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06/24/2024

Any of my charter broker friends have anything small for 4 people in Istanbul July 22 for a week ?

Asking for a client

05/28/2024

Gay Paris for a few hours ... Malta isn't the easiest spot to get to and from when you have to match a work schedule .. into Bristol tonight ( if my bags and time works out) and then long flight to NZ tomorrow .. zzzzzzz when I'm dead ! Now where are these bags !!!

05/27/2024

Some things never change , 23 years on !
Nicolette Harvey Andrea Nicholas Grahame Shorrocks

05/22/2024

A few short days in ft lauderdale seeing my beautiful wife... picking up parts and then back into the world of work !

Dinner with Kim's mum last nice was very civilised. Lovely to see her looking so well.

Been stunning weather and the chance to drive a nice red mustang that I rented. ( much nicer car than the 2005 model we had once)

05/19/2024

I’m not going to say who…. but a friend just called and asked if I would loan her £1300 to help pay her rent. Those who know me, know that I’m always willing to help out friends & family. I told her to give me some time to think about it and I would call her back. Before I called her back, her brother called to let me know that she was lying and not to give her the money !! He went on to say that the real reason she wanted the £1300 was to get her boyfriend out of jail so she could be under the same roof as him for his birthday
I thought about it for a minute and decided to give her the money anyway because we all need help at times.
A couple of hours later I get a call from the police station. It was her - crying, screaming and asking why I gave her counterfeit money
My response…. so you and your boyfriend could be under the same roof for his birthday!
If you laughed, your other friends may want to laugh too!! Go ahead & steal this…… I did!

05/06/2024

Landed back in Blighty and it's raining !!' Ugh be back here tomorrow night !

05/01/2024

Dubai to London! One last flight today

03/26/2024

This is the offender in Baltimore !

01/19/2024

In a little known one- horse East Texas town near Long View Texas there is one road in and one road out. The town is suffering severely from the great depression of 2009. Money is as scarce as hen's teeth. A wealthy traveling salesman walks into the ancient hotel, the only hotel in town and lays a nice crisp $100 dollar bill on the hotel counter and announces to the hotel owner that he is going to walk upstairs to inspect the rooms.
The hotel owner picks up the $100 dollar bill, smiles, and sticks it in his shirt pocket. He walks out of the hotel and enters the Cafe next door. The entire town has been running on credit since the depression began. The hotel owner owes the Cafe owner a $100 dollar bill for services rendered at the hotel.
The Cafe owner picks up the $100 dollar bill, smiles, and sticks it in his shirt pocket. He walks out of the Cafe and walks next door to the butcher shop. The entire town has been running on credit since the depression began. The Cafe owner owes a $100 dollar bill to the butcher for meat that was served at the hotel.
The butcher picks up the $100 dollar bill, smiles, and sticks it in his shirt pocket. He walks out of the butcher shop and walks across the street to a pr******te standing on the corner. The entire town has been running on credit since the depression began. The butcher owes a $100 dollar bill to the pr******te for secret services rendered on credit.
The pr******te picks up the $100 dollar bill, smiles, and sticks it inside her bra. She walks across the street to the hotel. The entire town has been running on credit since the depression began. The pr******te owes a $100 dollar bill to the hotel owner for rooms she used on credit. The hotel owner smiled, accepted the money and laid the nice crisp $100 dollar bill back on the counter.
The wealthy salesman comes back downstairs, and states that the rooms were not acceptable, picked up the $100 bill from the counter, and walked out the door.
The moral is that all of the debts were paid, all the books were balanced, the economy continued as normal, and everyone was happy, except for the salesman who still needed a room. This is the story of the American Economy.

01/15/2024

2nd 0600 landing on Monday the 15th for us and we have had 16 hrs in an aircraft in between them .. welcome to the USA

01/14/2024

Arrived Sydney 0630 from Perth and it's 22c and pi***ng down with rain

11/17/2023

Four days down at the start of our Australia trip and we have managed dinner with my son once and two others randomly from our work history. Not sure either are on face ache but great to see Allan Jameson ( the prof) and Kate Pearson . Many of my other face book friends will know them !

10/11/2023

Auckland - Dubai - London and then a nice chauffeur ride to Southampton .. I guess Deborah can drive to Plymouth.. I'm off to Spain on the ferry tomorrow !

10/04/2023

Hum ... would love to know the perpetrators excuse ?

10/03/2023

Couldn't agree more

10/03/2023

Jeff Gibbs great to catch up for brunch and a couple of hours chat . Many of my Ft Lauderdale based friends will remember Jeff as the king of teak decking repairs for a life time in Florida and Europe. Nice to see you so well after the couple of years of not being so good. Stay in touch as we will be back quiet a bit this coming year.

