• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Bored, bored, bored...

TrimTheKing":3tcwjrmq said:
If you liked the O'Brian suggestion then you might like the Flashman books, written by George MacDonald Fraser. The main protagonist is Flashman who was the bully in Tom Brown's School Days, who is written into (in much the same way as Sharpe) many historical battles situations, which you have to suspend your belief in time/space as he could never have been at them all.

Really enjoyable escapism and childhood adventure requirements satisfied.
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Haha, Flashman! No way it could be published today, so wonderfully none pc, including some bits that even I squirm at.
 
Norty Raskel":qwgss4na said:
Mike,

You could do some learning/training prior to your proposed boat build...

Jon
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

if you are going to real COLREG you need to read MARPOL and SOLAS too. :D
 
Cabinetman":2z9nel74 said:
TrimTheKing":2z9nel74 said:
If you liked the O'Brian suggestion then you might like the Flashman books, written by George MacDonald Fraser. The main protagonist is Flashman who was the bully in Tom Brown's School Days, who is written into (in much the same way as Sharpe) many historical battles situations, which you have to suspend your belief in time/space as he could never have been at them all.

Really enjoyable escapism and childhood adventure requirements satisfied.
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Haha, Flashman! No way it could be published today, so wonderfully none pc, including some bits that even I squirm at.
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Yep, brilliant books. :obscene-drinkingcheers:
 
As well as the Flashman series, George Macdonald Fraser wrote a book about his experiences as a private in the XIVth Army in Burma. It's called "Quartered Safe Out Here" and is well worth reading. As well as being an author, he also wrote film scripts
 
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