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DS Practical.
returned to Marina before going out for night hours. It was mid May so dark wasnt going to happen too early.

Sea school owner came on board to replace the pre filters for nice shiny glass ones so you could see how much crud was in the fuel.

he had been in the engine room for about five minutes when he shouted....

"Do you know where the fuel and power isolator switches are?"
"Yes"
The instructor had been most thorough ;)

"Switch them off quickly, please, there's smoke down here" :eek::eek:
or at least thats what I interpreted :D

Duly isolated.

Fault turned out to be a loose nut that wedged itself between the terminals on the starter motor. Stripped the wire from the batteries to the motor.

Night hours postponed until another day
 
PBII - Many moons ago,

Our instructor was being accessed by an RYA member of staff. Every maneuver started with "The RYA make us tell you do it this way...., however I think they're wrong and your far better doing it like this....." Her pen didn't stop moving all day on his assessment form.

Hopefully she was taking "how to improve the RYA notes..."
 
Here's a differnt take on this.

Many years ago I did YM theory at a college in the Midlands. Lecturer normal RYA theortician who had, presumably, only been on over crewed boats on flat water in the Solent. Group were dinghy sailers moving up, or skippers getting up to date.

We had a lot of laughs at the impracticality of some of it, but we duly learned it for the exam.

Until - How do you indicate that you are in distress etc.

1. In those days it was "light a tar barrel on the foredeck" This got cheers and a request for guidance notes from the marine insurance industry. Lecturer was ruffled.

2. Next it was "stand on the foredeck and raise your arms up and down from your sides" This caused total collapse from the regular sailors/skippers. We all sailed from Wales or IOM areas. When you leave harbour (marinas didn't exist) you would see no other boats until you came back or arrived somewhere, it is an area of low visibility with wind and rain and short steep seas. You could never be seen, there was no one to see you, and if anyone stood on the foredeck without both hands gripping something solid very tightly then you would go overboard. Lecturer could not comprehend.

3. "Hoist a sail upside down". HOW? :confused: :confused: We got this poor little rabbit of a lecturer almost in tears as he was teased about this. A competition was started to find a way of doing it. Even the dinghy sailors joined in. We were perhaps too unkind.

We did pass!

I have used the upside down sail example to tease a good many RYA people since. They hate it. They deserve it!

Childish I know, but it did make the course much more fun, and memorable.

Mike
 
timgriffin said:
That because you had a broken Cheek Bone
Tim
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Crikey!
You remembered.
Fair play.

Hey folks.
This is what I have really remembered about Tim's Course.We were doing the Advanced Powerboat Gig, by the way.



Well, amongst other stuff

It came to MOB stuff.
Tim said. 'when we do the MOB excersise, I will lob over an old Family heirloom, if yer don;t retrieve it watch out':eek:

Twas a bit of a swell in the Solent.

'Man Overboard' hollers Tim.

Needless to say, We didn't find said Heirloom:eek:

Inc 'Box Search' and 'Vectored Search'

TerWat
The Heirloom, was a small (empty) plastic bottle of Coke with red tape on the top!!

Tim, thanks for that.
Used it meself a few times since:D:D:D
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Yay! I am having a beer with one of the musketeers right now. Apparently Lavendar does not like bumpy bits. I am not quite sure what he is referring to...
 
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