WF36
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No2 Buoy on Orwell
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Lucky Duck
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Looks the right way up to me or did something biblical happen?
WF36
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Not on my PC its not!
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
Yeah, we saw that as well! Something big ran it down...
Cantata
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It was that Harold Cudmore bloke on Crusader...
Dazedkipper
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CLANG....'What the feck was that?'
Tomahawk
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You sure someone actually heard or felt it?
Does make you feel very secure at night outside Pinn Mill if they can hit a nav mark... Like metal and a very good radar shadow......
tillergirl
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Wouldn't have thought it was in a difficult spot either. Scary really.
Corribee Boy
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Cantata - It was that Harold Cudmore bloke on Crusader...
I was sailing near Pye End, on starboard, sometime last year. Crusader had been sailing around for a while, then headed in my direction, then decided to use the buoy as a turn mark, and came straight toward me, on port, with a deck-sweeping foresail. I reached for the foghorn, but it gave a sound like an expiring bullfrog and, well, expired. I shouted at the top of my voice: a face appeared beneath the genoa, and she bore away, just missing me. I wasted a perfectly good chocolate digestive by throwing it at her helmsman, and I think I got it on her deck.
So, yes, it's possible she did hit that buoy!
I was sailing near Pye End, on starboard, sometime last year. Crusader had been sailing around for a while, then headed in my direction, then decided to use the buoy as a turn mark, and came straight toward me, on port, with a deck-sweeping foresail. I reached for the foghorn, but it gave a sound like an expiring bullfrog and, well, expired. I shouted at the top of my voice: a face appeared beneath the genoa, and she bore away, just missing me. I wasted a perfectly good chocolate digestive by throwing it at her helmsman, and I think I got it on her deck.
So, yes, it's possible she did hit that buoy!