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Sailing

Old Salt said:
Illustrious
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She had a busy life.

en.wikipedia.org

HMS Illustrious (R06) - Wikipedia

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The only combat I saw on my vessel was on a 24hr trip from Wales down to Padstow and waking up from a 2hr rest to see the missus sitting by the tiller snoring like a bastard, said she was just 'resting her eyes', if I'd had a plank, she would have walked it.
 
fillyboy said:
She had a busy life.

en.wikipedia.org

HMS Illustrious (R06) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

The only combat I saw on my vessel was on a 24hr trip from Wales down to Padstow and waking up from a 2hr rest to see the missus sitting by the tiller snoring like a bastard, said she was just 'resting her eyes', if I'd had a plank, she would have walked it.
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No more rest for you and a life of leisure for mrs filly after that incident ;)
 
fillyboy said:
I wouldn't want to sail that single handed. How many crew? 1000?, Must have been a great life at times, do you miss it?
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1200 crew with the squadrons onboard about 960 without. I was onboard ‘86 to ‘89 and had numerous “incidents” including aircraft lifts failing and the infamous gearbox fire. I had just come off watch when the alarms went off. There were no Harriers onboard as far as I remember and no casualties were flown off so Wiki is wrong on that score. In fact I spoke to the two guys who were closest to the fire with a minute of them getting out of the compartment. One was just leaving the gear room and one was just going in, he stood back to let the other guy out of the hatch as the gearbox exploded. The senior guy had the sense of mind to drop the hatch and contain the fire.

The ship was supposed to be off around the world and was in the Solent setting full power on the gas turbines. My kids had gone down the seafront and saw the ship tootling up and down. Went home and told the mrs we were still in the solent and she was trying to convince them that they were wrong. The full story needs to be told over a couple of pints……
 
For those learning points of sail.
Have a look at sailGP races.

Close hauled irrelevant of the wind direction. Apparent wind is so much higher than true wind, when you are sailing at 50kts.
 
Odds said:
you do have them, right?
I mean, a boat without brass is a bit weird.
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Would be unusual on anything less than 50 years old. Stainless steel these days. My first boat was built in 72, had a couple of bronze fittings, don't recall any brass fittings. Second boat was built mis 80's, no brass. Bikers boats are much newer (and nicer).
 
No brass that I’m aware of. Maybe on the barometer in the saloon.

Toothpast works well on chrome. If you don’t have chrome cleaner.
 
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