Biscay, what's the worst that can happen?

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Might not want to read on if you're going this year. ........
I was just looking at some photos of a Biscay crossing I did a couple of years ago, and for fun I thought hmm, middle of the night half way across, what's the worst that could happen?
First I thought boat sinks and we are all in a life raft.
Then I thought ooh no alone on watch and fall overboard and no one knows.
THEN I thought aarggh boat attacked by pod of Orca's who sink the boat and eat the crew!
Anything to top that?

By the way, I'm not nervous at sea and thoughorlly enjoyed the passage , highlight being a humpback whale swimming alongside estimated at 35ft. ?
 
Nikia said:
Might not want to read on if you're going this year. ........
I was just looking at some photos of a Biscay crossing I did a couple of years ago, and for fun I thought hmm, middle of the night half way across, what's the worst that could happen?
First I thought boat sinks and we are all in a life raft.
Then I thought ooh no alone on watch and fall overboard and no one knows.
THEN I thought aarggh boat attacked by pod of Orca's who sink the boat and eat the crew!
Anything to top that?

By the way, I'm not nervous at sea and thoughorlly enjoyed the passage , highlight being a humpback whale swimming alongside estimated at 35ft. 
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Admitting you were halfway across when the granny knot you used to secure your Rocna/Spade/CQR/Bruce/Brittany/Fishermans anchor came undone and the whole lot paid out somehow getting tangled in the Scottish/Cornish/Welsh/Blue/White ensign you were flying, forcing you to make a VLCC give way even though you had just made a course alteration and then posting about it on here when you get back....
 
LadyInBed said:
No wind, engine problem, so drifted across (solo).
Wind gen doing nothing so had to use mains gen to charge batteries.
That's what happened to me, took four and a half days to cross! Wonderful :)
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I've drifted across before. It was bliss, especially as we were racing.

As for worst case scenario, I guess dysentery with only half a roll of loo paper?
(That's never happened to me, I'd just imagine it would be pretty grim.)
 
Sailed it 3 times.

First time, Force 12, hid for a week in L' Aber-Vrac'h.

Second time, Force 9, 12 hours from Coruna.

Third time, Force 5 to 7, arriving in the Rad d' Brest with power failure to some of the beacons at night.

And they say worse things happen at sea, quite true. :)
 
Nikia said:
Might not want to read on if you're going this year. ........
I was just looking at some photos of a Biscay crossing I did a couple of years ago, and for fun I thought hmm, middle of the night half way across, what's the worst that could happen?
First I thought boat sinks and we are all in a life raft.
Then I thought ooh no alone on watch and fall overboard and no one knows.
THEN I thought aarggh boat attacked by pod of Orca's who sink the boat and eat the crew!
Anything to top that?

By the way, I'm not nervous at sea and thoughorlly enjoyed the passage , highlight being a humpback whale swimming alongside estimated at 35ft. ��
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You run out of gin?
 
We had gale force winds gusting 50 knots for 24 hours. A Moody ran off towing drogues, a cat hove to using both engines and sadly a local fishing boat sank with the loss of all hands We had a heavy displacement long keel with cutaway forefoot steel ketch and kept sailing.
 
Nikia said:
Might not want to read on if you're going this year. ........
I was just looking at some photos of a Biscay crossing I did a couple of years ago, and for fun I thought hmm, middle of the night half way across, what's the worst that could happen?
First I thought boat sinks and we are all in a life raft.
Then I thought ooh no alone on watch and fall overboard and no one knows.
THEN I thought aarggh boat attacked by pod of Orca's who sink the boat and eat the crew!
Anything to top that?

By the way, I'm not nervous at sea and thoughorlly enjoyed the passage , highlight being a humpback whale swimming alongside estimated at 35ft. ��
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Well according to the Beeb, those Yorkshire housewives who have just rowed the Atlantic were attacked !!! by flying fish.
 
>Well according to the Beeb, those Yorkshire housewives who have just rowed the Atlantic were attacked !!! by flying fish.

Both Jane and I were hit by flying fish over the Atlantic, others hit the coach roof. They are jolly tasty and an addition to the Dorado we were catching.
 
Someone eating all the chocolate biscuits before you're about to do the night watch.


Although when the weather gets bad climbing into already wet Oilies is not much fun....


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Nikia said:
Might not want to read on if you're going this year. ........
I was just looking at some photos of a Biscay crossing I did a couple of years ago, and for fun I thought hmm, middle of the night half way across, what's the worst that could happen?
First I thought boat sinks and we are all in a life raft.
Then I thought ooh no alone on watch and fall overboard and no one knows.
THEN I thought aarggh boat attacked by pod of Orca's who sink the boat and eat the crew!
Anything to top that?

By the way, I'm not nervous at sea and thoughorlly enjoyed the passage , highlight being a humpback whale swimming alongside estimated at 35ft. ��
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As a frequent amateur observer of Orca's. I find this posts implication Orca's might attack a boat and eat the crew quite unfairly prejudiced against Orca's. :)
 
Nearly getting run down by large vessel. In the captain's defence it looked like had lost all steering. We got out the way and noticed he was travelling in a steady arc to starboard and then stopped about 1nm away from us. The water was pretty smooth - but I didn't envy the engineer.
 
BoyBlue49 said:
Sailed it 3 times.

First time, Force 12, hid for a week in L' Aber-Vrac'h.

Second time, Force 9, 12 hours from Coruna.

Third time, Force 5 to 7, arriving in the Rad d' Brest with power failure to some of the beacons at night.

And they say worse things happen at sea, quite true. :)
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you want to get a better weather forcast
 
A phone call half way across on the sat-phone telling you your house has burnt down or there's a group of black clad thugs breaking your door down.
 
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