09/18/2023

Out of here and on way back to Jax for a few days ... been a very fruitful 5 days on our clients boat in Mexico.. all the planned works done ( original estimate 2 men x 7 days) and a few little extra small issues tied up. The first of the fleet completed with our latest cyber security measures

09/11/2023

This is pretty funny.....
AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIANS
The following has been written by the late Douglas Adams of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" fame.
"Australia is a very confusing place, taking up a large amount of the bottom half of the planet. It is recognisable from orbit because of many unusual features, including what at first looks like an enormous bite taken out of its southern edge; a wall of sheer cliffs which plunge into the girting sea.
Geologists assure us that this is simply an accident of geomorphology, but they still call it the "Great Australian Bight", proving that not only are they covering up a more frightening theory but they can't spell either.
The first of the confusing things about Australia is the status of the place. Where other landmasses and sovereign lands are classified as continent, island or country, Australia is considered all three.
Typically, it is unique in this.
The second confusing thing about Australia is the animals. They can be divided into three categories: Poisonous, Odd, and Sheep. It is true that of the 10 most poisonous arachnids on the planet, Australia has 9 of them. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that of the 9 most poisonous arachnids, Australia has all of them.
Any visitors should be careful to check inside boots (before putting them on), under toilet seats (before sitting down) and generally everywhere else.
A stick is very useful for this task.
The last confusing thing about Australia is the inhabitants.
A short history: Sometime around 40,000 years ago some people arrived in boats from the north. They ate all the available food, and a lot of them died.
The ones who survived learned respect for the balance of nature, man's proper place in the scheme of things, and spiders. They settled in and spent a lot of the intervening time making up strange stories. They also discovered a stick that kept coming back.
Then, around 200 years ago, Europeans arrived in boats from the north.
More accurately, European convicts were sent, with a few deranged people in charge. They tried to plant their crops in autumn (failing to take account of the reversal of the seasons), ate all their food, and a lot of them died.
About then the sheep arrived, and have been treasured ever since. It is interesting to note here that the Europeans always consider themselves vastly superior to any other race they encounter, since they can lie, cheat, steal and litigate (marks of a civilised culture they say), whereas all the Aboriginals can do is happily survive being left in the middle of a vast red-hot desert - equipped with a stick.
Eventually, the new lot of people stopped being Europeans on 'extended holiday' and became Australians. The changes are subtle, but deep, caused by the mind-stretching expanses of nothingness and eerie quiet, where a person can sit perfectly still and look deep inside themselves to the core of their essence, their reasons for being, and the necessity of checking inside their boots every morning for fatal surprises. They also picked up the most finely tuned sense of irony in the world, and the Aboriginal gift for making up stories. Be warned.
There is also the matter of the beaches. Australian beaches are simply the nicest and best in the world, although anyone actually venturing into the sea will have to contend with sharks, stinging jellyfish, stonefish (a fish which sits on the bottom of the sea, pretends to be a rock and has venomous barbs sticking out of its back that will kill just from the pain) and surfboarders. However, watching
a beach sunset is worth the risk.
As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a sour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger. Faced with insurmountable odds and impossible problems, they smile disarmingly and look for a stick. Major engineering feats have been performed with sheets of corrugated iron, string and mud.
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence. They call the land "Oz" or "Godzone" (a verbal contraction of "God's Own Country"). The irritating thing about this is... they may be right.
TIPS TO SURVIVING AUSTRALIA
Don't ever put your hand down a hole for any reason - WHATSOEVER.
The beer is stronger than you think, regardless of how strong you think it is.
Always carry a stick.
Air-conditioning is imperative.
Do not attempt to use Australian slang unless you are a trained linguist and extremely good in a fist fight.
Wear thick socks.
Take good maps. Stopping to ask directions only works when there are people nearby.
If you leave the urban areas, carry several litres of water with you at all times, or you will die. And don't forget a stick.
Even in the most embellished stories told by Australians, there is always a core of truth that it is unwise to ignore.
HOW TO IDENTIFY AUSTRALIANS
They pronounce Melbourne as "Mel-bin".
They think it makes perfect sense to decorate highways with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep.
They think "Woolloomooloo" is a perfectly reasonable name for a place, that "Wagga Wagga" can be abbreviated to "Wagga", but "Woy Woy" can't be called "Woy".
Their hamburgers will contain beetroot. Apparently it's a must-have.
How else do you get a stain on your shirt?
They don't think it's summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle.
They believe that all train timetables are works of fiction.
And they all carry a stick.. 😊 🇦🇺

05/04/2023

Our Technical Manager Zack is back in Tarragona this week; not one, not two, but three yachts requiring his skills!

05/03/2023

05/03/2023

And so it begins!

04/19/2023

Zack getting above his station again!

Our Technical Manager Zack is in Singapore installing Starlink & IP TV.

How many countries and continents so far this year Zack?

04/14/2023

04/03/2023

Well, look who Pippa & Kim bumped into at Heathrow T3 on their arrival back from Australia!

Simon is one of our Satellite airtime providers - great to see you mate!

02/27/2023

Our Technical Manager Zack on a worldwide (whirlwind) installation for a fleet of one of our long-term clients. This is the first setup in the Galapagos and we are getting over 220 Mbps. The second boat, a river cruise ship in central Peru is getting 149 Mbps on a single marine antenna.

Our bespoke management system allows us to distribute the bandwidth; he made some changes to how it was managed on the vessels based on some discussions with the crew, he added a 20mbps download and 4mbps upload limit to their network and a 40mbps download and 10bmps upload limit. These limits will help prevent single users or networks from consuming all the bandwidth while making sure a majority of bandwidth is available for the charter guests.

For all enquires about Starlink and our management system, please contact Pippa Nicholas on WhatsApp +447889513159 or email [email protected]

01/26/2023

Our Systems Engineer William is back in sunny Cornwall this week installing a Starlink onto one of the Islands' cargo ships.