Blueboatman
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Business built on reputation innit
No matter how much you hate them...
- Thread starter Halcyon Yachts
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Business built on reputation innit
Eyore
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True, but customer ain't always right despite the cliché to that effect.
Bav34
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Oh right.
With my boat in France, us in the UK, family health issues which may necessitate my boat being bought back by a delivery crew, I can really hear HY saying that they wouldn't deliver it for me because I think their post is crass.
However, they won't get the chance now.
Eyore
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Bav34
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Toys and prams come to mind.
More than one delivery company is the reality.
jerrytug
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At least you can be sure that the other delivery crews won't be laughing, perish the thought, because they wouldn't dream of laughing. No siree. Not on my watch.
Halcyon Yachts
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As a person deeply involved in the boating business I am well aware of the (usually) friendly rivalry between motor boaters and yachties. I started this thread as the Huffington Post had highlighted that most of the crowd laughed during the incident.
My statement was "No matter how much you hate them... you shouldn't laugh!". If most of the crowd were laughing then you could be sure that at least a few on here would also. I personally watched the video with a keen interest in how the incident occurred. I have delivered very similar boats to The Victoria and felt great empathy with the skipper as he tried to manoeuvre with tricky currents and a large audience.
I have witnessed many incidents in rivers and marinas etc and I always try to help out in any way I can - regardless of the type of vessel.
The skipper has been very humble and I have no doubt that even he will be able to laugh about his mistakes at some point in the future!
Pete
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Especially one whose business includes delivering motor boats. I guess it must be a bit slow on the yacht delivery side so maybe this is just a way to drum up some business but it's a very odd thing to do to take the piss out of your potential customers?
Uricanejack
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Mr Halcyon merely posted what was already an internet sensation.
Some laughed some didn't, I sniggered a bit and felt a bit of sympathy for the skippers. Particularly for the sailboats as I very nearly did the same thing last year under full sail heading for a rail bridge when I had the nagging doubt creap in and turned away.
Every one who looked has learned some thing. even if they don't realise it. No reason to condem him or his buisness
Some laughed some didn't, I sniggered a bit and felt a bit of sympathy for the skippers. Particularly for the sailboats as I very nearly did the same thing last year under full sail heading for a rail bridge when I had the nagging doubt creap in and turned away.
Every one who looked has learned some thing. even if they don't realise it. No reason to condem him or his buisness
Uricanejack
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I think I can recall a front page story back in the 80's when the Capt. of an RN Frigate chose not to take the pilots advice and call for a tugs assistance to turn in the river and set down onto London Bridge. or at least a bridge in London.
It was funny, Still ended a career though.
All serve as a reminder I'm still capable of a pretty spectacular balls up.
It was funny, Still ended a career though.
All serve as a reminder I'm still capable of a pretty spectacular balls up.
Searush
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That's interesting, is it a different sort of water to all the other rivers in the world? I expect it must be, being darn sarf & in Lunnun like.
Can I recommend a bit of white water kayaking for anyone who would like to know how a small boat behaves in moving currents on rivers & narrow straits. It helped me no end with picking my way thro moorings with a single engined boat in 5-6kt currents on the Conway, Dee & Menai Straits. But other than Potter Heigham I have to acknowledge little experience of tackling such narrow arches in tidal waters.
dylanwinter
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oh dear
john_morris_uk
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Its funny you should say that(?)
I don't find those TV programmes where they show endless clips of toddlers falling over or slipping up and ending in paddling pools, or people falling over when dancing at their wedding remotely funny yet they seem to have an audience. When I see the clips I just wince and nothing about watching an accident amuses me but I guess we are all different.
Tomahawk
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So with your piloting skills, and local knowledge, do you think he was he caught by an unexpected side current?
Or was he simply silly to turn sideways across the current less than a boat length from the bridge?
I do seem to recall that they closed the bridge after for a full structural inspection. Caused traffic havolk.
JumbleDuck
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Viz had a one-off cartoon a few years back in which any of life's tragedies (injury, death and so on) was relieved by Lisa Riley turning up with a troup of falling-over toddlers. I agree with you that accidents are not automatically funny, but some are, particularly when obvious incompetence is involved. Man falls off tree when branch breaks: not inherently funny. Man saws through branch between himself and trunk with inevitable consequences: funny.
Beyond that, an awful lot of comedy involves laughter at the travails of others. Audiences did not watch the Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, Black Books, Absolutely Fabulous or even the Magic Roundabout in order to appreciate the smooth and well ordered lives of the protagonists.
In this case I think what made the clip go viral was probably the large number of spectators shown, provoking a horrified laughter (rather than amused laughter) reaction along the lines of "that poor b*****d". The Confessional in YM (another good example of amusement derived from the sufferings of others) often includes public humiliation as an essential part of the mix.
TL;DR: Yes.
dom
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The skipper has popped up in the other place to explain what happened; he turns out to be a self-effacing professional skipper happy for us all to learn from his unfortunate mistake. Progress is often made on the ash heap of failed attempts and I for one hope his business goes on to prove that point. So what's the lesson here?
A recent cartoon in the The New Yorker depicted two businessmen sitting in room, both apparently conversant with the New Testament’s book of Matthew. One says to the other, “We need either bigger needles or smaller camels!”
rotrax
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There but for the grace of God........................
35 years ago I just avoided a similar fate-I chickened out-and was lucky to actually make the turn.
I was steering a 40 foot Narrowboat downstream which was very underpowered, and found the current made me lose the steering unless at full ahead.
I nearly hit the stern/rudder area on a bridge pier. The boat actually went backwards for a few feet before slowly gathering way.
Wallingford Bridge Easter 1977 IIRC.
35 years ago I just avoided a similar fate-I chickened out-and was lucky to actually make the turn.
I was steering a 40 foot Narrowboat downstream which was very underpowered, and found the current made me lose the steering unless at full ahead.
I nearly hit the stern/rudder area on a bridge pier. The boat actually went backwards for a few feet before slowly gathering way.
Wallingford Bridge Easter 1977 IIRC.
Ravi
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Sounds like he wasn't the sanctimonious type with no sense of humour. They must all be on this forum, then.
(Duck!)
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Greg2
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I have to say that some of the comments here are a bit much.
As a mobo owner and sailor I have never had any truck with the sometimes friendly, sometimes unfriendly banter between the two camps, primarily because making any kind generalised judgement based upon the type of boat someone owns is puerile. Laughing at this kind of misfortune takes it to another level and is just crass.
As a mobo owner and sailor I have never had any truck with the sometimes friendly, sometimes unfriendly banter between the two camps, primarily because making any kind generalised judgement based upon the type of boat someone owns is puerile. Laughing at this kind of misfortune takes it to another level and is just crass.