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Beware the Trent and Mersey!

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:03 am
by DavebytheSea
The Eastburn Family may sail the open ocean, but a 55' narrow boat on the Trent and Mersey is another matter entirely!

On Friday, we sail from Long Eaton (where is that? Nottinghamshire? Derbyshire? ... some arctic region , no doubt) west sou'west by compass into the Trent and Mersey canal. Jonathan and Adam are being released from CH a day early to join us up there so the skipper looks to be wearing a peaked cap from his position aloft the main garboard strake, bellowing incomprehensible commands to a servile crew as he sips his daily grog.

Just in case any of you are boaters in those waters, I suggest you keep a sharp look-out for pirates or drunkards, and should you, by any chance, keep house in the vicinity, the skipper and his moll would welcome a dish o' tay ashore to calm his frazzled nerves.

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:53 am
by J.R.
Just watch out for Iranian snatch-squads, David !!!

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:10 pm
by Great Plum
Seems that a lot of the CH community will be on inland waters, hat with the Scouts being on the Norfolk Broads... (Steady JR!)