I'm a Jibbering Wreck!

[TheBoatman]

I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

I've just finished instructing on a RYA PB2 course last w/end. 12 candidates, S.Westerly 5-6 over an ebbing spring tide. By mid afternoon on Sun I was wondering why I put myself through this!
But later that day to see the look on the faces of the sucsessful candidates when I handed them their hard won tickets, I knew then why I do it?

AND

The rotten buggers gave me a "Dizzy Duck" Easter Egg and said "thankyou". It almost brought a tear to my eye.

BTW,,,,, SWMBO has confiscated the egg, she reckons that it's her "perk" for being alone all w/end.

Where's that Brandy bottle?

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[jimi]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

Peter, Tell you what I've always wanted to do. Go on a boat as a competent crew trainee and do everything as much wrong as I can(would'nt need to try too hard) to see how much I can wind up the instructor .. there must be scope for a candid camera there!

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[TheBoatman]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

Jimi
Thats just plain evil<s>.
We instructors have enough to send us mad with out you giving things a helping hand.

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From the RYA.
If Jimi persists he will be fined 1 bottle of single malt for the consumption by the instructor (Peter)<s><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by TheBoatman on 06/04/2004 00:33 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[BrianJ]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

Peter,

Bet your one of those instructors / examiners for Yachtmasters, who carry a powerful magnet in your pocket and stands by the compass... oops ,what the hell is going on, compass must be U/S… oh dear… and you say your willing to help us..
How many of the class failed ????

Now about that bottle *********
BrianJ

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[TheBoatman]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

None failed, although 2 got endorsements, 1 for age and the other for planning only. Despite our best efforts the candidate had a problem using a tiller and we all thought that it would be best if they got a little more practice before being let loose.

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[TheBoatman]

Just read my own post

And it reads as though I was the only instructor!
I wasn't, there were 4 of us as per RYA recommended teaching ratios. (3 to 1)

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[Cornishman]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

Any instructor worth his salt will soon catch on to that one and have ways of making life most unpleasant for you for the rest of the week. I won't tell you here, it might give the game away.

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[bob_tyler]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

You mean that you will be your normal, incoherent self!!!

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[jimi]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

Absolutely ... although I achieved a level of inarticulate incoherence this afternoon that I never witnessed before!

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[john_morris_uk]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

Not sure about the magnet in the pocket trick. (I believe its apocryphal or it should be)

Part of my brief to candidates contains the words of my tutor when I was being checked out as an examiner. 'You don't ever have to set trick questions - the candidates can muck up quite easily without your encouragement.'

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[snowleopard]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

<You don't ever have to set trick questions >

the very first exercise in my exam was to go to a spot to anchor. it was very close to the fold in the chart and the transit to fix the spot was over the fold. sneaky sneaky!

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[graham]

Re: I used to be but Im OK now???

I used to have to instruct military candidates on the river Weser using Assault boats with 40 hp johnsons.

The outboards were so unreliable we carried a spare in each boat and still ended up towing each other.

The most memorable exam candidate managed to leave the water completely and ended up high and dry on a grassy bank .On more than one occasion there was a scramble for pocketknifes as they tangled up the lines going down in the locks. Idont think any of the "man overboards" would have drowned,several would have sustained head injuries though!

As you say the rewards are when a struggling candidate gets the hang of it and passes.

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[peterb]

Re: I\'m a Jibbering Wreck!

I hope your course was warmer than the Coastal Skipper course I finished today. At one stage the pupils were gathering handfuls of hail off the cockpit seats to make "hailballs". Distinctly chilly!

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