Funniest thing I've ever witnessed

[jimi]

Funniest thing I\'ve ever witnessed

... was at the St PP waiting pontoon. We arrive and rafted onto a nice Dutch family. Sometime later I noticed a french boat wandering about. So going up on deck to protect my pride and joy the two elderly french gentlemen seemed delighted to have some assistance. The one at the front threw me a rope from 20 feet and asked me to tie it on . I indicated that some fenders would be nice and that it was customary to attach the rope to their boat before slinging the whole lot at one. Mean while the helmer was houdinilike unentangling himself from the embrace of a warp before sorting it out. Managed eventually to sort the silly sods out.
Never mind the best was yet to come ...

Much confusion and cursing as the next boat rafted onto them ...

However when it it came to enter the marina .....

When our raft came to leave one frenchman untied himself from me whilst the other gunned the engine .... then they went ... pandemonium .. the boat rafted outside them was still attached .. the harbourmaster in the rib was going bersek .. everything the guy did on the outside was counteracted by the loonie frenchman ... and in the midst of this mayhem (in the dark) a wee man in a rubber dinghy rows through the middle intent on entering the marina .. he was unceremoniously grabbed by harbourstaff in a rib, attached far away on a buoy and told not to move until told .. meanwhile the FL still attached is drifting amongst the mooring buoys ... manages to untie himself and then rockets at full throttle to the entrance ... the harbourstaff head him off and eventually chaperon him to a distant place, where eventually much banging and crashing is heard.

I know it loses a lot in the telling but every time I think of it I start giggling!

Anybody else witnessed similar?


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[Gunfleet]

A Frenchman writes

J'attends la seuil a St Peter Port et un p'tit vieux connard écossais m'engeulait pour n'avoir pas attache le corde avant le passer. Ecoute, souris, je disais, mon pote devient amoureuse avec l'autre corde, que est-ce que je devrais faire? Mais il n'écoutait pas. Il était trop occupée avec l'écriture de tout dans son journal de bord....

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[jimi]

Re: A Frenchman writes

Using my newly honed french skills I shall translate:

I worked as a waitress in St Pierre Door when a small wrinkled 'effin hard scotsman hung an englishman by tying him to a passing transit. Me I heard but I could say nothing cos I was in the bog having a crap whilst reading the latest western from lesley L'amour.

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[powerskipper]

Re: A Frenchman writes

I think you need to polish your French up a bit Jimi /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[Gunfleet]

Jimi does and

so do I but I've reached an age where it is what it is (ie ungrammatical)

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[Colin_S]

Re: A Frenchman writes

This is what Google translates it as........ hmmmmm

I await the threshold has St Peter Port and a p' tit old jerk shelled engeulait me not to have not attaches twists it before passing it. Listens, mouse, I said, my pal becomes in love with the other cord, that I should make? But it did not listen. It was too occupied with the writing of all in its log book....

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[Gunfleet]

I\'m not quite as cr*p as Google

I will admit engeuler might be Breton slang... I never learned French at school. They taught it okay, I just didn't listen. But if it came out right via google translation I would be in trouble wouldn't I? T

o demonstrate, I translated the first sentence here via google into French and then back into English, 'Jaillissez s'il venait hors de la droite par l'intermédiaire de la traduction de google que j'aurais des ennuis pas je?' is the French version, 'Spout out if it came out of the right-hand side via the translation of google which I would have of the troubles not I?' is the reversion to English. I rest my case.
;-)

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[Number1]

Re: I\'m not quite as cr*p as Google

All very amusing. If I had witnessed the event I'm sure I would have collapsed into an uncontrollable heap on the deck. Probably not the correct response to a fellow yachtmans misdemeanour. But sometimes one just can't help oneself. Although, I am sure we have all had embarrasing moments. It's funny that whenever things go wrong there is always an audience. The harder you try to do the right thing the worse the situation becomes.
Thankyou for sharing that with us.

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