Fancy Using A Boat Without Brakes
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LittleShip
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Di## H##d comes to mind, Jeeze what a dork!
Tom
Tom
landaftaf
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so - they are learning the hard way ........... loads of ppl are like that
Lakesailor
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I see them every day.
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
I like the human anchor bit, /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif.
I think if the water was deeper he might have had a chance to dig in.
I think if the water was deeper he might have had a chance to dig in.
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
No no,,, when you come alongside you jump onto the PONTOON!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
fireball
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now the comment from a certain viewer was:
JRC808 (4 weeks ago) Marked as spam
really yeah another thing to try BACKWINDING YOU DUMBASSES GOD LEARN HOW TO [--word removed--] SAIL jeez pathetic
Hmm .... well - perhaps the poster should learn to sail and identify where the wind is coming from before suggesting "Backwinding" ... something the foresail does to the mainsail ... and see that it isn't possible when the wind coming from the back quarter!
JRC808 (4 weeks ago) Marked as spam
really yeah another thing to try BACKWINDING YOU DUMBASSES GOD LEARN HOW TO [--word removed--] SAIL jeez pathetic
Hmm .... well - perhaps the poster should learn to sail and identify where the wind is coming from before suggesting "Backwinding" ... something the foresail does to the mainsail ... and see that it isn't possible when the wind coming from the back quarter!
Lakesailor
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I've looked at it a few times and wondered why he didn't approach from the other side and luff up to the pontoon. or even the end of the pontoon.
Still. You've learn quicker by making mistakes.
Still. You've learn quicker by making mistakes.
ValleyForge
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Well, at least no one put their hand out to stop the boat hitting the dock. Ducks would have enjoyed the resultant floating titbits (fingers) .....
Twister_Ken
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Are ducks carnivores?
Lakesailor
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Someone on a mooring near mine did that the other week. He was coming onto his buoy on his (unsinkable) 21ft yacht and a nearby one swung around in the wind. Unthinkingly he put his had out to fend it off. Didn't really work and the other boat rove off a stanchion and trapped his hand between the boats. Ended up with the warden taking him off and to an ambulance. Had to have skin grafts on his hand to repair the mess.
Speaking of mess the warden cleaned up the side of his AWB as he said it looked like a scene from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Never do it. You'll come of worst.
Speaking of mess the warden cleaned up the side of his AWB as he said it looked like a scene from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Never do it. You'll come of worst.
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
Reminds me of a accident on a charter a few years back,,
Our Rollerreefing fwd had broke, and the charter guys sent out a engineer to fix,, we had dropped into Fat Hogs bay in BVI,, and the mooring had a load of coral growing on it...
Anyways dude shows up, recently arrived from the Royal marines,, very nice young bloke,,is up front fixing gear when he drops crucial bit over side, faster than you can blink hes in the water chasing it to the bottom....CATCHES the part before it gets lost,, swims up,, and grabs the mooring to haul himself on board...NOW I had warned him about the coral...
Rips his hand right down to the bone across his palm,,, blood everywere... looked like we had been slaughtering chickens fwd.
so,, clean him up, wrap hand in towel,,, he insists on finishing job before driving his rib back to base, were he is sent to hosp and gets somehting lke 20 or so stitches and is signed off.
If that had happened here in the UK It would have been RNLI ambulance time, he went a bit white for while, then picked himself up and got on with the job.. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Our Rollerreefing fwd had broke, and the charter guys sent out a engineer to fix,, we had dropped into Fat Hogs bay in BVI,, and the mooring had a load of coral growing on it...
Anyways dude shows up, recently arrived from the Royal marines,, very nice young bloke,,is up front fixing gear when he drops crucial bit over side, faster than you can blink hes in the water chasing it to the bottom....CATCHES the part before it gets lost,, swims up,, and grabs the mooring to haul himself on board...NOW I had warned him about the coral...
Rips his hand right down to the bone across his palm,,, blood everywere... looked like we had been slaughtering chickens fwd.
so,, clean him up, wrap hand in towel,,, he insists on finishing job before driving his rib back to base, were he is sent to hosp and gets somehting lke 20 or so stitches and is signed off.
If that had happened here in the UK It would have been RNLI ambulance time, he went a bit white for while, then picked himself up and got on with the job.. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
DaveS
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Well known fact. Celebrated in song: "then t'ducks will come an eat up t'worms..."