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 Post subject: Heaton Park Manchester
PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:37 am 
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Location: Spain
Boat Name(s): Fleur D'eau
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My boating days started on this lake first with this launch and later in rowing boats. They had single seater racing skiffs which they only hired out to competent rowers and only then if lake was not too choppy. CKP


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 1:14 pm 
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Location: Lancashire
Boat Name(s): The FGO Model Fleet
Boat Location: Foxshaw Gardens
Waterway Base: Various Layouts
Those were the days when parks with lakes and reservoirs had boats to hire by the hour. All my local ones have disappeared, the boats not the lakes.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:01 pm 
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Boat Name(s): Clarice, Ada and Kingfisher
Boat Location: Clarence Dock
Waterway Base: Crown Point
Only boats allowed on the lake near my son's house is model boats!

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:36 pm 
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Location: Near Oxford
Boat Name(s): Marsaltese
Waterway Base: South Oxford
A combination of "Health & Safety" and "too mundane for the likes of us", I suspect. I blame computer games!

Still, "believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:57 am 
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Location: Marske by the sea North Yorkshire
Boat Name(s): NB SORCERESS
Boat Location: Fazeley Marina
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Thumper wrote:
Still, "believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."


I'll second that Thumper "Old friend" :D

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