Fastnet chaos - fun to watch

[Will]

Just listening to one of my colleagues attemting to deal with the chaos that is the fleet reaching Plymouth and trying to find somewhere to moor. Absolute carnage. Couple of things strike me though -
1. Racing sailors are really rubbish at parking.
2. Racing sailors have no idea of VHF protocol whatsoever.
3. Racing sailors smell deeply unpleasant after a few days at sea.
4. American racing sailors are unnervingly polite and are completely undermining my preconceptions about Americans mostly being brash and rude.
5. I am reasonably accompished at making controversial and gross sweeping generalisations, but it's Friday, I'm being swamped by battered looking sunburnt people on stinking boats so therefore I'm allowed. And obviously I'm not at all bitter that they've been sailing for a week and I haven't. Not at all.

 

[jimi]

Are the wummin smellier than the men?

 

[Evadne]

Re: No. 4

I've always found your normal American citizens unrelentingly polite, its their government and armed forces that are brash and rude. And their immigrations officers.

 

[NevisTheCat]

No idea of how to use the VHF. I will have you know sir, that every broadcast from Radio Bojangles FM - Trivial Pursuit Hour used full radio ettiquete.



Then we got bored and went back o the fishing...

 

[Fin]

VHF discipline (sp) (its late)

As someone who made full use of radio Bojangles to save me getting bored fartless. I can confirm that correct radio procedures were followed at all times. Including the correct frequency allocation for "Blind Date". In fact the only radio procedure that I couldn't hear were lots of radio checks on channel 16.

Yours sincerely

Cilla

 

[dulcibella]

Re: VHF discipline (sp) (its late)

Beware of polite Americans - they are usually born-again Christians who will bore the pants off you.