out alone!

[rich]

Last w/e i went out with a chap i know to drive his new boat and show him a few things, saw his wife to day said they went out on there own, no chart, no gps, no knowlage! she said we just kept away from the......EDGE.....ie:ROCKS?????

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[Renegade_Master]

Didnt have time to show him enough then, urge them to have a day skip course

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[qsiv]

Hmm - they should try 'keeping away from the edge' on a low spring tide, as they go around Noirmont - maybe theyll end up on those REALLY nasty heads south of the Four bouy, or of course Beach Rock, or the Diamond, or the plateau in St Brelade - the list just goes on and on.

Quite frightening naievety.

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[Blue_Blazes]

"kept away from the edge"

At least something must have sunk in from your brief tuition. It's amazing how many non-boaty people feel safer the closer they are to the shore.

Bill.

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[milltech]

It's years since I rented a boat, my brother rented a small cuddy outboard 14 footer on the Helford last summer, it was surprisingly nimble for a rental and he was restricted to the river I think.

However, back when we were teenagers we used to take these Vedette engined wooden launches, probably 17 or 18 foot, round all the bays and crunch up the beach for Bar-B-Q's or just to build a bonfire. Maybe someone showed us where the rocky bits were, perhaps warned us of the Gedges, but we had nothing but eyeball and no charts and we had fantastic adventures. Nobody died. Throttles were governed, but we soon sorted that out; even so we were perhaps flat out at six knots, maybe less. The whole of Falmouth Bay was open to us from the Helford to St. Mawes or up the Fal.

I'm not suggesting going without the available safety options is a good thing, only that perhaps "messing about in small boats" and looking for the rocks is not necessarily a stupid thing.


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