Isolated navigational hazards

[jimi]

I've never been able to suss out why these are'nt just blown up to clear a safe navigational depth rather than being left in situ eg the wee rock at the end of the swinge. Eddystone rocks etc... What do yo think?

 

[Chris_Robb]

could be a lot of fun blowing them up - are you a pyromaniac? They say the Scots built the world - now they are going to destroy it!

- mind you sailing backwards down the Swinge was never a very good idea!

 

[Magic_Sailor]

You're not an advisor to George W are you? He wants to blow up isolated hazards.

Magic

 

[jimi]

Chris, I've got a modern boat no wan o' them ancient auld things wi' too many sticky up bits that ye cannie control in reverse! Seriously though we carve great swathes through the countryside for roads, blowing up mountains why should'nt we do the same in the sea? Apparently there's very little marine life left to harm anyway.

 

[Chris_Robb]

Those ancient old boats can hit the isolated rocks and survive - however a BAV..... ok - I'll shut up!

 

[pugwash]

Eddystone\'s safe

Didn't the RAF take several days to sink the Torrey Canyon and that was (more or less) afloat? Eddystone's safe for a while.

 

[snowleopard]

careful...

after they eliminate the stationary hazards they might start on the slow-moving ones.

 

[jimi]

Re: Eddystone\'s safe

From my recollection they were trying to set fire to it not blow it up. I'd have thought a few strategic bore holes and some plastic would send any lump of rock sky high (or ocean deep!)

 

[Sybarite]

I seem to remember them doing just this in Vancouver Island Sound. Apparently it was the largest ever man-made non-nuclear explosion.

 

[Jacket]

The British Navy also tried to blow up the German island of Helgoland after the war (this is also claimed to be the largest ever man made non nuclear explosion). Didn't really work- just changed the shape of the island a bit, and broke a few windows.

Lucky they failed, else where would we wait while waiting for the tide to be right for the Elbe?

 

[wayneA]

Is that including the IOW. It would be handy to let those boats trapped in the Solent, out to sea. ;-)

Look it was a joke...

Ok - I'll get my coat...

 

[Opinionated]

Not a bad troll, Jimi... I reckon it will drift over 100, at least.

(I don't have to agree with YOUR opinions, but I'll defend your right to express them).

 

[claymore]

Too Easy

It's those uncharted wee buggers they should be going for

regards
Claymore

 

[tcm]

Re: Not that easy

i would be a teensy bit worried about blowing up the eddystone. I mean, first off the lighthouse would get kaboomed. Which would mean that rest of the underlying rocks would have to be detonated pretty smartish (i.e. that afternoon) to avoid needing a very massive "caution - lunatics blowing things up" sign and lots of cones 10 miles offshore plymouth...

 

[jimmie]

Jimi,
I think this is an excellent idea. You know doubt know that I sank my boat when trying to escape earlier this year outside Dartmouth. THere are a few lumps of rock I know that could be fruitfully blown up. Just think the cost could be covered by selling lumps of the Eddystone. I made a fortune by selling bits of the Berlin wall myself. I would take this idea further and dig out Chesil Beach thus creating a true inshore route past Portland and dump the spoil into Hurst narrows thus restoring the IOW mainland connection and getting rid of all these annoying tides in the Solent.
What are you doing for Xmas, big boy? Do you have a family?


Jemmie

 

[sailbadthesinner]

i was pondering the same thing going into falmouth
i mean why they cad be done with it and just blow the thing sky bloody high
think of the insurance claim saves. how many boats have hit eddy stone et al.
be good practice for the military demolition.



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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: Jimmie hands off

jem
jimi is a scotsman and as such will be at home reading his copy of bleak house this christmas.

i would not bother with him at all. i can see that parole has not included a course of therapy to cure your obviously nymphomaniac tendencies. you have propositioned nearly every regular on the board now, have you no standards?

This isn't an office, its hell with strip lighting

 

[jimi]

Jemmie dear, beneath that pretty exterior obviously lies a woman of vision and taste.Unfortunately I will be spending the time leading up to Christmas on a carpark known as the M6 and probably the same amount of time after! The navigational hazard I'd like to get rid of is Ireland, it really has been a nuisance for years stopping us getting rid of all these scousers to the new world!

 

[sailbadthesinner]

we were nicking ireland peicece by peice and towing it back to the pool when the rozzers caught us and we had to leave it half way
we had the old irish town of Douglas i think it was an all that green stuff around it

This isn't an office, its hell with strip lighting

 

[nicho]

Just cut the chains and it'll float away on the tide (choose your time or it could end up off the West coast of Jimiland!!)