drinking & sailing

Re: drink/heroin addicts

Where do you stop legislating? A significant number of pedestrians who are involved in accidents have been drinking (I wouldn't be surprised if it was a greater number than were in control of a boat) do we ban walking and drinking?

While I am typing this there is a phone in on IW radio and people are up in arms because a franchise on Yaverland beach has got a licence to sell beer - good heavens, people drinking while children build sandcastles whatever next!

Can nobody get things in proportion any more?

As for heroin addicts, one would perform no better on the helm than a drunk - and they would have ripped anything of value out out of the boat and sold it as well!
 
Re: drink/heroin addicts

guns needles bottles murder...
this is fantastic........I've been wasting my time wuth paintball eh!
 
Too many chiefs and not enough indians

Forgive me, but if I undestand the DB school of sailing correctly it would require an unanimous crew decision and you'd have to trick me into supporting it.
 
Re: ah, composite 2

ah but it WAS a democratic decision. Before you came on board, the entire crew comprising me and das boot and the heroine addict democratically agreed that it wd be our policy to shoot any crew displaying tendency of being an awkward bugger OR a drunk, which definitely includes you.
 
Re: ah, composite 2

By the way the shoot the drunk was just a joke.

One thing about drunks is that their reputation usualy precedes them.
I therefor do not believe we the commitee would vote to take them on in the first place.
I also believe that the commitee would need to be competent therefore any incompetence would preclude drunks from voting.
 
Re: ah, composite 2

Whereas heroin addicts are great to get on with on board as common symptoms are mental confusion, euphoria and constipation.

So they let you trick them into doing things your own "democratic way", contribute to a happy ship and best of all, no blocked toilets.

John
 
I suggest that there is a major difference.

Firstly there has been a law against drink and drive for many years, the change in the 1960s was to introduce brathalyser to make enforcement easier and more equitable.

This was to solve a real problem i.e. drunks killing themselves and others at an alarming rate. The change in the law made a measurable and significant reductions in the number of deaths.

With sailing there is no such problem. There are not hundreds of people being killed every year by drunks in boats.

So why introduce a law that seeks to solve a problem that does not exist.

Further, there has been a readiness to bring charges of manslaughter against people who have caused deaths in boating incidents, Lyme Bay, Maria Asumpta and Tynemouth spring to mind. There is no reason why anyone causing a fatality by sailing when drunk could not be similarly charged - and face a life sentence!

I would suggest that would be a sufficient disincentive for anyone with sufficient brain to be detered by the new proposal. For those with insufficient brain, of course, the proposals are a waste of time anyway.

BTB never understood why manslaughter isn't used against some of the maniacs who kill people in motor cars and get off with careless driving. After all if you use any other machine in a recklessly negligent way you go down.
 
Re: ah,

Me, I'd shoot the guy on H, twitchy b......s make me tired. Anyone on grass would have to go to. Boring circular conversations and stealing your Mars Bars has got to worth the ultimate sanction. Drunks are the least of my worries. I once found myself half way across the Channel with two born again christians and a Buddhist. That would drive anyone to drink.
 
Re: drink/heroin addicts

Given that they'll be sober before the committee decides, the drunks will be safe ... if they've not caused an accident in the meantime.
 
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