Get lost!
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WF36
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http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/l...st_in_fog_as_fishing_trip_goes_awry_1_1131975
I was the second boat they referred to as disorientated?! Which infact I wasn't. Was just waiting with the family until the RNLI came, however they insisted I was towed back as "it wasnt safe to make my own way back with out radar".
Saved my petrol.
I was the second boat they referred to as disorientated?! Which infact I wasn't. Was just waiting with the family until the RNLI came, however they insisted I was towed back as "it wasnt safe to make my own way back with out radar".
Saved my petrol.
SailorBill
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Perhaps learning to use a compass and an echosounder should be higher up their list of priorities!
Koeketiene
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Never mind - now two were 'rescued' for the price of one
It's all about the statistics
Doineann
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For various reasons, yesterday morning at 7.00 a.m. the mem s’ab and I were on the boat moored to a buoy off of Erith Yacht Club waiting for the tide to take us back down river. It became pretty clear the fog rather made such an idea impossible. It was so thick we could not see the shore, which was no more than 80 yards away and indeed could barely see other moored boats less than half the distance.
I took the hand-bearing compass with us on the rubber duck joking that with it this thick we could get lost and disorientated. I was glad we did, within 20 yards we could see nothing.
Seemed odd having to steer a compass course in a pump up going from boat to shore. It is remarkable how quickly you can get disorientated.
I took the hand-bearing compass with us on the rubber duck joking that with it this thick we could get lost and disorientated. I was glad we did, within 20 yards we could see nothing.
Seemed odd having to steer a compass course in a pump up going from boat to shore. It is remarkable how quickly you can get disorientated.
Seakindly
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Insisting on rescue...
The local boat seems to do that from time to time.... I'm trying to imagine how it happens. Is it a sort of 'Now then, Now then' or 'Don't be silly sir'. I'm sure they train the police in the arts of persuasion, but do lifeboat crews train in the art of rescuing the unwilling?
The local boat seems to do that from time to time.... I'm trying to imagine how it happens. Is it a sort of 'Now then, Now then' or 'Don't be silly sir'. I'm sure they train the police in the arts of persuasion, but do lifeboat crews train in the art of rescuing the unwilling?