Sloppy G&T's and Motor boats

[Guest]

Sloppy G&T\'s and Motor boats

While quietly watching some lass doing her stuff and me sipping my ice-cold in my cockpit moored in my marina slot ... a Motor Boat ignores the speed limit, 'flies' past, goes hard over to miss the brkwater end and flashes out of sight. Leaving me with half the 'ice-cold' over me and the lass hanging on for dear life .......

Now tell me Oil burners and Raggies can live together !

 

[hugh_nightingale]

Re: Sloppy G&T\'s and Motor boats

Its even worse in the Solent, see bad manners thread below.
They go shooting by, occupants bouncing even more than the boat, how they keep their glasses full I don't know.
We have solved it. Stainless steel, thermally insulated cups with seal lids.

Have you noticed how many of the afore mentioned occupants do not wear lifejackets. Perhaps they don't bother if anyone falls off. It must improve the gene pool.

 

[Guest]

Re: Sloppy G&T\'s and Motor boats

Last year ...sailing quietly across the Solent ... YES I do get there occasionally ! Lass and I quietly minding our own business ..... of course shattered by the 'Sunseeker' with roaring engines, pounding the waves to smithereens ...... and ..... well ...... two 'naturists' in the cockpit .... one male and the other female .....

Well what do you do, apart from grab the binoculars !!!! BUt honestly it brings new meaning to the bodys found in the water with 'flies' open ! And if you think thats a joke, it is actually a US CG statistic ..... a large number of males found in the water have their 'flies' open !

 

[Danny]

Re: Sloppy G&T\'s and Motor boats

One of the most common causes of drowning is men having a pee over the side. I suppose when you hit the cold water it makes certain parts disappear and I think the last thing you would bother about if you went over the side was zipping up. Come on guys we all do it and think if you are single handed and on auto helm while you are floundering you boat could do a solo passage to America.

 

[johndf]

Re: Sloppy G&T\'s and Motor boats

Just returning home from my summer cruise on a flat calm evening last week I was overtaken by two 40 footers doing about 25 knots, one about 10 metres away on each side, with wash to match. That was in the 50 metre wide gap between the breakwater end and the port hand beacon approaching St Helier Harbour. It's not against any regulation, but it is certainly totally inconsiderate. Why were they in such a rush? Perhaps its because they didn't want to wait an extra ten minutes for the marina entrance one way system to turn in their favour. I had to laugh that one of the two was too late despote his 25 knots and had to wait like us.

 

[Grehan]

Over the side?

If one's cockpit self-drains (a basic sine qua non?) then - in extremis of course - why bother to hang onto the backstay to take a leak into one's own wake? Just, well, do it . . and Ladies can avail themselves of the nifty device to be found at www.plastuit.nl/english/index.html

Or is this some hard-wired masculine desire to 'mark one's territory out' even if it's composed of 10 foot waves? I think our labrador may feel something similar.

 

[Guest]

Re: happy ignorance

I sail and (i'm afraid to admit) use powerboats too. We had a friend along in his boat and suggested a port about twenty miles away. Let's go together. He attempted to escort me either about fifty fifty feet to one side or to another. I shooed him away, warned him away with radio and so on. Later, I simply explained how he was much, much, much too close.

He was very nice about it, and simply didn't know. He'd spent years waterskiing, where one is always turning to go close to a fallen skier. The next trip he was fine. I do think that some common sense would slert one to the danger though.

Spose the other thing is that sailors only ever see the inconsuiderate boaters. It isn't a rag -v-power thing -we lost an engine an bumbled hom ten miles at sixish knots, wacked all the way by powerboats unable to turn the wheel.