3 men in a landrover (southampton boat show)

[easyfish1]

We had decided to go to southampton boat show a few months ago, but didn't take it any further than that, untill i came back from my holidays and had a bit of crack with mick and phil to see if we were still up for a weekend away, we decided we'd drive down on the friday evening, book into somewhere close, spend the saturday at the boat show, go on the drink sat night and then head back home on the sunday. good plan.......in fact..exelent plan
Trouble was, when i came to book some accomadation close to southampton marina there wasn't anything available, apparently there was a boat show on?. so we had to work our way outwards through some of the villages/towns on the outskirts of southampton just to get some where to stay. Eventually finding a BB in a village called Ringwood 20mins from southampton. sorted .........
Finished work 2pm friday and arranged to pick the lads up about half 3, so leaving 5/6 hrs for the drive meant we'd get to Ringwood about half 8...9pm ish, well timed to find a pub (any pub) and sink a few......Wrong !!...heard on the radio about an accident on the A1M and road was closed.... s***t !! found the tail-back/jam 27 miles from the accident.......... anyway, fast forward to 11.40pm.....arrived destination (thanks tom tom )

photos of the day..



















my favorite (one of ) barracuda





all around fishing.....



arvor 280..quality boat

















we did try to view the RIBs but couldn't get near them dozens of somali's buying them up.....apparently it's big buisness over there...??

took loads of photo's and got lot's of prices...but the boat of the day....arvor 280...top quality.......ME LIKE !!!

turns out there was a CARNIVAL on that night in Ringwood and i have the photo's and a nice headache to prove it.....

canny weekend........

[The Jester]

Great report Rob and thanks for sharing the photo's. Kid in a sweet shop comes to mind, i bet you did'nt know where to look. So come on then are you going to up the offer of River Island vouchers for Er Indoors, and buy that Arvor

[easyfish1]

i sent the lady in question a text message sat afternoon it read.............

SELL HOUSE........

[The Jester]

Now thats a bit harsh

[oldessox]

Great pictures Rob , looks like you went round all the same boats I did last year , what did you think of the parker 660? I thought it was a cracking boat , the arvor 280 looks the business though ....... sell the house
(mines for sale if anyone wants one......... my house not my boat )

[easyfish1]

Ray,

I had a good look over the parker 660, cracking boat for the money, i don't think i'll be replacing mine tho, unless it's for the arvor, retailing new for £99,950 but hey, you get £1000 of fishing tackle with it..

i've got the £950.........