so who has fallen

I went in this year , first time ever (since dinghy racing days).

Cleaned boat using tender and no oars/engine.

While stood up I gave a big push from the pontoon to propel the tender half way down the hull.............

I forgot about the bow line that was neck height, the tender did head off down my hull but I was pushed head first into the drink /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Then had to swim to catch the tender before the current took it away.

I carried on cleaning the water line holding on to the dinghy and then asked SWMBO for a towel as I had a deck shower

Her comment ' I thought I herd a splash ', did she come to check I was alright /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
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No but I did witness what could count as a near-miss when Colin was trying get back onto his Tender after what was clearly a quiet night out in Alcudia. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

It wasn't his fault though, the ground refused to stop moving /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Well I must admit that I have experienced it for myself on several occassions.

Usually fairly late at night after a good meal. It's always gone by the next morning but curiously can leave you with a bit of a headache - presumably a form of motion sickness.

Can be fairly localised because sometimes other people walking around the marina don't seem to notice it at all
 
Heard a nasty thud at SIBS and turned to see a larger than average lady crawling out between a bathing platform and the pontoon. Ouch!!
 
Fell in again this year, bloody dinghy moved! or the ground as mentioned by Medreamer! And my gangplank finally failed, snapped in half, with me on it with a guests suitcase!! Almost drowned, bloody thing hit me on the head when I fell in! Now its a new gangplank, but my design this time!!
 
Thanks a lot. I hadn't thought about it till you said but so far 2006 is probably the first year of my life that I haven't fallen in and now I'm sure I will. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

A few personal highlights:

Aged 3: chased ducks across grass which turned out to be algae covered pond. My parents couldn't stop laughing, much to the disgust of other passers by who thought they were being cruel. They didn't laugh much in the car on the way home though. I think I was a bit smelly.

Aged 17: working on installing new landing stages for sailing club in January. Leaned back to reach something and splash. Quite cold really.

Aged 40: fuel dock at Chichester Marina. I step smartly off the boat saying to 11 year old son "throw me that line". He does. Unfortunately it's not attached to the boat which begins to drift away. I rapidly have to choose between shipwreck and a swim. Kicking off my shoes, I dive gracefully into the diesel filled depths, climb the boarding ladder and all is well.
 
A friend who was on our boat was entertaining the kids with tales of daring do at sea (all made up) .

"These motor boats are OK" he says, "but of course out at sea on a racing yacht I would be hanging off the side like this", at which points he leans out, grabs hold of a rope which is not attached at the other end, and rolls quietly overboard into the water.
 
forum member captian shed getting back on board after falling in at Megavissy last year. Question to captian shed - are you still wareing hlb's pants, if so you can keep them now.
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Not managed to fall into the drink this year but did manage to fall over whilst exploring an uninhabited island off the coast of Newfoundland, cut my self really badly, blood everywhere, bit of emergency first aid and then medevac in coastguard rib to waiting ambulance dockside to hospital for a dozen stitches. That's quite enough drama to be going on with thanks......

Have walked off the end of a pontoon before, plus deck of hirecruiser when carrying a basket load of laundry (back in the day when I cleaned boats for a job one summer). Funniest one I witnessed was my father, at that stage a new dinghy sailor find out that a 15 stone bloke can't step down from mobo onto the foredeck of a mirror dinghy without expecting it to tip him in the drink!

AJ
 
SWMBO managed a perfect backwards roll out of the tender in July... full feet over the head job.....

She wasn't in the slightest bit bothered about getting wet, but was furious upon climbing back in to find me rolling around in the bottom of the tender crying with laughter....
 
My friend Joe did, going ashore in Lulworth cove.
He stepped down on to the side of the inflatable tender flipping it 180 degrees, after a few seconds he had not surfaced, relief came when from inside upturned the tender I heard a cry
"Who's put the friggin lights out"
 
Ah! that was not within the calender year!!, as of yet I have managed to stay fairly
dry. Although, I did get a soaking when a pal managed to bury the bow of his speedboat
into the next wave,
As to the pants,no I have not been wearing them, & Mrs Shed washed & ironed them with
great precision, & we have stored them for return to HLB.


Nige'
 
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