Poignard
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The ones who are, are not the problem.
The problem is the ones who are not, and do not know they are not.
Dead engine sailing
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The problem is the ones who are not, and do not know they are not.
capnsensible
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That will be why some insurance companies give a bit of a discount to those that take some training, probably.
Chiara’s slave
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I guess if you’re rubbish, at least you’ll know!
sailoppopotamus
Active member
Thanks for asking. No, I personally haven't as I've been sailing around the Aegean since early July. But many I know have been. The heat wave has not been great for anybody, but at least the meltemi hasn't been particularly vicious so far!
Wansworth
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Thanks good to have news of members in distant lands
SaltyC
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My father's old quote:-
Those who know not and know not that they know not are fools ignore them.
Those who know not and know that they know not are children - teach them..
Those who know and know that they know are wise men follow them.
AntarcticPilot
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Or there's Donald Rumsfeld: "as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. "
C08
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I had an interesting incident recently that may or may not have caused damage to my or another persons boat and I wonder about the insurance implications. We were rafted up against a very nice westerly vulcan on a deep water pontoon at Dartmouth for a couple of days. When we came to leave there was a stiff breeze holding us against the other boat and a little tide running still against the bows. If I had been on the pontoon I would normally have used a stern spring to het the bows out and then motored sharply away from the pontoon but as I was rafted it was easier to just use the bow thruster to get the bows out. Just as I went into gear the controls or engine developed a fault and the engine raced faster than you would normally try and go into gear so I was faced with aborting the departure and risk being blown back towards the other boat my stern going nto the gap between the boat were were rafted to and the boat behind or slamming into gear and clearing the boats behind but possibly damaging my outboard gearbox. Also being senstive the the westerly owners who were very proud of their boat(apology to their alarm at my boy racer take off as they could not have understood what was happening and that I had an emergensy). So I avoided damaging another boat and mine but possibly damaged my gear box. I manged to approach my mooring at about 5 knots and glided to the mooring and managed to pick it up with some difficulty.
So if I have damaged my gearbox in avoiding mine and another boat damage what will be the response of the insurance co if I wanted to claim. I probably would not as I expect a new dog gear would be less than my excess of £300.
So if I have damaged my gearbox in avoiding mine and another boat damage what will be the response of the insurance co if I wanted to claim. I probably would not as I expect a new dog gear would be less than my excess of £300.
Cardinal
Active member
If the engine/linkage problem was not caused by a maintenance failure then your claim should be met (your actions avoided greater losses).