Oh Dear What can the matter be - cautoinary tale for single handers

LadyInBed said:
All my doors have restraining catches on.

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And big ones they are too.:)
 
I have felt this is a wonderful thread and the only one that has made me laugh out loud. I feel lucky now to have a curtain to my heads. I do sail alone most of the time and also now thank that my heads are in the bows and to stand up I open the fore hatch and can stand there with my head out in the open; perfect lookout and noone knows what I am doing! :cool:
 
smithy said:
If the cabin door swings open on my boat it jams the heads door shut. My wife had been making toast and got locked in. Luckily I got back to the boat just in time. Now the bottom vent on the door is removable. You can put your arm through it to push the other door out of the way. Don't know how previous owners coped over the last 30 years.

The escape hatch sign on the 6" vent causes some bemusement
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I've heard some euphemisms in my time but that's a new one on me!
 
paul-essex said:
I have a Konsort and at present I am doing a refit ashore and sometimes I climb in the cockpit locker and work away, one day it was raining and I thought it would be a good idea to close the lid with me inside good job I checked first as the catches self hook over , that was a close call
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I did hear of a singlehander climbing into his locker on a Westerly to get the fenders out, and got locked in. The boat ended up in the marina somehow, and the staff let him out.
 
awol said:
A dinghy bailer or half a plastic milk bottle in the cockpit is looking a better solution. Bucket and chuck-it allows a good look-out to be kept.
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Amen brother... safer not to leave the cockpit full stop.... :D

Not specially similar but last summer I was doing some bodging ... err running repairs... and needed to tighten up an eye bolt on the cockpit floor - the only way to get to the nut was by putting head and shoulders into the cockpit locker and stretching .... sure enough I got stuck, and as I was on the boat on my own so no one was going to check on me for a while... happily, I managed to wiggle sideways and free myself... just for a minute though my life passed before my eyes :D
 
I once read, on just such a thread, of someone who went down to his boat on the hard and inadvertently been in the cockpit locker when it closed and self locked.
He was finally let out 4hrs later by a very unfriendly yard foreman - apparently he had, by luck rather than judgement, his mobile phone in his pocket - so he phoned his wife, the message passed, like Chinese whispers, via the CG, the local police
and, finally, to the yard foreman, the only member of the yard management available. He was most annoyed - he's just settled down to watch a recording on Match of the Day.
 
charles_reed said:
I once read, on just such a thread, of someone who went down to his boat on the hard and inadvertently been in the cockpit locker when it closed and self locked.
He was finally let out 4hrs later by a very unfriendly yard foreman - apparently he had, by luck rather than judgement, his mobile phone in his pocket - so he phoned his wife, the message passed, like Chinese whispers, via the CG, the local police
and, finally, to the yard foreman, the only member of the yard management available. He was most annoyed - he's just settled down to watch a recording on Match of the Day.
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I had a lift by the marina hoist and held overnight a few years ago. I slept on board with the boat dangling in the slings. The wind got up, and blew my ladder over. Had to radio the marina office to come and let me down.
 
AngusMcDoon said:
I had a lift by the marina hoist and held overnight a few years ago. I slept on board with the boat dangling in the slings. The wind got up, and blew my ladder over. Had to radio the marina office to come and let me down.
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Surely you could have abseiled down? :D Must have been plenty of rope on board.
 
The problem that led me to conclude that I'm too old for sailing a Parker 21 was when I thought I had a wobbly bottom rudder pintle. When I got the boat 10 years ago I had no trouble wriggling round into the transom from the quarter berth. Now I tried it and decided half way in and just in time, to check if I could get out again. It took several minutes to find out that I am much less supple now than then. To be stuck head first down a quarter berth would be difficult in a marina; on a swinging mooring out of the way of any passing traffic it doesn't bear thinking about.
 
Another fisherman recently got stuck in his engine room, while trawling. He was beginning to suffer from fumes, but managed to stop the engine, the boat then swung round being anchored by the trawl and the door sprang open.
 
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