OK, Which one of you was it?

[Moonshining]

I was crewing on the Sunsail finals day and pretending to be a racer today.

Just after the start of the first race this morning, some fellah in a small-ish (<25 foot?) boat with a blue and white spinnaker came piling straight through the whole fleet of twenty boats.

Amazingly he got through without serious incident, despite the fact that there really didn't seem to be any gaps to go through. It just has to have been someone from here out to prove a point regarding colregs or racing, surely?

 

[dt4134]

Did he make anyone who wasn't supposed to give way to him take avoiding action.

Maybe he was an experienced racer who knew how to get through?

Alternative, he could have been oblivious, like the elderly couple I once saw in a Westerly 4KSB who managed to get a perfect inside overlap at the windward mark and sailed part of the fleet well past it.

 

[Moonshining]

Did he make anyone who wasn't supposed to give way to him take avoiding action.

Maybe he was an experienced racer who knew how to get through?

Alternative, he could have been oblivious, like the elderly couple I once saw in a Westerly 4KSB who managed to get a perfect inside overlap at the windward mark and sailed part of the fleet well past it.

From where we were, it was hard to see what the boats around him were doing. It was right after the start and nearly all the boats were still overlapped. It's hard to believe that he could have worked out a path through everyone. Either he was quite ridiculously skilled, or completely oblivious and had his guardian angels working overtime.

 

[Seajet]

A Sunsail type commenting on seemingly oblivious inconsiderate behaviour; you may as well come and get me now grim reaper, I've truly seen everything !

 

[epervier]

I was crewing on the Sunsail finals day and pretending to be a racer today.

Just after the start of the first race this morning, some fellah in a small-ish (<25 foot?) boat with a blue and white spinnaker came piling straight through the whole fleet of twenty boats.

Amazingly he got through without serious incident, despite the fact that there really didn't seem to be any gaps to go through. It just has to have been someone from here out to prove a point regarding colregs or racing, surely?

Must have been a motor boater, the spinnaker was just a ruse, to blame one of your own

 

[Rigger Mortice]

Which was/were the stand on vessels?

 

[oldharry]

I was crewing on the Sunsail finals day and pretending to be a racer today.

Just after the start of the first race this morning, some fellah in a small-ish (<25 foot?) boat with a blue and white spinnaker came piling straight through the whole fleet of twenty boats.

So what was he supposed to do faced with wall to wall racers? Spinny up, possibly short handed to deal with it Been there myself off Cowes, with no real options but to carry on. definite brown trouser five minutes, but I have as much right to be there as anyone else. Doesnt mean I WANTED to be there, but from his point of view, did he realistically have any choice?

Amazingly he got through without serious incident,

Yes - facing the sunsail fleet, absolutely amazing!

despite the fact that there really didn't seem to be any gaps to go through. It just has to have been someone from here out to prove a point regarding colregs or racing, surely? Why? what was he supposed to do?

Feeling grumpy, just laid the boat up for the winter, so NOBODY should be out there when I cant join in.....

 

[rotrax]

Sounds like it might have been Toad living dangerously!

 

[Mistroma]

I was crewing on the Sunsail finals day and pretending to be a racer today.

Just after the start of the first race this morning, some fellah in a small-ish (<25 foot?) boat with a blue and white spinnaker came piling straight through the whole fleet of twenty boats.

Amazingly he got through without serious incident, despite the fact that there really didn't seem to be any gaps to go through. It just has to have been someone from here out to prove a point regarding colregs or racing, surely?

Love it, is the slightly later thread a wind up or just a coincidence?
Mowed down by a racing fleet: http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337858

We were crewing on a small-ish (<25 foot?) boat with a blue and white spinnaker on finals day, and suddenly we were faced with a fleet of twenty boats, all hell-bent on making the next mark, none of which looked like they would make any space to let us through on our original course.

Amazingly, we got through without serious incident, despite the fact that there really didn't seem to be any gaps to go through. It just has to have been someone from here out to prove a point regarding colregs or racing, surely?

