How stupid can people be?

[Happy1]

Re: Time for a holiday H1? NM

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[hlb]

Re: Time for a holiday H1? NM

Is it posible to run out of ink in a computer. Or is it just wishfull thinking!!

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Haydn

 

[Bismark]

Re: Time for a holiday H1? NM

Shall I bring my Battlecruiser up the Thames?

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[Guest]

Re: Only if

Ah, so Memory Maker was in fact being helmed by a concealed dwarf, standing just in front of you, and steering by holding the bottom of the wheel, unable to see over the dash.

The speed limit thing was done to death recently - there is no speed limit at that point, but experience, common sense and courtesy says that you should wait until you are well clear before throttling up. As you come out of the hole, the wake is enormous for the moored boats astern - and you don't see it hit them because it travels back from you, and you are already planing and a long way away. It is also frightening for inbound boats, particularly small ones, to see someone accelerating out at them, even though you will eventually pass as safe distance off.

You're quite right, you can't learn everything in a season, nor in ten seasons. So, you just learned something that was not covered on your courses. Errrm, the ones you were just advocating as necessary to allow new boaters to understand the implications of wash. QED.

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[Observer]

Re: So obvious?

I agree. In many areas of human activity, the difference between a mistake, even a negligent error, ending in disaster or merely a 'close call' is mere fortuity.

Further, it is often the case that we learn to avoid these mistakes only because we have made them in the past and appreciated the consequences that may have flowed if fortuity had worked against us.

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[lanason]

Re: Name of the boat

I have just downloaded the news report from this terrible event and I'm 99% sure I know the people and the boat.
I think it was moored directly in front of us at the Upton Water Festival over the bank holiday weekend. The boat had a stern rope onto my bow !!
The description of the owners seems to match and the pictures of the recovered boat, compared to those taken at Upton seem to match exactly. Only spoke a few words to them but they seemed like everyone else on the river.
I did not notice it over loaded at Upton.

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