Brown trousers?

[E39mad]

Being stalked by a killer whale 4 days out into the Atlantic.

Water spouts likely to rip your sails apart - 5 days afterwards.

Lightening storm in the med.

Far too much canvas up on an offshore race - spinaker up and everyone behind the wheel - lightest crew goes fwd and we begin to nosedive!

 

[andytrombone]

Yes, watching a freighter run over and sink small fishing boat earlier tonight.
There but for the grace of..................

 

[Babylon]

Yes, watching a freighter run over and sink small fishing boat earlier tonight.
There but for the grace of..................

Oh no!

Like an earlier poster, I once crewed on a yacht, without radar or AIS, hearing ship's engines in thick fog in the Channel shipping lanes...

 

[30boat]

Yes, watching a freighter run over and sink small fishing boat earlier tonight.
There but for the grace of..................

Being run down by a ship myself...

 

[flaming]

Coming across a tanker in the North Sea that had no lights on at all. Crossed it's bows at under 1/4 of a mile before we even noticed it. Only saw it then because a light came on in a cabin window. Got on the VHF, but he flatly denied he had no lights on.

Doing 18+ knots in a J105 in Hayling bay. Very short, steep sea and 30 knots of wind. Bow went into every 3rd wave, despite the crew crowded at the back of the boat, and we just knew the impending wipeout was a) inevitable and b) likely to be pretty spectacular. It was.

 

[KellysEye]

I don't think hanging chain over the side would work. We had a lighting strike 30 feet ahead of the boat and we had Elmo's fire in all the rigging. That implies that there is also no safety cone, it just takes out all your electronics and can blow out throughulls. It can even scorch an ensign on the backstay - seen that in Trinidad.

 

[Simondjuk]

Looking at the gas tanker passing us as we approached Milford Haven in a whole gale and 65 knot gusts on the blackest of black nights and realising as he switched his deck floodlights on in readiness for his arrival just how angry the seas we'd not been able to see until then actually were as they swept his decks.

 

[snooks]

I was scared just before this hit me:

But I didn't really have enough to to get really scared before it hit.

I did when were out in Pixie when we got caught out in the MacDonell Race off Rathlin.

The forecast was NE 4 or 5 occasionally 6 for Malin, for Mull of Kintye (15 miles away) it was 4 or 5.

Held up by the tide coming around the south of Rathlin, by the time we were going north the wind was atleast a 6, plus a few more knots with the tide at springs, which we was now flowing an hour to and hour and a half stronger than it should have been if we were on time. I thought we could beat around the overfalls before we got there. We couldn't

Big confused waves the size of coaches all coming towards us, some were breaking. I felt we were alone in a very small boat in a very big sea. I remember seeing 3 big waves in a triangle around us, all coming towards us. The swear filter will prevent me typing what I was thinking, but I thought that might be it. The bow raised up to go up the biggest wave, I gunned the engine and somehow we just popped up on top of all three waves at once.

I've no idea how it happened but we came through those waves and nothing else seemed that bad.