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Dougal 
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 Topic: Sailing is for posh peoplePosted: 01 Dec 13 at 8:33pm |
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I was watching my youngest at the skate park earlier.
For most adults (or youngsters come to that) with no background in skateboarding it is totally bizarre.
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transient
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Posted: 01 Dec 13 at 12:18pm |
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Dinner Jackets, Military overtones, Commodore, Rear, Bosun's, Raising flags for the aforementioned , associations with yachts and Royalty........
For most adults (or youngsters come to that) with no background in sailing it is totally bizarre. Edited by transient - 01 Dec 13 at 2:36pm |
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gordon
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Posted: 01 Dec 13 at 12:04pm |
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I had escaped the necesssity of wearing the ultimate symbol of non-cool conservatism (at least that was how we saw it) the dinner jacket until I was elected to the Royal Alfred YC committee at the venerable age of 54!
I accept that this traditional club (founded 1857), that has never had a clubhouse, maintains an antedeluvian tradition . However, I have difficulty with my national authority, the ISA, insisting that it's annual dinner is black-tie. Gives entirely the wrong image of a sport for all, a sport for life. My French friends are amazed that most British and Irish sailors accept to wear an blazer/reefer for formal occasions. Not sure if this is a symbol of "posh" but it is certainly a symbol of a somewhaht conventional, conservative sociability. |
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rodney
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Posted: 01 Dec 13 at 8:50am |
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I feel a new thread coming - Dinner Dance is for posh people.....
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Rodney Cobb
Suntouched Sailboats Limited http://www.suntouched.co.uk [EMAIL=rodney@suntouched.co.uk">rodney@suntouched.co.uk |
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rodney
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Posted: 01 Dec 13 at 8:49am |
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I feel a new thread coming - Dinner Dance is for posh people........
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Rodney Cobb
Suntouched Sailboats Limited http://www.suntouched.co.uk [EMAIL=rodney@suntouched.co.uk">rodney@suntouched.co.uk |
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iitick
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Posted: 01 Dec 13 at 1:39am |
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I am just back from our Dinner Dance and presentation evening. Amazingly I won something?
There were probably about 50 actual sailors in that room plus wives and girlfriends. There were four professors, three Cambridge graduates, two Architects, three Solicitors, one planning consultant, one medical Consultant, one Interior Designer, one Ecological consultant, one civil engineer, one quantity surveyor, one Arboricultural consultant one aeronautical engineer a flute teacher, computer pioneer......get my drift? We also have a couple of teachers, three plumbers, a railway signalman, a railway track laying engineer and me. I bet we are pretty typical as well. Posh, well yes but not snobbish within our ranks. They are the best friends and the nicest people I ever met. |
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Dougal
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Posted: 21 Nov 13 at 2:09pm |
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Pure class... Edited by Dougal - 21 Nov 13 at 2:10pm |
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yellowwelly
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clearly not, I see the dinghy show is sponsored by a dirt bike company.
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 21 Nov 13 at 12:24pm |
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Being 'posh', in Victoria Beckham terms at least, would probably lend itself more to stink boats in Marbella anyway.... As for people with class- if they sail, then they have some class to start with.
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Rupert
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Posted: 21 Nov 13 at 12:19pm |
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Posh Spice was posh compared to the other 4...
Does sailing have class? Not at the leeward mark raft in no wind, it doesn't... |
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