Lets all cheer up.

[doug748]

With the thought that at least it wasn't us.

New, wacky boat antics off of t'web:

 

[JumbleDuck]

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[Bobc]

Looks mostly like Americans

 

[V1701]

Thank you, I'll take whatever I can get right now, schadenfreude or not...

 

[Crisby]

Thank you, I'll take whatever I can get right now, schadenfreude or not...

Yep, Likewise, although perhaps I should have rationed myself to one clip a day. A bit like a lockdown advent calendar......

Chris

 

[doug748]

Three things I found particularly interesting on the video:

How easily the big rib went over with a breaking wave on the beam.
The prat on the wetbike trying to make everyone's life a misery and then driving into a set of piles. Perfect.
The girl in the bikini on the parallel bars (obviously)

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[Zagato]

Well I love lockdowns and am very cheery, (apologies for being insensitive to those going through difficult and emotional times), I get paid to stay at home with my family.?

Finances are always a worry BUT we are actually better off as our frugal outgoings are reduced even further through inactivity and my work is piling up which Is great for when we come out of lockdown. Similar to the last lockdown it's really nice having my teenage kids at home during the day (I work from home anyway). We cook, play games, garden, do DIY on the house, go for country walks etc. The kids can now do basic carpentry, painting, gardening, cooking etc. It will be sad to see them leave when they eventually fly off. As with the previous lockdown it is like an extended summer holiday, just colder ?

 

[Greenheart]

Three things I found particularly interesting on the video: How easily the big rib went over with a breaking wave on the beam.
The prat on the wetbike trying to make everyone's life a misery and then driving into a set of piles. Perfect.
The girl in the bikini on the parallel bars (obviously)

Echo all of that.

I can't watch a wetbike/PWC rider get himself into bother (when no-one else is affected) without feeling 'not such a bad old world'.
That instance is particularly fun to watch.

The backflipping girl is surely high as a kite? Ought not to have been in such a place in such a condition. Lucky someone was filming.

I wonder how many of the cases of vessels under power in confined areas surging catastrophically ahead or in reverse, are cases of confusion of what the control levers do? Or is it just panic on top of inexperience? Or may it be forgivable component failure?

 

[Alan S]

I think some of these guys on the helm in confined spaces think a boat steers like a car, not realising that the back* of the boat goes right* when you turn the wheel to the left.*

*stern, starboard, port : )

 

[Zagato]

My only callamity was when the new Chichester lock staff opened up the flood gates too fast and my aft end swung back and across the lock bending my wood bumpkin into a 'C' shape. I was just cowering expecting it to snap with a bang when the lock keeper thankfully reduced the water flow. Why do these things always happen with an audience. The new lock keeper was suitably chastised and apologised on my return, no problem, worse things happen at sea...

 

[capnsensible]

Three things I found particularly interesting on the video:

How easily the big rib went over with a breaking wave on the beam.
The prat on the wetbike trying to make everyone's life a misery and then driving into a set of piles. Perfect.
The girl in the bikini on the parallel bars (obviously)

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And people think about using a tender as a liferaft........ ?

 

[dom]

And people think about using a tender as a liferaft........ ?

No, No, No! ...please pay attention at the back.

A "half inflated tender" - that's much more stable, so I am told

 

[Zagato]

Blast from the past, didn't realise these guys were still going... keep watching until you see the egg being opened ?

 

[doug748]

I forgot the fat bloke who gets trapped between his boat and the pontoon - 6min 30 in. Made me laugh a lot.

 

[JumbleDuck]

And people think about using a tender as a liferaft........ ?

How would a liferaft cope with a wave like that?

 

[capnsensible]

How would a liferaft cope with a wave like that?

It's what they are designed to do with ballast pockets and drogues. Plus people. A sea survival course answers many fears people have about life rafts. Horrible, sea sick inducing, stinky, violently moving, cold, wet misery.....and your best shot at living. IMO.

 

[mjcoon]

It's what they are designed to do with ballast pockets and drogues. Plus people. A sea survival course answers many fears people have about life rafts. Horrible, sea sick inducing, stinky, violently moving, cold, wet misery.....and your best shot at living. IMO.

Sounds like what they say about a bad case of mal-de-mer: first you are afraid you are going to die, then afraid you won't...

 

[Greenheart]

Come on Captain, live up to your name. This is a yawn.

No-one who cannot afford a liferaft is actually going to stop using their boat until they can...

...and meanwhile, anyone who finds themself sinking with only a tender to climb into, will do that instead of swimming.

Although, your delightful description of what it is like to use a liferaft may have put it even further down my kit-shopping list. ?

 

[capnsensible]

Come on Captain, live up to your name. This is a yawn.

No-one who cannot afford a liferaft is actually going to stop using their boat until they can...

...and meanwhile, anyone who finds themself sinking with only a tender to climb into, will do that instead of swimming.

Although, your delightful description of what it is like to use a liferaft may have put it even further down my kit-shopping list. ?

Life in a liferaft

 

[Greenheart]

Yup, read it last week. Really repellent, and discouraging. In any case it makes no difference to the facts.