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I am deliberately not replying to the WNS thread, but I have to say this one's a real gem. I particularly enjoyed gjgm's "Put out the boarding ladder, climb down and walk back along the enormous trench your props have dug, and you should find him covered in mud somewhere. "

10/10 for entertainment value, but I still cringe to think that
a) someone gets paid to write this garbage, and
b) IPC are happy to steal readers money in exchange for the stuff.

Oh well...
 
Farce ?
If I had posted it I would be shot down as a troll !

38 foot flybridge running for refuge from a F3-4 /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Although if I had posted it I wouldn't have missed the opportunity to mention how rough it was from all the wash from the dinghy race we had just gone through in the bay. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
I read the wns and it made me think, in fact I was in discussion via pm with another forum member today about this, I hadn't previously considered the dangers of falling overboard while putting fenders out.
I frequently find myself single handed and have to leave the flybridge to do my own fenders, I now realise the risk of falling overboard at 25 knots while on auto pilot, harbour entrances are usually busy so I guess someone would notice me in the water but perhaps I should wear an Epirb or it might not be a safe practise to continue.







this is not meant as a serious post.
 
Just as daft as the questions, are the answers. You've got no plotter or GPS You changed course at some point across the bay, to the fishy harbour. Presumably just off memory. Nothing difficult about that, but you wont have gone in a straight line and not have much of an idea where to go back to. Best you could achieve, is aim about the same distance off the coast and look there.
 
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I frequently find myself single handed and have to leave the flybridge to do my own fenders, I now realise the risk of falling overboard at 25 knots while on auto pilot, harbour entrances are usually busy so I guess someone would notice me in the water but perhaps I should wear an Epirb or it might not be a safe practise to continue.


They would certainly come looking for you when your boat crashed into the harbour/marina at 25 knots! They'd probably find you pretty sharpish too!! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Hi Daka

But that's the most sensible post you've ever made! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Best wishes for the New Year.
 
Aha hlb - you can not hide in threads titled NOT WNS.

You may have given up on WNS but this is a perfectly good observation on the current scenario. It would be nice to know how you would deal with the dilemma.

Best regards
TJ
 
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b) IPC are happy to steal readers money in exchange for the stuff. Oh well...

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The cost of the website is funded from advertising. It doesn't come out off the cover price of the magazine or subscriptions. To get the advertising we like to point at the large volume of website 'traffic'. And WNS contributes enormously to that!

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Best wishes
TJ
 
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The cost of the website is funded from advertising. It doesn't come out off the cover price of the magazine or subscriptions. To get the advertising we like to point at the large volume of website 'traffic'. And WNS contributes enormously to that!

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Best wishes
TJ

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As a non-staff writer and non-IPC employee I'd like to see the figures to support that. As an aside, I have no beef with the funding of the website as all the denizens here get to see the shambles that is the proto-WNS. It's the poor, innocent magazine buyers I feel sorry for, forking over a hard earned and heavily taxed £4.30 per issue for this ill-conceived drivel.
 
Well I often used to bum around the West Country, without bothering with chart plotters and stuff.

But lets face it, if you were just going off rec of eye, you would not know where you were exactly, when you changed course. Not sure you would know whether it was five minutes ago or ten either. So obvious first is coast guards. Then try to retrace steps. Hopefully theres some buoy you passed, which might give you a clue.

Tell me. How come the transom door was open, if he was just getting fenders ready?? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Anyway, opening the cellar door at twenty knots in those conditions, would have probably taken his head off. So I'd look down there. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
[/ QUOTE ] It's the poor, innocent magazine buyers I feel sorry for, forking over a hard earned and heavily taxed £4.30 per issue for this ill-conceived drivel.

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AFAIK, the editor has not received a single letter of complaint regarding the printed WNS column.

I retract my suggestion that you resume contributions to WNS threads. I try to mend a fence and you are just abusive. Sad, sad person.

TJ
 
Have not had a complaint letter in my 45 year business history.

Dont doubt I lost a few customers on the way though.

Ang on. Yes I did. One bloke said flags were not flappy enough and the string was the wrong sort. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
Tony, you have actually admitted on a number of occasions on this forum that elements of your scenarios had not been thought through properly. I f you really insist, I'll go and find the links, but I think you'll find that 'ill-conceived' and 'not properly thought through' are generally accepted to be synonymous.
 
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