That is of course the Romford Navy!During the warm-summer weekends, the Romford Navy invade the River Colne. They are generally not popular with the Sailing Set as they don't have any appreciation of the sea, go too fast in 5mph areas, create huge wakes and come too close to us little guys in dinghies. Oh yes, they all seem to have a jet ski in tow which don't seem to have any point except make noise.
Okay, okay!.... being the owner of a sailing craft I am a little bias. Actually I don't mind our Navy friends as it makes for interesting sailing going past to see what they are doing on board.
The expression Romford Navy made me chuckle when I first heard it - blame the Bar Man. The expression can be found by doing a Google search or looking at a site called Urbandictionary. The definition is far too rude for me to link to with all my family readers. :)
To all the none-UK readers of this blog, Romford Navy is a degenerative term for uncouth Londoners who have more money than sense and drive big boats - slang!
ps. How do they get away with calling those boats 'Yachts' - I thought yachts had sails :)
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ReplyDeleteRomford is where all the uncouthist Londoners come from....or is that just how their accent or dialect comes across to country bumpkins or the 'sailing set'? West Ham forever! Now, where did i put me boat?
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