Portsmouth Poll - June 2011
One of Poll’s most trusted Seychelles informants assured her The Royal Couple honeymooned on a Ferretti 76, named Sea Stream. Her normal charter fee was €41,000 a week, full board including crew, fuel and GST.
The £2m boat was, however, also available with a 15% discount for charters booked before 1 May.
One benefit of the boat, according to K-Yote Charters, was she could outrun most of the paparazzi…
Poll hears The Boys were back in town in May as the giant US Nimitz class aircraft carrier dropped anchor in Stokes Bay to give her hands a run ashore in Portsmouth.
The George HW Bush has a complement of 5,300 and she was only in the area from Friday to the following Tuesday.
Poll feels her Pompey friends would have had their hands full, but would have coped admirably.
Photo: worldmaritimenews.com
Poll was sad to hear the Netherlands authorities are to restrict the use of marijuana to native Dutch people. This could mean a drop in business for the coffee shops around the time of METS each year…
The US Coast Guard has just revisited some regulations on passenger numbers for commercial craft in the US.
This was all brought about after the Coast Guard confirmed what we’ve all known from the Wal-Mart emails we all get, that Americans are a weighty bunch of people.
As a result of this, the Coast Guard now defines the “average” boater as weighing in at 185lbs – just over 14st and up more than 15% from the existing Coast Guard figure of 160lbs, or a little over 11st.
And while the US newsletter Sailing Anarchy says that won’t affect the rail meat quotient much, it points out commercial boat trips will probably lose a few people off the payload.
One of Poll’s Liverpool contacts tells her he saw Murray Ellis and Adrian Danson looking around the Albert Dock last month. He added they were later seen coming out of the Liverpool Vision offices.
Surely not, says Poll…
