shipwrecked and .... other stuff

[stephen_h]

Thanks for sharing and well done for not giving up!

 

[DownWest]

Hi
In the original thread, you said that the outboard failed with serious problem, any comment on that? As in, is it of any value to the perps?
Full marks for a very good and up front description of the whole saga.

 

[solent clown]

Hi
In the original thread, you said that the outboard failed with serious problem, any comment on that? As in, is it of any value to the perps?
Full marks for a very good and up front description of the whole saga.

The outboard suddenly smelled hot, properly hot then hot seized (only a seagull) I think the impeller failed. A few minutes later after pouring a few buckets of water over it, I got another few seconds out of it before it made a mechanical failure noise I took to be the piston parting from the rod, and stopped for good. So no, in that case it was only use for spares for the perps.
As for being upfront about the saga, well, we all learn from our mistakes if we have any wisdom at all, and sharing that is both cathartic and potentially useful for something more than entertainment. We are no expert sailors, all self taught, and mostly when we push our luck we are lucky. Not this time. I am on this forum to learn more about sailing. The nuts and bolts technical side of things is no problem - but there is no substitute for experience, I have lurked and looked at so many threads on here for so long and learned a lot. So it was time to sign up, and pay a little back.

 

[penberth3]

The outboard suddenly smelled hot, properly hot then hot seized (only a seagull) I think the impeller failed. A few minutes later after pouring a few buckets of water over it, I got another few seconds out of it...

I'd never try to cool an overheated engine like that. Very likely to crack something.

 

[dslittle]

I'd never try to cool an overheated engine like that. Very likely to crack something.

All part of the aforementioned learning then...

Thanks to the OP for a full and candid account. Hope that you get it back out on the water and enjoy it soon.

 

[[3889]]

It's great to have everything in photos. Whenever I do something which turns out to be inadvisable I never have a camera to hand .... or the inclination to use one. :ambivalence:

Richard

+1, especially the shot of your legs....it's given me the confidence to wear shorts Good work on the recovery and the write up.

 

[solent clown]

agreed. But it was buggared anyway, it was a last ditch effort against the tide with nothing to lose.

 

[solent clown]

A very candid and honest post if I may say so.
Any more on the ID of the thieves? I don't suppose the police are interested?

Further to this, my original post was banned for using a proscribed pejorative word to characterise those people. Now we have had further information about these characters I can give you a more accurate description.
To put this in context, here in Southampton we have an estuary fed by several rivers, most obviously, the glorious Hamble, the Test, and our neck of the woods, the Itchen. Upriver of the Itchen are several bridges, and just upstream of Northam bridge is a conglomeration of derelicts and barely floating wrecks. In the last month they have proliferated to the point where they are nudging up against a marina.... These boats are all inhabited. They are rented out to drug addicts mostly. I do not wish to risk banning again by posting about an nationality or ethnic group in a derogatory manner. Let us merely say the whole lot is run by someone Eastern European who is charging the drug addicts in question rent for these boats. These people, regardless of how we may feel for them, are a problem, the river is starting to resemble a boat scrapyard. Today we witnessed another old mastless yacht being towed down there at the very time we were waterside being told more about this by a concerned large business operating on the river. They have been previously tasked to remove vessels by the local council because they impinged on a private residence on the shoreline. The council are not motivated to do anything because it will cost, so the brunt is being borne by honest boat owners.

THIS IS NOT HERESAY, IT IS FACT. KEEP YOUR EYES ON LOCAL TELEVISION NEWS IN NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS

 

[Champagne Murphy]

Crikey, that sounds nasty. Here at Pin Mill we have a lot of houseboats but by and large they are folk who have an investment in their boat and society (in the wider sense). They police themselves as far as I am aware.

 

[solent clown]

raised, now safe and sound and moored up - no more trailer adventures with this one.


IMG_8950 by mark punksteel, on Flickr

 

[davidej]

Further to this, my original post was banned for using a proscribed pejorative word to characterise those people. Now we have had further information about these characters I can give you a more accurate description.
To put this in context, here in Southampton we have an estuary fed by several rivers, most obviously, the glorious Hamble, the Test, and our neck of the woods, the Itchen. Upriver of the Itchen are several bridges, and just upstream of Northam bridge is a conglomeration of derelicts and barely floating wrecks. In the last month they have proliferated to the point where they are nudging up against a marina.... These boats are all inhabited. They are rented out to drug addicts mostly. I do not wish to risk banning again by posting about an nationality or ethnic group in a derogatory manner. Let us merely say the whole lot is run by someone Eastern European who is charging the drug addicts in question rent for these boats. These people, regardless of how we may feel for them, are a problem, the river is starting to resemble a boat scrapyard. Today we witnessed another old mastless yacht being towed down there at the very time we were waterside being told more about this by a concerned large business operating on the river. They have been previously tasked to remove vessels by the local council because they impinged on a private residence on the shoreline. The council are not motivated to do anything because it will cost, so the brunt is being borne by honest boat owners.

THIS IS NOT HERESAY, IT IS FACT. KEEP YOUR EYES ON LOCAL TELEVISION NEWS IN NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS

You don't needy shady characters run by foreigners to get a nice place ruined by an uncontrolled influx of house boats.

Come and look at West Mersea.