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Ingy Claps.. is that what you might contract if you rub against someone with a dirty IWC?

I've heard of them.. ..from you (We have discussed this matter before, you and I) ..I do not know them, but I can imagine how beautiful a fjordside farm must be around those parts. I worked a summer on a passenger catamaran going from Fl

Thanks chrgod I'm not from the north though.. Nordfjord, Sogn & Fj, born and raised.

Haha! My keyboard skills are limited to the guitar parts of Metallica songs ..also some religious childrens songs I learned as a child.

A lot of diversity! ..where are all gold-rolex-wearing used car salesmen? I am a sailor. I'm a ship's engineer on a fishing vessel, it's a 250 ft purse seiner/trawler plying its trade in and around the north sea. Forget all your visions of dirty grease monkeys and soot angels.. I sit in a well lit control room with my feet up, surfing the web and looking at a few monitors. It can get dirty (usually does), but it's very well paid and I love the ocean. A thread with a few pics from my job: Pics from the sea Oh.. and I am trying to get a small business going when I am at home.

Looks cool, I like the Norgesglass logo-touch!

HAHA! Great! Check out the chick in the Newcastle bar with the HORRIBLE "BON JOVI" tattoo!

Thanks for the kind words, TJ We built in the nick of time it seems, prices went up a lot here just after we signed the contract.. There is talk about our house costing 15-20% more if we had waited 3 months! It's been rewarding building this, but I wont do it again.

Thanks, CS Yeah, moving out of the city is the best thing that's happened to us. I missed the sense of community and the serenity I had growing up on the island, and found some of it here. It's a small spread-out town with new houses and young couples settling down. Home improvement is likely to scare me away these days! I'm seriously fed up. Cheers for summer though!

Thanks, dluddy I've fallen off the rep wagon, but I'll pop by now and then to see what's new, and follow the forum life. I sold my apartment with a hefty profit actually, so now I am trying to convince my girlfriend what a sound investment a Breitling or a Panerai would be!

Thanks again, Ken It'll be a good place to raise a family and hopefully grow old. Maybe build a wee boathouse on the water down there, sit with my feet up fishing all day..

Well then! Here we are, moved in in mid february.. almost as planned.. Some work still left outside and on the ground floor side wings, but what we need is done. I'm doing a little work when I am at home, but there's no real rush to complete it. I don't frequent this great forum much anymore, lost a little interest in watches and spring is upon us with outdoors activities and all that.. We'll see when autumn comes.. Here's a pic I shot tonight, trying to get a good shot of the facade, not easy as it's built on top of a slope. Please ignore the slight barrel distortion from the panorama stitching. (7 pics put together into one) Here's one of the 'sunset' the other night. Can't wait for late may when we can see the sun set in the sea off the left headland there.

Thanks for your comments, you're making me feel all special My boat is a bit larger than the boat in the clip, and taller above the waterline. It's no picnic going through what those guys are experiencing there, and I heard the whole crew was standing on the bridge looking worried, but as long as all hatches are closed and secure you're going to bob back up. (At least that's what they tell us) That boat had 1700 tons of blue whiting on board, making it too heavy to ride the waves like it would have if it was lighter, that combined with the tidal races and wind in the Pentland makes for a wet passing. The older guys on my boat tell stories of boats going under, green water all they could see in the bridge windows, an eerie silence as the boat floated back to the surface, some coming through with seaweed on the roof of the bridge, and every other window smashed, boarded up as best they could. We have dirty weather ahead too, with 40 knot stable winds blowing on the fishing grounds. Like I said earlier in the thread, it's just a job after a while. You are aware of the dangers, but you'd go crazy if you focused on them all the time.

This is where we're headed this week, going west of Ireland to fish for blue whiting.. This clip was filmed last year in Pentland firth, just north of Scotland. With the current meeting the wind, it makes the waves huge. LETS ALL GET SEASICK!!!11one

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