Obsolete RYA VHF Handbook

[zoidberg]

Ochone, ochone! It's a sair fecht......

 

[Robert Wilson]

That'll be 'cos you're a local, there was nowt else going on, the helo crew needed some Monthly Continuation Training..... and you can speak 'cheauchter'.

Had you been a foreigner - from Glasgow, say - it might have been different.

:encouragement:Spot on, they were on an exercise, so they obviously had no-one else to play with!
But it gave me one hell of a jump when it was suddenly overhead (just to down wind side). And it was very low, not much higher than mast height, it seemed.
There was a lot of noise from wind and sea and I hadn't heard it approaching. Brown underpants moment

As to speaking the cheauchter (if that's how it's spelt), I can't speak it enough to get me out of trouble - so I shall maintain the use of Queen's English in such circumstances