Csail
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How about a discussion about disasters wheather is be cruising, maintenance, nav etc....... to get people more aware of the 'overlooked things' ??
Lessons learnt
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A_7
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I once stubbed my toe on a winch.
graham
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I once dried out for the night at anchor in a boat with a transom hung rudder .woke up stretched farted put the kettle on etc etc then noticed the rudder was absent having lifted off its pintles /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif. (Found it washed up ashore luckilly )
Not a disaster on the scale of pitchpoling in the Southern Ocean ,still enough to ruin your weekend though.
A more potentially serious cock up was cutting the corner inside the West Scarweather buoy running into Swansea from the South in a large sea and swell.Only the Surf ahead of us alerted me that the buoy I was cutting inside of was in fact the Mid Scarweather /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Managed to convince the crew down below that my rapid hard to Port and beam reach to the West was purely jilling about waiting for our friends boat to catch up .GPS spoils all that type of fun /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Not a disaster on the scale of pitchpoling in the Southern Ocean ,still enough to ruin your weekend though.
A more potentially serious cock up was cutting the corner inside the West Scarweather buoy running into Swansea from the South in a large sea and swell.Only the Surf ahead of us alerted me that the buoy I was cutting inside of was in fact the Mid Scarweather /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Managed to convince the crew down below that my rapid hard to Port and beam reach to the West was purely jilling about waiting for our friends boat to catch up .GPS spoils all that type of fun /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Csail
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Scarweather is always fun!! especialy in f7 at night...made it though (outside)
bobfrost
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I once stubbed my toe on a winch.
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Silly accident since winches are in a fixed position and you should have remembered the layout of the boat, however I once stubbed my toe on a wench......
I once stubbed my toe on a winch.
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Silly accident since winches are in a fixed position and you should have remembered the layout of the boat, however I once stubbed my toe on a wench......
Csail
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A few more....
1. never assume the exhaust gooseneck is suitable, we put extra kit on board (compared to previous owner) and back flooded 10k of engine!
2. Don't push your luck on a harbour wall in a long keeler!
3. Don't test your first legs while trying to enjoy a meal in a restaurant overlooking the drying out boat!
4. Don't take youngsters on a stag do on board.
i will think of more. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
1. never assume the exhaust gooseneck is suitable, we put extra kit on board (compared to previous owner) and back flooded 10k of engine!
2. Don't push your luck on a harbour wall in a long keeler!
3. Don't test your first legs while trying to enjoy a meal in a restaurant overlooking the drying out boat!
4. Don't take youngsters on a stag do on board.
i will think of more. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
MoodySabre
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So this is humiliation so that others can learn by our mistakes. OK
/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif First time through Harwich into the Orwell I'd set waypoints for a dog leg. Only the second waypoint was in the wrong place (by which I mean that I'd plugged in the GPS incorrectly). Result - run aground on Harwich ledge - fin keel but thankfully only an hour off low water.
Lesson learned - sod the GPS and use your eyes - more buoys to follow than you can shake a stick at. Just because the GPS says so doesn't mean it's correct!
/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif First time through Harwich into the Orwell I'd set waypoints for a dog leg. Only the second waypoint was in the wrong place (by which I mean that I'd plugged in the GPS incorrectly). Result - run aground on Harwich ledge - fin keel but thankfully only an hour off low water.
Lesson learned - sod the GPS and use your eyes - more buoys to follow than you can shake a stick at. Just because the GPS says so doesn't mean it's correct!
Csail
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Another classic...on a night passage was ''vessel passing bla bla this is bla bla what are you intensions over, we are the container ship heading 280'' we all looked behind us and pretty much all said s***. Reply was ' bla bla changing course 90 degree to stbd. right away. (Don't notice much tucked away in the warm wheelhouse when it's choppy...radar was just a mess of blips.
tcm
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The biggest screw-up i made was buying a boat. I rented few and that was failry bad too.
Twister_Ken
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Don't reverse onto your own mooring line. I wondered why the engine stopped.
Csail
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Another classic... don't put the wind generator blades in backwards!
graham
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The biggest screw-up i made was buying a boat.
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The amazing thing is that most of us keep making the same mistake over and over..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
The biggest screw-up i made was buying a boat.
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The amazing thing is that most of us keep making the same mistake over and over..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
shmoo
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Two for price of one
Heading west out of Solent at night in a bit of a SW blow. Decided Bridge too rough so turned right out of Hurst Narrows. Noticed a stationary tug, over to south of channel showing lights indicating he was towing but saw no tow so carried on. After about 300m noticed a large dark shape on the beach. We were sailing into the bight formed by the tow-line and the beach! Luckly someone on the tow (a beached dredger I discovered later) flashed a searchlight at us or it would have been tricky.
Quickly turned round and determined not to give up headed down Needles channel. By now wind up to F7 with wind over tide. The Admiraly Pilot says something like "the Needles Channel is no place to be in a SW gale", and do you know, they are quite right.
Ended up in Yarmouth and, if I recall, my sister who was off watch slept through the whole thing.
Lessons. Believe the lights on tugs. If you think the Needles channel is going to be too rough, its going to be too rough.
Heading west out of Solent at night in a bit of a SW blow. Decided Bridge too rough so turned right out of Hurst Narrows. Noticed a stationary tug, over to south of channel showing lights indicating he was towing but saw no tow so carried on. After about 300m noticed a large dark shape on the beach. We were sailing into the bight formed by the tow-line and the beach! Luckly someone on the tow (a beached dredger I discovered later) flashed a searchlight at us or it would have been tricky.
Quickly turned round and determined not to give up headed down Needles channel. By now wind up to F7 with wind over tide. The Admiraly Pilot says something like "the Needles Channel is no place to be in a SW gale", and do you know, they are quite right.
Ended up in Yarmouth and, if I recall, my sister who was off watch slept through the whole thing.
Lessons. Believe the lights on tugs. If you think the Needles channel is going to be too rough, its going to be too rough.
bobgoode
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Disaster, don't talk to me about disaster. The last four times I have visited the boat it has blown a gale at the last minute and even sever gale and storm and I am really P. O. The last time it was sooo windy the boat was heeling 15 degrees on the berth and that was without any sails or covers bent on....(rant proceeds along similar lines ad infinitum)
Richard10002
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1st trip as 3rd Officer on a 30,000 tonne container ship approaching San Francisco in 1983 at 20 knots. I had fishing boats crossing from the port side, (collision course), and 2 vessels overtaking, one to port, one to starboard. There seemed to be an unwritten rule that you didnt mess with the engines. Flapped about a bit, considering how I could alter course, decided to pass the buck - called the skipper who came up, took a quick look around, and stopped the engines.
Took the heat out of the whole situation, everything went by, and we carried on.
"Stop" has featured very highly in my box of tricks since that day.
Took the heat out of the whole situation, everything went by, and we carried on.
"Stop" has featured very highly in my box of tricks since that day.
