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Re:USA example

On various boaty sites in the americas,a more direct approch seems to be the norm,suggestions of a shoot first and if that message fails you ambush and sink the offending item.
 
Re: A sailor...

...was recently rescued by the RNLI just off Calais. He thought he was near Ramsgate, but had accidentally sailed across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Utterly oblivious and with no idea where he was.

Ergo, sailors are half-wits who shouldn't be allowed out on the water without compulsory training, licensing and registration. And all PWC riders should have to pass a test before riding facing backwards. No, hold on...that can't be right. Soddit...everyone should be hanged from the yardarm. Unless they're over 50, in which case there should be an exemption published for them in the Daily Mail.

Bah humbug!
 
Re: A sailor...

Yeah well, you had to rely on a report from the RNLI for that titbit. PWC riders doing stupid stuff is something any of us can see anytime we go near the (tidal) water.
I had a guest who was...... erm, more mature, and came three or four times a year to ride his jetski on Windermere (pre speed limit) with his sons. They were the kind of people you wish all jetskiers were.
But they're not. Jetskiing tends to appeal to those who think James Bond is real and 4ft Samuri swords are the dogs bollocks.

Talking of profiles (and congratulations on filling yours in) why ex editor of boating mags?
 
Re: A sailor...

Good question...probably because I hate meetings, and I'd rather be out boating, taking photos, and writing. But, like all very stupid people, I never learn. So I've been editor of various magazines when maybe I should have stuck with being Deputy Editor (cue various axioms about promoting people to one step above their level of capability). Being the Editor of most mags is more about management and admin than anything else, and I prefer something more interesting.
 
Re: Victor

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I think his profile (including "Occupation: Meldrew impressionist") is probably a clue!

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Whereas yours shows the same kind of CV probably as the mindless prats I was confronted with riding backwards. Do you think it is OK to ride a motorcycle backwards up a main road too?

Why is it that so many of these PWC riders are balding loners, hunting as a pack but riding alone on their penis substitutes and with a sad need to perform in front of an audience? Something is clearly lacking and probably from below their own waterline.
 
Re: Victor

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Why is it that so many of these PWC riders are balding loners, hunting as a pack but riding alone on their penis substitutes and with a sad need to perform in front of an audience? Something is clearly lacking and probably from below their own waterline.



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Me thinks you'll not be popular amounst the jet ski fraternity from today. No Xmas card for you then!
 
Re: I don\'t BELIEVE it!

Crikey! Well, you've certainly got the measure of me, Victor.

But actually, riding a motorcycle while facing backwards is incredibly difficult, much more difficult than riding a PWC while facing backwards. This is mainly because a PWC is inherently stable, whereas a motorcycle, being a single-track vehicle, is only stable at speed (due to the gyroscopic affect of the wheels turning).

So I really can't recommend you try it unless you are either a very skillful rider, or you want to be on Jackass (that's a programme that is broadcast on the television, beloved of young people and also of lonely bald extroverted prats with tiny tiny private parts). But if you do decide to give it a try, get some photos and post them here as a salutary warning to anyone esle thinking of being a bit silly.
 
Re: I don\'t BELIEVE it!

Yes, sorry about that...tried to upload some of my photos from the WSB races at Brands and the whole thing went a bit wrong. Will try and get it up and running soonish, but in the meantime check out: http://chavscum.co.uk /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Re: I don\'t BELIEVE it!

It has been said that man came from the sea, might it be that the mad B*****s are just an attempt to return to their roots ?
Essex homo aquaticus ? if so I wish them every success as long as they dont take anyone else with them
 
Re: A sailor...

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Ergo, sailors are half-wits who shouldn't be allowed out on the water without compulsory training, licensing blah blah

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Congratulations on finding the weakest argument ever!
 
Re: A sailor...

Why would you apparently take my comments to be part of some power versus sail argument? My comments are in no way intended to be anti powerboat, they WERE intended however to illustrate the other side of the argument being put by some posters that PWCs were a misunderstood section of the boating community and specifically mentioning how well behaved and responsible they were in the Med or in Poole. Well, as I said, I don't know the Med situation but I can comment on how many of us see it in Poole.

Perhaps I don't see this as clearly as an ex editor of a glossy mobomag does, even though I live, work and keep my boat in Poole and have done for over 30 years. I would be very happy if I could report that Poole PWCs were all jolly wonderful fellows and not at all worthy of their bad reputation, but I cannot. Some may well be and maybe they are even the majority but if they are they are a silent majority because in Poole the lunatic minority rules OK! If the good guys want recognition then they had better do something about the nutters in their midst before everyone including mobos and raggies ends up with more regulation and licences.

Please don't tell me it is just high spirits to ride backwards in the busiest part of the fairway at the busiest time of day and please do tell me that such antics are not given a nod by MBY editorial staff, ex or not. Please also do not tell me that it is OK for a group of PWCs to tear through a private Yacht Club marina (which by the way has also many mobo members) at speed (speed limit is 4kts) as a short cut back to the slip at Mitchells whilst throwing 2 fingers to those of us who dared challenge them. Did they have ID numbers - not that I could see in the few seconds as they went by but I expect someone took a few quid off them for launch fees so that's all right.

But there it is, I'm just another killjoy trying to stop others enjoyment. Well you are quite right, I am like Meldrew, I don't 'kin BELIEVE IT. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Robin
 
Re: A sailor...

For gods sake Robin, Didn't you pay any attention to the recent threads where pwc users came onto these forums to defend themselves, and despite all the abuse thrown at them were moderate and put forward good and reasonable arguements. They went back to their own forum disgusted with the treatment they were given, though a few of us visited them there, and encouraged them to continue.


You may have seen a minority behaving badly, but I've seen raggies behaving badly too, and don't condemn you all because of that.
 
Re: A sailor...

It's nothing to do with power and sail. My point about the sailor off Calais was that you shouldn't condemn Jet Skiers just because you've had a nasty experience with some of them. Just as I can't condemn sailors just because some idiot got lost in the Channel. And I can't condemn muslims because some of them are terrorists.

And no, I don't condone the actions of Skiers who do stupid things like riding facing backwards or who speed through moorings or private marinas. But as you know from personal experience, it's not always easy or possible for right-thinking water-users (be they sailors, motorboaters or PWCers) to do much to prevent the lunatic minority from behaving like prats.
 
Re: A sailor...

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But as you know from personal experience, it's not always easy or possible for right-thinking water-users (be they sailors, motorboaters or PWCers) to do much to prevent the lunatic minority from behaving like prats.

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Made me think of Blair / Brown with Britain, and you're right there seems little I can do about that either!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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