Juan Twothree's latest activity

That's not correct.

They are employed by Bristows.

Not true.

I was impressed by how far, and how close to the casualty, the life-ring was thrown in the video in post #1.

Let’s not go down the trial by you tube route. My comment is that to question the action of anyone in such a video is highly...

I stopped for lunch, and as I have a self-tacking jib hove-to never looks pretty. I was sitting drinking tea in the companion way...

"Only if you feel safe to do so and there is no other vessels around secure the package aboard and return it to the shore, advising the...

SOP is that they walk out to you towing a mud sled behind them. They then get you to sit in it and winch you back to terra firma.

CG mud team possibly? They can go up to 400m from shore across mud.

True. My thing is not going north in the way it used to

One of the crew was 80....things can go south very quickly at that age

There have been times, when the in-laws are visiting, when I've been willing the pager to go off.

Exactly this. The actual cost of every call is very little in the great scheme things. If you divide the total running costs of the...

the biggest cost is the capital assets sitting doing nothing 99% of the time, along with the cost of keeping crews competent...

Quite. Speaking as a former lifeboat crew member, a shout was always welcome, it justified the regular training we underwent. Not saying...