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#1205

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Well, that certainly awoke some pleasant childhood memories of a nonsense poem that rhymes. As the good old-fashioned poetry tended to do, unlike the modern stuff. Looking on the good side none of us seem to be suffering from memory problems, which can't be bad everything considered. Regards, one and all, Gary.
Gary Steam Marine, the only way to go.
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#1204

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"I must go back to the sea, the lonely sea and sky, I left my shoes and socks there, I wonder if they're dry."
Spike Milligan

Enjoy the rest of your day folks 😊
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#1203

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Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"

😎
Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.😊 Cheers Doug
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#1202

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Such a fine band of Poets you will never find on any other Boating Forum!


(There is no beauty without some strangeness... 'Edgar Allan Poe')
May4th be with you!
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#1201

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And then they found two bottles of Navy Rum….and the rest is history 👍👀😮
Never give up.It will come right in the end.
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#1200

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They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of theThe moon,The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
If it don't fit, use a hammer to make it fit....
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#1199

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Dear pig are you willing, to sell for one shilling,your ring, said the piggy I will, so they took it away and were married next day by the turkey who lives on the hill.
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#1198

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And in the wood a piggywig stood, with a ring on the end of his nose, his nose with a ring on the end of his nose....
If it don't fit, use a hammer to make it fit....
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#1193

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Hi when sailing in Oz, I / we, moored up overnight in mainly country parks and all mooring buoys were yellow, well a dirty yellow anyway!

OK so I got it wrong! duh.
Roy
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#1192

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I will avoid the question today as it is not clear in definition. Yellow buoys are used for several reasons. Shape of the buoy is also a factor. The probable answer is stay away but this is not in itself an answer.
I cannot promise to finish one project before starting another. I know, I tried.
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#1190

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Good morning everyone.
Normally in many parts of the world, even in Italy, one should keep away from yellow buoys, because they often delimit areas from which one must keep away.
Sometimes, however, they delimit channels and so I became suspicious, so I went by exclusion.
However, I still have a bit of doubt, because they often leave buoys a few dozen meters from the shore to moor boats.
They probably shouldn't be yellow (but they are there).
In the end I chose the most probable one but I understand who chose the second answer.
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#1187

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Trouble is Roycv is my grey cells are not worth a lot, but I have dyslexia that's my excuse
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#1186

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back to a day ago and re-reading posts. Phil H spelling makes a big difference if you have been selling off the grey stuff, What can you expect?😁😁
regards
Roy
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#1185

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I've been to Canada 4x, Lake Louise is awesome. Only used the Châteaux facilities once, but had Dinner at Banff Springs Hotel twice.👍😊😊
#1184

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I visited Lake Louise in 1994 and had coffee in the hotel there.
We were entertained by a lovely lady playing the harp.
But unfortunately we couldn't see the mountains around the lake due to the low cloud and rain.
#1183

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Bit of guess on my side a bit of the old grey sells
#1180

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Never been to Canada and did not recognise the names. So Canada was my guess.😂
Ed
#1179

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Hi, it is funny when I am right I gain 1% and when wrong I lose 3%. Got a feeling I am not going anywhere.
I must travel a bit more!
Roy
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#1176

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Boy I missed that!! Never heard of Lake Louise…but there is a town called Fairview just east of McKinney….
#1175

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Looking at my performance, I need the easier ones.😬
I cannot promise to finish one project before starting another. I know, I tried.
#1174

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Agreed Doogle👍
Since the recent revision of the question selection things have got rather silly.
Not taxing the few remaining grey cells at all🙄
😎
Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.😊 Cheers Doug
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#1173

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The volume though a port is normally a reflection of the tonnage of shipping and not cargo or passengers. Durban is a port serving the northern east coast as well as Johannesburg and the rest of the North of South Africa. Most of the sea freight for Zimbabwe and Botswana comes in via Durban. Cape Town is the next busiest port in South Africa. There is another port that you never really hear about on the west coast north of Cape Town, Saldanha Bay, which loads a large volume of bulk carriers with iron ore. Hope this is helpfull.
Ed
#1169

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Seen it on mythbusters last week but do remember from history lessons so does sink in in the end lol
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#1168

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History lessons from an early age remembered 😀
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#1167

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Hi everyone.

The question, however, could be misleading.
Asking which port is the busiest, without specifying whether you mean cargo traffic or passenger traffic, or naval units (which is often not always available), can lead to error.

For example: in Italy is Napoli (Naples) or Genova busier?
The port of Naples, one of the largest in the Mediterranean, doubles that of Genoa in terms of passenger traffic.
The port of Genoa more than doubles that of Naples in terms of freight traffic.
Who's first then? doubt may come.
the port of Naples, although large, is also surpassed in terms of freight traffic by the port of Augusta in Sicily which few people even know about in Italy.

However, the port of Durban may currently already be overtaken.
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#1166

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I guessed Mombasa as well. Afterwards I google it and Mombasa is the busiest port in Central and Eastern Africa but not for the whole of Africa apparently.
#1165

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Luckily I only knew one as a port. The correct one.🥹
I cannot promise to finish one project before starting another. I know, I tried.
#1164

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Guessed wrong for Mombasa, hey ho- you live and learn 😉
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