Panic string

[ParaHandy]

i am troubled by the excessive reliance on satellites by one of our fellow crew. i am a great believer in the kiss principle and I recall a fellow forumite suggesting a tin can and a long piece of string which would seem to fulfill such requirements. Aha, i hear you say, how long must the string be? Well, i have acquired from an internet auction house a very long fishing line which i will offer to attach to the pontoon at st martin and let it unwind as we trundle along. should any mischief occur, we just wind ourselves back in? And, we could supply a code to the marina employees such as "3 tugs on the string we're OK, 4 tugs we've run out of beer, 5 tugs send help". Couldn't be simpler?

 

[Stingo]

[ QUOTE ]
Couldn't be simpler?

[/ QUOTE ]Yes it could be; just send beer.

 

[No1_Moose]

Or Stingo could fly out there and tie the fishing line around the mast (a bowline of course). Stingo can then carry the line back in his hand luggage and you can all meet up in a pub somewhere and haul the boat across. We've therefore solved Stingo's flight woes, the provisiong problems and erm well actually any foreseeable problems because you'll be in a pub talking about the days when you were crossing the Atlantic, as a bonus you can talk about it live too.

 

[jimi]

I usually delegate it to the butler or gardener

 

[ParaHandy]

i'd prefer a seamstress (or strumpet, if thats ok m'lud?), forsooth, who can knit a new sail if required. it's dacron braid line ....

 

[tcm]

what's the point of having expensive equipment and not using it? Secretly let out the string as you board the plane and we will use the electric winch to get back.

 

[ParaHandy]

yuk .. we do have standards and being rewound back to heathrow .... ?!

 

[jimi]

There is much merit in this string theory. If you tie it to Terminal 4 as you leave then you pull yourself through the doldrums towards the uk when returning with no or adverse winds.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Its a dangerous approach IMHO....

String Theory is scarcely understood by the greatest of minds in todays Physics research establishments.....

And lets face it.... urm... enuf said I think /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif