epervier
Well-Known Member
not to retrieve a boat, with a trailer made of red oxide,
Late this afternoon, 'er indoors and I went to wave off my sister who's off to the Caribbean aboard the Oceana, which was the latter of the two cruise ships leaving Southampton tonight, Queen Liz being the other,timed for 1630 departure both ships were adrift of this time, Liz didn't get to us until well past 6pm and Oceana was still in the dock area at 1845.
It was a beautiful but cold late afternoon and as the sun dropped so did the temperature, the ships being late started to piss me off a tad, as I hate being cold, however as luck would have it there was entertainment provided for the waiting crowd in the form of a hapless boater.
But let me first set the scene, the time of day you already know, the tide state is all but ebbed away,1st high water was 1259 we are leaving springs, today was 4.5 mtrs, southampton water is going into the solent at a fair lick not crazy speeds but very unforgiving,there is no wind,
our intrepid boater's boat was on the single to the right of a 24mtr wide, well maintained concrete slip,first job is to reverse 4x4 and trailer to boat,and to add a bit of interest we'll reverse trailer and truck over shingle to boat rather than bring boat to slipway ramp,then start to winch boat onto trailer without entering trailer into water, this was obviously done to prove that the winch would be strong enough to pull the whole deadweight of boat and contents up the entire length of the trailer pic 1,
Then the winch post breaks off of main chassis and lands in shingle just in front of boat pic 2,
lets just forget that idea and get the 2010 registered Mitsibushi L200 out of the shingle the tide'll be turning soon, that's not steam in the photo it's the smoke from the clutch, you could still smell it 45 mins later pic 3,his mate turns up to help recover the boat with a tug that usually pushes oil tankers about at the refinery jetty pic 4&5,
throws line onto tug, tug starts towing but the boat is still attatched to the trailer with the bow line, nearly takes trailer with boat into ogin, at this stage, I am ashamed to say, I nearly wet me self laughing, but he shouted in time to stop the tow and released the trailer from boat pic 6, then the tow is secured to the tug with a larger warp pic 7, but it slips off pic 8, and the boat drifts away under the jetty pic 9,
it was at this point your truly thought it was time to stop laughing and give a hand, so ran down the jetty at great personal risk descended weed laden steps to retrieve cast away boat, grabbed handrail and waited for tug crew member to board vessel and make good their escape before any more mishaps occurred pics 10 11 12 13, they sailed away into the sunset pic 14 15
And this boys and girls is why it is wise to have boat insurance when there are people like this let loose on the water.
Late this afternoon, 'er indoors and I went to wave off my sister who's off to the Caribbean aboard the Oceana, which was the latter of the two cruise ships leaving Southampton tonight, Queen Liz being the other,timed for 1630 departure both ships were adrift of this time, Liz didn't get to us until well past 6pm and Oceana was still in the dock area at 1845.
It was a beautiful but cold late afternoon and as the sun dropped so did the temperature, the ships being late started to piss me off a tad, as I hate being cold, however as luck would have it there was entertainment provided for the waiting crowd in the form of a hapless boater.
But let me first set the scene, the time of day you already know, the tide state is all but ebbed away,1st high water was 1259 we are leaving springs, today was 4.5 mtrs, southampton water is going into the solent at a fair lick not crazy speeds but very unforgiving,there is no wind,
our intrepid boater's boat was on the single to the right of a 24mtr wide, well maintained concrete slip,first job is to reverse 4x4 and trailer to boat,and to add a bit of interest we'll reverse trailer and truck over shingle to boat rather than bring boat to slipway ramp,then start to winch boat onto trailer without entering trailer into water, this was obviously done to prove that the winch would be strong enough to pull the whole deadweight of boat and contents up the entire length of the trailer pic 1,
Then the winch post breaks off of main chassis and lands in shingle just in front of boat pic 2,
lets just forget that idea and get the 2010 registered Mitsibushi L200 out of the shingle the tide'll be turning soon, that's not steam in the photo it's the smoke from the clutch, you could still smell it 45 mins later pic 3,his mate turns up to help recover the boat with a tug that usually pushes oil tankers about at the refinery jetty pic 4&5,
throws line onto tug, tug starts towing but the boat is still attatched to the trailer with the bow line, nearly takes trailer with boat into ogin, at this stage, I am ashamed to say, I nearly wet me self laughing, but he shouted in time to stop the tow and released the trailer from boat pic 6, then the tow is secured to the tug with a larger warp pic 7, but it slips off pic 8, and the boat drifts away under the jetty pic 9,
it was at this point your truly thought it was time to stop laughing and give a hand, so ran down the jetty at great personal risk descended weed laden steps to retrieve cast away boat, grabbed handrail and waited for tug crew member to board vessel and make good their escape before any more mishaps occurred pics 10 11 12 13, they sailed away into the sunset pic 14 15
And this boys and girls is why it is wise to have boat insurance when there are people like this let loose on the water.
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