lucky fishermen

prv said:
20 metres of painter not pulled out yet?

Pete
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I hope I never need to see the inside of my life-raft
Looks like the painters weren't pulled out
BUT
should they be attached to the boat so when rafts float free they automatically "pull"
OR
is that plain dangerous, as they'll go down with the boat.
It's a question I have pondered over long and hard. On my boat I have the painter tied with a quick release knot and a long tail in RED
What does the Forum think?
 
Robert Wilson said:
I hope I never need to see the inside of my life-raft
Looks like the painters weren't pulled out
BUT
should they be attached to the boat so when rafts float free they automatically "pull"
OR
is that plain dangerous, as they'll go down with the boat.
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Do you have a hydrostatic release? If so, you should have followed the instructions to attach the painter via the supplied weak link (the red and black plastic parts pull apart at a set load). That should leave the raft attached as it floats up, then the pull of the sinking boat fires the inflation system, then the weak link parts to set it free.

The video ended as soon as the sinking boat went below the surface - not long enough to have pulled out all the painter. Hopefully if the video continued, we'd have seen the rafts inflate.

Pete
 
prv said:
Do you have a hydrostatic release? If so, you should have followed the instructions to attach the painter via the supplied weak link (the red and black plastic parts pull apart at a set load). That should leave the raft attached as it floats up, then the pull of the sinking boat fires the inflation system, then the weak link parts to set it free.

The video ended as soon as the sinking boat went below the surface - not long enough to have pulled out all the painter. Hopefully if the video continued, we'd have seen the rafts inflate.

Pete
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Thanks, Pete,
But no, I don't have a hydrostatic line - another item on the "must do/get list".
 
i wonder if the fishermen even knew they were supposed to pull the painters
or maby they didn't bother as help was on hand.


Captain Stephen Kearney, who has been fishing for nearly 20 years, and another man were on board the vessel on Tuesday when it began taking on water. “We just went up on a wave and the back of the boat went into the water and she just never came back – she just went down that quick!”
 
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I recall my father telling stories of ships being sunk in the war. Sailors were warned to get well away from the ship as she went down because all kinds of flotsam would come shooting up and hit anyone in the vicinity - as that video shows.

And the idea of being caught up in a loose length of line does not appeal.
 
dylanwinter said:
I wonder how fast a yacht would go down?

there was a yacht going up the Irish sea to west highland week a few years back and its rudder broke off at the hull bearing. The rudder shaft pushed up into the boat allowing water into the hull

About three minutes according to the report

Fortunately mayday was received and crew were picked up by others on the same passage.
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EuanMcKenzie said:
dylanwinter said:
I wonder how fast a yacht would go down?

there was a yacht going up the Irish sea to west highland week a few years back and its rudder broke off at the hull bearing. The rudder shaft pushed up into the boat allowing water into the hull

About three minutes according to the report

Fortunately mayday was received and crew were picked up by others on the same passage.
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yep, brand new & it wasn't a bavaria :D
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