In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Sent this to the list earlier but it's not arrived (at least with me). >Looks like Yahoo are having one of their loopy times! > >B > >On 25 Jul 2006, at 00:04, Phil & Anne Irons wrote: > >> Anne and I would be delighted to meet any listmembers who happen to be >> long >> the route of the Thames Ring between September 8th and October 6th. >> We'll >> be travelling in a clockwise direction, as you can see from the above >> messages. The boat is called Richard John. >> >We'll look out for you. Richard John is a venerable but still (AFAIK) >very nice boat.
Looked OK when passing here! I'm sitting on my mooring at WFB at the bottom of the Stockton flight so see most of the Kate Boats passing most weeks! >We last hired from Kate Boats in the '80s, but never >actually took RJ out. In those days most of Eric Simmonds's boats were >based on Peter Nicholls shells, but RJ wasn't, as can be seen by >comparing her to, say, Peter Michael or Amy Clare, both of which we did >hire, several times each. > >Great days - it was on board a Kate Boat in about 1985 that we decided >eventually to become liveaboards, so it took less than twenty years to >achieve the goal :-} And it was aboard Dorothy Constance in 1996 that I decided that I could still handle a boat after 23 years away from the cut and that led me to buy Thorn. Cheers Guy -- Guy Morgan ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/3EuRwD/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