Just waiting for a post from someone in a rubber dinghy complaining about being sandwiched between a <25foot boat flying a spinnaker and an approaching fleet of Sunsail boats out racing.

 

[prv]

Love it, is the slightly later thread a wind up or just a coincidence?

Ah, the innocence of youth!



Pete

 

[Sandyman]

Sounds like some old boy having a leisurely plod down the Solent when he came across a bunch of, to him, wanna-be hoo hars who for some reason think they have the right of way.
Proving a point ? Probably & good for him.

 

[[70521]]

Just after the start of the first race this morning, some fellah in a small-ish (<25 foot?) boat with a blue and white spinnaker came piling straight through the whole fleet of twenty boats.

And what tack was he on?

 

[Sandyman]

And what tack was he on?

Look. They are 'racers' whats that got to do with it

 

[Seajet]

Still, one has to admire the technology and resources demonstrated by Sunsail; having observed their 'fleet' at rest at Port Solent and other places, they obviously must have the boats dropped out of a passing Hercules as near to the target as possible, allowing their staff and punters ashore more efficiently.

 

[Babylon]

Still, one has to admire the technology and resources demonstrated by Sunsail; having observed their 'fleet' at rest at Port Solent and other places, they obviously must have the boats dropped out of a passing Hercules as near to the target as possible, allowing their staff and punters ashore more efficiently.

C'mon Andy, not everyone can afford an Anderson 22 or its upkeep!!

If I didn't have a boat, I'd charter one - and for many thousands of people Sunsail is one way to do that.

There's no correlation between chartering a yacht and atrocious seamanship, just as there's none between yacht ownership and superb seamanship.

 

[ProDave]

Here's my tongue in cheek suggestion.

He was sailing along, minding his own business. He was aware of several boats all congregated together but not really going anywhere. His course took him well clear of that congregation of boats.

Then all of a sudden, a hooter sounded, and they all started charging towards him, and he had no room or time to move.

Perhaps it's the fault of race control for starting the race at that exact moment rather than waiting for this boat to clear out of the way?

 

[Moonshining]

Here's my tongue in cheek suggestion.

He was sailing along, minding his own business. He was aware of several boats all congregated together but not really going anywhere. His course took him well clear of that congregation of boats.

Then all of a sudden, a hooter sounded, and they all started charging towards him, and he had no room or time to move.

Perhaps it's the fault of race control for starting the race at that exact moment rather than waiting for this boat to clear out of the way?

That's almost certainly what happened.

My post wasn't intended to be a serious one. It probably says more about me than anything else that Scuttlebutt and colregs threads was the first thing I thought of when I saw him being engulfed by a whole bunch of boats like that.

 

[Lakesailor]

Thank God it turned out to be Sunsail's fault.....

 

[Seajet]

C'mon Andy, not everyone can afford an Anderson 22 or its upkeep!!

If I didn't have a boat, I'd charter one - and for many thousands of people Sunsail is one way to do that.

There's no correlation between chartering a yacht and atrocious seamanship, just as there's none between yacht ownership and superb seamanship.

Babylon,

the Sunsail boats I was referring to were not chartered, I suspect they'd be left a lot neater if they were !

When I had a Carter 30 I chartered her out a few times, and was very pleasantly surprised by the standard of charterers I got, such that I used to read their immaculately filled in log entries for entertainment and with admiration.

Of course they may have had time to write it all while high and dry on a sandbank, but 10 / 10 for imagination !

 

[Blue5]

I was crewing on the Sunsail finals day and pretending to be a racer today.

Just after the start of the first race this morning, some fellah in a small-ish (<25 foot?) boat with a blue and white spinnaker came piling straight through the whole fleet of twenty boats.

Amazingly he got through without serious incident, despite the fact that there really didn't seem to be any gaps to go through. It just has to have been someone from here out to prove a point regarding colregs or racing, surely?

I'd have paid money to watch that, payback time..................