Helicopter Rescue off Dover

[maxi77]

My oceanography lecturer always said there was no such thing as a freak wave.

As for the RYA checking schools at my last club which was a registered training establishment we were checked out every year by the RYA, there can only be so many acceptable excuses for life threatening incidents

 

[OGITD]

Bollox!

Could be useful if you have to swim ashore

(seal legs PMSL!)

 

[ksutton]

With the right boat & crew I'll sail in a 10 anyday..... just as long as we have a pleasant destination with good food & great beer…. plus totty & live music always a bonus....

If you haven’t been out in these conditions for a while it will take a couple of days to become acclimatised, empty the contents of your stomach, acquire your sea legs & start to eat & function again….. but that’s just all part of sailing.

Well this can be arranged, there is a high profile company based in Southampton. Just pay your money and off you go, but you have just missed a real opportunity earlier this week.
Unfortunately as far as stopping off at a pleasant destination for you, this company don't know where or how to stop, you would have to see the ride out.
Maybe if the crew had offered to have a whip round and pay the Brighton marina fee for the first night, they would have had a great exhilarating 9 hour sail.

 

[Searush]

We had a full briefing and were shown how to put up the storm sail but were reassured that we would run for one of the marinas if things got bad. I was on watch from 6pm to 8pm and refused to take the helm as I didn't feel experinced enough (I do have day skipper but haven't sailed much recently) At this time we were doing about 7.5 knots overland agaonst the tide and I suggested to the skipper that we should bring down the main. He didn't want to and didn't do so until we had had several problems with controlling the helm. Lowering the main wasn't easy either as the sail was very difficult to control and we were all feeling ill.
I then went off watch expecting that we would head for Eatbourne at worst...

Thank you for the info. I trust you are OK & realise that what you have just been thro is not sailing, but rather surviving. I have long believed that wind over tide will have been an issue in this incident. It makes a bad sea even worse & will probably explain the "freak wave". Waiting until the boat is almost out of control before reducing sail sounds more macho than seamanlike.

 

[rib]

this is getting really good thats another bloke than the one on the other thread

 

[Boomshanka]

Strange... website pages and profiles seem to be disappearing... rather futile nowadays with mirroring/archive sites.

 

[chewi]

Strange... website pages and profiles seem to be disappearing... rather futile nowadays with mirroring/archive sites.

perhaps undue pressure on the servers, or the paid for bandwidth?

 

[Searush]

this is getting really good thats another bloke than the one on the other thread

what other thread?

 

[chewi]

what other thread?

I went looking and I failed.
There's one about the MAIB report on its last incident.

 

[rib]

sorry...post 112 on this thread sailing boy 55 and now this guy

 

[Searush]

sorry...post 112 on this thread sailing boy 55 and now this guy

Oooh, well spotted, thnx.

 

[photodog]

Well.... Sailingboy55 has now been deleted...

Just as well we copied the tweets here eh?

 

[chewi]

Well.... Sailingboy55 has now been deleted...

Just as well we copied the tweets here eh?

What do you mean by deleted?
I just followed the link on post #112 and his tweets are still there.

 

[photodog]

try it again....

http://twitter.com/Sailingboy55

 

[Searush]

What do you mean by deleted?
I just followed the link on post #112 and his tweets are still there.

You are looking at copies held in your cache I suspect.

 

[chewi]

try it again....

http://twitter.com/Sailingboy55

ooh err, none there now!

 

[fireball]

From his Facebook page it suggest Charlie only recently started working for Hot Liquid.

I'm pretty sure it was him in Yarmouth on a HL boat in the summer ... but I guess as a freelance it's not unreasonable to do the odd bit here and there ..

 

[Tintin]

What do you mean by deleted?
I just followed the link on post #112 and his tweets are still there.

No, definitely gone.

 

[sailorman]

ooh err, none there now!

Twitter.com
Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!

 

[chewi]

so this is what was hidden....