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Or a tale of everyday yachties who very nearly lost their yacht but eventually sort their shit out:

 
They did make a drama out of it all.

How many CG helicopters are airborne along the coast of north America.

I would look at resizing the cockpit drains, if they are unable to deal with a few buckets of water a minute they are not going to deal with a big green wave.
 
webcraft said:
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Interesting tale - I've never heard of a log transducer spontaneously coming out before.
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I have - it happened on my Day Skipper course :)

We had the sliding hatch pulled across, so the cabin filled up to about level with the bunk-tops before we noticed.

One of my fellow students got the thing back in the hole, we bailed and pumped out the boat, then put in to the Helford and went to the pub.

For the rest of the week, every time we stopped we were lashing bunk cushions to the shrouds to try to dry them. We were also sans instruments as quite a lot of the electrics stopped working, but that part of the coast isn't too hard to find your way around. Fortunately the good old Bukh had fired up and kept going even with the bottom of its flywheel underwater.

(Not watched the video)

Pete
 
Major_Clanger said:
I'm sure it was a frightening experience (and she seemed almost catatonic), but if that was the "very worst day of their lives" then they've had a charmed existence so far.
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Have you ever thought you were going to die?
I think it crossed their minds early on in this sequence of events.
 
Both my old boat and my newer boat have paddle wheel logs. The older boat is 42 years old and I have looked at the plastic NASA fitting which goes through the hull and wondered what happens if decay causes the stout plastic tube to shear from the flange against the hull. Now I know!

Being prudent and anciently suspicious I had made a hatch so I can get to the log without taking out the fridge, mostly in order to retract it and clear seaweed etc, but maybe I should prod log again and see how strong it is.

I keep large bungs as a matter of course but never want to be in the OPs situation. Note to self to fit that second bilge pump in shed, to newer boat (which has somewhat inadequate cockpit drain) and see if I can wire in an alarm at the same time.
 
NormanB said:
Or a tale of everyday yachties who very nearly lost their yacht but eventually sort their shit out:
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I'm interested (honestly: no implied criticism) in how you came to be watching this. They're pretty ordinary looking, averagely engaging, they're choosing to motor directly into 20 knots of wind even though they've only got 10 miles to go and no apparent time pressure. All fair enough, they're normal people but that video has had *14000* views. And people are obviously giving them money to make these. How did you come to be watching this in the first place?
 
NormanB said:
Have you ever thought you were going to die?
I think it crossed their minds early on in this sequence of events.
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In 15 feet of water with a dingy tied to the back of the boat, a helicopter on scene in 90 seconds after a Mayday call? Are you sure they thought they might die, the chap was more worried about being charged for a commercial tow/pump.
 
laika said:
I'm interested (honestly: no implied criticism) in how you came to be watching this. They're pretty ordinary looking, averagely engaging, they're choosing to motor directly into 20 knots of wind even though they've only got 10 miles to go and no apparent time pressure. All fair enough, they're normal people but that video has had *14000* views. And people are obviously giving them money to make these. How did you come to be watching this in the first place?
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It doesnt seem that strange to motor in 20kt wind to get somewhere, we do it all the time in the Bristol Channel, not normally much of a problem just bumpy. The video is clearly a video blog intended to get hits, self publishing or paid publishing doesnt necessarily change quality. The lessons to be learned about equipment failure and access are useful however it came to be published.
 
oldmanofthehills said:
It doesnt seem that strange to motor in 20kt wind to get somewhere, we do it all the time in the Bristol Channel, not normally much of a problem just bumpy.
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There's a difference between trying to get somewhere in the Bristol channel with a foul tide, wind on the nose and work the next day and trying to get somewhere in the Bahamas with less than a metre tidal range and no job but that's not the point: I didn't say they were bad I implied they were ordinary. Normally you watch a sailing video because you've been following the series and excitement of a log popping out in this episode notwithstanding....why would someone be watching this series? This *isn't a criticism of folk finding this engaging*. I just want to know why because currently my best plan to make money to finance sailing involves investing £2k in a fursuit and I don't know how I'm going to tie a bowline with foxwolf paws.

I can understand watching a sailing channel because:
- they're glamorous and you want to be them
- they're sailing purists with some complicated rig and no engine and you admire them
- they're adorable goofballs who have no clue but somehow muddle through and make you feel good
- they're much better sailors than you and you learn stuff
- they're funny (e.g. hilarious old curmudgeon)

hmm...I'm probably thread drifting...maybe I should start a separate thread for this...
 
oldmanofthehills said:
Both my old boat and my newer boat have paddle wheel logs. The older boat is 42 years old and I have looked at the plastic NASA fitting which goes through the hull and wondered what happens if decay causes the stout plastic tube to shear from the flange against the hull. Now I know!
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Bear in mind that most of these fittings are a kind of spun nylon and very strong. And that in this case the fitting did not fail. The fault was clearly human error.
 
prv said:
I know about fursuits, but I'm surprised and somewhat intrigued at the intersection with sailing.
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I may be younger than Brad Pitt, but I'm a bit too old to compete with that Delos lot. Fursuit levels the playing field plus targets both the sailing *and* furry markets. Not sure about fine ropework though. Or salt in the fur...
 
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