Sailing or motor boat posers?

[Nostrodamus]

You know the kind... all the latest gear and usually a wife 40 years younger than themselves.

a few days ago I had just got moored up when I saw a mobo coming out of its berth. The skipper was just wondering around the fly bridge posing for the onlooking crowd, shouting at everyone else telling them what to do. It was obvious he wanted everyone looking to know he was in charge..... Then..... The engines lost drive and he drifted across the marina, hooked an anchor off a sailing boat which bent all the stainless steel work before the anchor fell sidewards and swung into the gel coat of the innocent sailing boat causing a lot of damage... strangely enough the skipper went very quiet and was nowhere to be seen...

Ten minutes later in comes another mobo. the owner stood proudly on the foredeck with a remote akin to something you would fly a radio controlled aircraft with.
He used it to stop, reverse and manoeuvre his boat into the berth. I have to say he did it well but I also wish I had something which would over ride his control box.. yes he was a real poser...

Have you seen any posers around?

 

[chinita]

Not too recently........but there was that jetskier in Gibraltar.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Funny you should mention that... I heard about that incident too .. bet he was posing for the camera!

 

[JSYmartini]

I had something which would over ride his control box.. yes he was a real poser...

A bit like when your tv remote interferes with the neighbour's....imagine the fun you could have with that!!

 

[Nostrodamus]

A bit like when your tv remote interferes with the neighbour's....imagine the fun you could have with that!!

Or a zapper that could override jet ski's... I would gladly pay a small fortune for one!

 

[Lakesailor]

There was this bloke who laid on some entertainment at Ferry nab a few years ago. Arrived in a rush and then drifted down onto a moored boat.

Seemed to be son who got into a pickle and then scurried down from the flybridge, leaving dad to sort it out.

 

[Twister_Ken]

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Nice 'tache!

 

[Lakesailor]

The whole presentation made for a good 10 minutes of amusement amongst the various wastrels on shore.

 

[VO5]

Or a zapper that could override jet ski's... I would gladly pay a small fortune for one!

Now ! Now !

Watch it you !

Or do you want to incur my displeasure !?

 

[Tony Cross]

Or a zapper that could override jet ski's... I would gladly pay a small fortune for one!

The Spanish already have one apparently, it's called a gun.

 

[capnsensible]

The larger motor boats I have skippered gives one a great opportunity to pose. But you gotta be good

 

[Bosun Higgs]

saw one today entering the lock at sutton harbour plymouth. medium sized tart trap entered the lock first in the middle and with no initial attempt to come alongside. Wondered what he was doing then he applied both bow thrusters and stern thrusters and moved bodily sideways. Where is the skill inthat. It a bit like these cars that park themselves. If he is so interested in making life easy getting from a to b, why bother with a boat at all? Why not just use the Porsche 4x4?

 

[landlockedpirate]

saw one today entering the lock at sutton harbour plymouth. medium sized tart trap entered the lock first in the middle and with no initial attempt to come alongside. Wondered what he was doing then he applied both bow thrusters and stern thrusters and moved bodily sideways. Where is the skill inthat. It a bit like these cars that park themselves. If he is so interested in making life easy getting from a to b, why bother with a boat at all? Why not just use the Porsche 4x4?

I completely agree, why on earth do we bother with those new fangled rudder and tiller things when a steering oar did the trick a few hundred years ago.

Life and Technology move on, you cant stop it so why worry about how other people enjoy themselves.

 

[SamanthaTabs]

A true spectators sport! Fully enjoy watching people deploy a knitting needle attached to dental floss to anchor whilst motoring forward in a crowded bay . Even better on retrieval, navigating past other yachts whilst yelling at swmbo yet maintaining the classic "I'm in charge" pose..