Boats I have known!

My first boat was a 18ft Bayliner with a Volvo inboard engine and would do about 30mph on a good day,I had this for over two years and only bought two fan belts and a battery for it!Was in the Caribbean where I was working and had many enjoyable outings as well as my scuba trips.Returning to the UK I got the urge again and found boats a lot more expensive than my pocket would allow.I ended up with a 25 year old fishing boat with twin perkins diesels ,mooring was expensive at first but what finally got me was as I was working away a lot the topsides being plywood detiorated very quickly and maintenance costs soared!Then she was holed and engines had to come out and be cleaned etc !!Shortly after she was sold for half the price ,lesson learned ,no more wooden boats!!Now retired in Thailand with a GRP boat and a 225HP Honda on the back gives 45mph on a flat day![ATTACH=CONFIG]228589[/ATTACH] That’s my wife disporting herself,an added attraction!!

I worked on Varsities for five years at RAF Oakington before I left the RAF and then went to Little staughton working on the same Varsities for another six months before joining the power industry.Fed up with them by then!There was a Valleta that arrived on the fire dump so my friend and I went to have a look and the whole fuselage inside was full of old generators starter motors and other sundry electrical gear!!Oh Ho we thought ,Copper galore!!Our plans were thwarted by our friendly snowdrop who said never darken its door again ,or words to that effect!!So all that gear ended up getting burnt ,probably a mound of copper there somewhere!!!

I thought there was a jamming device on the market for mob phones?That would be great!Come to Thailand and see practically everyone using mobiles ,even motor cyclists !!!!

Looks exactly like the 1960s type we used ,except the cable was an all in one black covered one.Bugg..s to tow as well ,if more than three they would snake !Ours were painted Blue ,yellow came in c1967.

Blackbird eggs.

Saw “Noah”on Monday and no ah didn’t like it at all .Thought it a terrible movie and very boring.

Back in the fifties I lived near the address on that list.About two miles from it!There where some ittinerants(gypsys)camped in a lane near our house and after they left there was a load of rubbish left behind and I remember having two black boxes one in MPH and the other one I forget ,obviously off aircraft so there is an element of truth in this!Alot of mining in this area also.