Horseshoe safety buoy

[Roberto]

I would be interested in knowing where does its shape come from..

just cost cutting policy from round shaped buoys? -.<)

thanks



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[StugeronSteve]

I have always assumed it to be so that you can tuck the "wings" under your armpits when floating in the water.

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[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

I think one of the problems, if you throw a lifering to someone in the water they will have to duck under the oggin to enter it, not an easy feat if you have ever tried getting under an innertube is a kid when swimming (oh you know what I mean!/forums/images/icons/smile.gif). Also near impossible I would imagine if wearing a lifejacket.

With the horseshoe you can just slide into it. I may be corrected if this is wrong, oh, they also take up less space too.

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[jimi]

I thought it came from the days of smugglers & pirates when they used to muffle the carthorses hooves with foam hooves so the excisemen could'nt hear them. Obviously they had to store them aboard their vessels and one day a young smuggler called Dan fell overboard and the nearest thing was a hoof muffler so they chucked it at him and Dan Boy was recovered successfully .. hope that helps

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[StugeronSteve]

Ok. But where the f**k did OSCAR come into the story?

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[jimi]

Baldie Steve was not a smuggler he was a pirate and he was very upset and got quite hung up that all his pirate friends had a multitude of scars as momentos of various conflicts and scrapes. His mates used to wind hoim up by calling him 0scar.

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[Aja]

Jimi

They had foam in those days? What happened when there wasn't a storm?

Donald

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[Roberto]

I thought so, but mine (at least) is so small I can hardly put my head through it, impossible to put it around the chest, with or without jacket




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[StugeronSteve]

The sea would be much calmer and they wouldn't need a horseshoe dan buoy.

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[Roberto]

or Dan, aka he who always falls overboard



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[StugeronSteve]

Ah but smugglers were much smaller in those days, rather a like a hairy Caledonian I can think of.

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[jimi]

Do'nt be silly the ancients used to make foam with rubber from a rubber plant and some cremola, put it in the food blender, switched it on, added water and hey presto

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[Aja]

You know, sometimes your logic just leaves me speechless.

This is one of those times.

I never would have thought of that. Suppose they must have nipped along to the nearest Ye Olde Shoppe for the Cremola?

Donald

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[Mirelle]

Useless things!

1. They are too small.

2. They are too light and you cannot throw them anywhere except dead downwind

3. "In the interest of safety" i.e. not braining the MOB struggling in the water, they are made of soft plastic with cloth covers, so they deteriorate in half no time and you are back to the swindlery for a new pair.

4. After you've thrown the wretched thing, it is so light that it surfs away downwind and out of sight. Yes, I know about the "drogue" - very funny.

5. If these things are indeed the cat's pajamas, why does every local authority in Britain (selecting, at random, the most Health and Safety obsessed body of men and women in the land!) install hard round ones near any body of water they claim jurisdiction over, from ditches to estuaries?



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[Vara]

Aah nostalgia!
Whatever happened to Cremola foam.
I suppose it's in some locker with Lokata and trailing logs.
Went home the other day and the local ice cream parlour didn't do nugget wafers!
Forget global warming the world is really coming to an end!

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[tugboat]

Re: Useless things!

On one of my previous boats I had a couple of horseshoe shaped Perrybuoys - proper jobs like you see the round ones round harbours, but horseshoe shaped. They were the bees knees-anyone know if you can still get them? The yellow foam ones are cr@p IMHO.

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