Sorry this isn't Rangerover related.
I saw Miles (Morat) yesterday and mentioned I might be posting another video of my boat on LPGforum, he suggested I post the link on this forum too.
My daughter driving the boat last weekend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGK1YDzSpVQ
just out cruising with the family.
My boat is very slightly Range Rover related as I tow it behind mine. In fact, when launching and recovering it back onto the trailer, I back down the slipway until I can hear the exhaust bubbling because the ends are under water.
This was last Tuesday when I took it out with my stepdaughter and my boating mate Phil (aka Holland and Holland). He shot a brief video to send to my other half who was slaving away in the office at work while we were out in the sunshine having fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HelWU9AACzw
Unfortunately it didn't all go quite as planned. After one run along the river we were sitting next to the slipway and decided to have one more run, only to catch the prop on the concrete edge of the slipway. So £50 in fuel and another £180 for a new prop. I now know why boat stands for Bring Out Another Thousand.....
Been to Shell Island in North Wales this weekend, first time I got to use the boat on the sea :)
The weather was OK, sea conditions quite calm but worse than it seems to look in the video.
On Saturday we went from Shell Island to near Barmouth, back to near Shell Island then across the bay to Cricieth and back to Shell Island, plus a few runs up and down the coast near Shell Island so a total of around 50 miles.
My son and his wife came for the day on Saturday but too late for the tide so missed going on the boat. I'd only taken one full jerry can to top up the boat's fuel tank so on Sunday we went out without a full tank of fuel and stayed closer to Shell Island than on Saturday.
My sister filming and her kids on the boat with us. The videos were taken on Sunday near Shell Island
Feel for you Gilbert.
At Shell Island on Sunday we'd just about finished launching the boat on the concrete slipway, my young nephew and niece already on the boat (launched with them onboard), I climbed on to start the engine, got my sister to climb on, older nephew was holding the boat preventing the incoming tide taking it up the estuary... A bloke who was about to launch a large rib with his mates came to help, offered to hold the boat while my older nephew climbed on then push us off. But after everyone had climbed on the helpful bloke had moved the boat so the skeg of my outdrive was touching the concrete slipway even though I'd still got it trimmed fairly high (the previous day we launched so the front end of the boat was over the concrete slipway while the outdrive was off the side of the slipway in deeper water, so we could reverse away without the prop hitting the slipway or anything else). Then he said 'OK you're good to go now'. I knew that if I dropped it into gear it would have taken my prop out on the concrete slipway and he must've known that was the case because he was standing quite close to it and could clearly see it. It probably didn't occur to him that we'd purposely got the boat in a position where the prop was safe and had tried to spin us around so we could drive off forwards but that meant the prop was on the slipway... and he was still telling us we were good to go. I got the impression the 'help' was mostly so he could get on the water 1 minute sooner and thought I'd just take his word for it we were 'good to go'.