Sandyman
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Thought he was entering Nazare at 0600 this morn when in fact he tried to enter a silted up river 500m from the entrance.
A simple mistake in bad vis
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Sandyman
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damn picture didn'y upload
RichardS
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Proof ........... a picture is worth a thousand words!
Richard
Richard
DJE
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sailorman
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Seajet
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That's nothing !
I once met a chap with a mobo who thought he was in Guernsey when he tied up in St Helier, Jersey...
I once met a chap with a mobo who thought he was in Guernsey when he tied up in St Helier, Jersey...
sailorman
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Seajet
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Sailorman,
this character used to go along with fishermen from Plymouth, so had formed the idea Guernsey is just ' over there '.
He bought an old twin screw cabin cruiser and set off with his wife and young children, then amazingly it got a bit lumpy off the Channel Islands, his only nav instrument the radar packed up, and he kept going South !
They were intercepted / rescued by a French frigate, and taken into harbour.
After a severe telling off he was given some nav tuition, and ' steer X course for Guernsey '.
As he motored Northwards, he saw an island on the right, thought ' that's why I've been going wrong, the compass must be off ' so went in and tied up.
He then found he was in Jersey, and the fact he'd gone straight across the Les Minquiers rocks doesn't bear thinking about...
To his credit though he did come and ask how to navigate, we spent quite some time on this and lent him waterproofs etc.
Not to his credit, it took snotty letters to get our kit returned.
jimi
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I recall one of Tilman's crew relating here how they thought they were enrtering Dartmouth and found they were in fact in St Mary's.
oldbilbo
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A certain Sir Cloudesley Shovell, then Admiral of the White, is reputed to have laboured under a similar misapprehension, thus contributing significantly to the RN's considerable reputation for 'parking on the putty'.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudesley_Shovell
Neil_Y
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Sandyman
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Thanks for that but no its not the one ha
The photo I tried to upload was of a fishing boat the Cristiano Raquel. Will try uploading again because it is a good example of how easy it is to get confused, even for an experienced skipper, and make a serious mistake in the dark & poor vis. The crew were fortunate with only one member seriously injured.
(sorry no photo cant get manage attachments to work................photo uploads but will not attache)
Seajet
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Not a missaprehension, more of a cock-up, but when the last British battleship ' Vanguard ' was being moved around in Portsmouth Harbour she went aground just off HMS Dolphin, the shore base for submarines, and asking destroyers to race around hoping their wake might help proved a fruitless exercise; the submariners sent a message, ' Officers are welcome in the mess for the duration of your stay '
Sandyman
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Not a missaprehension, more of a cock-up, but when the last British battleship ' Vanguard ' was being moved around in Portsmouth Harbour she went aground just off HMS Dolphin, the shore base for submarines, and asking destroyers to race around hoping their wake might help proved a fruitless exercise; the submariners sent a message, ' Officers are welcome in the mess for the duration of your stay '
Recall she on the way to the scrap yard at the time ? Superstitious word had it that she didn't want to go.
Grumpybear
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Like WARSPITE which ended her days in Prussia Cove, west of the Lizard, in 1947 IIRC.
