Sans Bateau
Well-Known Member
A description of the incident, location Yarmouth, time Sunday late PM. You tell me who it was, its easy!!!!!!!!!!
The yacht approached the windward side of the pontoon, port side too, the crew all looked the part, stood at the gaurdwire. However the worried look on their faces and the fenders tucked up to high under the rubbing strip, said all was not well. Help was going to be needed.
The yacht was not going fast enough or at the right angle to get a alongside, so inevitably was a good 2 - 3 meters away from the pontoon when they should have been making contact, the wind caught the boat, which managed a 180 deg turn in the width of the aisle.
No more evidence was needed but when the crew just stood there facing the wrong way as the boat made its second approach, then that was more than enough. The 'skipper' ordered warps and fenders to the Stb side, people scurried about, taking warps, still attached to the port side across to Stb, "No undo them and fasten them to the other cleats!" hailed the skipper( /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)
By this time the aft of the yacht was more or less in place, the bow was weather cocking off, 3 - 4 metres from the pontoon, the lass who had stumbled across the deck, refastening the warp, just thew it in our direction, hoping that if by magic, it would become untangled and 'self home' in our direction. Whilst she recovered it from the water it was suggested by our shore party, numbering now about 6, that she should walk it down the side of the boat and just hand it to us, that worked.
Meanwhile, at the aft end of the yacht, the shore party where hanging onto the boat whilst one of the crew of the boat handed over the warp so we could put a bowline in for him! He couldn't, or even do a fig8 on his cleat! As the crew jumped off the boat we were able to show them how to sweat a warp, and how to do a fi8 on a cleat. It seemed they didn't have a clue.
There is two further clues, but I think that is enough! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
The yacht approached the windward side of the pontoon, port side too, the crew all looked the part, stood at the gaurdwire. However the worried look on their faces and the fenders tucked up to high under the rubbing strip, said all was not well. Help was going to be needed.
The yacht was not going fast enough or at the right angle to get a alongside, so inevitably was a good 2 - 3 meters away from the pontoon when they should have been making contact, the wind caught the boat, which managed a 180 deg turn in the width of the aisle.
No more evidence was needed but when the crew just stood there facing the wrong way as the boat made its second approach, then that was more than enough. The 'skipper' ordered warps and fenders to the Stb side, people scurried about, taking warps, still attached to the port side across to Stb, "No undo them and fasten them to the other cleats!" hailed the skipper( /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)
By this time the aft of the yacht was more or less in place, the bow was weather cocking off, 3 - 4 metres from the pontoon, the lass who had stumbled across the deck, refastening the warp, just thew it in our direction, hoping that if by magic, it would become untangled and 'self home' in our direction. Whilst she recovered it from the water it was suggested by our shore party, numbering now about 6, that she should walk it down the side of the boat and just hand it to us, that worked.
Meanwhile, at the aft end of the yacht, the shore party where hanging onto the boat whilst one of the crew of the boat handed over the warp so we could put a bowline in for him! He couldn't, or even do a fig8 on his cleat! As the crew jumped off the boat we were able to show them how to sweat a warp, and how to do a fi8 on a cleat. It seemed they didn't have a clue.
There is two further clues, but I think that is enough! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
