It could have been very embarrassing

[Gludy]

My boat has been out of the water for five weeks being anti-fouled etc - so we decided to get out for a few hours just to feel what it is like again. We went out to a small bay not to far away. On the way back an incident occured that was embarrassing and had the potential to be very embarrassing.

Crusing along at 28 knots we were passing a yacht on our starboard side and leaving plenty of room when we noticed that it may be in trouble - it appeared to be on fire!

There were a lot of people on the bow one of whom was shaking their arms in what we thought was a distress sign and blue smoke wafting away from the boat - we executed a fast turn to starboard and headed towards them witn my guests waving their arms waiting for a response from the crowd of people around the bow of the yacht but receiving no response back other than a staring at us - as we headed towards them one of my friends aboard our boat suddenly realised that it was a yacht he knew and realised why they were out and what they were doing - it was a funeral party scattering the ashes of someone - with this realisation we quickly executed another turn away just feeling grateful that at least one person on board saved us from a potentially very embarrassing incident.



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[Deleted User YDKXO]

I take it the unfortunate person whose ashes were being scattered was a died in the wool yottie in which case he may not have appreciated the irony of being sucked up into the cooling intakes and blown out through the exhausts of some monstrous gas guzzling gin palace
Makes you laugh though!

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[theguvnor]

but with that smoke ! Its quite unusual to have a cremation on boared isn`t it ?

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[Dave_Snelson]

...irony of being sucked up into the cooling intakes and blown out through the exhausts of some monstrous gas guzzling gin palace...


Fantastic!! That did make me laugh.

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[oldgit]

Last year while waiting at my local pier,one of the tugs which work in our local area came along side looking rather smart and with all the crew dressed in their sunday best.Not sure what stopped me from shouting across all the usual insults and abuse,but realised only just in time that the tug had mustered to scatter somebodies ashes.

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[Gludy]

The 'smoke' was the ashes


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[Bejasus]

The 'smoke' was the ashes


and I thought you liked fishing....../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[tcm]

fab!

You could have taken the opportunity to empty the holding tank - after all, they're chucking stuff overboard too. But is it a recognised dumping ground? There's a three mile limit on chucking things overboard I think, so I trust you advised them of the situation.

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[Gludy]

"and I thought you liked fishing"
but sometimes I get caught!

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[Gludy]

"There's a three mile limit on chucking things overboard I think, so I trust you advised them of the situation. "
I did not think I had urned the right to start telling others what to do

(sorry ... I could not resist)



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[steverow]

tee hee...

Oh how I'm looking forward to this weekend.......that'll give us plenty to talk about!!


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[Mike2822425]

This reminds me of what my boss said after he scattered his fathers ashes (and the wind blew) "He always did get up my nose". True story.

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[tcm]

Hm, good job you didn't go any closer!

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[Bejasus]

Soppy story

When we were scattering my mum's ashes in Ascog bay on Bute, I had my 2 young daughters with me. They were quite upset at the death of their grandmother, whom they doted on. The day had been miserable on the journey, but just as we finished, the sun came out and a beautiful giant rainbow appeared. Both my girls let out a huge sigh, and pointing at the rainbow, exclaimed 'Look, grandma is going up to heaven!'.
I don't think I have ever been so choked in my life.

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