Pictures of irresponsible sailing, no harness, no life PBD etc

[Rum_Pirate]

 

[andrewbodenham]

Nice boat though.

Presumably they were all consenting adults, and if they feel comfortable sailing that way that's grand. Each to their own, eh?

 

[Rum_Pirate]

 

[Peterduck]

That looks just about perfect! Just enough wind to provide propulsion, but not so much that you have to put your glass down while you hang on! That's pretty much how I used to sail, except that my old ketch had nice cockpit coamings which stopped my glass from going anywhere if I had to put it down.javascript:void(0)
Peter.

 

[Bosunof]

That is some size of boat if that is your Bimini!

 

[prr]

Were you wearing shark repellent?.... Or just drinking it.

 

[Romeo]

It is a universally accepted rule of sailing that you don't need a lifejacket when it is warm and sunny.

 

[Cliveshep]

Years ago when catching girls was soooo much easier (now I catch only slow fat ones i have to throw back) I used to fish out of West Bay (Bridport). One of my aquaintances then was a local character called "Rex" who owned a side trawler called "Hearts of Oak". Rex couldn't swim although his sons who crewed could. I can't swim either and asked him one day when we were out collecting a trammel net after a storm what his feelings were on the subject. His answer was that if he fell in it would only likely be in bad weather, which was no good for actual fishing anyway, sea temperatures were such that survival time was in the order of minutes, life jackets (which got in the way of working) couldn't keep his head above water in big waves, and, summing up, why prolong the inevitable.

Whilst I'm not sure that a proper immersion suit and life-jacket couldn't have saved him I have to say I saw his point.

I and my family always wear lifejackets when out at sea on the tender fishing, but not aboard the parent craft. Like Arthur Ransom said in 'Swallows & Amazons', "better dead than duffers, if not duffers, not dead".