Helping out 'Sea Start'

[Happy1]

Re: Good of you to help, but...

Hi Graham, I didn't go into all that with them, I just responded to their request. I must say it was easier to tow them out to deeper water to re-anchor than to have their boat go aground. They had two guests on the boat who had not been out before, and they dry stack at Cobbs, so perhaps didn't want any damage to their boat, or perhaps there were non swimmers on board. I don't really think a nice afternoon out in some of your good clothes would be nicely finished off jumping into some quite choppy water 50mtrs or so from the beach trying to hold a boat, as they were not young people. With the swell and current with the tide going out, I would have thought that would have created more of a risk. I guess if we had not been around your suggestion was an option, but as I said their suggestion seemed the easiest and safest seeing that Sea Start had been called.

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[tcm]

Re: Good of you to help, but...

Um yes, couldn't they have released the brake and put the anchor back down?

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[Guest]

Re: Agreed

Makes you wonder, though, doesn't it. If their car were on fire, do you think they'd phone the AA?

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[lanason]

Re: Helping out \'Sea Start\'

The title of your post Pete ""Helping out Sea Start" actually implies that as Sea Start did not have the ability to offer the service that was needed then you made up for their inadquacies. Otherwise you would have posted "I rescued another boater in Distress " with a reference to SS not being able to make it in time.

Hang on a moment - have you found a new business opportunity and you are going to set up the RAC of the boating world in competition with SS who are the AA ??? So thats what all this has been about /forums/images/icons/wink.gif You could call yourself Real Yatching Assitance or RYA for short !!

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[Dave_Knowles]

Re: Helping out \'Sea Start\'

The words Sea Start shure stir up the old emotions- as I know!!


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Dave

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[Happy1]

Re: Helping out \'Sea Start\'

Well after speaking to the individuals in trouble, I think they thought that they would get a pretty much immediate response (which you and I know is not going to happen), so in their mind Sea Start were not there I was, so I was helping Sea Start. Anyway I only reported the facts, we can all go into fantasy mode imagining this and that, but when you are on the spot and see what is happening, I am sure you would see that no two set written incidents would ever be the same in reality. Anyway I hope they are safe and that people get some of their own safety gear if they don't already, and be prepared for any 'incident' that may come your way e.g. I had a very long spare tow rope, perhaps some people don't even have that, and I wasn't the victim in all this! but at least my risk assessments had worked and I was able to help /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

As for starting a new business, well no thanks, I have seen so many pratts out there in boats I don't see why I should intentionally put my own life on the line for their lazyness, ignorance, arrogance, expecting everyone else to bail them out, or anything else for that matter, but I would never turn down the plea for help in an immediate urgent situation. I have already had my boat damaged by pratts that sunk late in the evening with nobody except me around that found them. Two adults and two kids nearly drowning with no lifejackets, VHF, or any other kind of safety gear. I used my safety gear, damaged my boat in saving them, only for the wife to thank us tearfully and explaining this was the third time it had happened!! I have full respect for the RNLI that see these pratts every day and risk thgeir lives to save them. It is about time there was mandatory training and mandatory equipment required on the vessel before leaving dry land. I may contact the government and offer to assist in drafting up a list of kit /forums/images/icons/wink.gif and then open my new chandlery /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif



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[Guest]

Re: Take you off?

I have seen so many pratts out there in boats I don't see why I should intentionally put my own life on the line for their lazyness, ignorance, arrogance, expecting everyone else to bail them out

I presume we can scrub you from the potential RNLI crew list then?

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[Happy1]

Re: Take you off?

Absolutely, I take my hat off to the RNLI putting up with the same endless waste of life and dangerous situations made by pratts. Massive fines, impounding of vessels for wrongdoers, compulsary training and set mandatory safety equipment is a minimum, I would want if I was in charge.

WHY do we NOT learn from mistakes, why are some boaters so arrogant and think it will NEVER happen to them?

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[Guest]

Re: Flogging?

Flogging! Flogging's too good for 'em, if you ask me. They should be taken out and abandoned at sea. Errm.

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[Happy1]

Re: Flogging?

When was keel hauling abandoned as a punishment, or is there still an old law still in force?

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[Geoffs]

Re: Helping out \'Sea Start\'

Hey! that's a fantastic idea, I wonder why no one has thought of it before.

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[Happy1]

Re: Helping out \'Sea Start\'

So that's what it means /forums/images/icons/wink.gif I have seen all these vessels going around with sticks and pieces of cloth hanging on them, so they are really people in trouble. If they intentionally go out like that and zig zag in front of everyone else, would it be fair to call them troublemakers /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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