Porthleven Lifeboat Day 09 - Steamin by the sea edge!

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Porthleven Lifeboat Day 09 - Steamin by the sea edge!

Post by mhlr » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:34 pm

...litterally, we were put on the harbour side!

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Hence why there was some rust heading around!

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But luckily, this one's galvanised and then Hammerited.

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GAG TORTON!!!! WHAT?!!!! HE'S ON HOLIDAY!!

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A Shaymobile moving around showing shear power.

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Mike's Feanor having a tug at the copper'sinaboat (probably weighing a scale weight of a ship lol.

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None rust hauling rust.

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Cornish Riviera Express heading to Porthleven.

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Oh well, this ones rusty. :lol: :lol: Luckily I didn't go skinny dipping off the harbour wall with it.

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Then the Severn Class showed up next to us.

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And the Wilma was so scared it grew a cab.

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Interesting :P

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This one aint scared of the RNLI.

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Edrig in green.

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Then a Raven in green.

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Then a Meteor shower comes out to haul Gag's Lifeboat and the passengers.

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Wilmacab in green likes my coaches too.

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Arty shot of the station.

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Bunch of boaties playing with their boats.

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Formula RNLI?

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RNLI are supposed to save lives at sea, not dispose lives at sea!

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Then an out of scale Sea King in Anniversary colours (may be wondering why a Rescue helicopter can't be seen - well they used to be that colour lol).

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Oi!

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Yeah thats it, S*d off!! :lol: :lol:

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Me Matilda takes the Gagboat and some nice ex-LGB stock.

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Finescale pulling a fair load.

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Betcha aint seen this before?!

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Even for a Bertie, this is a heavy load - 2 heavy leaded LGB coaches, and a heavy ex-RNLI collection box full of copper coins on a gradient (yes, we were on a road which was a bit sloped), with oily track...

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Gaggeh!

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And to proove my Bertie's better than Andy's and Dan's... beat that guys ;) :lol: :lol: :lol:
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DLRdan

Post by DLRdan » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:39 pm

looks like you had a good day :D As much as i would like to challenge you my Bertie is a bit dead right now :(

laalratty

Post by laalratty » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:49 pm

Great pics Pete, looks like you had a cracking day. I'd be a bit worried about running that close to the sea though, especially if the wind got up... :roll:

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Post by mhlr » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:52 pm

laalratty wrote:I'd be a bit worried about running that close to the sea though, especially if the wind got up... :roll:
:sign5: yeah I bet, I think your coaches would have a bit more damage than what you did at PTLR if you came t'Cornwall :lol: :lol: You'd have to swim for them! :lol: :lol:
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SillyBilly

Post by SillyBilly » Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:22 pm

I love the moded Wilma.

LMS-Jools

Post by LMS-Jools » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:21 am

Fab pics looks like a very interesting day out.

Loved Enid :D 8)

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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:04 am

I really like the cabed wilma. River Alde shall soon reciev a similar treatment! Just as soon as I buy a blow tourch!
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Hancockshire

Post by Hancockshire » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:06 am

We've recently had a lifeboat week WITHOUT TRAINS (what's Scotland coming to) in the port (Portpatrick, look it up on Google), our helicopter was busy in Edinburgh performing operation, err "moving a patient from one hospital to another" so they just kept zoomin' around in their boats until one of the dingy s capsized & so the RNLI had to rescue the RNLI & they got stranded on the stone covered beach that we were sitting on & needed rescuing again  :dontknow:

MDLR

Post by MDLR » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:17 pm

A nice set of photos - nothing like getting close to the public, though it would have been a bit dire if it had rained.

Well done for spreading the word!

Matt

Post by Matt » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:46 pm

Great pics mate.

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