Mobo rescue south of Isle of Wight today.

F7-F8 and minus 2'C.
Not exactly ideal conditions to be out there voluntarily.
Any fish you caught would be immediately frozen...
 
Total mechanical and electrical failure...not a great recipe for success when you need to pump water out :ambivalence:

I'll bet those manual bilge pumps were being worked hard...
 
Andy Bav said:
Lucky the Bembridge lifeboat was able to depart from a marina that was starting to freeze over...
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Isn't Bembridge lifeboat the one that deploys down that massive ramp into the sea?
Either the boat or the ice would break at the bottom of the ramp :)
 
burgundyben said:
Often wondered about that. There is a big bouy nearby. But also could nip into Bembers if there's water, if not, where do they go?
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They had fore and aft bouys they can go onto just off the ramp, or Bembridge, or anywhere else really. You can moor a lifeboat wherever you like :)

Don’t know what the recovery limit is weather wise. I was onboard for a demo day many moons ago. Watching the skipper put the keel in the ramp slot backwards in a decent swell was a thing to behold. Martin Woodward was the skipper. Force of nature that chap. If you get the chance, go to the shipwreck museum, it’s worth a visit. Think it’s moved to arreton barns. Pretty much everything in it was brought up to the surface by Martin. Fascinating bloke.
 
FARSCO said:
They had fore and aft bouys they can go onto just off the ramp, or Bembridge, or anywhere else really. You can moor a lifeboat wherever you like :)

Don’t know what the recovery limit is weather wise. I was onboard for a demo day many moons ago. Watching the skipper put the keel in the ramp slot backwards in a decent swell was a thing to behold. Martin Woodward was the skipper. Force of nature that chap. If you get the chance, go to the shipwreck museum, it’s worth a visit. Think it’s moved to arreton barns. Pretty much everything in it was brought up to the surface by Martin. Fascinating bloke.
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But the crew will want to be on the Island, which if low tide means Cowes. I guess its not often, but could be a right pain.

Thanks for the tip, I'll take my little man to the shipwreck museum, although I think Tapnell Farm wins,
 
+1 for Museum visit, went there years ago, very good, when I fished with the now Selsey Coxswain he knew Martin Woodward and had very good things to say about him.
 
FlowerPower said:
Isn't Bembridge lifeboat the one that deploys down that massive ramp into the sea?
Either the boat or the ice would break at the bottom of the ramp :)
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Used to - the old lifeboat station was converted into a fancy dwelling and was used for one of those 'Amazing Places' style programmes, so it would likely be a sofa with someone's SWMBO aboard sliding down the ramp now.
 
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superheat6k said:
Used to - the old lifeboat station was converted into a fancy dwelling and was used for one of those 'Amazing Places' style programmes, so it would likely be a sofa with someone's SWMBO aboard sliding down the ramp now.
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That's a very big orange coffee table they have in their fancy dwelling:

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