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Larry

dylan winter wrote in news:c08df0e3-c98e-4139-
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Thanks for that

very nice of you to say so

The thing is a work in progress - so any feedback on the balance of
the vlogs would be good

BBC has already told me to go whistle

D

I had to rush after watching them. It nearly made me late for a luncheon
date...hee hee.

I agree it seems a shame what millionaires and money have done to your
quaint little fishing villages full of working people. The condos and
mansions are putting the squeeze on our shrimp fleets along the South
Carolina coast in the USA, also. We're quite lucky here living in such a
huge swamp, however. There are thousands of miles of totally
unaccessible waterways with no way for millionaires to get their SUVs and
motorcars to the shore of it, which protects it from invasion. Along the
Atlantic Beaches, the ocean has also done a good many of them in. Large
buildings that were behind the dunes that protected them, are now sitting
in the surf waiting for the inevitable collapse due to those hurricanes
that skirted up along our coasts in past years. Even one of our historic
lighthouses sits in the surf at Morris Island Light. The Atlantic has a
way of getting even.

Sorry about the shifter. Isn't it amazing how they make boat parts that
simply come off? I'd love to hear more about the motor in your boat.
What a pleasure to hear it popping away in the video, but we never got to
see more than the broken shift handle. I had visions of something from
Lister, but then it started itself without the flywheel windup....(c;

What's diesel going for on the docks in the UK, today. We're over a
dollar a litre in Charleston's docks...well over a dollar. I watched
someone buy 9,800 US gallons last weekend while waiting for some friends
sailing back from Tortola on a Jeanneau 40DS. While standing on the
diesel dock, I kept wondering, "What will they do if his credit card
bounces?" 9,800 x $4.89 = $47,922, hardly what one could pay off washing
dishes....OUCH! Even the rich have got to feel the fuel prices, now.