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    Posted: 09 Dec 13 at 12:46pm
Originally posted by iitick

Originally posted by gordon

Royal Alfred YC - the club that is at the origin of amateur sailing, the racing rules and so much more. We have never had a clubhouse, but the annual dinner is always in November, always black tie and we always serve game (usually pheasant).

Membership fee - €30 a year!

Love that tradition, no clubhouse? Toughened up in the Raj eh'.

Euros? Modern tinge, like it. Only thirty of the buggers, club for distressed gentlefolk obviously.


In Euros because in Ireland.

I'm pretty sure you are right, that there are far more likely to be poor posh folk there than at a big brazen YC with all the bells and whstles - they are for new money, no class needed.
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Thumbs Up  well if all this Mandela guff teaches us anything, changing the world around us starts only from a change within.  
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  Confused that's exactly what matters most... if you have no self belief what have you got?

I agree with self-belief being important ... and of course I did not say it was not important !  The point is why worry if someone else wants to apply labels to you ?   It is your perception that is much more important.. and call it self-belief if you want.

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Originally posted by rogerd

If Lymington Town are that Posh what the hell are the Royal Lymington lot like.

not as posh as one of the yacht clubs near me, Chipping Norton YC- so posh it doesn't even need home waters.  And I'm sure half the membership are due for a spell in the clink for phone hacking- it's the latest celebrity jail experience; tax fraud was so Lester Piggott / Christine Hamilton.  
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Originally posted by iitick

Now they are the kind of people us mud dwellers can look up to, i appreciate a true 'toff'.

I must tell you all in advance......that we are off to Venice again next month, but, only because I am a kind husband who wishes to treat his wife. I promise not to enjoy my self.
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take your wellies, and I hope you're not one of those cheap skate tourists who takes the bus in, there's only one way to arrive in Venice, so pack a buoyancy aid too.  
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If Lymington Town are that Posh what the hell are the Royal Lymington lot like.
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Originally posted by gordon

Royal Alfred YC - the club that is at the origin of amateur sailing, the racing rules and so much more. We have never had a clubhouse, but the annual dinner is always in November, always black tie and we always serve game (usually pheasant).

Membership fee - €30 a year!

Love that tradition, no clubhouse? Toughened up in the Raj eh'.

Euros? Modern tinge, like it. Only thirty of the buggers, club for distressed gentlefolk obviously.
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Now they are the kind of people us mud dwellers can look up to, i appreciate a true 'toff'.

I must tell you all in advance......that we are off to Venice again next month, but, only because I am a kind husband who wishes to treat his wife. I promise not to enjoy my self.
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Originally posted by blaze720

Because in the end it does not really matter what you think about yourself


Confused that's exactly what matters most... if you have no self belief what have you got?     
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as if on cue, the D-One boys (and girl) step up to the plate with a tirade of marvellous affluence...
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