How not to moor a boat

[Kags12]

Hello again,

I'll glad I wasn't near this person as they tried to moor their boat ...

http://www.motorboatsmonthly.co.uk/news/536071/boat-fail-video

 

[vyv_cox]

No harm done. Just inexperience, I suppose.

 

[Seajet]

Seems to me the only way the Norfolk Broads will be useable again by normal boat owners is after a ' Walking Dead ' type plague to thin out the imbeciles; or has that happened already and it's the ' Walkers ' in these hired mobo's ?!

It must take a specially philosophical person with a blood pressure just above tick-over to run a boat hire business there...

 

[hartcjhart]

easy mistake for a hirer too fast then panic and fishtail all over,mind you he nearly did a good stern on mooring

 

[rogerboy]

wonder what you were like when you started????

Seems to me the only way the Norfolk Broads will be useable again by normal boat owners is after a ' Walking Dead ' type plague to thin out the imbeciles; or has that happened already and it's the ' Walkers ' in these hired mobo's ?!

It must take a specially philosophical person with a blood pressure just above tick-over to run a boat hire business there...

 

[sailorman]

wonder what you were like when you started????

It makes a nonsense of the ICC doesnt it

 

[hartcjhart]

It makes a nonsense of the ICC doesnt it

why? did he have one

 

[sailorman]

why? did he have one

probably no, but he had 10 minutes instruction / hand-over no doubt & what is she 40` long

 

[dleroc]

I would have dropped the camera and gone to their assistance rather than film their plight!

 

[rogerboy]

+1

probably no, but he had 10 minutes instruction / hand-over no doubt & what is she 40` long

 

[prv]

probably no, but he had 10 minutes instruction / hand-over no doubt & what is she 40` long

We chartered a similar boat on the French canals a few years ago. The handover was brief and very informal, and didn't include anything about driving the boat beyond "this is the start button, this is the steering wheel, this is the throttle". The emergency drill in case of sinking was given as "take all the beer onto the roof, phone us, then sit on top and wait for us to arrive and sort you out".

The native canal boats are designed and accustomed to spending all their time bouncing off things, whether lock entrances, banks, or other boats. I'd be nervous taking a seagoing yacht through though - I think I'd be creating an outer "deflector shield" of hanging planks, with fenders inside them.

Pete

 

[sailorman]

We chartered a similar boat on the French canals a few years ago. The handover was brief and very informal, and didn't include anything about driving the boat beyond "this is the start button, this is the steering wheel, this is the throttle". The emergency drill in case of sinking was given as "take all the beer onto the roof, phone us, then sit on top and wait for us to arrive and sort you out".

The native canal boats are designed and accustomed to spending all their time bouncing off things, whether lock entrances, banks, or other boats. I'd be nervous taking a seagoing yacht through though - I think I'd be creating an outer "deflector shield" of hanging planks, with fenders inside them.

Pete

BUT you get a 2 week ICC Gratis inc in the holiday

 

[hartcjhart]

probably no, but he had 10 minutes instruction / hand-over no doubt & what is she 40` long

agreed, pathetic really,when you think of the damage that can be done

 

[sailorman]

agreed, pathetic really,when you think of the damage that can be done

So where does that leave the ICC

 

[johnalison]

What makes you lot think that things were ever better in the past? My brother managed to put a bowsprit into a motorboat's stern cabin in about 1936 and we knew well that we needed to keep clear of motorboats back in the '50s. I loved the Broads but people don't change.

 

[hartcjhart]

BUT you get a 2 week ICC Gratis inc in the holiday

are you saying that if you hire a boat here they give you an ICC?

 

[prv]

BUT you get a 2 week ICC Gratis inc in the holiday

Huh?

Pete

 

[sailorman]

are you saying that if you hire a boat here they give you an ICC?

In France your considered to be competent "if you hire" its part of the deal

 

[prv]

are you saying that if you hire a boat here they give you an ICC?

If he's saying that, he's wrong. The three letters "I C C" were never mentioned in my dealings with the canal hire company.

As it happens, I have an ICC on the strength of a Dazed Kipper course I did years ago. But I never did the add-on Inland Waterways bit, and in any case they never asked about qualifications and I never mentioned it.

Fundamentally, the activity consists of trundling plastic yoghurt-pots slowly along a shallow ditch, with very little risk to anybody.

Pete

 

[hartcjhart]

In France your considered to be competent "if you hire" its part of the deal

but do they give you a cert