Bit of a hairy landing

[fisherman]

Wet arse for the crewman, he just got it slightly wrong, happens sometimes. It's not every seventh wave, it's random. However, sometimes there are two wave patterns interspersed and you can get a coincidence.

 

[Blueboatman]

“They use little bits of branch to get better traction of the hull on the gravel …”

Don’t give up the day job, film maker ?

 

[capnsensible]

There's no place like home....

 

[Graham_Wright]

Wet arse for the crewman, he just got it slightly wrong, happens sometimes. It's not every seventh wave, it's random. However, sometimes there are two wave patterns interspersed and you can get a coincidence.

Rather refined commentary I thought.

 

[fisherman]

Yeah.....elm timbers, only used now to reduce the load on the winch but we used them, greased, to push ten boats out by hand before a tractor was bought. Of course, the older wooden boats would not have stood being pushed by the tractor, they were knackered from being beached for many years. New GRP boats are bigger, higher, heavier, couldn't launch by hand at all.

 

[veshengro]

And before engines, Fisherman?. Sail and oars, or land the catch elsewhere if the seas were too big to run a boat ashore in that Cove?
Just curious

 

[FWB]

Just wish people would use landscape when filming.

 

[PabloPicasso]

Hold the camera as still as you can, would be a good gerenral rule.

Interesting to see though

 

[dunedin]

When does “daring” become “reckless”? Possibly shortly after a crew member gets seriously hurt and before the case reaches the court trial?

 

[LittleSister]

I think this is the same boat being launched:

Just wish people would use landscape when filming.

You'd think with all the myriad user aids on a modern phone there'd be some message that flashes up when you start filming in portrait saying 'Are you sure you want it this way up'!

 

[Davy_S]

Anyone that uses portrait instead of landscape should be hit with an oar!

 

[capnsensible]

When does “daring” become “reckless”? Possibly shortly after a crew member gets seriously hurt and before the case reaches the court trial?

I suppose its the kind of judgement that comes with practice. The first few hundred times were probably the hardest.

 

[fisherman]

And before engines, Fisherman?. Sail and oars, or land the catch elsewhere if the seas were too big to run a boat ashore in that Cove?
Just curious

They used to fish with sail and oar but that would have been the pilchard seining, rowing 'whiffing' for pollack, and some pots, hand hauled. Mostly they couldn't launch in ground sea, but sometimes it comes up without much warning. They used to launch the lifeboat by hand Cadgwith Lifeboats
In re safety, there hasn't been a serious accident coming in, touch wood, although one old fisherman told me about a boat sheering off on a breaker and ending up under the far side cliff on top of the boulders.
In the 2014 storm, in the dark they were hauling the boats up when a sea took one out and it disappeared for ten minutes,, then came back in, was winched up, no sweat. Same hull as the one in the vid.
I have rowed a boat in between ground seas, came up while I was out. The trick is to watch the cliff about a quarter mile west, the sea that's breaking there will be on the beach when you arrive, so wait for a calm there, even though you may be upended where you are, the seas come at an angle to the shoreline.

 

[Bilgediver]

Just wish people would use landscape when filming.

Tiktokitus .

 

[MisterBaxter]

Filming in portrait is now more or less the norm, or at least very common, because online media is largely watched on phones, and a film in landscape will size down to match the screen width, ending up very small.

 

[Yngmar]

I hope the catch was worth a pair of new pants!

 

[WoodyP]

That explains why fish is a bit expensive. Its not exactly easy money.

 

[Cantata]

Bonkers really. And guy on the foredeck, one hand in pocket, not a lifejacket in sight.

 

[dunedin]

I suppose its the kind of judgement that comes with practice. The first few hundred times were probably the hardest.

Which is probably fine if a solo fisherman. Once have a crew becomes an employer and the H&S rules change completely.

 

[capnsensible]

Which is probably fine if a solo fisherman. Once have a crew becomes an employer and the H&S rules change completely.

Well these guys do it for a living and will no doubt have entered that cove, as I said, hundreds of times and know what they are doing. I can understand that an inexperienced bystander might find it risky, but not much so for the fishermen.

Experience wins.