Ooops, a dropped off the Sandbanks ferry, Poole.

[Concerto]

A car dropped off the chain ferry slipway at Sandbanks, across the entrance to Poole harbour.

Sandbanks ferry resumes after car falls into water - Marine Industry News

 

[Just_sayin']

The a didn’t fall off the ferry as per your post title.

 

[Boathook]

I was anchored to the south of Brownsea Island and watched the barge come along and lift the car out. Port control issuing warnings all the time for boats to slow down and reduce wash as divers were down.
Never seen so many boats with blue flashing lights. All there seemed to work well together and got the job done in a reasonable time I felt.

 

[The Q]

My opinion
Basically some prat left their car on the slipway without putting the handbrake on, so the car went into the water blocking the ferry.
It's quite common, people forgetting hand brakes.

Couple of years back I was in a Tesco car park when a car started rolling out of a parking bay with no one in it.
I stopped it and SWMBO went inside Tesco and they tannoyed for the owner who came running out..

Had I not been there it would have rolled across the carpark running into one or more cars..

 

[DJE]

I was anchored to the south of Brownsea Island and watched the barge come along and lift the car out. Port control issuing warnings all the time for boats to slow down and reduce wash as divers were down.
Never seen so many boats with blue flashing lights. All there seemed to work well together and got the job done in a reasonable time I felt.

From the photo in the link it looks like a tractor or decent 4WD truck could have dragged the car back up the slipway. Might have been quicker.

 

[johnalison]

I’d have left in in gear as well.

 

[zoidberg]

From the photo in the link it looks like a tractor or decent 4WD truck could have dragged the car back up the slipway. Might have been quicker.

It's my understanding they don't do 'agricultural' vehicles in Sandbanks - unless it's a Chelsea Tractor.

 

[Elessar]

I’d have left in in gear as well.

“In gear”. How old fashioned.

 

[johnalison]

“In gear”. How old fashioned.

Yes. Probably not suitable for the incorrigibly lazy generation.

 

[Elessar]

Yes. Probably not suitable for the incorrigibly lazy generation.

it made me chuckle because I’ve not had a car that has gears since 2014. Neither manually or automatically engaged

(Electric cars just run the motor the other way to go backwards so don’t even have reverse)

 

[SaltyC]

Yes. Probably not suitable for the incorrigibly lazy generation.

Ah one with a manual gearbox??.

 

[fisherman]

A car dropped off the chain ferry slipway at Sandbanks, across the entrance to Poole harbour.

Sandbanks ferry resumes after car falls into water - Marine Industry News

Was it a Marina? Not a Hy'n'dry for sure.

 

[zoidberg]

So hands up them who have not just heard of it, but can actually do 'double declutching' on a crash gearbox....?

 

[Elessar]

So hands up them who have not just heard of it, but can actually do 'double declutching' on a crash gearbox....?

I can. But wouldn’t choose to do so on my daily driver.

 

[fisherman]

Yes, used to do it on a Zetor. Also driving with no clutch on occasion

 

[zoidberg]

Yes, used to do it on a Zetor. Also driving with no clutch on occasion

Aye, that!
As on the clapped-out original Minis.....

 

[Sandy]

So hands up them who have not just heard of it, but can actually do 'double declutching' on a crash gearbox....?

A long, long time ago I could do it. Not sure if I could do it now.

 

[MontyMariner]

double declutching' on a crash gearbox

I had an HGV3 to drive Army lorries, crash gearboxes were all the rage then.
Now my hybrid car doesn't even have a handbrake.

 

[fisherman]

Friends father was an instructor on Scammells. Going down Porlock hill, the trainee driver accidentally engaged the winch which somehow caused it to run away, after much frantic crashing of gears they went into the gravel trap, the gravel was half way up the windscreen.
Bro had a similar experience in the 50s in a Willys jeep driven by his garage employer, not much brakes.

 

[Stemar]

So hands up them who have not just heard of it, but can actually do 'double declutching' on a crash gearbox....?

I could. I had to to get 1st while moving on my first few cars, or changing down when in a hurry. It's a bit more difficult on my current one, though. Search as I might, I can't find a clutch pedal. Does that make me a member of the incorrigibly lazy generation?