/2004/07/13/how-fishy-is-fish/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2004/07/13/how-fishy-is-fish/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:12:42 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=516 We anchored up at Creux harbour and as the sun went down Tim and I nipped ashore for a quick exploration and then back again to spend an evening of getting drunk whilst at anchor. We explored intellectual topics - just how fishy is fish from the north sea - and looked at the stars. ]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2004/07/13/how-fishy-is-fish/feed/ 0 http://www.followtheboat.com/2003/07/31/sark-the-toytown-channel-island/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2003/07/31/sark-the-toytown-channel-island/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:19:54 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=705 Remember that whilst we’d like to believe boating should be for everyone it’s still a rich-man’s sport, so when a bunch of reprobates turn up in a home-made cement boat and moor up next to some bling bling million dollar yacht we’re not exactly greeted with open arms. At first this bothered me. It bothered me that we didn’t look the part and it bothered me that we didn’t have leather hand-stitched upholstery and a fridge that prevents the smell of ripe Camembert to fill the entire boat as soon as one opens the fridge door.]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2003/07/31/sark-the-toytown-channel-island/feed/ 0 http://www.followtheboat.com/2003/07/30/the-swinge-sailing-lessons-abound/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2003/07/30/the-swinge-sailing-lessons-abound/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:04:21 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=696 After tempers had dropped we all apologised to each other, including poor Lorraine who I think felt partly responsible for the incident, though it wasn’t her fault. It was no one’s fault, it was just a learning process but we very quickly learned that Sam’s temper can be short under stressful situations. Personally I kind of expected this and don’t have a problem with it, but I’m worried about Conny and Lorraine. Conny actually asked Sam to be more patient with us, and to Sam’s credit he apologised and said that he understood we wouldn’t learn anything with him shouting at us. Let’s hope it was a one-off incident.]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2003/07/30/the-swinge-sailing-lessons-abound/feed/ 0