A sign of things to come??

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PAULAMANDA

On Wednesday, October 14th 2003 Brian Dunbar Hutchison, skipper of the fishing vessel
’Paulamanda FR150', pleaded guilty at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to being under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He was fined £500.00.

At 12:45hrs on Thursday 12th December 2002, Mr Hutchison was observed being carried back to his boat. He slipped his moorings, but was asked by the harbour control to return alongside where he was met by two police officers who administered a breathalyser test. Mr Hutchison failed the test.

Two MCA officers were also called to the scene where they found Mr Hutchison to be sufficiently impaired as to be unable to fulfill his responsibilities as skipper.>>>>>>>>>
Can we start to expect this type of thing in the near future?

I have fallen OFF mine a couple of times but never on it!!!! how about all of you???

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British waterways issue a magazine, and there is an article in there that says
'on inland waters, the alcohol limit is the same as a car, if you are caught over limit whilst under way, you will be in trouble!' (cannot remember what they will do, cos i read this 2weeks ago, LOL) which IMHO is right, by all means drink and be merry whilst tied up, but only leave the moorings sober! I think this applies even more at sea, equally to pleasure craft and commercial craft.



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Leyton
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Thats this lot on here bugger'd then!

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More or less dangerous at sea is a hard one, more likely to get away with it at sea because there's less to hit, but more likely to be serious in the consequences of an accident.

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"Mr Hutchison was observed being carried back to his boat." This did make me laugh out loud!!

How on earth did he slip his moorings in that state?? I suppose there is a serious side to all this, especially where extremes are concerned.

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Re: Ah but

Surely the primary offence was having chosen that awful name for his boat? Mitigating circumstances would be that he isn't called paul, and neither is his wife called amanda. Otherwise, he should be strung up :-)

agree with alistairr, he must be quite a boaty person if he can slip the moorings, answer a vhf call, and get back alongside whilst slaughtered. Of course, I do not condone such action. Also, I don't really have the right crew to carry me back onboard, so I had to sleep in the car. Er, I mean, er, I wd have to if that ever happened er....

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"by all means drink and be merry whilst tied up"

I quite agree /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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Re: Ah but

Surely you are not implying that you drove said vehicle under the influence. I must therefore assume that, alledgedly, you used a stationary vehicle to sleep of your stupor ?

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Re: Ah but

Oooh, I think Plod might take the view that tcm was in charge of said vehicle and therefore still breathylise him.
We need an expert

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Re: Ah but

Only if he had keys for said vehicle about his person or they were in the ignition. Then its "drunk in charge"

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Re: Ah but

I have just had a word with my daughter (Seargent in Plod) and the rules for being D.I.C.of a car are complicated. It seems that if you can prove that there was no likelyhood that you were going to drive the vehicle then there would be no action taken. LIKELYHOOD being the operative word and convincing the officer is the essential part of this. A person in a caravette or caravan may well by as p*****d as a newt and enjoy his holiday as long as he doesn't INTEND to move the vehicle.
On a boat this intention to move is more complicated because of tidal gates in marinas etc and I understand from articles I have read that the RYA are trying to get prosicution only if boat is in motion.

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I\'m guilty!!!

I'm frequently found drunk in charge of my beer scooter. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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Re: Ah but

Does this law definitely apply to leisure skippers and does it apply on non tidal Thames??

Peter

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