Mad or nutty stories

[Dave_Snelson]

Reading the collision thread re the 40ft boat colliding with the Bridge Bouy had me in mind of an old story from an old acquaintance of mine who now lives up in Scotland. He was taking a 40ft motor boat across Lake Erie (I think it was Erie, it was one of the great lakes anyway) when he lived and worked as a doctor in the US. The night before, he and his wife had a bit of a hooley and woke up with the mother of all hangovers. So they calculated the distance of the passage, set the speed of the boat, set the autopilot to required destination and.....went back to sleep for the entire journey, only to be woken up by an alarm clock hours later.

Seriously!

Anyone else got any mad, nutty, or Darwinian maritime tales?? The Darwin awards, by the way, are for real stories of people doing the most stupid things that result in their own injury and/or death - hence, they are not able to pass this stupity on in their genes. Self extinction, so to speak!

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[martynwhiteley]

MoBo FORUM DARWINIAN AWARDS 2005

Dave_Snelson – Tried to get an extra 10 knots out of his Windy by running engines on LPG and Petrol at the same time. Blew up in a huge fireball off Port Merrion.

Alistairr – Hit a diving support vessel at 50mph in his Rinker on Lomond, whilst having his legs waxed, and the tiers in his eyes blanked all vision.

martynwhiteley – Drowned when his Birchwood 27, now fitted with 4 Mercruiser D120’s on surface drives, cracked in two due to stress fractures at 70mph whilst sailing under the Humber Bridge.

Powerskipper – A sudden onset of keyboard induced RSI in the wrist, caused excessive use of a bowthruster when negotiating the Falkirk Wheel, resulting in a free fall from 100ft.

Any more reports?


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[martynwhiteley]

MedDreamer – Decided to try and sail his boat from Windermere to Mallorca, GPS broke off Madeira, so decided to follow a Fairline 40 being factory delivered to Tenerife. Neither boat has been ever heard of or seen since.


Gonefishing – Bought a new diesel engine for his boat, but filled it with petrol by force of habit, wrote off all the new gear, insurance and warranty wouldn’t pay. Tried to live in a glass box hanging over the Millennium Stadium for 88 days to recoup some cash, managed 43 days.


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[jhr]

Further sad tidings

Haydn - cause of accident something of a mystery, though eyewitnesses spoke of seeing what appeared to be a donkey at the helm of MuckyFarter, moments before the collision with the methane tanker.

Duncan - succumbed to unspeakable injuries following a misunderstanding of his use of the phrase "Mountgay, anyone?"

ccscott - years of varnish abuse finally take their toll. Shares in Epifanes drop dramatically.

Happy1 - electrocution following an ill-advised attempt to pull a domestic toaster out of the water whilst wired up to a 240v generator.

There may be others.........

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[Dave_Snelson]

My word - how very nearly true.

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[gonfishing]

Cheers Martin!!! you mind now. I might dazzle you all with a really strange story about how well the boat went, now That would be weird !!!!!

julian

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[martynwhiteley]

That's a coincidence!

MedDreamers 'Chart Plotting Software' post, says 'post can't be found' when I try and access!!!!!!

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[AndrewJ]

Ow about the captain who set his autopilot for the coordinates of the outermarker and went below. Naturally, wind, sea and tide all cancelled out and he hit the outmarker, 1 foot abaft the bow. He limped into port. (if he had a different autopilot he might have hit it bang on, which the autopilot company probably could have used as selling point)


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