oldsaltoz
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I doubt they would stand up in that application anyway.
Cost in Oz, 3 buck or 1.5 squids per stick.
Good luck and fair winds.
A story of a near tragedy
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I doubt they would stand up in that application anyway.
Cost in Oz, 3 buck or 1.5 squids per stick.
Good luck and fair winds.
oldsaltoz
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Hi Will,
I read somewhere that more people are killed every year by falling coconuts than sharks.
Good luck and fair winds.
I read somewhere that more people are killed every year by falling coconuts than sharks.
Good luck and fair winds.
cryan
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16 hours? I was reading an MAIB report the other day about a lad who was dragged off the back of a trawler by the net six miles off MacDuff. 12 minutes and he was too cold to hold onto the rope that his crew mates had thrown him, slipped beneath the waves and drowned. He was trawled off the bottom a week later. Its estimated that in WW2 more shipwreck victims on the Atlantic convoys died from exposure than from drowning or injury.
Another safety crime that I see quite often in both leisure boats and small fishing boats etc is that no one ever shuts the sea cock. if the hose/ pipe connection fails on the mooring the boat will sink but worse is that when it fails at sea the owners can't shut them because they're seized up with lack of use.
I actually hugely over quoted a job last year because I feared if I took it the lad would be dead in a week. A young lad had bought himself an absolute wreck of a 16ft cuddy boat with an ancient engine which he wanted me to hook up to morse controls. I was asking him about where he was keeping lifejackets and radios etc which he laughed off saying he was only going out in the Forth with his young son (Third busiest shipping area in UK waters where waves can get to fifteen feet and water temp is below 10 deg C). I quoted him something crazy like £2000 To try and scare him away from boating as I didn't want to get him up and running to hear on the news that he and his kid had drowned. Hopefully he took the hint.
Another safety crime that I see quite often in both leisure boats and small fishing boats etc is that no one ever shuts the sea cock. if the hose/ pipe connection fails on the mooring the boat will sink but worse is that when it fails at sea the owners can't shut them because they're seized up with lack of use.
I actually hugely over quoted a job last year because I feared if I took it the lad would be dead in a week. A young lad had bought himself an absolute wreck of a 16ft cuddy boat with an ancient engine which he wanted me to hook up to morse controls. I was asking him about where he was keeping lifejackets and radios etc which he laughed off saying he was only going out in the Forth with his young son (Third busiest shipping area in UK waters where waves can get to fifteen feet and water temp is below 10 deg C). I quoted him something crazy like £2000 To try and scare him away from boating as I didn't want to get him up and running to hear on the news that he and his kid had drowned. Hopefully he took the hint.