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In light winds is it legal to chuck 'em overboard with flippers and get 'em to push the boat?

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by jimi on 04/10/2003 00:36 (server time).</FONT></P>
 
Perfectly legal...

- but very expensive! "Next time I won't get married. I just find a woman I hate and buy her a house" (allegedly Rod Stewart)



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Hmmmm.

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Go on!

Try it!!

I dare you!!!

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Here you are then (pic)

Chucked her in to tow our Sigma 38 during Cowes Week. She was doing ½ knot - I didn't tell her the tide was going a knot the other way.

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I wish I had a picture of my EX ------ falling of the bow one time !!!! I would frame it for ALL to see !!

Of course it was all MY fault ......


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Bilge Keelers get up further ! I came - cos they said was FREE Guinness !
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Re: Here you are then (pic)

Next time get her to strap a small cushion to her head, she can then push against the transom. With both hands and legs free it's got to be far more efficent and must be worth an extra 1/4 of a knt. The only thing is that it may be advisable to raise an inverted cone forward as it could be argued you are motor sailing. I have already begun training HWMBO in this form of alternative propulsion so as to have her in peak physical shape for 2007 when the government steals the cheap diesel option from us poor yachties.;-) Cheers, Mike

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Not me mate.............../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif However I can't help thinking that jimi may have dreamed this one up after our little soiree across the Solent with not a lot of wind available, except from both SWMBO's who were doing more gassing than than a couple of Lowestoft fishwives........./forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

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Jet Propulsion

.. you may remember that I kept pointing out interesting objects and posing hypothetical directional questions to the aforesaid gassing swmbos. At the same time I was keeping an eye on the log to determine whether the wind generated was more effective as jet propulsion or to fill the sails. The rear facing jet propulsion was more effectice (alneit with a port tendency) as the filling off sails was counteracted by the forward facing jet force.

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Re: Lightweight plastic fantastics

Well I'd like to see you tow a Roberts...

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Nah! Just inflate them, tie them to the stern guard rail, remove the plug and whoopee - you have rocket assisted take off! Gives a whole new meaning to 'plastic fantastic'!
I don't think it counts as 'propelling machinery' within the meaning of Rule 3 (c) either.

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..like the apocryphal American who strapped a JATO (or two) to his car, and ended up embedding himself in a cliff.

The key difference is that it is possible and practical to emgineer stony silences to reduce the output of the SWMBO-motor. I find that discussing a new sail/elctrickery/berthing fees does the trick.

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There is the True Story

Of a couple, some 3 miles off the Arran shore, who to put it mildly had a bit of a fall out. The wife doing more falling out than him.

He then motored off back to Largs leaving her in the 'oggin. Thinking he has seen the last of her, went ashore and never reported her missing.

Unfortunately for him, she was made of sterner stuff. She swam the 3 miles to shore, arriving in the middle of the night, eventually waved down a passing car, and went straight to the Polis.

He got done for attempted murder. She got boat, house and a new man.

True.

Donald

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Another true story

No matter being legal or not, it's most likely to happen the other way round.
Have a look at <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/forums/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=mby&Number=225953&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=MapisM&Match=Username&Searchpage=5&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=225825> this </A> former post of mine...

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RATO

During WWII I was a boy living very close to RAE Farnborough. Like many of the boys thereabouts, I liked to squeeze through various little paths to watch what went on. One of the ideas being developed was Rocket Assisted Take Off (RATO) for heavy bombers. The idea was multiple rockets mounted underwing, close to the fuselage, fired sequentially as the aircraft accelerated. Seemed to work well, until one day a RATO-fitted Stirling (four-engined heavy bomber) tried to take off. The sequencer didn't work, and the whole lot went off together. The wings took off well, but left the fuselage standing at the start of the runway.

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