Most useless thing to take into a liferaft.

[Ohdrat]

Outboard motor.... don't think they've thought of putting outboard motor brakets on Liferafts yet.. maybe some NUC lights perhaps??

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[BrendanS]

Might need those colregs after all!

What lights should a life raft underway display? /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[Gunfleet]

Re: Got to be...

You use condoms for speaking? What the hell are you saying?

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[chriscallender]

Re: Got to be...

Well there is a photo from my stag night of me ... no, on second thoughts lets not go there.

Maybe they could be used as drogues or something.

Chris

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[Ohdrat]

Re: R.U.M.

Raft Under Mutiny .. with reference to an earlier post about the skipper being the most useless thing as he got you into this merry fix ...

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[pvb]

So why hasn\'t anyone suggested a ....

....corkscrew?

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[Johnjo]

A sackful of cidar

mike

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[BrendanS]

Re: R.U.M.

Hmm!

Lets make this more scientific./forums/images/icons/wink.gif

How about a power driven vessel of less than 7m whose max speed doesn't exceed 7 knts /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

So, an all round white light with sidelights if practicable, would apply here?

However, you've probably picked up the greater than 200m of fishing nets that sank the boat in the first place, on the outboard of the now power driven raft.

So, we'll need three masthead lights to indicate that the tow length is more than 200 meters, and you'll now need side lights, a stern light, and yellow towing light above the stern light.

Now are you i) fishing or ii) towing a inconspicous, partly submerged vessel or object (the nets).

I'm guessing ii) unless you've just found that shoal of mackerel that your fishfinder didn't register before because it shorted as it sank, so you'll need lights to indicate the tow - all round white lights at forward end and after ends of net, with additional all round whites positioned between so that the distance between the lights doesn't exceed 100 meters (so that's one in the middle then isn't it?).

Better have a whole load of lights ready in that powered raft!! and scuba gear so you can affix them all.

Strewth, difficult all this safety stuff. I think I'll stay at home, and read the manuals rather than go out to sea and risk getting my lights wrong /forums/images/icons/blush.gif

 

[TheBoatman]

Re: R.U.M.

De-faced blue ensign, although I have a nasty suspicion it’s the first thing some sailors would take?

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[BrendanS]

Re: R.U.M.

How do those children get into the marina? You'd think their parents would look after them, and stop them defacing ensigns! /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[Rowana]

A spirit level and a plumb line in the tools !

Jim

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[kingfisher]

- a box of nails
- assorted shards of glass
- tacks
- chestnuts in their bolsters
- a catch of sea urchins


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[kingfisher]

- a box of nails
- assorted shards of glass
- tacks in a paper bag
- chestnuts in their bolsters
- a catch of sea urchins


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[charles_reed]

A yottie magazine in a language you can't read (Cyrillic say).

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[tcm]

ooh no

you coiuld look at the pictures. And anyway all the small ads are already in gibberish.

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[jimi]

But ...

wot about a cannibal?

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: or a VHF LICENCE assuming you had one ;-) N...

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[Twister_Ken]

Re: or a VHF LICENCE assuming you had one ;-) N...

Dear Mr Sailbad,

I suspect the intention of your post was mischevious. You know that will never do. Kindly desist. IMMEDIATELY. Or certainly by 2005.

Yours happily,

TK

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mischevious me????????????/forums/images/icons/shocked.gif

that post was made in all sincerity
any comment on other posts was purely coincidental./forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[jimi]

Re: WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

wot about a vhf licence , a cannibal and a very contented person?

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