pvb
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Ah, so when you wrote "NOBODY has gone and talked things over with the two boys on the boat", you were excluding the media.
Captain Calamitys
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Ah, so when you wrote "NOBODY has gone and talked things over with the two boys on the boat", you were excluding the media.
pvb
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Some interesting little snippets in there, if we can believe the Daily Mail. The owner has apparently run out of money. And if the insurers cancel the insurance, the boat will have to put to sea or be lifted out.
dylanwinter
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tarring all journalists with the same brush then
I have met a scottish engineer before - they are all the same
always getting it completely wrong
Resolution
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What does surprise me is that no-one from this forum has volunteered to join the boat and assist them round to Dartmouth.
macd
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Oh, I don't know, Dylan. They've built some good stills. And, er...well, that's about it.
(Cue outraged retort beginning "Watt you on about...")
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Sandy
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I know we are Dylan, a brilliant example can be found here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvn6kAFMTwU
Scotsailor
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Ok, the thing I don't understand is why they came over this direction to buy a boat? …there's another thread on this forum about all the cheap boats in America?
macd
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On the other hand there are scores of threads about how wonderful the RNLI is. These guys might be smarter than we thought
Seajet
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What does surprise me is that no-one from this forum has volunteered to join the boat and assist them round to Dartmouth.
There's a simple reason for that, you can't sail to Switzerland and Dignitas.
JumbleDuck
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The Scotsman is mean, as we're all well aware
He's bony and blotchy and covered with hair
He eats salted porridge and works all the day
And hasn't got bishops to show him the way.
(I don't, myself, like porridge)
JumbleDuck
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Perhaps they were worried about RCD status?
dylanwinter
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the story is, in some measure, rather entertaining
However, one of blokes has gone off to Ireland leaving a recent widdower living on a boat - it is his only home apparently - against a wall in a very windy West Country port without any power to run a fan heater.
I do a fair amount of winter sailing - I reckon that the inside of that boat must be getting pretty damp by now - and after having lost some of his bedding to a fire....
not a very comfortable situation to be in
he is, apparently running out of money.
suddenly not so funny
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However, one of blokes has gone off to Ireland leaving a recent widdower living on a boat - it is his only home apparently - against a wall in a very windy West Country port without any power to run a fan heater.
I do a fair amount of winter sailing - I reckon that the inside of that boat must be getting pretty damp by now - and after having lost some of his bedding to a fire....
not a very comfortable situation to be in
he is, apparently running out of money.
suddenly not so funny
D
bigwow
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Did the fire brigade take away his flowerpot when they put out his candle?
dylanwinter
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it is the only form of heating when I am on the hook up a small Cornish creek.
Don't knock it until you have tried it.
I confess that it is not quite as good as an eberspacher - but then it is not quite as expensive nor quite as difficult to maintain.
NormanS
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How do you maintain a candle?
dylanwinter
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precisely - very easy to maintain
NormanS
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I thought they burned away. Do you have everlasting candles? I bet my Eberspacher lasts longer than your candle, even if I don't maintain it.
Seajet
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Having tried a boat with an Eberspacher, my money's on the candle lasting longer, being more effective, and above all quiet !
I agree with Dylan in that I don't like to think of the bloke alone, cold and running low on funds, then again a lot of people are in that situation and I bet a park bench or shop doorway is a worse place to be than even a damp boat.
That being said I'd happily bung the chap a couple of quid, as long as he didn't pee it away on atlantic charts.
This situation needs sorting, with a better end plan...
I agree with Dylan in that I don't like to think of the bloke alone, cold and running low on funds, then again a lot of people are in that situation and I bet a park bench or shop doorway is a worse place to be than even a damp boat.
That being said I'd happily bung the chap a couple of quid, as long as he didn't pee it away on atlantic charts.
This situation needs sorting, with a better end plan...
dylanwinter
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I think hypothermia rather than drowning is the main risk he faces now.
JumbleDuck
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Shall we run a sweepstake? My guess is that they'll die while still in UK territorial waters.