Phil suggested: > It is always worth carrying a few potatoes on board ..............
I would have liked one for the gob of the boat owner who pulled in in front of me one summer evening and then proceeded to set up his genny on his rear deck (right in front of my boat). When I protested that I was enjoying the peace and quiet of a lovely summer evening and didn't want to listen to his genny all night he, at first, suggested that he was only testing it (So why had he gone to the trouble of chaining it to his deck then? He also couldn't hear me speaking to him because of the noise of the genny) then admitted that he and his family wouldn't be able to watch TV all evening now. He then threatened me that as he liked a lie-in in the morning that he didn't expect to hear me set off in the morning. Yes, in that case, I could have found a very suitable receptacle for the potato ;-)))) Roger
