emandvee44
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RNLI rescue covidiots after grounding catamaran despite lockdown
Wonderful reporting by the wail!
M.
Wonderful reporting by the wail!
M.
RNLI rescue covidiots after grounding catamaran despite lockdown
Wonderful reporting by the wail!
M.
Thats a heavenl twins I think.RNLI rescue covidiots after grounding catamaran despite lockdown
Wonderful reporting by the wail!
M.
Your "12 hours" can extend to weeks if whoever runs the tides (or is it the sun and moon?) so decrees.At what point did they 'have to be rescued'?
Boat runs aground - the water will return within 12 hours at most.
Once you refloat, you return to your mooring/berth.
Just going by the article, I fail to see why a 'rescue' was necessary.
Very true. But if this was on Saturday, then it was neaps ( according to Boatie app). So unlikely.Your "12 hours" can extend to weeks if whoever runs the tides (or is it the sun and moon?) so decrees.
I heard a Japanese woman on TV talking about looking at the ocean. It sounded very odd; until I realised that of course in Japan it was true.Credit to the Wail for coming up with the expression "caught on the ocean floor". First real laugh today.
The Japanese for a sea, うみ (umi) is often used as a synonym for かよう (kayō), which is the word for an ocean. Both mean bodies of water, rather that the wet salty stuff itself which is かいすい (kaisui). At least, that's as far as my Japanese gets me. Happy to be corrected.I heard a Japanese woman on TV talking about looking at the ocean. It sounded very odd; until I realised that of course in Japan it was true.
would now not be the time to call for assistance .Did they need rescuing - I don't know for certain but probably "yes".
The reports say they were bouncing off various buoys coming down the Exe. Didn't see that but they were coming down at a lick probably under sail and motor.
They took the unmarked "inshore passage" between Dawlish Warren beach and the Pole Sands i.e. not the marked channel. They did this on a falling tide and then ran aground - with waves breaking around them and F6 gusts predicted that night.. When they ran aground the sails were left flogging for a long time with the genoa looking like it was wrapped around the forestay (the sails didn't come down until the RNLI boarded the boat).
We were about to ring the coastguard. Put yourself in the position of the lifeboat crew who saw all this and tell me this is "touting for business".
If this sounds harsh, then that's because I'm viewing it in the context of "stay at home".
For info, the boast was presumably anchored by the RNLI (or maybe the boat crew) but is in the surf line most of the time and has been dragging its anchor heading eastwards towards Exmouth beach.
Ah so.The Japanese for a sea, うみ (umi) is often used as a synonym for かよう (kayō), which is the word for an ocean. Both mean bodies of water, rather that the wet salty stuff itself which is かいすい (kaisui). At least, that's as far as my Japanese gets me. Happy to be corrected.
I was once anchored at Aberdaron when a blow was forecast. I moved to the other side of the bay for a bit of shelter and dug the anchor well in, let out all my chain 50M in about 5m depth and fitted a 10mm 30ft snubber. Sat watching the snubber stretching nicely when a lifeboat appeared. Insisted I needed rescue and I go with them, I had quite an argument with them and it ended abruptly when they said if my anchor dragged I would be straight onto the rocks and I noted I was lying nose in to the rocks! I think the problem is the public advise the coastguard about a boat in distress, the lifeboat is called and they are loath to go home with "no lives saved" when they may be under pressure from their bosses to have a result?i wonder if they left the boat willingly and or who would take care of the boat when the tide comes back in.