Pirate weekend plans

Top weekend Neil, well done!

Jenny and I were most impressed by all the fantastic costumes and all the hard work you must have put in. Brilliant treasure maps! And weren't the kids all well behaved? Must have been because they were having so much fun. Loads of people sailed by and asked us what the jolly rogers were all about and which club we belonged to. Next time we should have a big ybw flag or something. Perhaps ybw would like to sponsor us on future events? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Neil,
Sorry we did not make it, a bit too windy for Anne plus some dodgy weather forecasts that a) did not agree b} did not turn out to be true in practice. Spent a frustrating weekend in BYH getting no signal on Navtex and not being able to get the Coastguard forecast. Made decision to quit and go home based on Radio Essex forecast, which also turned out to be wrong.
 
Re: Pirate weekend - THANKS!

Neil

To add to all the well deserved thanks - we had a great time and very good to meet all of you. Well done with the organisation - the pirate maps will live on in memory as well as on board, and we hope to reproduce the beach campfire at many a beach around the world in the next couple of years - we'll drink a glass of pirate rum to you all wherever we are.

A few more photos....

The menacing pirate fleet at anchor in the bay.
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Cap'n Neil directs the treasure hunt:

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The pirates in disarray
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Pirate camp, swappin' stories round a fire built from the timbers of captured ships.
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Fantastic weekend... thanks Morgana for ferrying us around as Torquel (our electric outboard) was having an "off" day!

Highly entertaining but also very worrying encounter on the way home, we were mooching along at about 3 knots over the ground, goosewinged and poled out no. 2 about a mile west of the Swin Spitway, in a lovely evening haze (so no land to be seen) when I heard the droan of a speedboat approaching. I was just about to moan about all the wash it would create and disturb our pleasant evening when it slowed right down.... I smiled, waved and said thanks in amazement at their consideration when then subsaquently pulled along side and asked for directions to Burnham, just as if they had stopped a pedestrian in the street and asked the same question. They chuntered on saying how they were trying to get back to Maldon but suddenly everything had gone shallow /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif.

They were now low on fuel and had decided to head to Burham, unfortunately they weren't too sure where that was, and their solution was to follow us!!! Using my somewhat limited knowledge of speedboats I guessed that 3 knots wasn't their optimum cruising speed so we suggested that we could give them some GPS co-ordinates... but they had no GPS, ok, so Pat suggested I write down a list of compass bearings to the bouys to get them back.... but they had no compass either. For that matter they had no charts, no VHF, if they had a mobile it was out of range, and they did not appear to have any other clothes than the shorts they were wearing. On further investigation they did have 5 litres of reserve fuel and an anchor, so I drew a chart for them, pointed them in the right direction, and said that if they ran out of fuel to put the anchor down and we'd keep an eye out for them. But to save the reserve fuel to get them into the marina if we had to tow them.

Jees, that would have been a long old trip back with Vreny towing a speedboat.

When we later caught up with Full Circle he had spotted them on Corinthians pontoon re-fuelling.

You hear about these stories but we are still amazed at the stupidity of some people. We really struggled to keep a straight face... perhaps we shouldn't have bothered trying and given them a piece of our mind along with the hand drawn chart.
 
Postscript:
The two guys onboard the 17ft Binliner were taking the boat to BYH and catching the train home, as they had frightened themselves a lot.
They had come from Maldon to Burnham, but tried following the coast line home, but guess what? The tide had gone out, and they said they kept running aground and became disoriented in the poor vis conditions and decided to try and find the Ray Chennel buoy, which wouldnt have done them much good because they had no compass to give them a track.
They did look suitably embarassed and did say they would never try this again.

Absolutely amazing
 
Re: Pirate weekend - THANKS!

Nick

Thank you for your hospitality on Sunday morning.

Good luck with you trip.
Do keep the forum up to date with you progress and happenings.

Clive
 
Re: Pirate weekend - THANKS!

Thanks for a fantastic weekend.

We would love to come on future events assumming we can find a boat to crew on! Well done Morgana for organising and to Full Circlo for Press Ganging myself & Lewis from the BSC!

Rachel & Lewis
 
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Sorry not to have been there, the tides would have meant that I would have arrived at 1800 Sat and left midday Sun to get back to my mooring for midnight so it just wouldn't have worked out.

Glad to hear a good time was had by all and thanks to spottydog and pyrojames for offer of their moorings.

Duncan
 
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