capnsensible
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These pro sailors run a ferry and do this several times a day. Many have worked these vessels for years and are rarely paused for the weather.
Bit of a hairy landing
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James_Calvert
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Was on one of those ferries only last week.
Some big waves then too...
What I didn't like on the way back was hanging around, at the entrance, just a few yards from the nastiest looking lee shore I've ever seen, whilst waiting for another ferry to make its exit. If anything had gone wrong...
Some big waves then too...
What I didn't like on the way back was hanging around, at the entrance, just a few yards from the nastiest looking lee shore I've ever seen, whilst waiting for another ferry to make its exit. If anything had gone wrong...
William_H
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Love the video of fishing boats. Not a thing we see here in west oz. However some fishing villages north of here are set behind barrier type reef with narrow cut entrance and there have been tragedies as fishing boats come through gap. (some mile or so out from beach) It all seems to me to be a case for a good pwerful bopw thruster to aid steering. Launching from beach seems horrible but I guess no worries about anti fouling. ol'will
ProDave
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I once got to ask a fisherman why no LJ. His answer was along the lines of if I go over I want to die quick, not a prolonged slow death. The concept that the LJ might keep him alive long enough for the crew to recover him seemed totally alien.
fisherman
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I once got to ask a fisherman why no LJ. His answer was along the lines of if I go over I want to die quick, not a prolonged slow death. The concept that the LJ might keep him alive long enough for the crew to recover him seemed totally alien.
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Most stupid thing I've regularly heard. We started wearing lifejackets all the time in the 90s after a crewman was lost through going overboard after a knock on the head.
We picked up an almost drowned man, had he a lifejacket he would have been in better nick, and it would have been ten times easier to get him. If I'd been alone it would have been near impossible, but with l/j plenty of time to rig a sling etc. The skipper of one boat was lost because he dived down the forepeak to get the l/j and went down with the boat.
The MCA has used drones to spot fishermen outside Newlyn without l/js.
fisherman
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Hayle and Padstow have infamous sand bars, open to Atlantic swells. We lost wheelhouse windows twice going out of Hayle, in one of these: Log in to Facebook
and a 44ft boat was capsized on the bar in 1988 with the loss of three lives. Padstow lost a lifeboat on the Doom Bar.
When you get pushed in by a swell a side thruster wouldn't get a grip, you're in a mass of froth at 12kts.
fisherman
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This may be Hayle or Padstow